Thunderegg

Thunderegg is a rock band that has literally hundreds of good songs. Never well-known but capable of inspiring fanatical devotion in a select few, the Egg is 33.3 percent based in New York City (Will & Keith) and 66.6 percent based in various towns in Connecticut (Jake from Hartford, Bob from Windsor, Tim and Ken from New Haven). Everybody has day jobs and most have kids, mortgages, and unironic facial hair. None of the members have tattoos. Well, maybe Ken.

The live band has a friendly, melodic, and mellifluous sound, featuring pedal steel, brass, and keyboards in addition to the usual guitarbassdrums, and has played all around the northeast. Sometimes Bob plays lead guitar and melts everybody's brains.

The Egg's debut full-band CD, A Very Fine Sample of What's Available at the Mine, came out in June 2005; meanwhile that year Will recorded and posted a new Thunderegg song to the band's web site every week. The best of these 52 songs are collected on the CD This Week. Then January 2006 saw the monumental release of Open Book, a 108-page illustrated lyric book that includes a CD-ROM that compiles the Egg's first eight albums (recorded by Will to four-track from 1995 to 2004). That's 231 songs, nearly nine hours of music, signed and numbered. It has been praised far and wide by discerning people.

In February Thunderegg finished its second full-band album--the eleventh overall--half recorded with Nathan Gohla up in Manchester, CT, and half recorded with Al Weatherhead (Sparklehorse, Cracker, the Comas, Hotel Lights) at Sound of Music Studios in Richmond. Al also handled all the mixing. The new CD is the best Egg yet, lush and sweetly orchestral. It was mastered at the esteemed Kitchen Studios in Carrboro, NC, and will be released when the time is right. We're not really sure exactly when that is yet. But if you get in touch, we will keep you apprised.