{"id":9924,"date":"2013-05-27T12:32:46","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T19:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=9924"},"modified":"2013-05-27T12:32:46","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T19:32:46","slug":"spin-doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/05\/spin-doctors\/","title":{"rendered":"SPIN DOCTORS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Spin-doctors-Issue-No26\"SPIN DOCTORS\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/h1>\n

The alt-rockers revisit their blues roots and reinvent their sound \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

While touring in England\u00a0behind the 2011 release of Pocket Full of Kryptonite: 20th Anniversary Edition<\/i>, the Spin Doctors made a discovery: Their future lay in their past. Before the band hit the charts in the early \u201990s with peppy, poppy alt-rock tunes such as \u201cLittle Miss Can\u2019t Be Wrong,\u201d \u201cTwo Princes\u201d and \u201cJimmy Olsen\u2019s Blues,\u201d their stock in trade was the blues\u2014honed by playing the\u00a0New York club scene.<\/p>\n

Two decades later, the band is returning to those musical roots for their latest release If the River Was Whiskey<\/i>. \u201cOn the England swing of our tour, we had a couple of\u00a0\u00fcber fans who taped everything we did,\u201d says\u00a0lead singer Chris Barron. \u201cWe asked these guys what they wanted to hear, and they were naming some of our earliest songs. I didn\u2019t even remember all the verses\u00a0to one, but of course they had a tape of\u00a0it. It sounded amazing. We did it in\u00a0the encore that night.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fan reaction was so strong they started playing their old blues music at shows.\u00a0As the tour came to a close, the band\u2014Barron, drummer Aaron Comess, guitarist Eric Schenkman and bassist Mark White\u2014started talking about their next record.\u00a0\u201cIt didn\u2019t take us long to take the jump to making a blues record,\u201d says Barron. \u201cWe said, \u2018Hell, let\u2019s just do it. We might as well make the record we want to make.\u2019\u201d They soon gathered in Comess\u2019 home recording studio to demo songs from the band\u2019s club days and began writing new material.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt all came together really fast,\u201d recalls Barron. \u201cWe went in on Tuesday and nailed five tunes, went in on Wednesday and nailed five. Then we went out to dinner and said, \u2018I think our demo is<\/i> our new record. It\u2019s a blues record\u2014and it\u2019s fantastic.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Embracing their early music created a rift of sorts among fans of their mainstream hits and those drawn to the blues. Barron remembers \u201clooking over at parents and their 10-year-old kids and thinking, \u2018This isn\u2019t really my scene anymore.\u2019\u201d But the instinct to return to their blues roots was bolstered during the London run. As Barron says, \u201cWe went for a drink after a show in London and there were two blokes telling us, \u2018We saw the show and figured we\u2019d hear \u2018Two Princes,\u2019 which was my favorite song when I was 12, but I really wasn\u2019t expecting much. You guys really caught us off guard coming out and playing all that blues stuff.\u201d\u00a0Barron and the band are energized about their new-old direction. \u201cThis is our music,\u201d he says. \u201cThis is who we were before Pocket Full of Kryptonite<\/i>. This is like\u00a0a new band.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Nancy Dunham<\/p>\n

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