In honor of Valentine’s Day last week, I thought it would be appropriate to tell the story of the album that contains one of my favorite love songs of all time- “All My Love” by Hush Kids. What can I say? I am a sucker for harmonies and songs that make me cry.
Here’s a live performance of the masterpiece at Paste Magazine Studios in NYC:
Hush Kids formed sometime in 2016, kind of without my knowledge. Jill (who I had been managing for about 3 years, at this point) called me excitedly one day and said “I think I just started a band with Peter Groenwald.” I had heard his name before, but I had never met Peter. All I knew about him was that he sang like an angel and wrote songs like a genius, so I was quite excited about the idea. Here is a video from one of the first times I heard them sing together. This was one morning during Americanafest 2016- I sat on the couch with a few friends from Spotify with my jaw on the floor.
We had months and months of brainstorming band names. Hush Kids could have been: Hush People, Little Wishbone, or the one I was (wrongly) rooting for: “Jill Andrews and Peter Groenwald.” I am so glad that Hush Kids is what we landed on, I can’t picture them going by any other name now.
They recorded their debut record at Joe Pisapia’s studio in East Nashville, and their pal, Ian Fitchuk, was producing. The few weeks they were tucked back in his little oasis (pun intended), were some of my favorite weeks. It felt like they were making magic. I got to hang around with the most talented people in Nashville, watching them create, dream, experiment, and have a blast. We were also prepping for a Pledge campaign, so we took a ton of photos and videos in the studio, and I cherish it.
Videos by the insanely talented, Fairlight Hubbard, who also did all of the incredibly cool album art.
We raised a lot of money on Pledge (which Pledge subsequently stole half of, but that’s another blog for another day). The money enabled the band to hire a fantastic publicist (shoutout to Erik Anderson at Missing Piece!) and get CDs, vinyl, t-shirts, and posters. My pal, Andy Bird, at Friendly Arctic designed one of my favorite posters of all time for this release and even gave the three of us limited edition wood versions of this poster. I cherish it as well. (You can order the stunning poster version here: https://www.hushkidsmusic.com/storemain/hush-kids-mountain-woman-poster)
Another HUGE career milestone for me came with this record: THE PS22 CHORUS COVERED ONE OF THE SONGS FROM THIS RECORD! What a gift. Listen below:
The album charted in its first week! We were quite proud.
The songwriting, the harmonies, the heart- it’s one of the best records I have ever been a part of. So proud to work with Hush Kids. You can listen to the album that started it all below!
