Ash Grunwald Just Be Yourself ::: Second Story Garage
Ash Grunwald performs his song Just Be Yourself during his Second Story Garage Session at the Boulder Daily Camera newsroom studio. Ash Grunwald is from Australia, but American blues is in his soul. Like the best of the Delta bluesmen, he goes for a spare, penetrating sound thats universally understood, and we felt as if we knew just what he was saying when he ripped it up in the studio. Grunwald accompanies himself on drums, which he plays with his feet. Its not a gimmicky thing. Its a natural expression of his art. Grunwalds music breathes. It speeds up or slows down and gets loud or soft as he feels it, and by laying down a beat for himself, he retains total control over the dynamic of each moment. Its raw, its organic, its entirely personal. Grunwald, whose song Walking was featured on the soundtrack of the Bradley Cooper movie Limitless, was on tour with Xavier Rudd, a fellow Aussie and friend, when he stopped by the studio before a
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