SoCal band Dirty Heads have had considerable success since they broke on the reggae scene in 2008 with the album Any Port in a Storm (No. 28) and the subsequent single, "Lay Me Down" (No. 93, 2010).
Led by two tall blonde dudes, Dustin "Duddy B" Bushnell and Jared "Dirty J" Watson, their latest album, Super Moon, released August 9. includes "Lift Me Up." The video, directed by Jay Teegardin, is partially set in a Los Angeles grow room, and also features a senior who delivers weed in an old-school milk truck.
"We tapped into our own lives," says Watson about the song. "We used to be drug dealers, so this is our version of Curtis Mayfield’s ‘Pusherman,’ the theme song for some Shaft-style weed-seller.”
Teegardin also shot their videos for “My Sweet Summer” (No. 122, 2014) and “That's All I Need” and “Oxygen" (both 2016).
Dirty Heads spent the summer on tour with 311. Their next two dates are: Oct. 4, Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas; and Dec. 5-9, Hard Rock Hotel, Heroica Guaymas, Mexico (Slightly Stoopid's Closer to the Sun festival).
Lyrics
'Cause everyday can be a holiday The pusher man, he just a call away And when I call he gonna come around And when he comes we gonna burn it down He don't stay here for a long time But when he comes we'll have a good time And we can stay right here all day And I just wanted to hear him say
Lift me up Said I just got a brand new bag Lift me up, now Yeah, I think I need another drag Lift me up Yeah, meet me around the back
Tomorrow comes and we have run dry I only need to call him one time It don't take long for him to show And when he comes you know we gonna do
