The Age of Woodsheds and Bunkers

 

dB Dave Dennison - Lead guitar on...

Mark Gunson - Lead guitar on....

Shaun Marshall - Pedal Steel, Lap Steel on...

Jim Norton - everything else

 

Most of these tracks were written and arranged, mangled and strangled, by Jim Norton, from a bunker, a garage,

and an occasional woodshed. He used a MacBook Pro, guitar, bass, key, harmonica, drum or horn patch.

But more importantly, each track features a lead instrumental, supplied by one of the other three. 

 

Norton recorded and arranged the foundation tracks 

in Garageband before sending to the others by email. Then Mark or Dave would lay down their part and

email them back. Generally, these parts are identified

as the noodly glue that holds everything else together. 

In order to finally capture that incindiary "buzz-saw

slide guitar sound" the studio was packed up and transported to Fourth St. in San Rafael, which is

where Marshall keeps it most of the time.

 

This mashup of styles, coupled with a prominent use

of samples and loops helps to achieve a relative lo-fi production level, akin to a musical five-second rule.

It might be worth noting that such an album can be

made without actually being together in the same room.

The samples used on fallout shelter are from The Atomic Cafe and feature such voices as Richard Nixon, LBJ and

Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

Thanks to garageband, yahoo and line6 for their

unwitting support.