Former Descendents/ALL guitarist calls on Centennial State roots for solo debut
Kevin Scanlon
You know what they say: You can take the boy out of Colorado, but you can’t take the Colorado out of the boy’s much-delayed self-produced solo project. Or something like that. Although onetime Descendents and ALL guitarist Stephen Egerton left Fort Collins for Oklahoma in 2003, he’s hardly separated from his old stomping grounds on his solo debut The Seven Degrees Of Stephen Egerton. Written, recorded, and played entirely by Egerton, the effort features a bevy of singers making cameos in the vocal booth with a heavy emphasis on his Centennial State ties.
Drag The River’s Jon Snodgrass and Chad Price appear on a track each, as does Joy Subtraction’s Abe Brennan. Egerton recorded about half the other singers during his stay as producer at the Blasting Room studio upstate. “Fort Collins is kind of the center,” Egerton says. “Of all the singers who recorded on it, I think four of the singers were recorded at the Blasting Room, which was cool. It was very much all my old buds helping me out.”
Members of Alkaline Trio, MxPx, and Lagwagon are also among the guests on Seven Degrees, which arrives in stores May 11 from Paper + Plastick Records.
