Chris Shiflett & The Dead Peasants

Seven years into his career as Foo Fighters lead guitarist, and following 2 full length releases by his rock/punk side project Jackson United, Chris Shifflett is now putting on his American hat for his latest solo release 'Chris Shiflett & The Dead Peasants'.

Shiflett wrote the album over the course of 2008-9, inspiration first striking when a friend asked him to perform at Orange County's punk-rockabiliy Hootenanny festival in 2008. After re-immersing himself in his Americana and old country music collection to prepare a short set, he began writing what eventually became the new album. Recorded at Studio 606 in Los Angeles, Chris Shiflett & The Dead Peasants highlights Shiflett's maturity as a writer and as a player.

The core band on Christ Shiflett & The Dead Peasants is Shiflett (vocals, guitar), 606 house engineer John Lousteau (drums, in addition to engineering), and Derek Silverman (keyboards). The album's additional instrumentation was performed by an array of fine musicians, including Davey Faragher (Elvis Costello and The Imposters, Jenny Lewis, John Hiatt) on bass, Greg Leisz (Wilco, Lucinda Wiliams) on pedal steel, Stevie Blacke (Beck, Weezer) on violin and mandolin, and Audra Mae on backing vocals.