In recording my album “Lost Bags” last year, I had one other newfound insight: the clavinet is simply an awesome instrument, more so than I ever fully appreciated. On “Lost Bags,” the subtle, funky power of the clavinet became apparent to me as Akil Thompson added clavinet parts to two songs, Get Away and Blue Throat. I never realized how much those songs – which I wrote or co-wrote – beckoned for the clavinet until Akil put those tracks down. How fun is it to discover something that belongs so well that you did not imagine yourself?

Seven of the nine songs featured in our new album Lost Bags, including our first release Freshwater Fish (1/21), have horn parts. We were super lucky to have Paul Thacker (Saxophones), Diego Vasquez (Trombone), and Kirk Donavan (Trumpet) of the Nashville Horns record with us. Horn parts are often a team effort, and it takes a lot of work in the studio to pull them together. In general, our process….