Butthole Surfers and sometimes Melvins bassist Jeff "JD" Pinkus will release new album Fungus Shui on August 21 via Shimmy-Disc/Joyful Noise. It's his second solo album of what he calls "spacegrass" banjo music, pretty much just him, his instrument and some deep thoughts. Pinkus wrote, recorded and mixed Fungus Shui himself at Plastic Cannon Studio in Asheville, North Carolina, and the album was mastered by Shimmy-Disc maestro Kramer.
You can get a taste of JD's mind grapes with "Gittin' It," which he says he wrote "when I was workin as a hand at a horse ranch in Lockhart, TX. The ranch paid us an hour for lunch, so we’d eat Smitty’s BBQ and drive around smokin weed yellin “Get it Hand!” to anyone we saw workin….Glad to have had our dogs sing along on this recording."