A live session recorded in February of 2018, representing a sample of the live sound of Derek Deon & the Vaughns, recorded for the first time in a studio environment - in contrast to my typical track-by-track recording process.

Credits:
Derek Deon: Guitar - Vocals, Composition, Lyrics* (Guess It's Alright)
Dylan James Vaughn - Bass, Vocals
Morgan Graham - Vocals, Cover Art
Ian McCarty - Keys
John Johns - Guitar
Max Malcomb - Auxiliary Percussion, Drums

Ady Suleiman - Music and Lyrics* (Say So)

Sandy Ficca - Audio Engineering 
Bret Levick - Mixing/Mastering

Say So

Guess It's Alright

The conceptual effort of three years of sporadic recording sessions, featuring a pool of Southern Oregon musicians, audio Engineering by Sandy Ficca and Mixing/Production by Bret Levick, FITBWTWGB includes Derek Deon’s debut singles in the context of a seamless, atmospheric album experience.

Everything Ends

Floating In The Backseat While The World Goes By

Waiting For The Sun

My Car Is A Campfire

Melted Wax

When We're Older And Free

Derek Deon is a songwriter, performer, and recording artist based in Ashland, Oregon. Being a producer who enjoys using the studio and the stage as a sonic canvas, he enjoys somber, sensuous music, and copious amounts of reverb and delay in his guitar and vocal tones. As a performer born out of DIY ambitions, house venues, and a soft-spot for sappy pop songs, Derek Deon provides audiences with a soulfully vibrant energy that aims to make them swoon. His studio recordings can be found on most major streaming platforms and at derekdeon.com, along with dates and information on upcoming performances.

Derek Deon's debut LP, Floating in the Backseat While the World Goes by, is driven by a sense of nostalgia for long drives home in the backseat of his grandparent's car, layered beneath unapologetically blunt feelings of longing, insecurity, possession, and comfort; of romance through the lens of adolescence and novelty.

Derek Deon

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