FAST FUN
“I’M SICK OF ALL OF THE EXISTENTIAL, POST APOCALYPTIC DOOM. I JUST WANT TO HAVE A FUNKY GOOD TIME”
ON HIS 2021 release, See That Light, L.A. blues legend and Mavis Staples guitarist Rick Holmstrom began to address the insanity of the current climate. “Everybody’s staring at a screen, but we can’t see what’s in front of us,” he writes in one lyric. But on January 6 of that year, while waiting for See That Light to come out, the world became exponentially crazier.
“The news was driving me batty, so I started getting together with the guys, just playing and recording,” Holmstrom says. “We were looking ahead to when we could get back together, have barbecues and listen to music. We were not thinking about anything other than entertaining ourselves and then being thrilled when we heard the playback. With the
