by Nigel Moore
The landmark album One Chord To Another marked “the beginning of the true independent Sloan,” according to Jay Ferguson. “And that was 20 years ago.”
After leaving Geffen Records following 1994’s Twice Removed, Ferguson and his bandmates in Sloan - Chris Murphy, Patrick Pentland and Andrew Scott - made and released the record in 1996 on their own label, and own terms.
The band will bring their One Chord To Another 20th Anniversary Tour to the Pyramid Cabaret on Saturday, where they will play the record front to back.
Sloan made One Chord To Another on what was a relatively shoe-string budget in Halifax. “We put it out ourselves and it became our biggest-selling record of all time,” said Ferguson. “It was an encouraging project, and the beginning of Sloan doing everything on our own: paying for our own records, owning our own masters and publishing; everything like that.”
“I still prefer making records the way we made it then, where you’re on your own schedule, paying for things yourselves and trying to be economical,” said Ferguson. “We called the shots, we did the artwork when and how we wanted. All the decisions about making the record and paying for it were our own. You just feel like you’re working for yourself, and that’s a good way to live one’s life,” he said.
Back then, Ferguson secretly hoped Sloan would be still making records today. (They released a new one, Commonwealth, in 2014.)
“When we started the band, I wasn’t thinking like, ‘Oh yeah, we’ll do this for a year and then I’ll do something else.’ When our band started doing well I was like, ‘Let’s keep this going,’ because for me, this was what I’ve wanted to do for a living since I was young. So I’m interested in keeping it going for as long as possible,” he said.
--taken from: Metro News
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