Chiccarelli. Audio mixers were Chris Lord-Alge, Mark Howard and Hasal. Gravelled and Green was recorded at seven studios: Ardent in Memphis, Tenn.; Iltho in Seattle, Wash., Image, in Los Angeles; Ironwood in Seattle; Mad Hatter in Los Angeles; Sweet Tea in Oxford, Miss.; and Teatro in Oxnard, Cali. Photography was done by John Clark. In 2001, the Actual Tigers opened for Counting Crows. Joe Seely, Tim's brother who later formed the folk rock duo Pillowfighter with Margaret White, joined. Solo projects and ‘’End of May’’ In Aug. 1999, Seely said he thought Capitol "just wanted us to be a straightforward pop band," and the label's original plan was to have Willis re-record their self-titled, self-produced album. "We spent a lot of time trying to make the old songs sound new," he said. "Hearing those old songs, a lot of them I wrote before I was 18 - I compare it to getting tattoos when you're young, and then as you get older you realize they suck." The band later convinced Capitol to scrap that idea and let them record new material, which Seely described as having a fuller sound with more strings and horns. The Actual Tigers "basically ended because there was some extreme frustration involved throughout the process of us being signed with Capitol Records, and then it was farmed out to another label called Nettwerk," Seely said in 2005. "Capitol was supposed to help out with that and they kind of dropped the ball, and we were at the point in our lives where some guys wanted to do things that actually made money besides music. So I decided to keep churning out the hits. And that's what is embodied on Funeral Music." Tim Seely’s Funeral Music Seely recorded several of the Funeral Music tracks at Herring's Sweet Tea studio in Oxford, Miss., taking up his offer to produce the record even though Seely didn't have a record deal during the recording. Musician/engineer Clay Jones also worked on the record. "It was good to start the process with them because I think it was more of a true collaboration," Seely said in 2006. "I brought it home back to Seattle and recorded - I think it was four tracks that I did all the instrumentation on myself in my home studio." Seely's studio work in Oxford ended when Modest Mouse came to record Good News for People Who