SEAVIEW, Wash. — Portland-based band Quiet Life will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 22 at the Sou’Wester Lodge, located at 3728 J Place.

This Americana band, comprised of Sean W. Spellman, Ryan Spellman, Thor Robert Jensen and Philippe Bronchtein, released its new EP, “Housebroken Man,” in August. The record features Jim James and Cary Ann Hearst, of the Portland duo Shovels & Rope.

Quiet Life turned countless hours on the road into a source of inspiration for “Housebroken Man.” Pieced together from sessions at different studios, the EP plays like a well-worn musical road atlas, with each song recorded in a different atmosphere and location — from Portland to New England to South Carolina to Toronto to Nashville.

The unconventional recording process was fitting for the EP, as change and uncertainty are driving forces behind Spellman’s songs, whether he’s belting out harmonies with Hearst over honky-tonk pianos on the title track or ruminating about a painful divorce on the somber ballad “Shaky Hand.”

No strangers to making the most out of limited resources, Quiet Life has changed coasts (trading New London, Connecticut for Portland), released three albums, and toured the States and beyond with the likes of Dr. Dog, Alabama Shakes, the Head & the Heart, and the Lumineers — all in a Ford van fueled by vegetable oil.

Their resourcefulness also landed them a chance to work with James of My Morning Jacket, who appears on a cover of Townes Van Zandt’s “Waiting Around To Die” on the EP.

Spellman tells the story: “My Morning Jacket was recording next door to us, and on a whim, my brother said ‘I’m gonna send Jim a tweet and tell him to come play a solo.’ Five minutes later, the engineer gets a text that says ‘Here comes Jim.’ He shows up at the door, and I ask him if he wants to play a solo, and he says ‘That’s why I’m here!’ He walks in, plugs a bass into some pedals and a guitar amp, and in one take he helped dictate the entire vibe of the recording.”

“Housebroken Man” is the follow-up to Quiet Life’s full-length sophomore release “Wild Pack,” a record that caught the attention Rolling Stone, Paste and Esquire, who praised the band’s style of “countrified, bluesy, rocking folk,” declaring that “Quiet Life are a band that maybe you haven’t heard of yet, but you’re sure going to.”