#Xavier rudd 2008 movie#

That energy was channelled into the 31-year-old's heaviest, most intense album ever. I just had a real strong energy about me at the time it was recorded, and I can hear it in the album.” “We came home to the summer,” he recalls, “so I was sort of sleepin' outside with my dog by the fire every night and then recording through the day and swimming in the ocean and surfing. It was the first CD he'd made Down Under in several years, his previous, White Moth, being recorded mostly in Gibsons, B.C., where his management is based. Rudd was able to get his H20 fix by recording Dark Shades of Blue at Studios 301 in Byron Bay, Australia. “The way the notes sort of translate into each other, it reminds me of running water, and I'm very much a water person.” “It's got a liquid kinda quality that almost reminds me of a stream,” raves Rudd of the Weissenborn, a lap-slide guitar that is also favoured by David Lindley, Steve Dawson, and Ben Harper. Rudd may be a tad too modest about his effectiveness on guitar, because there's no shortage of impressive fretwork on Dark Shades of Blue, most of it coming via his prized collection of Weissenborns. “But to even hear you touch on that gives me goosebumps, so thank you.” “I don't think I'm worthy to even go there,” replies Rudd in deference to the psychedelic-rock guitar legend. The song begins with a squalling note of feedback from Rudd that makes you wonder if he had Jimi Hendrix's “Foxy Lady” in mind at the time. “There's been times in my life when I kind of overused it,” admits Rudd, “but these days I try and respect what it is and use it more occasionally.” One of those occasions might well have been the recording of “Blackwater”, the earthy opening track off his latest CD, Dark Shades of Blue.

#Xavier rudd 2008 movie#

Rudd contributed several songs to McConaughey's 2008 movie Surfer, Dude, which also boasted appearances by such famously pro-pot talents as Woody Harrelson and Willie Nelson. While Rudd wasn't seen toking that particular night, he has been known to enthusiastically dance with Mary Jane, and you wouldn't expect anything less from a pal of celebrity stoner Matthew McConaughey.

A tuckered-looking Rudd was found bundled up in a dressing room, friends and fans gathered around him, many fortifying themselves with B.C. He was still feeling crappy after that gig, but that didn't stop him from inviting a passel of guests backstage, where a lucky dozen or so were presented with autographed boomerangs.

But he soldiered on with the tour and put on a stellar show at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre a week later. At that point, in February of 2008, he was suffering from a terrible flu while enduring the bitter cold of Saskatchewan. When Xavier Rudd picks up the phone in the famed surfing mecca of Bells Beach, Australia, he sounds a lot healthier than he did the last time the Straight called him.