How did Ani DiFranco become a contributor to the record?
She has lent her talents to a bunch of songs actually, and one of them ended up on this record. She was great, she didn’t only sing she played guitar, she played bass, she played keyboards on stuff, of course she sang on stuff. I think she even played the Stylophone on a track, which is an interesting instrument. We also worked on stuff that came out on Doomed to Make Choices, which happened before Sobriety Kills. She’s on half of that record. So she contributed a bunch, which was very generous of her. She’s a cool person, good to work with, and very talented. How did you connect with Glen Phillips? What was it like writing with him? Tom DeSavia hooked us up. It was the craziest thing because I was always a crazy Toad the Wet Sprocket fan and I’m probably an even bigger Glen Philips fan as a solo artist. He [DeSavia] hooked us up, I reached out to Glen, I got his email address, I sent him some stuff. He was receptive to the idea as far as getting together was concerned, and he just dro
