How did The Boxmasters end up doing the opening theme to Weeds on Showtime?
It was great for us to get this Boxmasters thing out there, I thought that was a great way to kick that off. We had to audition for that. They had a lot of artists who recorded a version and sent it in. Of course it was done through Universal and everything. Their TV and movie placement guys just come up with different ideas, and they said “Listen, this year Weeds is having different people do the theme song every weeks, so would you guys like to record a version? They accepted eight out of dozens and dozens of submissions. We got accepted so we are pretty darn proud of it. We decided if it was to be a Boxmasters song we had to go hillbilly all the way. (Laughs) But it’s an odd song. We had to record it at exactly the length that they needed to fit with the opening credits. When you’re trying to do something that specific you don’t have a lot of freedom, so it was a job when J.D. (Andrew) and I cut the demo. Let’s talk about the Boxmasters album. That will come out in the spring, so wh
