Knowing producer Bill Lawrence has plenty of benefits, including access to his address book full of connections.
We met for breakfast and we got on and he invited me to his house to hang out.
We met every day at around 9 a.m. with coffee in his studio.

I think we both hopefully learned a few tricks off each other.
The collaboration earned Howe and Mumford an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music.
Shrinkingis like trying to sit in a band while thinking of the sounds of California, said Howe.
Instantly, I tried a few things, but think of 60s Beach Boys-key in California sound.
SoShrinkingis full of organs and different types of keyboards and also vocals.
On working with Gibbard, Bill obviously has an incredible address book.
But inShrinking, it was at the end, but I had some thematic ideas.
And were just saying, Who do you think would be good for this?
And somebody said, What about Ben Gibbard?
And he said, Sure.
And then it sort of went from there.
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