Zach Seibert formed E.Z. Shakes with Todd T. Hicks as an acoustic duo – Seibert on guitar and Hicks on banjo and pedal steel – in 2017 and things have moved pretty quickly since then, the band have two EPs and an album under their belt and another album on the way. They also grew to a five piece with John Furr adding electric guitar, acoustic guitar and keyboards, Stanford Gardner on percussion and bass by Jim Taylor. John Furr also acts as the in-house producer on this fuller sound. On the new record the band recruited Mitch Easter (the producer of seminal albums by R.E.M. and Pavement) to mix the album at his Fidelitorium studio.