Stone Gossard Unites With Mason Jennings for New Band Painted Shields
In October 2014, they released two songs as a limited edition 7-Inch single. The idea of a full album floated around, but they didn’t have time to get serious about it until about two years ago. They spent a single day in the same studio, but they were apart for nearly the entire process, working in their homes free from any deadline pressures.
The songs came to life slowly over several months with Gossard sending Jennings instrumental files, which he’d send back with added melodies, lyrics and other ideas. “It was pretty different for me because I’m used to having some sort of physical instrument in the room with me,” Jennings says. “I usually have an acoustic guitar against my chest when I’m writing or a piano or something. I did a lot of cranking these songs in the car super, super loud so that I could be inside of them.
“I Am Your Country” started as an abandoned lyrical fragment from one of Jennings’ recent solo projects about a father talking to a son. “It never totally clicked for me,” he says. “One day I was like, ‘What if instead of a father, I flipped it and it was more abstract and talking about the stuff happening right now in the country?'”
Chamberlain’s roots with Gossard go all the way back to 1991 when he spent about seven weeks playing drums in Pearl Jam and he’s gone on to play with everyone from Fiona Apple and Bruce Springsteen to Leonard Cohen, Stevie Nicks, Elton John and David Bowie. He joined Bob Dylan’s touring band last year and plays on his newest record,“He’s got his own warehouse where he keeps all his drums,” Gossard says. “That’s where he works on all his records.
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