I learned about Warren Zevon from my dad.ĥ.0 What was the first album you ever purchased? Aerosmith’s Pump. My dad, a self-proclaimed “bean-counter,” actually has great taste in music, though I didn’t realize it when I was younger. She was the one who turned me on to the Rolling Stones and Steve Earle. Growing up she I remember her playing the Beatles and Emmylou Harris, who looks like her sister. Don’t be surprised to see some “Nate Schweber and the New Heathens” shows soon.Ĥ.0 What sort of music did your family listen to growing up? My mom is the partially-reformed pseudo-hippie of the family and she’s a huge music lover.
I find myself in the curious position now of trying to promote a good record by a band that isn’t really around anymore. I’ve been playing plenty of solo acoustic shows, difficulties of promoting a full-band record as a solo acoustic artist be damned. That’s a good metaphor for how the recording process went. Note that the record starts out with five people wailing together in a room, and ends quietly with me by myself. It wasn’t how I envisioned it – and believe me, I had meticulously planned this project for years and worked my ass off – but I came to a fork in the road during the recording process where I could salvage one of two things: the band or the record. We had been going pretty strong there for a couple years, hauling up and down the eastern seaboard in a big, purple van, but we hit the rocks in the studio. But the sound of the shattering is pretty glorious.ģ.0 What’s up with the New Heathens? I don’t want to air dirty laundry, but some of those growing pains I mentioned led to us stopping performing out as a band midway through making Hello Disaster.
The second record, to me, is the sound of a band busting apart. The first record is the sound of a band coming together, going into the studio and just bashing out the songs. It took three hard years to make the second. It took four fun days to make the first record. I liken Roscoe to an excellent editor.Ģ.0 How does the new CD “Hello Disaster” differ from your debut “Heathens Like Me”? First and foremost, Hello Disaster was produced, unlike Heathens Like Me. My background is in writing for newspapers.
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On a macro level, he’s always got his eye on the big picture like how to make the best use of studio time, the order that songs should go in, how to tell players to prepare and a whole lot more. On the micro level, he’s got a great sense of what sounds need to be where what parts of songs need guitar licks, what tracks need an overdubbed acoustic guitar with Nashville tuning, where a harmonica break fits, etc. Roscoe sees projects on a macro and micro level. Whether it’s his work playing guitar with Joan Jett or Steve Earle, his playing in bands like Del Lords, the Yayhoos and his own group The Roscoe Trio, or bands he produced like the Blood Oranges, the Backsliders and the Bottle Rockets everything Roscoe touches turns to gold. He’s one of those guys with the Midas Touch.
I’d wanted to work with Roscoe for years, and since I moved to New York in 2001 I slowly got to know him hanging out at his bar, the Lakeside Lounge, and going to hear him play. It was a real challenge to step up to his expectations, and that caused a lot of growing pains. As a producer Roscoe demands a lot, but his results speak for themselves. 1.0 How was it recording with Eric “Roscoe” Ambel? Recording with Roscoe was a great learning experience.
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