Put Some Sourgrass in Your Pipe and Smoke It
In the garage with Sourgrass. Some folks smoke dope, people have tried the banana peel, the Native Americans brought us the tobacco leaf; but I recommend you put some Sourgrass in your pipe and smoke it! With a name like Sourgrass, one might picture a cross-legged hillbilly plucking banjo in a rocking chair next to his toothless counterpart still trying to work over the mouth harp. Not even close. They’d blast those guys out of their rockers and straight off the front porch. Still, as their popularity spreads, there is something in the name that fits the prolificacy of sourgrass itself. “It’s one of those things that is sour as hell, but you just can’t stop chewing it… even when your mouth hurts and your parents told you that dogs pee on it and that’s why it tastes sour… you just can’t help but pick up a stalk and give it a chew,” says Drew Cirincione of Sourgrass. Sourgrass is a Santa Cruz-based band with dominant South Bay roots. Drummer Drew Cirincione, lead singer Jay Palmer, and bass guitarist Eric Ressler, are all graduates of Redondo Union High School. Only their guitarist Conor Spicer hails from northern beer country in Petaluma. “Conor and I met in the dorms at UCSC and…
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