Our Long Road Home

Our Long Road Home

They've shared stages with the likes of Linkin Park and Queens of the Stone Age, blanketed the airwaves with hook-laden rock radio hits and saw all three of their albums (2000 s Gift, 2002 s Welcome, 2005 s Blue Sky Research) chart within the top 35 on Billboard s Top 200. We're talking of course about Ann Arbor, MI-based quartet TAPROOT, who have returned with their first album in three years the highly anticipated OUR LONG ROAD HOME.<br><br>After recording three albums for a major label, OUR LONG ROAD HOME will be Taproot s first as an indie band, and as vocalist/guitarist Stephen Richards tells it, that suits them just fine. A few years ago, that might ve been a scary thing, but it s a brand-new world out there now for bands like us. We no longer have to rely on a big record company to make things happen and that s exciting. <br><br>For this record, the band returned to their hometown of Ann Arbor, MI where they recorded in a converted barn just a few minutes down the road from Richards home. We made each of our previous albums in expensive studios and always had to keep one eye on the clock to finish on budget, says Richards. This time we got to record an album the way we did our early demos relaxed, at our own pace, and allowed to indulge in our own guilty pleasures. It proved that you can actually go home again.