{"id":807976,"date":"2020-06-01T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T15:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=1007445"},"modified":"2020-06-01T09:00:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T15:00:03","slug":"ace-of-cups-enlist-bob-weir-jackson-browne-david-freiberg-for-new-single","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/ace-of-cups-enlist-bob-weir-jackson-browne-david-freiberg-for-new-single\/","title":{"rendered":"Ace of Cups Enlist Bob Weir, Jackson Browne, David Freiberg for New Single"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pioneering all-female Sixties band Ace of Cups<\/a> have released \u201cMade for Love,\u201d a tender, timely new song about remaining connected during difficult times.<\/p>\n

Featuring Bob Weir<\/a>, Jackson Browne<\/a> and David Freiberg of Quicksilver Messenger Service and Jefferson Airplane, the track centers around the the mantra \u201cWe were made for love\u201d against spoken word verses. \u201cRemember what we came here for\/It\u2019s not for hate, it\u2019s not for war,\u201d Denise Kaufman sings.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe felt that with the coronavirus, we just wanted to put something out that expressed how we felt,\u201d Kaufman tells Rolling Stone.<\/em> \u201cWe wanted to dig down into the place that we ultimately all know we\u2019re connected. We\u2019re all here together and we\u2019re made for love.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMade for Love\u201d is the second half of a two-part medley, which will be featured on the band\u2019s upcoming album Sing Your Dreams<\/em>, out August 18th on High Moon Records. \u201cThe date that we chose is the 100-year anniversary of when women in the U.S. got to vote,\u201d Kaufman explains. \u201cAlthough I have a caveat, in that white women got to vote.\u201d<\/p>\n

From her home in Kauai, Hawaii, where Kaufman has owned an organic family farm since 1981, the singer discussed the new track, San Francisco in the Sixties and the band\u2019s legacy as an all-female band.<\/p>\n

How did \u201cMade for Love\u201d come together?<\/strong>
Mary [Alfiler] wrote the basic melody and the mantra of it, and then we had our friends Jackson and Bobby and Dave sing with us. So we started out with just that, and then I wrote the spoken word verses and finished it just a week before the pandemic. For us, it expressed what we were feeling at that time.<\/p>\n

How was the video made?
<\/strong>We thought it would be really great to do a video, but we were all [in] separate places. Our friend Stacey Printz is the choreographer and founder of the Printz Dance Company \u2014 which is this wonderful dance company in the Bay Area. Stacey, who was my daughter\u2019s roommate all through college and one of our dear friends, has gotten into doing a lot of video work lately. She directed and edited it, and our office reached out to our friends and fans and said, \u201cSend videos and photos of you expressing love in your life.\u201d It definitely grew out of these last few weeks, people\u2019s experiences.<\/p>\n

With the exception of a 2003 live album, you released your debut studio album<\/a> in 2018. Why did it take you guys so long to release a record?<\/strong>
In the old days, we never got a record deal when all of the bands that we were playing with in San Francisco did. There were no all-women bands in the area that we knew anyway. I think partly, we didn\u2019t get a deal because we were all women, and they didn\u2019t know what to do with us. We were five hippie women, and we all sang and played. There wasn\u2019t just one lead singer to focus on \u2014 there were five different singers and a lot of different musical styles. We wrote pretty much everything that we played, it was all original. But we had a lot of different musical energy, we never felt we had to box ourselves in. I think that we didn\u2019t get a deal at that time for a number of reasons, but a lot of bands had a<\/em> singer in front.<\/p>\n

Did you ever interact with Joy of Cooking? <\/strong>
Yeah, they were wonderful.<\/p>\n

They were signed, but they weren\u2019t all female. <\/strong>
Exactly.<\/p>\n

What was it like playing in a genre dominated by men?<\/strong>
We had never seen an all-female band. When we first started playing together, we just didn\u2019t have anything to look to. So we just started playing, and because we were having such a good time, we kept on playing. I was the last one to join, the other four [Alfiler, Marla Hunt, Diane Vitalich and Mary Ellen Simpson] had already met and started playing. I was the last one to connect with them. I had been in other bands before \u2014 the last band I was in before them turned into Moby Grape. At the time, I was working for Fantasy Records in San Francisco, a little record label that was really cool. So when we started, we had some support. We started writing immediately.<\/p>\n

My friend Ambrose Hollingworth asked if he could be our manager. He used to manage Quicksilver. Ambrose was in the hospital in San Francisco, he had gotten in a terrible car accident and he was paralyzed from the waist down. He was a paraplegic at that point. We went to his hospital room and stood around his bed and sang some songs for him. He asked if he could manage us.<\/p>\n

Things happened really quickly. I met Mary Ellen [on] New Year\u2019s Eve 1967. I went over and met the band members the next week. By June of \u201967, we opened for Jimi Hendrix in Golden Gate Park.<\/p>\n