Saturday Looks Good To Me may have one of the more casually tangled histories in the world of contemporary music. Since the outfit’s more or less accidental formation four years ago, over sixty members have come and gone while songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Fred Thomas has stayed, pulling together friends and others to help him record well-crafted and emotionally complex songs that he says are never really finished.

What’s all this talk of accidents and tangled histories? Well, as Thomas explains, in the beginning of the band, there was no real band. “It started as project,” says Thomas between fielding calls at his day job somewhere in the Detroit-area, “as a tape to give out to friends and say, ‘Here’s a funny thing that I’m doing.’ Later, we pressed up 300 copies of an LP. When we were recording that it was, ‘OK, who’s free?’ Or somebody would come over and we’d say ‘Uh, we’re busy recording a song. Play shaker, play bass.’ It wasn’t like we said, ‘Oh, yeah, you’re the bass player in the band and here’s your percentage of the songwriting credits.’”