Thunderegg (band)

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Thunderegg is an American rock and roll band (formed as "Larry" in New Haven, Connecticut in 1993) featuring Will Georgantas (guitar, vocals), Jake Fournier (bass), and Keith Woodfin (drums). Eight years after almost moving to Oregon, whose state rock is the thunderegg, the half-Hartford, Connecticut-, half-New York City-based group released its first official album, A Very Fine Sample of What's Available at the Mine, independently in 2005. That year Georgantas also wrote, recorded, and posted a new song every week to Thunderegg's web site, the best of which were collected for the CD This Week, which was self-released in early 2007.

Between 1995 and 2004 Georgantas recorded eight limited-distribution albums of four-tracked songs in his various apartments in New York City and his parents' houses in Princeton, New Jersey, and Nantucket, Massachusetts. These albums, from 1995's Universal Nut through 2004's Sweetest One, feature increasingly elaborate (yet persistently low-fi) arrangements of Georgantas's songs. In January 2006, all of these recordings were collected for the unusual anthology Open Book: The Collected Thunderegg, 1995-2004. The independently produced Open Book featured 213 songs (plus 18 bonus tracks) on a single data CD along with a 108-page illustrated lyric book. It was positively received by reviewers, especially music bloggers with more eccentric tastes.

As a performing band, Thunderegg enlisted two new members in 2005 (Bob Porri, pedal-steel and six-string guitar; Tim Kane, trumpet and French horn) and began its so-called Eternal Tour of Relatively Local Venues, playing cities throughout the Northeast United States that were within driving distance.

Thunderegg's second full-band album was completed in February 2007. It was engineered by Nathan Gohla at the Shed in Manchester, Connecticut, and Al Weatherhead (Sparklehorse, Cracker) at Sound of Music Studios in Richmond, Virginia. Weatherhead also handled the mixing duties of the twelve-track CD, which represented a major step forward in sound and orchestration.