Woods

***Woods*** is the first full length album from Owosso based indie pop act Great Lakes Feather Company. The album was conceived as (then seventeen year old) Miles Taylor Winchester's high school senior project.

## Background

Discontent with his past musical endeavors in the fields of ska and garage rock Winchester turned to inspiration from the musical styles of Kanye West and Lady Gaga. This was Winchester's first look into the realm of hip hop and synthpop , he decided to create a musical project with those sounds in mind.

Winchester then developed a story on which he'd base the album off of, which describes a man with a severe obsessive fixation disorder on a love interest. After realizing that this person wants nothing to do with him, the man decides to stalk them and murder them, eventually burying their body out in the woods.

Recording began in late October, where Winchester enlisted many of his locally based musical friends to come record vocal parts he wrote for the album. He chose to work with a few notable people that ended up becoming very involved with the later development of Great Lakes Feather Company, such as Captn Marco (on the songs "Scrambled Eggs" and "Woods"), Jon Gibbs (on the song "Oh, Nostalgia"), Nate Hall (on the song "Scrambled Eggs"), and Jared Rupert (on the song "Adore").

## Release and promotion

*Woods* was released on March 6, 2012. One live performance was used to promote the album at The Clearing venue for their *Hometown Heros* show on April 3, 2012.

On June 5, 2012 Great Lakes Feather Company uploaded their first music video to their official YouTube channel entitled, "Scrambled Eggs". The music video stars Miles Winchester, Captn Marco, Nate Hall, Jon Gibbs, and Joshua Robinson in various locations around Owosso, having little to do with the story of the album itself.

Later on in 2012, James Schramm would go on to remaster three songs from *Woods,* "This Night", "Escape Me", and "Scrambled Eggs". They can be found on Great Lakes Feather Company's soundcloud here. Schramm would go on to mix and master later GLFC projects such as *Pluto* and *Atlantis*.

## Personnel

* Miles Winchester - Composition, Lyrics, Instrumentals, Vocals
* Captn Marco - Vocals on "Scrambled Eggs" and "Woods"
* Nate Hall - Vocals on "Scrambled Eggs"
* Jon Gibbs - Vocals on "Oh, Nostalgia"
* Seth Barnes - Vocals on "Wake Up" and "Stalker"
* Evan Buchholz - Vocals on "Oceans"
* Jared Rupert - Vocals on "Adore"
* Steven Kirkman - Trombone on "This Night"
* Caleb Doerr - Tenor Saxophone on "Escape Me"

## References

1. ↑ https://greatlakesfeathercompany.bandcamp.com/album/woods
2. ↑ https://www.reverbnation.com/artist\_3196709/bio
3. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eFH8o-6bb8
4. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ska
5. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garage\_rock
6. ↑ https://greatlakesfeathercompany.bandcamp.com/track/the-dragonman
7. ↑ https://greatlakesfeathercompany.bandcamp.com/track/this-night-feat-stevek
8. ↑ https://greatlakesfeathercompany.bandcamp.com/track/oceans-feat-evan-buchholz
9. ↑ https://greatlakesfeathercompany.bandcamp.com/track/stalker-feat-seth-barnes
10. ↑ https://greatlakesfeathercompany.bandcamp.com/track/scrambled-eggs-feat-nate-hall-and-the-perezident
11. ↑ https://greatlakesfeathercompany.bandcamp.com/track/woods-feat-the-perezident
12. ↑ https://www.reverbnation.com/artist\_3196709/bio
13. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/events/898661376846201/
14. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZizvQW8qXU