I and love and you

Epic song from an entire collection of epic songs by the Avetts & Co.

Demo Vault - These Four Walls

MP3 > THESE FOUR WALLS (DEMO)

Way back in say 2004-2005ish i was working on this little tune under the working title “these four walls.” I enjoyed composing and recording this guy, but something about it just didn’t work. Bits and pieces of the lyrical content rolled around in my head and regurgitated upon paper several times in an attempt to salvage something from the wreckage. Often they were forced against completely different chord progressions and melodies and such. I finally threw in the towel until the scattered remains of a speck of an idea which initially inspired the song rose like a phoenix eventually becoming “freedom has a new name.” It all started here. I removed the lead vocal track from this version of “these four walls,” but some of the backing vocals along with a few delightful oohs and ahhs slipped through the cracks.

New places?

To all of you who take time out of your days to check in and see what we're up to around the rockey home, we invite you to join us at our new locale... themustardroom.tumblr.com

I've been dropping some oddities and such over the past week and for the time being, we're gonna be updating from there. We will leave blogger with this film of around-the-house shenanigans.

Love and lollipops.

Craftie hands

The autumn is all upons and with her comes the fall indieana handicraft exchange. I am absolutely thrilled to have been chosen to be one the vendors this year. I will be sharing a booth with my fellow artisan and longtime buddy, Rachel Hill Moorman of vintage songbird fame. Hop on over to her blog for some sample imagery. We will be vending my screen-printed apparel along with her vintage fabric assemblages. We have even collaborated on a few pieces together. We hope to see you there.

Here's the lowdown:

Indieana Handicraft Exchange

Friday, october 2, 6pm-9pm

Saturday, october 3 10am-6pm

Harrison Center for the Arts

1505 N. Delaware Street

Indianapolis, IN

*featuring: 70+ vendors

*contemporary handmade clothing, jewelry, homewares, bath and body goodies, toys and more

*raffle prizes

*live music and the Naptown Roller Girls!

for more information, slide on over to the IHE website

Out of retirement

Some of the barista-sistas talked me into sharing some songs on the patio again.

They’re very excited about it.

Monsters of folk

I made the mistake of watching a performance of ‘say please’ on conan and now my face has melted…

Forever changes

Wes A: Have you met Arthur Lee and Love?

Joel: I don't believe that I've had the pleasure. Could you introduce us?

Wes A: You're hearing them right now.

Joel: Holy crap.

Space invader

Demo Vault - East of Eden

MP3 > EAST OF EDEN (WRITING DEMO)

Back in the early winter of 2007 i wrote and recorded a set of songs on glorious analog tape running reel to reel through a tascam four-track recorder. One of those songs became known as ‘east of eden’. It began as this impromptu strummage.

Pipe dreams

We've been trying to wrap up production for the handicraft exchange which arrives october 2nd and 3rd at the harrison center for the arts. Go here for the whole story and essential details. Apparently, the little one took seven steps tonight while i was making coffee for insomniacs. I don't even know i can fall asleep this morning knowing that.

Also:
-beatle mania '09
-supporting local
-losing neighbors
-licensed to grill
-dreaming of scarfs

This is ridiculous. I'm supposed to be sleeping not blogging unconsciously while casually viewing 'married: with children.'

Good night.

Grand daddies

Grandpa spends a little time with the wee one during a brief visit to Olivet. More on that later.

Everyone thinks this dude's weird. That's why i think i like him.

Act now while supplies last

Besides being noisy, they're just straight-up creepy. Therefore, due to the recent high-volume cricket activity inside the Rockey home, we've had to invent a humane/clean way of eliminating these unwanted guests. Behold, The Incredible Cricket Catching Contraption (patent pending)! Now available exclusively from A Rockey Home Companion for the introductory price of $5.99 (+ Shipping & Handling). Price not available to orders outside of the continental US.

Works every time.