Bone Picker by the strange truth of it all

The Story: Just before the world was taken over by a fucking virus, which shut life as we knew it down to a trickle of livelihood in a sea of unknown and unfortunate panamondium. Matt Greenia and Nick Nickerson were slowly beginning to work on material that wasn’t necessarily being recorded for any specific body of work. What was being recorded were Old and New songs together. The older tunes ranged from being 22 years old to the not so distant past. This sparked up the new creative side in me to create a tracklist made up of songs I felt strongly about in this moment and songs from prior mentalities into works of the present. Outside of four songs the entire album was recorded remotely. With very little face to face interactions, the album was recorded with Nick Nickerson’s personal recording setup, along
with some of the other many guest contributors also providing recordings captured in their home studios. Once the stems were sent to Matt Greenia at Diamond Street Studios, he began feely them out and building upon them to thicken them up using anything from bass, different amps, electric guitar, percussion, background vocals, and anything at his disposal at Diamond Street Studios. From that point we began inviting other fellow musicians to contribute whatever they felt from each of the songs. The results were surprisingly vivacious and took on a new life in a free and transformative way. Though there may indeed be +20 year old songs on this record, they have never reached the ear drums of many in their originally conceived recordings.
Created throughout the entire isolation of 2020 and 2021, this motivating album led our hearts away from the unknowns of the cross-minded and naysayers. Real art is not dead and gone, it’s just locked deep inside of us and it’s not in some fad oriented regurgitating consumer driven dream market of blind ignorance. ...For Now.

Also, this record took a mix of 20 year old songs and brand new material. Without the boat load of featured musical icons from the history of the Atlanta Music Scene lending their talents and skill sets to these 11 hand picked tunes… Well, it just wouldn’t have turned out so damned magical.

Tracklist

1.	Ways of the Weak	5:28

2.	Rose	3:22

3.	Atmospherics	4:02

4.	Koala's, Baby!	3:33

5.	Broken Door Bell	4:20

6.	Bone Picker	4:13

7.	Sure	3:22

8.	Tom and Jerry	2:55

9.	Lubricant Lounge	3:41

10.	for now...	3:24

11.	Passing Horizon	5:17

Credits

released March 1, 2022

Album credits:
Nick Nickerson: Guitar, vocals on all
Matt Greenia: Engineering, Mixing, Guitar, bass, percussion and backing vocals on all
Shane Simmons-drums on “rose” and “sure”
Kyle Gordon- guitar, background vox on “rose”
Aaron Golden - bass, lead guitar + asst engineering on “For Now”
James Hall - background/Atmospheric slide guitar and backing vocals + asst engineering on “Passing Horizon”
Kent Aberle - Drums + asst engineering on “Tom and Jerry”, “For Now”, “Broken DoorBell”, “Ways of the Weak”, “Atomspherics”
Ben Davis - Horns on “Koala’s, Baby”
Adam Hopkinson - Drums and Percussion on “Lubricant Lounge”, “Bone Picker”, “Koala’s, Baby”
Matt Williams - backing vocals, atmospheric soundscapes, bells, keyboard, lead guitars + asst engineering on “Atomspherics”’. “Lubricant Lounge”, “Tom and Jerry”,”For Now”,”Ways of the Weak”, “Bone Picker”
Warren Ullom - organ, lead guitar, backing vocals + asst engineering on “Lubricant Lounge”
Spencer Garn - Mastering

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