No Wait Wait

After recording Pale Horse and Rider's country-flavored album, Moody Pike, with Paul Oldham (Bonnie "Prince" Billy) and Jon De Rosa (Aarktica) in the summer of 2003, Marc Gartman headed west to Duluth, MN. With his overflowing songbook and guitar in hand he started work with Alan Sparhawk (Low) on a solo album that would take the singer/songwriter in a new direction. Over the course of the next 6 months in the famed Sacred Heart Studios, Gartman and Sparhawk crafted a rock and roll gem with Eric Swanson (Crash Test Dummies, Haley Bonar) behind the board. Tom Herbers (Low, Fog, Jayhawks) mixed the results and the debut of No Wait Wait found a home on Chairkickers' Union Music. The finest local talent was called upon to create No Wait Wait. With Gartman and Sparhawk on guitar, Russell Sackett on keys, Eric Pollard on drums, Steve Garrington on bass, and members of the University of Minnesota's Orchestra called in to add some finishing touches.