This album was criticized by some within the progressive community for not being "progressive" enough, but it is actually my favorite album of the three. There's more of a singer-songwriter orientation, and the focus is definitely the "song"! It's also the first of the three where I play pretty much ALL of the guitar on the album, and indeed, most of the songs began their production lives with me coming in and playing an acoustic guitar foundation.
The strongest exception to that weak rule comes with the track "The Solution". We finished "No Tears Left" with the Steve Miller phrase "Whoa, there's a solution." Upon listening to the song, one of us (probably Trent, but I don't really remember) said, "So, now we need a song called The Solution!" A challenge! Trent took the lead in laying down a bed of music, which started, uncharacteristically enough with . . . the drum tracks! (Played brilliantly by Andy Eberhard.) I was challenged with writing the lyrics, which is more difficult than one might think. I mean, people have been trying to figure out solutions to world problems for eons, and I was suddenly supposed to solve everything in a 7 minute song!
But no more stories. Tame Until Hungry is just SO listen-able from beginning to end. Jump in with Trent, Robert, and me!
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