“People used to make records, as in the record of an event — the event of people playing music in a room.”
- Ani DiFranco, “Fuel”

The Pocket Co. is a funky collective known for high-calibre songwriting and musicianship. Descendent from The Band, Van Morrison, Sly & The Family Stone, and Bill Withers, they perform '60s/'70s rock and soul with a dash of folk-rock and country. Essentially, The Pocket Co. plays real rock and roll music. Good rock and roll music.

Saturday Night at Morley Gibson's (SN@MG), the album, was recorded while the band was holed up in a barn studio for days. The film, by producing team Jason Chesworth and Grahame Wood (Awake Productions) and documentary film-maker Todd Witham, captures The Pocket Co. playing, arguing, finding inspiration, getting lost, and passing out over five days at the barn, culminating in an all-day, all-night concert/party with eight other bands.

The guiding principle for the CD was to record all the bed tracks (bass, drum, guitar, and both keys) live off the floor. Says Jason, “I told [producer] Steve Pitkin I wanted to hear the musicians looking at each other on this album.”

SN@MG is in the vein of great rock and roll albums of the '60s and '70s — a time when albums were entities, not padding for one hit single; were about music, not bare midriffs; and were bought from local record stores, not Starbucks.

The Pocket Co. has had many adjectives attached to it, but Jason describes the ‘feel' rather than the ‘sound' of the band. “It's that feel of what I imagine the '60s and '70s were like, the circumstances in which they created. I get inspired by listening to music of that era. Today we're offered music that is about sales, marketing, publicity, personas.

“If I am going to put the time, energy, and money into a project with a band, it's going to be about making great records.”