{"id":3395,"date":"2014-06-11T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/music\/nick-waterhouse-the-blue-eyed-soul-that-made-long-beach-dance-in-the-streets\/"},"modified":"2014-06-11T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T17:00:00","slug":"nick-waterhouse-the-blue-eyed-soul-that-made-long-beach-dance-in-the-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/music\/nick-waterhouse-the-blue-eyed-soul-that-made-long-beach-dance-in-the-streets","title":{"rendered":"Nick Waterhouse, the Blue-Eyed-Soul that Made Long Beach Dance in the Streets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Long before the boom of resurged soul through the feminine touches of Laura Mvula, Chila Lynn, and Amy Winehouse, Huntington Beach-bred Nick Waterhouse was tackling the masculine side of soul behind the Orange Curtain\u2014and became the man that brought Long Beach to its feet at the inaugural<\/a> Dancin\u2019 in the Streets event in 2012 by way of the Summer and Music (S.A.M.) festival.<\/p>\n

Waterhouse\u2019s connection to Long Beach is not new. After having played regularly at places like Que Sera and Que Sera, Waterhouse found himself wedged in a parking lot next to a hardware store for the Dancin\u2019 event downtown. At first a quiet gathering, it was Waterhouse who brought a crowd to its feet by way of sounds that seemed like someone was spinning Atlantic Record 45s behind the stage\u2014not the ever pervading four-on-the-floor beat of EDM.<\/p>\n

While Waterhouse won\u2019t be returning to S.A.M., his label mates De Lux and Allah-lahs will<\/a>\u2014but this is probably for the better since, unlike Waterhouse\u2019s first album, Time’s All Gone<\/em>, his second full-length album, Holly<\/em><\/a>, features far more complex arrangements, or what Waterhouse described as \u201cthe product of knowing I was going to make a record<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n