What really happened between Brushfire Records and Donavon Frankenreiter that made Donavon leave the label?”
It sounds to me like he felt stifled there and was hoping that moving on to a new label would help his career and help him artistically. But here’s what he had to say in an interview about the move back in November: The Diamondback: What caused you to leave Brushfire Records? Donavon Frankenreiter: For me, it was about a different direction. There was stuff Jack and Brushfire didn’t want to do. If you listen to the first record – me being a surfer and having an acoustic guitar – it was easy for [the media] to call me the next Jack Johnson. Jack didn’t want that, I didn’t want that, but it was an easy analogy. It wasn’t separated and I really wanted it to break away from that. I didn’t want to be forever molded like Jack. For me it was about spreading my wings. I didn’t want to spend my whole career living under the shadows of Jack. Another thing to me is that with Lost Highway, I’m still under [parent company] Universal. I wanted to do some different stuff. I could have stayed comforta
