Appendix E-J

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.

Popularity: 2% [?]

We’re a week into our second No Words November. We’ve deleted music with words from the Everyday Joe’s music computer. We’ve added more without words. The first No Words November was great. This one is shaping up to be. It’s a month of maybe keeping the jumble out of your head and listening to what you might hear. And from there…well who knows.

Really, it’s a month to encourage and get in the practice of the act of listening. When we listen, we might be led places or we might lead places. Or to things or from things.

And here is what’s interesting:

On November 1st, Derek Webb (we think his music is nice) released Feedback. It is an entirely instrumental/electronic album with each track based on a section of the Lord’s prayer. An interesting concept regardless of what you believe, as it is an interpretation. From Webb’s official site:

Worship is a complicated idea.  Arguably, it’s what we all do, 24 hours a day (regardless of what we’re worshipping).  And I’m aware of a lot of “worship product” in the marketplace I sometimes occupy.  So I was cautious when I first started receiving the coordinates that would lead me to make ‘Feedback’.  It was immediately conceptual and ambitious, so much so that I genuinely wasn’t sure I could do it.  But this seemed to be the perfect posture in which to create something worthy of being called a “worshipful” piece of art.  So I studied, meditated, struggled and prayed my way through this creative process, and it’s easily the most challenging thing I’ve done in my career. But I believe it’s been worth it, even just for the ways it’s stretched both my creative process and my faith as a follower of the Way.

Interesting…this talk of receiving coordinates.

It looks like a film based on the album based on the Lord’s prayer is also coming down the pipes. There are also companion paintings. You can see the preview for the film below, and the paintings at the album purchase page. We’ll be playing the album in the shop this month…if you want to hear it just let us know.

Popularity: 12% [?]

Remember the United States Postal Service? The lovely entity that delivers letters and things by hand, usually placing them in something called a “mailbox?”

Each day, I must walk out to our mailbox and retrieve our mail. Rarely is it a handwritten letter, but usually a mass-produced waste of a tree trying to sell me something…or a bill…sometimes a postcard from New Belgium. Those are nice.

Today, though, held something entirely different. I reached in and out came a CD in a clear case with just this printed on the disc:

Intrigued, I popped the CD into my computer. iTunes recognized it as Stockholm Syndrome by Derek Webb. My heart went pitter patter a bit.

I don’t know if you’ve been following the whole viral marketing/controversy(?) surrounding this album, but an advance copy of it showing up in our mailbox is an exciting thing. You can get caught up on the whole deal by clicking here.

We’ve decided to play the album tonight at 7 pm down here at Everyday Joe’s. Come and listen if you like. I hope to see you. It could be the greatest 51′ 40″ we ever spend together.

FURTHER:

• Derek Webb Official Site
• About Stockholm Syndrome (the actual syndrome)
• Another interesting article about Stockholm Syndrome
• Learn about this whole thing

Popularity: 91% [?]

Holy cow holy cow holy cow.

For some time now, I’ve heard whisperings and rumblings about a musician in Nashville who wanted to start a music-sharing service based on the idea of relationships and community. Art and community and relationships colliding…yes please.

Ladies and gentleman, please welcome to the information cloud: NoiseTrade.Com (celebratory trumpets).

“What happens when the generous, forward-thinking artist meets the generous, forward-thinking fan? They live happily ever after.”

Those are the words of NoiseTrade’s co-founder and Nashville musician, Derek Webb. In September of 2006, Webb decided to give away his album “Mockingbird.” As a result, he watched his fan base grow exponentially (were you watching, Radiohead?). This then birthed an idea in his mind, and that idea grew into the beautiful child that is NoiseTrade- where you download entire albums(!) and as a trade you either spread the word to 3 friends or pay a minimum of $1. That sounds alright by me.

So far, the choices are limited to a small handful of Webb’s musical friends (his musical friends, however are quite talented). But give the site a break. As of when this is being written, NoiseTrade is just about 35 hours old. When you were 35 hours old you were sleeping 18 hours a day. Artists up for download include several Everyday Joe’s alum (Matthew Perryman Jones, Katie Herzig, Sandra McCracken) and several others who we wouldn’t mind being Everyday Joe’s alum.

If you want to know even more about where NoiseTrade came from and how you can get your music on there, you can download the info sheet here. If you want to get to downloading so you have the proper amount of time to tweek that Fourth Of July BBQ Playlist, click on the banner below.

Further:

• NoiseTrade official site
• Derek Webb official site
• Grilling Tips

Popularity: 34% [?]