I've worked as a session player and/or touring member (piano, Rhodes, Wurlitzer, Hammond B-3 & M-3, vibraphone, modular & digital synths, beat programming, bgvs) for Mooner, Erin McKeown, Small Infinity, Contorno, Allison Van Liere, Lee Ketch, Kit Shields, and The McMakens, as well as working as a musical director at iO improv theater and performing as a freelance singer and keyboard player in wedding and cover bands across Chicagoland. Get in touch with me at steve.slagg@gmail.com if you want me to play or sing with you! Below is a playlist of recordings for which I’ve been a session player. Below that is a brief description of what I played on each track, and the genre.

  1. Contorno - Keeping Time (2024) - Fender Rhodes (cosmic Americana)

  2. Contorno - Near West Blues (2024) - Fender Rhodes (cosmic Americana)

  3. Small Infinity - Blue Christmas (2023) - Hammond M-3 organ, delay-drenched digital organ stabs (slowcore synth Christmas R&B)

  4. Lee Ketch - Someone/Anyone (2021) - Pocket Operator-16 beat programming (Indie rock)

  5. Lee Ketch - Falling on a Field (2021) - Piano (Prog rock)

  6. Mooner - Can I Be Angry? (2020) - Piano + BGVs (Power pop/barroom)

  7. Mooner - Why Don’t You Need Me? (2020) - Piano (Soft rock / Twin Peaks)

  8. Mooner - Is This All I Can Do to Love You? (2020) - Piano + BGVs (Yacht rock / adult contemporary ballad)

  9. Mooner - Do Not Be Afraid (2020) - Piano, Rhodes electric piano, & Synth lead solo (Jon Brion / Aimee Mann)

  10. Mooner - Every Single Sun (2020) - Piano (Prog rock / Talk Talk)

  11. Allison Van Liere - Too Much Mine (2020) - Wurlitzer (Americana ballad)

  12. Allison Van Liere - I Don’t Know (2020) - Hammond B3 Organ (Americana ballad)

  13. Steve Slagg - Strange Flesh (2019) - Piano (Glam/Queen)

  14. Steve Slagg - A Thousand Tongues (2019) - Piano (Sufjan Stevens / minimalist)

  15. Steve Slagg - Blessed Assurance (2019) - Piano & Rhodes electric piano + BGVs (Baroque pop / Beatles / Breach Boys / Queen)

  16. Steve Slagg - What I Need (2019) - Rhodes electric piano (sad millennial confessional indie folk)

  17. Steve Slagg - Saint E. (2019) - Piano + vibraphone (Spoon / Field Music verse, Billy Joel chorus, Randy Newman bridge)

  18. Mooner - Yeah I Read It (2017) - Piano (Experimental / Deerhoof)

  19. Mooner - The Stand-In (2017) - Organ + BGVs (Power pop / Elvis Costello)

  20. Kit Shields & Mooner - Whole World Falls Down (2017) Wurlitzer + BGVs (Indie pop)

  21. Mooner - Desire (2017) - Harpsichord (Baroque pop / Beatles)

  22. Mooner - Slow Parade of Love (2017) - Vibraphone (Indie rock / John Brion / Elliott Smith)

  23. Mooner - Name Your Shame (2017) - Piano + BGVs (Barroom / pub rock)

  24. Mooner - Masterpiece (2015) - Synth lead (Power pop)

  25. Mooner - Anytime (2015) - Piano + BGVs (Power pop)

  26. Mooner - To Be Held (2015) - Piano + Wurlitzer + Synth lead + BGVs (Jon Brion / Aimee Mann)

  27. Mooner - Why Don’t You Want To? (2015) - Piano + BGVs (Power pop)

  28. Mooner - Alison (2015) - Piano + Hammond B3 organ + BGVs (Power pop / Elvis Costello)

  29. Mooner - Never Alone (2015) - Piano (Indie rock ballad)

  30. Mooner - I’ll See You Again (2015) - Piano (Minimalist Americana)

  31. Youngest Son - We Rest On Thee (2014) - Piano (Sufjan Stevens / minimalist)

  32. Youngest Son - Faith (2012) - Piano (Sufjan Stevens / minimalist)

  33. Youngest Son - Marty & the Leonids (2012) - Piano (Soundtrack / Instrumental)

  34. The McMaken - For the Beauty (2012) - Piano (Hymn / Americana)