, the band’s sixth album, was forged in the fire to be sure — sometimes literally. The songs were written as singer Shannon Shaw bounced between Oakland, Portland, Hawaii, and Napa, where she was helping care for her ailing father, all while battling a local Peeping Tom who was wreaking havoc on the residents of her Oakland apartment complex.
As such, some songs, like opener “Do I Wanna Stay,” were written across states. “The verse, melody and some lyrics came to me one of the days in Napa after dropping my dad off; I took the long way home through the thick smoke and contemplated my future,” Shaw says. “The chorus was written in Hawaii; the first half reminds me of floating in the water staring down at coral and fish and the second half is a wave crashing on to me and my body trying to stay afloat.
Blanchard wrote from a more stable locale: a livestock shed behind his Portland home that he converted into a recording studio. “I got really into this idea of writing other people’s stories as songs,” he says. “For some reason, it was so much easier for me to write this way. I was able to work really fast and get out of my own head and my own experience.”is one such song.
Despite the dark subject matter — and the turmoil Shaw went through during the writing of the songs — the band said it was a joyful recording process. They laid down the record at Auerbach’s Nashville recording studio, Easy Eye, with a bunch of amiable backing musicians in their mid-Seventies. “As for Dan, I’d love to be a fly on the wall in that brain of his,” Shaw says.
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