SONGS

1. The Dirt Road
2. The Slow Death of Lung Cancer
3. Sending Out A Dove
4. I've Got Your Blood
5. I'm Glad You Got Out (But I Miss You)
6. Rushing Lattice
7. No Kind of God
8. MEGADETH TEE
9. To Feel So Small (Hello Me, It's Me Again)

MEGADETH TEE was released July 15, 2022 on Atomic Collapse. It took nearly four years to write, re-write, record, and promote. It was inspired by the words and story of our dear friend, Johnny Allen, who wrote the poetry and prose that make up the majority of the lyrics and story of the record. I added to and subtracted from this material during the songwriting process where inspiration or melody dictated. The original work is beautiful and you can find it along with the adapted lyrics as they were sung by clicking on any of the song titles above. David Mohr contributed the lyrics for the song Rushing Lattice and I wrote the entirety of I've Got Your Blood.

Jarod Keel filmed this live version of Rushing Lattice, which is different from the studio version. This one was recorded by Zach at Dream Cabin Sounds, and mixed by Matt Thomson at Ivy League Recording in Portland, Oregon.

MUSIC

PERFORMED BY

Ashley Maiden: Bass Guitar, Vocals
Evan Bailey: Guitar, Keyboards, Percussion
Jacob Bradford: Guitar
Zach Peach: Drums, Percussion

FEATURING

Rachael McElhiney: Vocals
Graham Farrow: Vocals
Farrow and the Peach Leaves: Handclaps

Zach and I arranged the majority of the songs as a two piece. This happened over the course of about a year or so, and since the band at its inception had no older material to rely on we basically had to play the new songs live, which led to a lot of revision as we figured out what was working well, and what needed to be tighter. We worked a lot on song structure and some of the early material went through a fair amount of restructuring. We made a lot of demos around this time as well.

RECORDED BY

Jack Shirley at The Atomic Garden in Oakland
Patrick Hills at Earthtone Studios arranged
Zach Peach at Dream Cabin Sounds
Jacob Bradford at The Birchville Cat Motel

We started practicing the songs as a full band some time in early 2019, and in the fall we recorded a demo with Tim Green at Louder Studios consisting of Megadeth Tee and To Feel So Small. I think the demo versions have a lot of rawness and energy, and in some ways I like them a little more than the album versions.

Our plan was to go back in the studio to make a full length in early 2020, but the recording was delayed due to COVID. We ended up recording basic tracks in November with Jack Shirley at Atomic Garden, with main guitars, bass, and drums recorded live as a band (no click or tempo mapping). I completed lead vocals with Jack in December, and met up with Patrick Hills at Earthtone Studios in early 2021, where we did Rachael and Ashley's vocals. We recorded the majority of the instrumental overdubs at our home studios, including guitars, auxiliary percussion, keys, and additional background vocals. Jack and I live mixed the album at the Atomic Garden in July of 2021. Jack completed mastering shortly after.

ART

Justin Butler is an incredibly talented graphic artist, and one of my oldest friends. Justin did a mock of a concept I had for the cover, but also came up with a second direction for the art using Cyanotype, which is a very old printing process using specialized paper that produces a negative of the subject matter. I collected some weeds and dead flowers out of Sutter Creek in Amador County, where I grew up with Johnny and Justin. Justin arranged the foliage, created the cyanotype and designed the cover art. The cyanotype concept was a much better match for the mood and subject matter of the record than my original concept.

FINAL CONCEPT

INITIAL CONCEPTS

Thank you for reading and thank you for listening! _Evan

The second of the Jarod Keel Live at Dream Cabin Sounds videos.

And along the road All the dogs have died