Mac Bartinelead vocals and rhythm guitar
I had to sing this one comparatively quite a lot to get a take that fit the song. I don’t remember exactly, but I’m guessing 8 or 9 sessions, where most were the 3 original takes with the whole band then a single take in a vocal booth, based on what I liked from the originals. First I had a scratchy throat and it just sounded bad, then I sang it too forcefully more than once, and finally, it came to the last take, where both my wife Jill and Seva told me they thought the song needed more vulnerability in the vocals. That was exactly the feedback I needed to hear, and it changed how I approached the take that’s on the album. By the time the album was finally done being recorded (more than a year) and we’d started with mixing, Unshakable became a strong contender to be the last song, because we loved how this weird little country jazz jam-band rock song gets progressively more low-key epic as it goes.