How The Grass Has Grown

The Ottawa XPress – October 9, 2008

Different strokes
Willis talkin’ about the new, cut Grass

The members of East Coast band The Grass have more in common with their ’60s role models than the inventive musical style and eclectic fashions. Add low- or no-paying jobs, commune living and recreational drug use, followed by friction and break-ups, reformation and a rumoured reunion tour, and it’s clearly a reputation they come by easily.

The story goes that the Grass’s original sextet uprooted from Dartmouth in winter 2007 to a house in Ottawa South so they could plug their alt-country hippy rock into the Ottawa music scene. Read more…

The new Grass