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So it’s this idea that the workers would earn their pay working in the mines, and then they’d go back to that same company store, spend their money on essentials, and a little bit tongue in cheek is that this recording was funded by some money that I had earned in the music industry and here I am turning around putting it right back in as soon as I’m done.Īlso inspired by a Greg MacPherson song of the same name. If you’re familiar with the concept of the company store, it would be the general store in a mining town that was owned by the mining company. Maybe a bit of an inside joke for myself.
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And I had some great positive feedback from friends, family, and peers, and it just turned into a full length and here we go. I started this because it was just something that I wanted to do for myself, not knowing if it would be something that I would end up releasing, but kind of the experiment in the studio turned out a little better than I expected.
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So I never really had the time or resources to be able to focus on my own thing. I’ve been in and out of bands since I was a teenager and always wanted to do my own recording, but I’ve just been busy with other bands and focusing on that. Like many, the first solo album is usually a labor of love, is that true for you as well? And here we are just a week away from finally getting this done and out there. So a few months back, I started getting all my material together, making sure I had my T’s crossed and my I’s dotted. I thought to myself, “Well, this seems like a great window of opportunity to finally get Company Store out.” Obviously, a canceled tour and COVID hitting, I’m left with this time. So Company Store was something that I was working on in the background when I had time. My priorities lie with The Strumbellas so if we were out on tour or working on projects, that’s where my priorities were. So when COVID hit and Strumbellas stopped being busy, which is a big conflict as far as working on your own music and getting it out. And the next thing you know, I’ve got enough material for an album that I didn’t necessarily have any type of plan for other than I knew at some point I did want to release it. I started recording for fun and for myself during some downtime that Strumbellas had, and I ended up being really happy with the results and went back to the studio for a couple more sessions. Well, it has been something that’s been probably a couple of years in the making actually.
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Tell me about your upcoming solo album Company Store. So the canceled tour kind of turning into lock down and quarantine due to COVID, really changed things for us as far as the ability to get back out there and make up those dates for the tour that we unfortunately canceled.ĬOVID has given you time to reflect, write and record while the world sorts itself out. But we needed the time off to focus on getting healthy. Well we canceled the tour due to personal reasons that I will leave to that particular member or members to discuss a little bit further. For The Strumbellas, it came at an odd time- you cancelled a pretty big tour. We sat down with Jeremy to find out more.ĬOVID has hit everyone in different ways. Unlike his gig in The Strumbellas, Jeremy performed nearly all the instruments. As The Strumbellas take a break and deal with the fallout of COVID, he headed to Toronto’s Lincoln County Social Club to record his self-produced debut album, called Company Store.Ĭompany Store is a 10-track dream project that showcases his writing and instrumentation skill to the max.