Peter McPoland is in full-on tour preparation mode as our Zoom interview gets underway.

He’s been rehearsing a lot at his Los Angeles pad with his band of longtime pals, who will back him on the road show that includes a Bay Area stop.

Yet, on this particular day, McPoland is just putting the finishing touches on a keyboard shelf that he’s building for the tour.

“You usually buy them off the internet,” says the indie-pop singer-songwriter, who was born in Vermont and raised in Texas. “But I made it last week. I’m finishing that today. That’s my goal.”

McPoland’s tour-improvement project is very telling of the artist’s current mood — which is to take no shortcuts to get where he wants to go with his music.

That is underscored on the recently released sophomore full-length “Big Lucky,”

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