Roots have another hit with their new studio album ‘How I Got Over’ which arrived on store shelves at a No. 6 on soundscan chart. The album also benefited by Friday night boost after the Roots performed its first single “Dear God 2.0” on NBC’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
The band describes the album’s songs as “depicting the everyman’s search for hope in this dispiriting post-hope zeitgeist”. Other guests on the album include Joanna Newsom on “Right On” (which re-works her 2004 “The Book Of Right On”), Phonte Coleman (Little Brother, the Foreign Exchange), Blu (Blu & Exile), Peedi Peedi , Mercedes Martinez (Jazzyfatnastees), Icelandic alt-pop singer Patty Crash, newcomer Sugar Tongue Slim, as well as long time Roots’ Crew members Dice Raw, Truck North and P.O.R.N.
‘How I Got Over’ is the band’s ninth studio album (and third for Def Jam Recordings), and is the follow-up to ‘Rising Down’ (April 2008). Today’s Roots are vocalist ‘Black Thought’ and drummer ‘?uestlove,’ long-time keyboardist Kamal Gray (a member since 1996’s ‘Illadelph Halflife’), Brooklyn-based guitarist Kirk ‘Captain Kirk’ Douglas and percussionist Frank Knuckles (both members since 2003-2004’s ‘The Tipping Point’ sessions), Damon ‘Tuba Gooding Jr.’ Bryson (who joined the lineup after touring with the band in 2007), and newest member Owen Biddle on bass (a producer on the 2006 ‘Game Theory sessions’).
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