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festival it was just amazing and we were put up in a
beautiful hotel and the festival was held in the Bollywood
studio which was really unusual and so different and they
did so many things to make you feel welcome. They did an
Indian night the first night where I went out and bought a
sari and everything and we dressed up in that style and all
the bands got to eat together. Then there was the press day

with the Rolling Stone magazine and that was really
fantastic as well. But the whole experience was just really
different and their culture and being over there, part of
that was so special and what I loved was we also got to
perform on the last night. Myself and Shemekia Copeland

both got to play with Supersonic Blues Machine and Billy
Gibbons, so that was something really really special as
well.
Eddie Mac Scoundrels at the Blues Club

BiTS: You are, I presume, in some kind of lockdown at the Shemekia Copeland
moment, so no income for you whatsoever, really.

GD: No. We’ve been doing a couple of these online gigs which have been fun and a new experience
for us, but it’s difficult like when you’re a musician, and you’re used to travelling, it’s hard to not
be part of that and being out there with your audience. We’re trying to use it as a time to finish our
new album, so we’ve been doing that, but apart from that it’s just the interaction you get online,
but for me, that’s still not the same as being there.

BiTS: Tell me something about the latest album. I think it’s the latest one, Where I Belong.

GD: Yes that’s right. We made it with a wonderful producer called Justin Stanley in LA, and we had
some beautiful musicians on that and I think a little bit
more Americana country roots were coming through on
that album because I used to listen to a lot of country
growing up and it was inspired a little bit by kind of that
style of music. When we were in LA, we found out about

Chris Stapleton recording it and I loved his sound as well.
I loved the bigness of his voice and the way it was kind of
country blues, but that album was recorded there over two
periods. We went over for one session and then a second
session and it’s mostly songs with kind of a raw bluesy

Americana quality.

BiTS: You write most of your music yourself. How do you
go about writing a song?

GD: I think it can be a different process every time, but mostly I usually start with a feeling of
chords or in a mood like if I feel like okay I want to write something up-tempo, or I want to write