![]() ![]() So many of those songs just came to life like, “Boom, boom, boom.” I usually have my fixated ideas when I’m Producing, but I made a deal with Parker that I wanted to let him in on it. If we had an idea and we weren’t sure about it or it was taking too long, we decided we wouldn’t spend more than 45 seconds discussing anything. We made an agreement going in that we wouldn’t force anything. Parker and just have this magic thing, musically, spiritually, friendship-wise. We went out there and it was just so quiet. ![]() He played drums, upright bass, slide, banjo, and I played the mandolin.ĪH: That must have made it even more possible to record together in a non-studio situation, which I’ve heard is what happened here.ĭMcM: It was pretty wild because our friend Phil has this cabin in a place where, in the winter, not a lot of people want to spend time up there. ![]() Our drummer Ben played two songs, but Parker even played the drums on almost every song. He plays everything but the acoustic guitar on the record. Parker plays all of those instruments extremely proficiently, so it was literally just him and I. So it was kind of giving myself permission and doing what we had to do. I thought, “Well, that’s not the band that we tour with, so that would be weird.” I heard a dobro, a banjo, and an upright bass, for instance. The other thing that was weird about these songs, and one of the reasons that I set them aside at first, is that I heard what you hear on the record. I noticed a lot of Soul elements in the music, for instance.ĭMcM: I think the song “What I Am” does a really good job of that because it sounds like it feels. Of course, lyrics aren’t the only things that convey emotions to fans, and on this album the music also shifts. It was really actually therapeutic to just dive right in and say, “Yep, I’m sharing this!”ĪH: I’m glad you found a way to reconcile that. When we made the plan to make the record, and decided, “We’re doing this!”, then I got really excited about it. But it hadn’t been a positive year for me at all. I had some trepidation about recording songs like that because I think our fanbase has grown to expect positivity from us. I’ve always had an aversion to writing sad songs, and a lot of these songs on Flowers From The Fray are not happy, so I was self-conscious about attaching the band name to it. I spoke with Drew McManus about the situation that gave rise to the album, the songs, and more, below.Īmericana Highways: Do you write songs regardless of what might be going on in life, or do you tend to write towards an album?ĭrew McManus: I don’t really get a say in when that happens. ![]() The whole story behind the creation of the album turns on McManus ’ songwriting direction at the time leading up to recording and finding this incredibly earnest way of capturing sound served the outcome that he and Brown were looking for. That sound was almost entirely created by McManus and bandmate and multi-instrumentalist Parker Brown while staying in a friend’s cabin in midwinter. What Flowers from the Fray does differently is that it allows for more confessional lyrics, at times documenting struggle and difficulties, and also goes for a remarkable, stripped-down approach in terms of sound and recording. Something that the two albums have in common, however, is a feeling of including McManus’ Montana life and traditions in the sound and subject-matter. Satsang’s Drew McManus Strips Down Flowers From The FrayĪ new album from Satsang, Flowers from the Fray, arrived on September 9th, 2022, and lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter Drew McManus gave the world fair warning that this album would be quite different from the big sounds and energy of previous release All. Drew McManus / Satsang photo by Greyson Plate ![]()
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