On June 25, Michigan-born, Los Angeles-based musician Anna Ash will release her new EP titled Fire Season, featuring songs recorded and mixed at Eli Crews’ home studio in the Catskill Mountains with her friend Eric Kuhn in November of 2020. “Even though we had taken all the necessary covid precautions,” says Ash, “I was still like, ‘Man, let’s just have our own little zones, I’ll stay in my room, you stay in yours, and Eli stays in the control room, and let’s see if we can function.’ And we did. It was really surprising actually how well we could play together without seeing each other.”
To learn more about the story behind the new EP and to get to know Ash better in general, we caught up with her for a 5 Questions feature, as well as invited her to perform something for us from Fire Season. She chose to deliver a lovely and vocally impressive song about “how destructive doing nothing can be” called “Dress Rehearsal” and shared some fun and enlightening answers to our questions, including why saying “jeez o petes” in L.A. won’t make you friends with the bartender.