Big Walnuts Yonder
Personnel: Nels Cline (vocals, guitar); Greg Saunier (drums).Audio Mixer: Greg Saunier.Recording information: Studio G, Brooklyn, NY (07/12/2014-07/14/2014).A jam band is, at least in theory, a band that jams, and that can mean a lot of different things. If you're tired of that term being used to describe hippie-style meandering that takes a long time to go nowhere, Big Walnuts Yonder is a quartet whose members have put their own spin on the concept. Essentially a blowing session between four musicians who live and work on the experimental edge of indie rock, Big Walnuts Yonder is a collaborative project featuring bassist Mike Watt (formerly of the Minutemen and the Stooges), guitarist Nels Cline (of Wilco, the Geraldine Fibbers, and the Nels Cline Singers), guitarist and singer Nick Reinhart (of Tere Melos), and drummer Greg Saunier (of Deerhoof). While Watt supposedly brought in a number of melodic sketches for the project and Cline and Saunier also wrote tunes in advance, the melodi