New Mexicoe, at our practice space this past Thursday. I recorded all of it, and will be posting more songs tomorrow See next post. In the meantime, enjoy this cover of John Martyn's "Over the Hill," alongside storm footage from a few hours ago:
Motorcycle Money (Kyle and I) are going on first, at/around 9pm, and will be joined by Will Edmiston-- reading poems from his upcoming chapbook, "effie" (out this Fall on 3 Sad Tigers Press), while we try out new sounds.
To celebrate its 10th anniversary, the first Iran-Contras cassette-- Colonial's first release-- has been reissued in digital format as CR-100. Recorded June of 2000 at 13 Colonial Ave. in Annapolis, MD onto two tracks in this room:
This was a college town, summer survivors weekend get-together, which Terry organized and I recorded-- we weren't a band, didn't know each other that well and had zero prepared material before getting started. Basically, everyone Terry knew who was still in town after the school year ended was invited to come over to the house we were renting to drink and make music. Afterward, he suggested I make copies of a mix from that weekend's tapes, and it became Colonial Recordings USA 001. There are about 50 of them floating around, on 36-minute yellow cassettes that I bought for next to nothing from a now defunct congregational supply distro. The first 20 had an American flag sticker on Side A.
As a bonus, I've pieced together the tracks that were recorded during the weekend that led to the tape but didn't make it onto the final edition-- all of which previously unreleased-- onto a new EP, called "Jersey Jump" (CR-101). Named after the guy who inadvertently named the band, Justin Andrews. CR-101.
Five Radical Dads concerts, layered and reshuffled into a single set-- complete with a tuning/banter break about halfway through. Best through headphones.
The CD version was an edition-of-one thing, with stamped covers. It looked like this:
