“When we found out he was a fan, we were completely blown away and super inspired, so I ended up writing more than I’ve ever written for a record. “Russ had worked with all of our heroes,” smiles Deitch. Written and recorded during the same Colorado Sound sessions that spawned Elevate, the band brought Resonate to life alongside iconic producer and engineer Russ Elevado. Throughout 2019, LETTUCE siphoned all of this energy back into the studio. Not to mention, it put up 3 million streams within six months, and simultaneously received acclaim from BrooklynVegan, Billboard, Rolling Stone, NPR, and more. Elevate also soared to the Top 15 on the Billboard Jazz Albums, R&B Album Sales, and Heatseekers Charts. Notably, it garnered a 2020 GRAMMY® Award nomination in the category of “Best Contemporary Instrumental Album” and bowed at #1 on both the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Albums Chart and iTunes Top R&B Albums Chart.
The latter lifted LETTUCE to new heights. Crushmore, the live album Witches Stew, and Elevate. Their discography comprises Outta Here, Rage!, Fly, Crush, the EP Mt. Reverence for this culture rings out loud and clear throughout a catalog of fan favorite releases. By combining everything, we try to add something to the culture we love so much.” It forces us to react, pay attention, and listen to each other. We extend the template with improvisation on the spot. Funk is known as a very tightknit artform. “Our goal is to add our own stamp to that by moving things around and bringing in jazz chords, psychedelic passages, big horns, and elements from the instrumental side of hip-hop. “Funk is a living and breathing thing with a ton of sub-genres,” affirms Deitch. The GRAMMY® Award-nominated six-piece-Adam Deitch, Adam “Shmeeans” Smirnoff, Erick “Jesus” Coomes, Ryan Zoidis, Eric “Benny” Bloom, and Nigel Hall -once again break rules, push boundaries, and uplift on their sixth full-length studio offering, Resonate. LETTUCE both feed the rich history of funk and also combine it with strains of hip-hop, rock, psychedelia, jazz, soul, and go-go. Like any living thing, it needs to be fed in order to flourish. You see, funk lives, grows, breathes, and blossoms. No matter how far we comb the outer reaches of the galaxy in search of the funk, it eventually finds us-or it does not.
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