Eric Krasno consecrates, commends, and celebrates the permanence of family on his fourth full-length solo album, Always, out February 4th, 2022 via Mascot Label Group.

Across ten tracks with inimitable instrumentation, eloquent songcraft, and raw honesty, the Soulive and Lettuce co-founder, singer, multi-instrumentalist, and two-time GRAMMY® Award-winning songwriter-producer defines himself as not only an artist, but also as a husband, father, and man.

“Before 2020, I was having a good time, but I wasn’t grounded at all,” he explains. “I was going from gig to gig. I was always running around without a purpose. During the last year, I found my people in terms of my wife and son. I’ve created a family who will always be there for me. That’s what the album is about.”

1. Silence
2. So Cold
3. Lost Myself
4. Man in Me
5. Alone Together
6. Where I Belong
7. Leave Me Alone
8. Good Thing
9. Hold Tight
10. Always With You (feat. Victoria Canal)

This truly vibrant and grounded album opens on the foot-tapping rhythms and ebb of Silence and the laid back, Kravtiz-esque hipsway of So Cold and backs those up seamlessly with the funky, soulful R&B of Lost Myself, the lushly orchestrated Man in Me and then comes the free flowing Alone Together.

One of my own personal favorites is up next in the form of the mid-tempo souled in flow of Where I Belong and that is itself backed by more funky overtones within Leave Me Alone, the brilliant, percussion-enhanced Good Thing, the album rounding out on the harmonized Hold Tight, closing on the atmospherically-charged Always With You (featuring Victoria Canal).

Something of a musical journeyman, Krasno’s extensive catalog comprises three solo albums, four Lettuce albums, twelve Soulive albums, and production and/or songwriting for Norah Jones, Robert Randolph, Pretty Lights, Talib Kweli, 50 Cent, Aaron Neville, and Allen Stone.

As a dynamic performer, he’s shared stages with Rolling Stones, Dave Matthews Band, John Mayer, and The Roots. Out of seven nominations, he picked up two GRAMMY® Awards for his role as a songwriter and guitarist on Tedeschi Trucks Band’s Revelator and guitarist on Derek Trucks Band’ Already Free.

But as the Global Pandemic changed the world’s plans, he found himself thinking a lot and writing just as much. At the suggestion of old Lettuce bandmate Adam Deitch, he connected with musician and producer Otis McDonald and collaborated on a version of Bob Dylan’s The Man In Me, a song that had taken on a deeper significance for Eric in recent years.

“My wife and I got married, bought a house, and had a baby,” he recalls. “I had heard the song many times before, but it had never quite hit me the way it was hitting me. I recorded it with just acoustic guitar and vocals, and I loved what Otis did to it. He sent it back to me, and I thought, ‘This is exactly how I want to make my next record’.”

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