Appendix E-J

The past two years, this nearly hasn’t happened. Last year, we had a change of heart. This year, the people of the Twitter-sphere poked at us until we said yes. And we are glad for that poking, because this turned out so great.

There is a free compilation album waiting for you to download it. It’s full of music from our fav musicians who released albums this year. Nine songs in all. Nine songs you’ll put on repeat and strut around the house to. Nine songs that will slay you. Nine songs…enough already.

Again, the compilation is free. Our gift to you, our community. The musicians donated the songs, so we would recommend buying their albums as last minute gifts or with that cash your great aunt sends you. Also, if you want to donate to Everyday Joe’s, you can do that too. All donated funds will go towards paying for a new espresso machine. We’ve made it very easy for you to do all these things: download the album, support the musicians, donate to EDJ if you see fit. Just click the cover art below and start treating your ears to what they’ve been waiting for their entire lifespans.

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If you come into Everyday Joe’s during the early morning hours, chances are you will hear the album Seven Swans by Sufjan Stevens playing. I don’t know why, but something about being groggy and making coffee to that particular collection of songs is nice. Then, by the end of it, you’re ready for something to shake your rump to…like Huey Lewis & The News.

Today, a tribute/cover/benefit/reimagining of Seven Swans was released. It’s exciting enough that my head started buzzing a little little bit. The reimagining is titled On Joyful Wings. It is missing “Abraham” due to some things out of the curator’s control, but apparently that cut is coming down the pipes. It does have the other 14 songs, performed by:

 Bonnie “Prince” Billy (wow wow), The Gregory Brothers, Derek Webb, Joshua James, Unwed Sailor, Wakey! Wakey!, Elin K Smith, DM Stith, Half-Handed Cloud, Carl Hauck, David Crowder* Band, Jason Harrad, Shannon Stephens w. Gregory Paul, and Inlets

On Joyful Wings will only run you $10, and all profits will go to benefit Komen For The Cure.

Download the album at Bandcamp, or go ahead and listen to it below. Then buy it. It’s only $10. If you don’t like it, someone else will and you can give it to them. Help defeat breast cancer.

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So…two of our favorite musicians are joining forces. Aaron Strumpel and Karla Adolphe (she’s Canadian and was in Aaron’s first Elephants troupe) are The Emporiums. The music they make is southern gothic folk and drips with a healthy dose of gravy…which is fantastic considering they’re from Iowa and Canada.

They’ll be celebrating the release of their album on January 21 with friends The Blackthorn Project (also releasing an album that night). In order to build the proper anticipation for the evening, Aaron & Karla have released a song from the album for your enjoyment and download. Listen to “Old Hickory” below, and download/support the project here.

See you on 1.21.10.

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I have been looking for this for months.

Not Night Beds in particular, but the new music that might move me to listening on repeat. Here it is and it is free.

Our friend Zach Tipton (Young Coyotes, I Am The Dot) told the good people of Night Beds that we of Everyday Joe’s would enjoy their tunes. Night Beds then sent us a little note with links to their free EP Every Fire; Every Joy and to a bonus track featuring Mr. Tipton, “Good Person.”

I keep listening and it all just keeps getting better. In the Everyday Joe’s universe, Night Beds might done be this year’s You, Me, and Apollo. A show with those two on the bill would be oh so vibey.

You can listen to “Good Person” and the entirety of Every Fire; Every Joy below. Once you are convicted by their summer-nights-on-the-back-porch-good-times feel, get your digital paws on the former here and the latter here.

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FURTHER:

• Night Beds official Myspace
• Download “Good Person”
• Download Every Fire; Every Joy

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Now presenting a way to prepare your auditory system.

You may remember mention of a concert coming to Everyday Joe’s on May 1 featuring our good friends Sleeping At Last, their good friend Jeremy Larson, and our other good friends The Autumn Film.

Yes/No? Well then! How about a visual cue:

The best thing to follow a visual cue? Well, a link to a free download of Sleeping At Last’s latest effort, Storyboards. On April 7 & 8, the band will be offering the album for free at http://noisetrade.com/sleepingatlast. Until then and after then, you can still download their 6 song sampler for free.

Enjoy the sampler. Enjoy Storyboards. Enjoy your days until we see you on May 1.

FURTHER:

• Buy tickets to the show
• Sleeping At Last Official Site

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Hello dear ones.

This time of year sometimes brings out generosity in people. Sometimes not…but it should bring out the generosity in our hearts for those who may need something to lift them up.

From the hearts of our friends in Candy Claws & Firebreather come songs for you to listen to and download and be merry by.

Also, it would behoove you to remember that Candy Claws is one of the bands featured on this years’ Love, Everyday Joe’s compilation, which you can download for free. It makes a great Christmas present in the stockings of the ones you desire to feed good audible things to.

Merry Christmas, from all of us. Enjoy the Candy Claws/Firebreather treats below. Then enjoy the treats your mom pulls out of the oven.

Snow Girl by Candy Claws

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Tonight I Belong To You by Firebreather

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It’s here!

Your digital Santa Claus has arrived. The third installment of our annual compilation CD – Love, Everyday Joe’s - is now available for FREE DOWNLOAD. Not for a limited time, mind you, but for always. Our gift to you for being the community and family that we love to bits.

Volume 3 – entitled Wake Up, Oh Sleeper – is made up of 18 tracks donated by 18 artists that we love very much who donated tunes to this project just for you. Would you like to know who they are? Here you go:

You & Yourn, You Me & Apollo, Aaron Strumpel, Shadows On A River, Candy Claws, The Changing Colors, The Blackthorn Project, Danielle Ate The Sandwich, Paper Bird, Katie Herzig, Cody Crump, Midwest Dilemma, Paean, ABoyandHisKite, John Common & Blinding Flashes Of Light, Karli Fairbanks, Sara Swenson, and Oh Starling (Dan Craig and Jessica Sonner).

That’s a dandy, eh? A free dandy. Of course, you can always donate to the cause if you see fit. All donations will go to paying our music licensing fees that make it possible to have musicians play at Everyday Joe’s. This is all explained at the download page, which you can get to by clicking here or on the cover art below. Happy listening!

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Our longtime friend Aaron Strumpel is headlining our annual 90/10 Benefit this coming Saturday. Were you aware of that or have you not been listening to the good things your uncle has been trying to teach you? If you are not aware and want to be, read about the benefit here and then listen to Aaron’s critically-acclaimed Elephants, which he will be performing it’s entirety as part of his set.

The companion album to Elephants – Birds – is getting the finishing touches put on it in Aaron’s mountain laboratory. Out of those finishing touches has come and alternate version of a new song titled “Grandma.” Aaron’s words shall take it from here:

Friends!

Well, just a note. I’m hard at work at the new album, almost. Since you’re in the inside loop, thought i’d jot downn a bit more about this song then what i’ve written elsewhere…

I wrote it a few years back after visiting my grandmother. She always loved to give me gifts when I came, and this time she had a chocolate bar or some snack for me…she lives in a nursing home! Anyway, she said she wished she could give me more and was really actually sad about it. I told her I didn’t want anything more than to see her smile and be with her. It’s a crazy thing this life is…we’re born and everything is brand new for 25 years or so, then things get normal and I feel like a lot of us experience a dead zone of plateau if we’re not careful…then we get older and can’t quite do the things we do…but all through it, love from and to family can just immerse and give meaning and beauty to our times and seasons. Anyway, i wrote the song as an inner conversation with myself about being ok with the passing of time and life here.

I’ve never shared it with grandma and now she’s getting a bit older…gonna turn 98 in a couple of weeks! She doesn’t remember me when I visit, but loves it that I come and seems to know what it means when I tell her I’m her grandson. She wears a rosary i gave her a few years ago everyday and I tell her I gave it to here every time I see her. This last time, my dad visited her the night before, saying she was going to have a special visitor the next day and asked her if she knew who it was gonna be…she answered in her 98 yr old voice, ‘is it our dear Lord?’ She was excited to see me and my folks and said, ‘Will you come everyday, can it always be like this?’ and gave me a bag of chips to have on my drive home. She’s so lovely and I hope I get to see her again.

I hope you enjoy this song. It’s a different version from what will be released.

love,
aaron

Oh that Aaron Strumpel. When he opens his heart it can move one two sizes two small. He is a good man.

Listen to “Grandma (Crazy Version)” below and download the track here to hold with you until the Birds can fly home to you and nest next to the Elephant tracks on your heart.

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FURTHER:

• Buy tickets to the 90/10 Benefit
• Buy Elephants

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This is pleasant and savvy.

If you follow our friend Katie Herzig on Twitter (@katieherzig), then you may have read the rumblings of a “live” studio album she was recording with her most-of-the-time tour mates Claire & Jordan. I enjoy “live” studio albums. I also “like” using quotation marks. Guns N Roses recorded “Paradise City” in one take. At least I think it was “Paradise City.” Either way…rock and roll.

This Acoustic Trio album that Herzig has recorded may not rock or roll, but it is free until November 1. You can download the album below. Katie, Claire, & Jordan (plus the rest of Katie’s band) will return to Everyday Joe’s on October 12. Tickets are $12 in advance or $15 at the door and are on sale now at Everyday Joe’s or by clicking here. Gregory Alan Isakov will be opening the show up, so be hip or square but just make sure you’re there.

I wrote that in one take.

FURTHER:

• Buy tickets to see Katie Herzig & Gregory Alan Isakov
• Listen to Gregory Alan Isakov on MySpace

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Earlier this year, my new favorite Ft. Collins band  – Candy Claws – released their album In The Dream Of Sea Life with a show at Everyday Joe’s. Ryan, Kay, & Wesley were kind enough to give me a copy of the album (which is gorgeous visually & musically speaking) and it has quickly worked it’s way into almost daily listening rotation.

This adoration has apparently manifested itself eslwhere as Candy Claws has been recognized in local press (check it) and played shows as of late with the likes of Young Coyotes and Bad Weather California and more.

Good for you, long-time friends.

Usually, bands wait for a while after an album release to release a collection of miscellaneous other songs and things. These sort of releases are stop-gaps to keep the income flowing between albums. Candy Claws appears to be in hyper-speed, as a second album is coming and a collection of rarities, videos, and covers is now available for you to download. For free. Right now.

The collection is called Glacier Prey. It contains many things (full table of contents here). It’s quite the download (800 mb) but well worth it. Promises. Click the album art below and then go outside and play and then come back and it will be ready for you to enjoy with a snack.

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• Candy Claws Myspace
• Download In The Dream Of The Sea Life
• Candy Claws’ Delicious Recipe

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