Sara Van Buskirk: As a solo artist, it is a very foreign concept to do a full-length record full band. I definitely wouldn't have done it so successfully if I hadn't had a great friend who happened to be an excellent producer. Taylor Lee has some great friends and contacts. So we basically started out with some scratch tracks, then you find the right musicians and then go from there. Taylor did most of the full band arrangements without me even having to be there. It's really important to find a producer with whom you are on the exact same page with, but at the same time has a little bit more insight of what the big picture is than you do. The songs were too personal for me to create percussive parts to. I would walk into the studio late and they would already be tracking drums. I would get in my box to lay down guitar and they would be like, "What's the name of this song?" Then they would cue the track in my headphones with scratch acoustic and live drums and I would say, "I have no idea! I didn't write a song that this beat would go to!" They'd play the scratch vocal and I would say, "No way! This is "Daughter of Your Bones"? I never imagined drums on this of all songs!" You want people involved who want to make the project be more than you are capable of making it yourself, while also keeping it true to it's original form. RO: The bareness isn't a bad thing at all, by the way... SVB: I would love to be a multi-instrumentalist. I would love to be that rad folksy girl with some circus act band, but I'm not right now and that's okay. The most important thing in a songwriter's career in my opinion is the songs themselves. You want them to speak to people, you want people to be able to sing along and you want them to translate well. I feel that most songwriters these days focus too much on the act instead of communication. RO: Thankfully it's not encumbered by electricity, it seems. SVB: We wanted the only guitar to be acoustic. Putting electric guitar in would just change the whole feel of the record. It would create an extra band member to find. And it would have just been too complicated. I think the fact that it's acoustic-driven is what gives it its naked quality. And I like that. I'm able to play all of these songs by themselves and they still translate well. I'm able to play them with a full band and we all have a little more fun.