With Live on what they initially termed a "two-year hiatus", Taylor, Gracey and Dahlheimer were on a lookout for a vocalist for the new songs they had written.

On November 30, 2009 Taylor, Dahlheimer and Gracey issued a statement announcing that Live had disbanded following the departure of lead singer Ed Kowalczyk and that The Gracious Few was now their main focus.

[4] The band began rehearsing in California in September 2009 and subsequently recorded their self-titled debut album.

Also the band members lived far apart; Taylor and Dahlheimer in Pennsylvania, Gracey in Orange County and Hennesy and Martin in Los Angeles.

[7] The band undertook an extensive American tour in the latter part of 2010 in support of the album, beginning in Buffalo, New York on September 24 and concluding in Ventura, California on December 11.