Teamed for the first time with Seattle-based producer Matt Bayles (Mastodon, The Sword) and recorded in Stone Gossard's studio, the album tells the story of Spanish explorer Coronado and his fabled search for the seven cities of gold in the Kansas plains, not far from where the band lives.

"It's hard to say exactly what we are and what we do," says Arbuckle. "Blues is definitely at the core, but we're huge fans of all sorts of American music, and all of that comes through as well.