Stream: Dash Hutton, ‘Headed Nowhere’

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Dash Hutton (Photo by Robert Ortiz)

Singer-songwriter-drummer Dash Hutton has emerged from the COVID-19 lockdown with a solo EP, “Canyon Hut Sessions,” arriving later this summer.

Hutton, of course, has been a staple of various projects around L.A. He was a founding member of Wires on Fire (who reunited in 2019 to celebrate 15 years), he drummed for Haim, toured with Weyes Blood and Mini Mansions and was part of the projects Turtles on Speed and, currently, the Grand Southern.

A month ago, he provided an early taste of his EP, issuing a cover of Big Star’s “Thirteen” (which features Airpark) and returned last week with the first original from the release, the melancholic ballad, “Headed Nowhere.” It’s a story of addiction told from the perspective of someone suffering from one.

“It’s about feeling lost and trying to find your way back home,” Hutton says. “But at the same time, somewhere in the writing process it hit me that I was also talking about myself, as if I was looking in the mirror. It’s about compassion, empathy, and keeping our eyes on the light at the end of the tunnel, no matter how dark it gets.”

“Canyon Hut Sessions” was made with contributors including vocalists Griffin Goldsmith (Dawes), Margeaux Sippell and Danny Hutton; guitarist Dylan Day (Jenny Lewis); keyboardist Tommy King (Haim); cellist Emily Elkin (Angel Olsen) and bassist Keith Karman (Weyes Blood, Modest Mouse).

||| Stream: “Headed Nowhere”

||| Also: Stream “Thirteen” (feat. Airpark)