John Vanderslice, a musician and producer who's worked with everyone from Sleater-Kinney to Spoon, stepped away from his own music in 2014 to focus on his recording studio, Tiny Telephone, located in the Bay Area. He returned to his solo work this year, with the new album The Cedars, which arrived in April. As it happens, he has as much finesse in our studio as he does his own: Vanderslice visited Paste to perform two songs from the record ("I'll Wait For You" and "I Got Shit To Lose") and chat with us about The Cedars, his California inspiration and what he's been up to these last few years.