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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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2.5 years goes quick, I guess. 2.5 years ago things weren’t too much different. The sun did shine and the grass did grow. Then our good friend Aaron Strumpel released his Elephants stampede of an album. The sun did shine and the grass did grow, but it all looked a little different. The gentle trampling of giant feet can change your perception.

Now we stand here in the early morn and midday swelter and evening cool, and we’ve been looking at the horizon. We’ve been surveying the skies. We’ve heard for some time…for nearly those 2.5 years…that there were Birds coming. We bought new perches and suet feeders for them. We tended the trees to make them a home. We have waited.

Then, in a moment, there were sounds so loud and so near and so prying and so immediate that we could not cover our ears. We could only skip at one moment, stomp at another, flutter at this one, swirl at that…and then the one from over there slapped a groove on our forehead. We stared up for a moment and then decided, “mmm hmmm. yes. this is precisely it. precisely and with joy.”

Today, Aaron Strumpel releases Birds. Birds  moves around and in and about you. It runs after you and you run after it. It picks you up by the shoulders and flies you to vital places…places that will shake your bones and heal the gash in your head if you just open your eyes/ears.

There are familiar songs that have been played live for years: “Angel” and “Black With Tears”. An Everyday Joe’s fav “Home On Your Heart” was featured on our  Love, Everyday Joe’s Vol. 2 compilation 3 years ago, but on Birds receives an analog synth giddy-up that has been rumoured to cause living room dance parties.

In total, 12 Aves wait to build nests in your earholes. The album is available for purchase now (read: purchase it now) on Aaron’s Bandcamp page. While you should just take these words for it and buy the thing, you can also stream the album – in its entirety – below.

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For the second summer running, Mr. Denison Witmer will be playing at Everyday Joe’s. We are elated and excited. If Mr. Witmer or anyone in his camp happen to be reading this: thank you for coming back. Fine people and deep espresso await you.

In order to get anyone else reading this ready for the show this Saturday (the 23rd of July), we’re posting a little audio treat from Witmer’s latest album The Ones Who Wait. The album is textured and dynamic and gorgeous…like good espresso. There could be a metaphor building.

The track is “Brooklyn With Your Highest Wall.” It’s smooth with bright notes throughout, a well-developed profile, and a smart finish…like good espresso. That last sentence was taking it too far, but the song is quite good. Listen below or download here. Our good, good pal Aaron Strumpel will be opening the night. It’s a super show, of sorts. See you then. Buy your tickets here.

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Well, these are at least as good as expected.

Our very good and lovely friends Aaron Strumpel & Karla Adolphe make beautiful music as solo artists. It can be hoped for, then, that if they make music together, that music will be maybe stupendous. Or a disaster.

Disaster averted.

Strumpel  & Adolphe have come together as The Emporiums. They will celebrate the release of their new album I Am The Richest at Everyday Joe’s on Friday night (1.21.11). At the show they’ll be giving away some tunes and taking pre-orders…but you can get your earphones started right now. Please enjoy rough cuts of “I Am The Richest” and “Lucy” below.

The show starts at 7 pm on Friday and will run you an easy $5. Click the poster to buy tickets.

“I Am The Richest”

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“Lucy”

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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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Back last month, your friend & mine Aaron Strumpel released an EP of Christmas tunes cleverly titled Christmas! (the clever part is the exclamation point). It was free. You might have enjoyed it.

Yesterday, the man surprised all or most of us with the release of a full length album…also cleverly titled Christmas! (again, the exclamation point). The difference? More songs, several surprise treats with the download, the voice of the wonderful Karla Adolphe all over the album (most noticeably on “Silent Night”), and it costs $8. That should read it costs ONLY $8.

And then there’s the whole other project that Aaron is releasing next month at Everyday Joe’s with Karla Adolphe…but we’ll get to that later. You don’t get it with the $8, though you might be helping to fund it.

Listen to Christmas! below, and then pony up the billz so you can make the people you love listen to it non-stop for the next 5 days. These tunes will make your heart grow sizes today.

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Oh my oh my are we glad to give this to you.

It almost didn’t happen, you know. We weren’t sure if a Volume 4 should exist. Then, our minds/hearts were changed. We’re beyond pleased to give you Love, Everyday Joe’s | Vol. 4: We Have A Strong City.

In the past, this has been used as a fundraiser to help pay our music licensing fees. This year, donations will be directed back to the musicians who donated songs…all 14 of them. They are: Candy Claws, Aaron Espe, Jessica Sonner, Ask You In Gray, Aaron Strumpel, The Sunshine House, Lifeboat Etiquette, Luke Flowers, The Blackthorn Project, Danielle Ate The Sandwich, Paper Bird, Dan Craig, You Me & Apollo, and Baily Stauffer & The Katy Janes.

It’s a large handful of the musicians who have helped shape this place. Please support them, read a little bit more about this year’s compilation, and download the tunes. You can do all that by clicking on the cover art below. Have a good listen!

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Strumpel sounds like something you’d eat at Christmas dinner. A strumpel loaf. Strumpelcake. Yum.

Aaron Strumpel is not something you eat at Christmas dinner, but a man who makes fine, fine music. This time around, it’s renditions of your three favorite Christmas tunes. How’d Aaron know they were your favorite? We told him. How’d we know? We have ways we’ll tell you about when you’re older.

Listen to the EP below and download if you please (via Bandcamp). You may be thinking it’s too early for these tunes…but hey, the department stores start with the Christmas merch in June.

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This little tidbit popped up in the good ol’ Twitter stream a few days ago from @aaronstrumpel:

http://bestc.am/hbWEh Just wrote a three song ep to be titled “5.25.10″ due out next week.

Then this hotness (along with much more you can see here) appeared on Mr. Strumpel’s Facebook presence:

That’s a Wurlitzer. And that’s a trumpet. And that’s a guitar neck forest. And that’s a man we love so much.

Really, you probably know we love him so much. You probs also know we are eagerly anticipating the release of Birds later this summer. We know you are eagerly anticipating it.

Sounds like we’ll all have something to hold us over soon. Or hold our ears and hearts over, at least. The good people of Everyday Joe’s will be sure to let you know when there is more to be known. Chances are there already is more to be known. Chances are we already know it. Chances are you should be alert, young ones.

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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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