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.