Chad Staehly on keyboards, and Duane Trucks on drums. After they recorded their first album at Bob Weir’s TRI Studios, they added a sixth member, guitarist and lap steel player Jesse Aycock. The band's debut, Hard Working Americans, was released by Melvin Records on January 21, 2014, and included 11 songs written by songwriters Snider admires, including Randy Newman, Dave Rawlings and Gillian Welch, Kevn Kinney, Hayes Carll, and Will Kimbrough. Later that same year on October 28, Melvin released The First Waltz, a two-disc set that included a CD featuring 11 live recordings by HWA plus a new studio recording with Rosanne Cash, "Come From The Heart," and a full-length documentary film about the band directed by Justin Kreutzmann. Melvin released Hard Working Americans’ second studio album, Rest in Chaos, on May 13, 2016. The record featured a dozen songs with lyrics by Snider and music by the entire band, plus a cover of Guy Clark’s "The High Price of Inspiration." American Songwriter gave the record four stars out of five. On August 4, 2017, Melvin Records released a live double album by Hard Working Americans, We’re All In This Together. Robert Christgau gave the album an A− in his Consumer Guide and called it "the rock dream the hippies invented before they burned out." In the spring of 2017, the band went into Cash Cabin Studios and recorded more than an album's worth of material written by Snider, but those recordings have yet to be released. Elmo Buzz and the Eastside Bulldogs In between his work with Hard Working Americans, Snider finished the album Eastside Bulldog which Aimless released on October 6, 2016. While it was released under Snider's name, the material grew out of his side project/alter ego Elmo Buzz and the Eastside Bulldogs who specialize in ’50s and early ’60s rock and roll. Six of the ten songs originally appeared on an EP Shit Sandwich that Aimless released in 2011 as a free download under Elmo Buzz's name. Snider was backed on those sides by Eric McConnell on bass, Jen Gunderman on piano, Mark Horn on drums, and Dennis Taylor on saxophone. In 2016, Snider cut four more sides to complete the album with backing from Aaron Lee Tasjan on guitar, Keith Christopher on bass, Paul Griffith on drums, Robbie Crowell on sax, and Rorey Carroll on percussion, among others. The Irish Times called Eastside Bulldog