Sarah Shook & the DisarmersShook started a new band called Sarah Shook & the Disarmers in mid to late 2014. The band started as a recording project, with Eric Peterson on guitar, and John Howie Jr. (Two Dollar Pistols, John Howie Jr. & the Rosewood Bluff) on drums, Jason Hendrick on bass fiddle, and Phil Sullivan on lap steel.Sarah Shook and the Disarmers released their first full-length album Sidelong, on October 16, 2015, at the Cat's Cradle Back Room in Chapel Hill, NC, with a re-release in 2017. Sidelong was produced by Ian Schreier at Manifold Recording Studios, which is near the Haw River in North Carolina. The record was tracked and recorded live in April 2015. The band found regional and national success with the record. She signed with Kathie Russell of RedKats Artist Management, which led to their signing with Chicago's Bloodshot Records in January 2017.The records was number 2 on Indy Week's top 25 best albums of 2015. Sarah Shook and the Disarmers were listed as one of 10 New Country Artists to Know in July 2016. Also in 2016, BuzzFeed Community listed Shook as one of five women country artists who are impacting music, and the album received positive reviews.In April 2018, Sarah Shook & the Disarmers released their second record, which was called Years, on Bloodshot Records. Shook and the band worked on the songs while touring heavily.[22] Shook also focused on learning vocal techniques as a way to control and release their vocals, which led to what many reviews cite as a crisper vocal sound. Music critic Greg Kot compares their vocals to those of jazz vocals, noting that Shook and the band, who have toured together for years, are ferocious. The song, "Good as Gold," was chosen as one of Rolling Stone's 10 best country and Americana songs of the week in March 2018. Years has received positive reviews.The Disarmers is made up of Eric Peterson on guitar, Aaron Oliva on bass, Jack Foster on drums, and Adam "Ditch" Kurtz on pedal steel.A documentary, What it Takes: film en douze tableaux, from director Gorman Bechard premiered at Independent Film Festival Boston 29 April 2018, and was released to DVD on November 9, 2018. The film follows Shook as they wrote and recorded their album Years. As the If It's Too Loud music blog says, "Film documentaries are typically put out by a record company as a way to cash in on an artist and are little more than fluff pieces, or they focus on drama within a band. What it Takes: film en douze tableaux doesn't do any of that. While Bechard is an obvious fan of his subject, he shows them as is, and doesn't try to show them glossed over or hyped up."In November 2021, Shook announced a third album, Nightroamer, to be released on February 18, 2022 via Thirty Tigers (following the sale of Bloodshot Records, which had caused the album to be delayed). In addition to returning members Peterson, Oliva, and original pedal steel player Phil Sullivan, Will Rigby joins on drums and there are additional tracks from organist Skip Edwards, with longtime Dwight Yoakam collaborator Pete Anderson producing. Shook said of the album, "I think this record is different than ones we’ve done in the past. It feels every bit as expansive as I wanted it to feel. I didn’t want there to be a shocking, jarring difference, but I definitely wanted it to feel like things are opening up. It’s a bigger feeling experience.”