What about Bob?

You might liken the atmosphere at the sessions for Bob Alunni’s debut album to The Band’s famously loose affairs at its New York state home/studio “Big Pink.”

Musician friends gathered at Alunni’s house and added their parts to the mix. Some plans were executed as planned. Others required some on-the-fly tweaks.

For example, on the song “Packing.”

“I originally wanted an accordion and viola, but we ended up putting a piano on it because the E key on the accordion broke, and that’s the key [the song] was in,” Alunni recounts.

The 10-song record, “Thinking of Flight,” will see its official issuing by Prairie Queen Records on Jan. 13, but Alunni will celebrate early with a CD-release performance Saturday, Nov. 29 at The Bog in Scranton. CDs will be available at the show, and The Minor White will open.

The Scranton songwriter/singer — he prefers that tag to the oft-used singer/songwriter — had previously been working on several of the “Thinking of Flight” tunes, even recording some of them. When Alunni, originally from Lake Ariel, moved back to Northeastern Pa. from New York, Prairie Queen signed him after the label’s Bill Orner heard the earlier recordings and organized the sessions at the East Mountain home Alunni was sharing with some of the members of the band Cabinet. A quasi-house band was comprised of Minor White members Ian O’Hara (bass), Shane O’Hara (drums) and Roy Williams (guitar, piano, organ).

Other contributors included musicians from other area groups, including Cabinet, And The Moneynotes and The Orner Brothers, and Melissa Urban on backing vocals.

“I was always a big Dylan fan, and that’s pretty much how he recorded stuff, with studio musicians; sometimes he knew people from The Band or whatever,” says Alunni. “Most of [“Thinking of Flight”] was done in live takes. All of my vocals and the guitar tracks and drums were live.”

Alunni gave his collaborators some direction, such as chord progressions, but he feels they added their own personal stamps to his songs.

“I think each musician’s part on there definitely has their own vibe on it,” says Alunni, 24. “Like something Roy Williams would play on the guitar, you can tell it’s a Roy Williams lick.”

Alunni produced the CD with Orner and the O’Haras; it was engineered by Orner and Shane O’Hara; and the Windmill Agency in Mount Cobb mixed and mastered it.

Now that the CD is completed, Alunni is working on promoting it, and he feels the tracks might lend themselves to some local radio airplay. He’s also enlisted the help of some literary heavyweights, thanks to his day job as a sales representative with a book publisher. Bestselling author Deborah Ginsberg has put a link to Alunni’s page on her Facebook profile, and the songwriter/singer says he’d like to do a show with the Portland, Ore., band Richmond Fontaine, which features author Willy Vlautin.

“Book people, a lot of times, are music people as well,” Alunni explains. “Those are the kind of people I want to market it to. I think [the album] might go over better with a middle-aged audience actually, but it’s pretty fun, too, so young people might like it.”

Regardless of how “Thinking of Flight” fares, the most important — and difficult — part of the journey has come to an end, with the CD ready for release. To that end, we asked Alunni how he feels now that the album is finished.

“I’d say I feel relieved, man, to be honest,” he says with a laugh. “It seems like the CD was just a long time coming.”