Now, even without a breakout single, Stick Figure has released the year’s biggest selling, highest charting reggae album. Filmed by Spencer Groshong of Ineffable Music at Great Stone Studios, the “All For You” video debuts below. Is he mourning the end of a relationship, avowing to a partner he will do better or offering gratitude to a higher power? The enigma deepens with the “All For You” video, which Woodruff describes as “kind of trippy, artistic” its special effects include Woodruff playing guitar, seated on the ocean beside his beloved pet, Cocoa The Tour Dog, who has accompanied Stick Figure on all their tours. Perhaps World On Fire’s most haunting track, the mesmeric dub grooves and ambient reverb coloring “All For You” frame Woodruff’s heartfelt delivery, his uncomplicated lyrics, ironically, are as mysterious as they are moving. ‘All For You’ was one of those songs it’s melody and chord progressions came to me and the idea was to just keep it simple, easy listening,” Woodruff explained. “After I finish every album, there’s always another song that I’m able to write much faster than the others and it becomes one of the more popular songs. Woodruff had completed World on Fire when the idea for an additional song arrived. A few years later, Slightly Stoopid (who join Woodruff on World On Fire‘s blazing title track) became a big inspiration for the sound that I’ve created today.” “But it wasn’t until I got into bands like Sublime, at about 13, that I started digging into their influences because it’s Jamaican roots music that has inspired this new age of (American) reggae. Woodruff first encountered Jamaica’s signature beat as a child attending camp where he heard Bob Marley’s “Buffalo Soldier.” “I had never heard anything that sounded like reggae, but I was so attracted to its structure,” Woodruff explained.
World On Fire is the first Stick Figure album to be recorded at Great Stone Studios (formerly owned by Green Day) in Oakland, which Woodruff co-owns with Ineffable Music (Woodruff is managed by Ineffable co-founder/president Thomas Cussins.) As with all Stick Figure albums, Woodruff, quite remarkably, produced each track, played all instruments (keyboards, guitar, bass, drum and percussion) provided the lead vocals and wrote every song except for “Cocoa De Rock,” which is a cover of African reggae artist Alpha Blondy’s 1984 gem “Cocody Rock.” Woodruff’s broad musical influences are heard throughout, ranging from country (“Angels Above Me,” “Whiskey Sun” both co-written by his frequent collaborator TJ O’Neill) to searing rock (“Above The Storm,” “Burn The Night”) to folk songs (“Rise and Fall”), all anchored in soul shaking, bass heavy reggae rhythms. 14), World on Fire also debuted on several tallies including at No. Easily topping the Reggae Albums chart (for the week ending Sept. A dynamic follow-up to 2015’s impressive Set In Stone, World on Fire has moved more than 10,000 units, according to Nielsen, making it the first reggae album to sell over 10,000 copies in its opening week since Sting and Shaggy’s 44/876 in April 2018. 30, Stick Figure released his seventh album, World On Fire, on his Ruffwood Records label. With every album since, I’ve expanded with new sounds, new instruments and new ways of recording.” Then I got a sixteen track and started recording songs that would eventually go on my first record ( The Sound of My Addiction, 2006).
“I experimented with overdubbing on tracks, using different microphones. “I was fascinated by recording, even more than practicing my instruments, it was all about ‘how can I get a good sound?'” Woodruff told Billboard in a phone interview from Oakland, Calif., where he is now based. Mariah Carey Gets the Christmas Spirit Flowing In New Clip: 'It's Time'
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