Barefoot in the Head
Personnel: Chris Robinson (vocals, guitars, harmonica); Neal Casal (vocals, guitars, tenor guitar, banjo, charango); Jeff Hill (vocals, cello, upright bass, electric bass); Adam MacDougall (vocals, melodica, keyboards); Tony Leone (mandolin, marimba, drums, percussion).Audio Mixer: Robert Cheek.Recording information: Brotherhood Arts Lab, Unicorn, CA.Photographer: Matthew Mendenhall.Working at a whiplash speed that seems alien in the 21st century, when bands are pressured to work on three-year album cycles in a digital world when everything exists in an ever-present now, the Chris Robinson Brotherhood are prolific in a way that belies their blissed-out vibes. Barefoot in the Head is the band's fifth album of original material, arriving in a calendar year that also includes another studio album (Anyway You Love, We Know How You Feel, which appeared just about a year prior to Barefoot), a half-hour studio EP (If You Lived Here, You Would Be Home by Now), and a live LP (Betty's Self-Risin