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Something exciting just might could be on the horizon. Branching out. Collaboration. Continuance. Cryptic hinting.

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So many people pass through Everyday Joe’s that our community/family stretches far and wide and across oceans. It seems most end up coming back to say hello, if even for just a moment.

Several of these friends will return this weekend to celebrate the release of their new albums. Josh Dillard is a man we’ve loved sometime, and to be able to celebrate the release of his second album with him is a joy. The Riflemen are people who have stayed and gone, but will all be at Everyday Joe’s on Saturday, April 9.

Mr. Dillard is releasing his new effort The Whale & The Sea. It’s been in the works for some time now, and it’s streaming into my earholes as I write this, and you should anticipate it hotly. Below, you can listen to a composition from the album handpicked just for you by Josh Dillard himself. Enjoy “Kingdom Built On Sand.”

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Next things next – our friends in The Riflemen. A couple three of these gentlemen have gone on to make up The Sunshine House, while another has moved to Denver and joined A Mouthful Of Thunder, and yet another moved to Houston to work for a small startup business called Shell.

All those things aside, the band is coming back together to play one last time and release it’s first album…all on one night. Circle of life, like this morning when I saw a hawk swoop down and make a pigeon on the sidewalk it’s breakfast.

The Riflemen have also handpicked a tune for you…please enjoy “Rocky Mountain Teeth” below. We’ll see you at the show on Saturday (April 9). Cover is $10 at the door, but you can get in with a FoCoMX wristband as well. Start time? 7 pm. You, Me, and Apollo will warm the night up.

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For the past couple o’ months, we (Everyday Joe’s & Timberline Oldtown) have been trying our hand at creating a podcast. From the beginning, it was dubbed the Kitchen Table. It is not just a clever name…it is recorded at the vintage 1950s kitchen table at Everyday Joe’s. Clever names are for those without vintage kitchen tables.

From the Timberline Oldtown website:

The Concept: Sit around the kitchen table at 144 S Mason with a big microphone and record for 30 minutes including anyone and everyone that stops by.

This idea is new and unpolished but we are hitting the ground running. Pastor Darren Fred, Executive Director Chris Hess, and Shepherd Daryle Dickens fired up the mic and just started rambling. We do not know what to expect or how exactly each episode will go.

We’ve not pointed many folks towards the podcast, as it is still birthing and growing and figuring out what it is. A couple weeks ago, we took the metaphorical kitchen table to the Novo Coffee roastery and sat with Herb Brodsky: Novo co-founder and father figure, and emanator of the Woo Heard ‘Round The World.  We think that the conversation that followed may have given future episodes more direction. What we know is that we love Herb and we love Novo…and if you listen and do some distilling you may find the heart of Timberline Oldtown and Everyday Joe’s sitting on the table in front of you, beating excitedly.

Listen below, or head over to the Oldtown site to download the episode and listen to others.

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Over the past 4 years, we’ve supported Ruminate Magazine and they have supported us. If Everyday Joe’s was a magazine, it would be Ruminate.

Lead ruminator and mag founder Brianna Van Dyke was recently called up by the folks at Sojourners to talk about Ruminate for an piece on their site / in their mag concerning the problems portraying reality in Christian publishing:

Brianna Van Dyke started the literary magazine Ruminate in 2006 in part because she couldn’t find the kind of magazine she wanted to read — what she describes as “a magazine that was inviting and playful, full of good literature and art that often intersected faith, and one that provided a quiet and contemplative space to pause and think about something again.”

Published quarterly, each issue has a theme (“Borrowing,” for example). “We’ve found that having a theme gives readers a door into the magazine, which is important because a lot of people hear art and literary magazine and think, ‘Yikes, that sounds difficult or out of my league.’” Van Dyke says readers and writers forRuminate range from a pheasant farmer in Montana to a grandmother in Florida. The magazine has also published two Pulitzer nominees; established writers including Frederick Buechner, David James Duncan, Bret Lott, Luci Shaw, and Tyrus Clutter have contributed pieces or judged contests.

Ruminate is supported half by sales and half by donations. It also receives both financial and volunteer support from Van Dyke’s church in Fort Collins, Colorado, Grace Church Presbyterian. “I do see the work of Ruminate as ministering to its community — its readers, contributors, staff, and the online and local communities — because art has the capacity to move, heal, and grow hearts in a way that nothing else can,” says Van Dyke.

The Sojourner’s article is really quite good and worth the read. Nice points are made that can stretch beyond art and writing. It may expand your definition of the talkaboutable (that is not our term, but David Dark’s…another writer you should allow your eyes to read). Read the entire piece here.

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People have stories, and Everyday Joe’s is in the business of listening to them. We should all be in the business of listening to them.

Our good friend Herb Brodsky (co-founder of Novo Coffee) has a story. Part of it involves three years serving on the board of the Union Cab Cooperative in Madison, WI. If we remember right, he helped start the co-op, but we might be remembering wrong. It also inolves always greeting you with his trademark “Woo!”, a spin, and a hug.

While in Wisconsin he made friends with Mr. Michael Feldman. These days, Herb works in coffee and Michael works in National Public Radio as the host of Whad’Ya Know?. Last week, Herb was back in the Great North visiting old friends and stopped by the Whad’Ya Know studio. The following transpired:

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The man is an institution. Herb loves people. We love people. We love you. We love Herb. Herb loves Everyday Joe’s. Herb loves you. Woo!

You can listen to the entire Whad’Ya Know? broadcast online…and you should.

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The Agents of Future are some of my favorite people/one of our favorite bands on the face of the planet in its entirety. They were part of the 2009 90/10 Benefit. My guess is – regardless of what believe – you want some part of what they carry around with them.

Observe:

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So…

Since we heard of The Great Pennsylvania Car Fire and it’s wrath upon the gear and other things of Candy Claws, we’ve been working behind these scenes to figure out good ways to help the Candies get back on their feet. The results are as follows:

• This coming Friday (7.16), 50% of sales will be donated to Candy Claws. The insurance co. is not covering the loss, so we must do our part. If you can’t make it in to buy things, you can donate here.
• Second – come August 13, we will host a benefit concert for the band featuring Candy Claws themselves, Ocean Floor, and Holly Faml’y. There will be a minimum $5 cover charge to get in. You can always give more.

Therefore, we will see you on Friday when you buy things to support the boys and girls victimized by the Great Pennsylvania Car Fire. In the meantime, enjoy the nice pre-car fire video below from Candy Claws’ show in Boston…thanks thanks to the Foundwaves blog for that. Plus, you might see an Everyday Joe’s shirt pop up on stage.

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UPDATE 7.12.10 | 3 PM MOUNTAIN STANDARD TIME:

The Claws’ label – Two Syllable – has set up a donation page on PayPal. Get to givin’.

ORIGINAL POST:

Man oh man do I wish the title to this post was a joke.

Our friends in Candy Claws have been playing at Everyday Joe’s since their mothers had to drop them off for their sets. They have not always been Candy Claws. They have been many bands. And their voices have changed.

As Candy Claws, though, our friends have found a bit of national success. This success requires touring. This touring requires cars.

As the band drove through Pennsylvania on Saturday, black smoke began pouring out of their engine. They quickly pulled over and popped the hood. Upon seeing what they saw, they retreated down the highway on foot. This is where we now enter picture form:

Flaming Candy Claws Automobile

Thankfully, no one was hurt. The gas tank was pretty full, so the fire burned for some time. That burning fire consumed the band’s gear and CD’s. They have been loaned a van by a delightful farming family so they can get to their shows in NYC, where the record label has loaner gear waiting for them.

The band is still waiting to hear back from the folks-os at the insurance co. RE:money for gear destroyed in a car fire. From what bassist Mr. Jon Alonzo tells me, they aren’t sure what – or if – things will be replaced. With that in mind, and with generosity in your heart,  please go support the good people of Candy Claws on the rest of their summer tour. Dates are below. We plan on hosting a benefit show for them come mid-August. Deets on that soon. For now, check the dates like a good chap should and preorder the soon to be released Hidden Lands on CD or LP.

eternal summer tour 2010

7/13 – New York City, NY – Piano’s w/ We Are Country Mice

7/14 – Brooklyn, NY – Glasslands w/ Pepper Rabbit, Baby Alpaca, Blair

7/16 – Chicago, IL – The Cave w/ Brother George

7/17 – Chicago, IL – The Empty Bottle w/ Best Coast and Bird Talk

7/19 – Des Moines, IA – Vaudeville Mews w/ Pepper Rabbit, Tall Too, Brooks and Streams

7/20 – Kansas City, MO – Record Bar w/ Pepper Rabbit, Ambulants

7/22 – Denver, CO – Underground Music Showcase ACT SO BIG FOREST SHOWCASE

w/ Good Evening Titan, Paean, Sour Boy Bitter Girl

7/25 – Seattle, WA – Capitol Hill House Show w/ Martha! Mother, Cradling

7/26 – Portland, OR – Rotture w/ Pepper Rabbit, Housefire

7/28 – San Francisco, CA – Hemlock Tavern w/ Pepper Rabbit, That Ghost

7/29 – Santa Cruz, CA – Crepe Place w/ Pepper Rabbit

7/30 – Los Angeles, CA – Spaceland w/ Pepper Rabbit, Beach Fossils

7/31 – Las Vegas, NV – Beauty Bar w/ Pepper Rabbit

8/2 – Provo, UT – Velour w/ Desert Noises, the Apache

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Meet: Joshua Schwarz.

He has been a member of the Everyday Joe’s family since right near birth, as have his two younger brothers. His parents Christian and Shari are two of the hearts that sat in a small room 11 years ago and cast the vision for the Everyday Joe’s & Timberline Oldtown organization.

Apparently hearts bursting with Family love for the world turn out children with very accute hand/eye coordination. The video below is a video of the future. It is fast. 14th in the world fast:

FURTHER:

• Josh’s official blog (it’s about way more than it appears, check out some older entries)
• Speed Stack World Championships

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Seven years certainly feels like something.

It isn’t one of those monumental years. It’s a growing year. It’s the “Hey, I’m in first grade and I go to school all day long”  year. You feel a bit older, but can still remember the days when you stayed home all day and naps were required. You start to form an independent identity, but start to understand you can’t do it all on your own.

Year seven at Everyday Joe’s was a year of change: switching coffee roasters (Intelligentsia to Novo), building a new coffee bar, changing the paint on the walls, renewing our focus on quality, renewing our focus on the stewardship of things, making our drinks smaller in light of both of those things, changes in leadership structure…

It could keep going. Lots of change. Many changes. Or perhaps they are tweaks or refinements. Regardless, they were not and are not changes or tweaks or refinements independent of each other. They all function – and we all function – in the realm of serving & taking care of each other better. Constantly better. Encouraging refinements in each other to that end.

And this is still the purpose of Everyday Joe’s: to be a benefit to Fort Collins. To be a place of service and relationship and hope and Love. It is not always easy…and we catch ourselves with our eyes on the wrong things and we encourage refinements. You encourage refinements, perhaps without even knowing it. Thank you for that.

Imparting on year 8 and storing year 7 in the memory banks, it is safe to tell you that we are more secure in our identity than ever. It is not an identity in coffee or concerts or visual art – though those are all things that are crucial parts of it. It is an identity that will take us where Everyday Joe’s and it’s family needs to go. We just need to be honest with ourselves. And we need to listen.

We celebrate the past seven years and we hope to go into the rest not thinking we know it all, but knowing we’ll continue to be refined. Thanks for being here with us.

love.

everyday joe’s

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