After years working with his brother on The Blacklist Royals and The Bad Signs, Nat James Rufus is branching off on his own with his debut solo album, “Goes Solow.” We chatted with him to find the low down on the album, his love of surf rock and the uniqueness of doing an instrumental album. Read the interview below and listen to the new album here. I’ll start with the simple question – why the added “w” in solo for “Goes Solow”? The song’s about depression. The original version had lyrics and was going to feature Jordinaires style backup singers, no musical accompaniment at all. When Covid shut the world down that became impossible, so I worked it out on guitar. “I go so low, thought I’d been down, what did I know…” Can you give us a brief history of how the...
