“Sometimes we throw in newer stuff,” singer and guitarist DeSomer says of the band s live sets. “For this we were really like, ‘Let’s just try and set the standard, because it started to feel like we were pulling covers from all over the place, and it felt too scattered.”
The album has fourteen tracks from artists ranging from the Statler Brothers to the Beach Boys, as well as four public-domain clips from ’60s television and movies. Many of the songs have been extensively covered by artists over the past several decades, but DeSomer’s untamed contralto vocals and the band’s stripped-down instrumentals impart a fresh spin on the otherwise well-trod tunes.