After the release of their 2015 album
The Phosphorescent Blues the band toured 23 U.S. cities before taking a scheduled hiatus. In October 2016 Punch Brothers frontman
Chris Thile became the host of the weekly radio program
Live from Here (formerly
A Prairie Home Companion) which featured a recurring "song of the week" segment. Thile released ten of these songs in the December 2017 solo album
Thanks For Listening. Punch Brothers fiddler
Gabe Witcher produced several albums during the hiatus including Punch Brothers banjoist
Noam Pikelny's March 2017 solo album
Universal Favorite Punch Brothers guitarist
Chris Eldridge's 2017 duo album with Julian Lage
Mount Royal Sara Watkins' 2016 album
Young in All the Wrong Ways and Punch Brothers bassist
Paul Kowert's newly formed band Hawktail's May 2018 album
Unless. Writing and recording the songs for
All Ashore occurred sequentially, with band member Gabe Witcher saying that "In doing so we were really able to construct the narrative, musically and lyrically, throughout the whole process." Recording took place at the United Sound studio in Los Angeles, California. == Track listing ==