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direction.
Mike: The last song we re-
corded, Wish You Everything,
was the only one written in the
studio. I had a progression and
melody that we recorded, but it
just didn’t work. Shannon and
Taz got a hold of it and flipped
it upside down… we fastened
in the melodies and lyrics and
it turned out to be one of the
strongest songs on the album
Rocknation: Your CD was
mastered by Anthony Focx
the producer, mixer,
engineer of Aerosmith,
Buck Cherry, Ace Frehley to
name a few. What did
Anthony bring to the table
for your CD.
Taz: After you produce and
mix a project you always want
someone that can take the di-
rection of the album and give it
that last final touch, and Antho-
ny has always been “that guy”
for me. He always makes the
album the very best possible
and the songs really popped
after he mastered them
Rocknation: You signed a
deal with TSM promotions in
the UK to handle your press.
What has the response been
so far?
Mike: It’s been great. The ra-
dio rotation there has been on
the up and so have the album
downloads. Funny story…My
cousin had a friend on his deer
lease that happened to see
the cd in his truck and asked
where the hell he got it…that
he didn’t know where to buy
the cd. Obviously my cousin
was a little shocked he knew
about the band and asked him
where he heard of Drought. It
turns out that he was working
on an oil rig in the UK where
we were being played on the
Interview by Tom Mathers radio…small world.
Rocknation: You live in
Austin, Texas the claimed
Rocknation: Hello Mike, nights of recording. We heard it, music capital of the world.
Shannon, Mike and Taz and in its most basic form, it was What is the music scene like
of Drought and welcome exactly what we were looking there?
to Rocknation. You just for. Everything else just fell into Taz: SxSW is coming up in
released your album place.
“Untapped” on iTunes, Shannon: Well,
Amazon.com and various we definitely took
digital sites worldwide. our time with the
Please tell us about the album; we made
recording and writing sure every detail
process for this release. was worked out.
Mike: Shannon and I came I think that if you
to Taz after hearing the would have let
production quality the of us, we would still
Spinning Chain album. The be tweeking. Taz
first song we recorded was really became an
Born of Stone, which at the integral part of
time, was the most recently the band, playing
written. I don’t know how I guitars on many
could explain the excitement songs and push-
we had after the first few ing us in the right
