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ready to start sound checking and there’s kind of a rumour that’s been started that we might
have a special guest coming to sit in with us. As a musician you can never completely get your
hopes up for that because plans change. People get off the stage and they’re tired. They just
want to go back to the van. And all of that is perfectly understandable, but as it’s about ten
minutes from when we’re supposed to start, I start seeing amplifiers that are not ours being
brought onto stage and I looked at one of my band members and like, oh my god, it’s
happening. A few songs into our set, Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks come on stage to plug
in and start playing with us, and yes, that was definitely one of those moments where I
couldn’t believe what was happening in front of me.

BiTS: That’s what I call a makes the hair on the back of your neck rise
moment.

JL: Yes, yes. Exactly [chuckling].

BiTS: Absolutely fantastic. You’ve got an album that actually is out
today, an acoustic album, I think, with your latest comrade in
arms, Randy Jacobs. Why have you decided to do an acoustic
album?

JL: Actually, it’s not an acoustic album.

BiTS: Oh, it’s not?
JL: It’s a full studio album. We did do some videos this
summer of four of the songs that were on

there as just an acoustic jam and that was
something just to kind of give people a teaser
of what was in store. But the full album is a
studio album.

BiTS: You did a couple of acoustic tracks,
three I think, on the album that you had out
a year or so ago, the Moonshine Society
album, so clearly you’re into acoustic music.

JL: I am.

BiTS: Why is that?

JL: I think acoustic music is as a vocalist,
when you’re in the studio and you have a
full electric band, you are one of the
instruments and you’ve got to find a way to
make everything fit together like a puzzle.
With acoustic music, there’s often a lot
more space that’s there sonically, and so
everything that you’re doing as a singer is suddenly very exposed on acoustic music and it’s, I

don’t know, it’s almost a little bit more challenging because of that. You want to make sure
that you’re giving the emotion, that you’re hitting the note, but you’re working with the
chords that are coming and the musicians together. There’s just a lot more space to play with
and I enjoy it.