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Backstage With Cortni and Dark Water members Kristian Bush Benji Shanks Brandon Bush
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The songs that make up the debut release by the band Dark Water feel as if they’ve been — and will be — around forever. It just took a special group of players to summon them from the ether and give them life.

“These songs don’t feel like they have an expiration date, and neither does the production,” says Dark Water’s Benji Shanks. “In 10 or 20 years from now, they will still possess their sense of urgency.”

“They feel like they existed before and now we have to be good servants to the songs,” says the band’s Kristian Bush. “If you were to make a comic book out of the Dark Water story, it’s like we found them somewhere in a chest and were magically able to play them. And now they’re here.”

Indeed, tracks like “Come Out and Play” with its underwater guitar tone and stay- positive lyrics; the mesmerizing rhythm of “Handfuls of Rain”; and the greasy dance of “Different Way to Get There” come across as both fresh and familiar. The same is true of Dark Water the band, a power trio that sprung up naturally and effortlessly in an Atlanta studio.

“You know enough to recognize when something becomes a band,” says Brandon Bush, who rounds out the group. “I know when something is better than its individual parts and has a life of its own. That’s when you just get out of the way and let it happen.”

Once Brandon, Benji and Kristian surrendered themselves to the idea of Dark Water, they began writing material at a wicked clip, signaling the musicians’ most prolific and inspired periods of creativity. For the wordsmith Kristian, that meant a return to writing poetry (“I was obsessed with the rhythm of the words,” he says), which would mature into songs once he and his bandmates began experimenting on the studio floor with any instrument within their reach.

“The band is all us, playing everything,” says Benji, an Allman Brothers enthusiast and veteran of the Southern jam scene who has shared the stage with the likes of Warren Haynes and Blackberry Smoke. His fluid guitar work ties the Dark Water material together and lends the group its earthy vibe.

“Every great band I’ve ever known had a guitar player that made me go, ‘What?'” says Kristian of Benji’s evocative playing. “The guitar is the soul of the band. The lyric can’t ever get as close to the feeling as that instrument can.”

But it’s the way that Benji’s guitar, pedal steel and bass gel with Brandon’s drumming and keys, and Kristian’s vocals and guitar that makes the music so immersive. Listen to the rustic “Scarecrow,” the brooding “Goliath,” the ebullient “Flowers on the Fire,” or the hopeful “One of a Kind,” all
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