Subscribe RSSRecorded in Matt Kursh’s studio on Mount Tamalpais, overlooking San Francisco Bay in Marin County, California, this collaboration showcases the charmingly resonant acoustic guitars built by Santa Cruz, California, luthier Jeff Traugott ( traugottguitars.com ) as played by Cohan, Smith, and Storie. Together they review all the parameters of timbre and texture presented by these instruments.
Family Ties“I’ve seen these guys awaken from their inception when they started playing together in college and watched them move through their quartet down to a trio,” says Traugott, who is Cohan’s uncle. “My nephew has had one of my guitars forever, and they started using that prime mover a little more mixed in with the electric guitars on their last album, Guitars” below), which Cohan, Smith, and Storie shared, delegating distinct roles for each accord. “We all play rhythm parts, we all play lead parts,” Cohan says. “We passed the guitars around entirely a bit for this recording.”
