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Avenue of the Giants
- What the Leopards Reject (1)
- One Foot in the Ocean (2)
- The Killing (3)
- Pictures of the Night (4)
- Buried in a Landslide (5)
- Run for the Cause (6)
- Girls in Green (7)
- Laughing With My Enemies (8)
- I'll Follow You to the Sun (9)
- The Indian River (10)
- futureappletree records FAT040
- releases 21 April 2015
- Erynne Baronia: vocals
- Sean Burke: drums
- Adam Smith: guitar, banjo, keys, vocals
- Jim Vallet: vocals, guitar, bass, ukulele, percussion, keys
- Additional musicians:
- Sam Blickhan: vocals (1)
- Al Hennagir: guitar (6)
- Jim White: guitar (5)
- Produced and engineered by Jim Vallet at Coal to Cola Studio (Chicago, Illinois)
- Mixed by Larry Crane at Jackpot! Recording Studio (Portland, Oregon)
- Mastered by Carl Saff at Saff Mastering (Chicago, Illinois)
- Design by Tod Foley
- Band photograph by Nathan Keay
- All songs © 2015 Coal to Cola Music (BMI)
- Many thanks to John Szuch at Deep Elm Records
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A Southern Blue
- Bluebird
- We Tried to Hide
- Now She's Fine
- You're Pretty Tall For a Girl
- Starve, Go Mad
- I Won't Leave Your Love Behind
- Meet Me at the Western Gate
- Divide the Days
- The Altar
- Where Are the Wise Boys?
- Burn Wide Open
- futureappletree records (FAT038)
- released 01 November 2011
- Produced by Track A Tiger.
- Recorded at Coal to Cola Studio (Chicago, Illinois) and future appletree studio too (Davenport, Iowa).
- Mixed by Pat Stolley (future appletree studio too).
- Mastered by Carl Saff (Saff Mastering).
- Design by Tod Foley.
- Many thanks to John Szuch at Deep Elm, Pat Stolley, and all the talented musicians who helped us out.
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Sewing by Numbers
- Don't Let the Nighlight Dance (French Politics Remix)
- Here at the End (John Peacock Remix)
- I Don't Understand These Machines (Pat Stolley Remix)
- Light (Coal to Cola Remix)
- All Nerves Serve (Brad Kopplin Remix)
- Always Untrue (Devin and Kate's Smoke Monster Remix)
- Don't Let the Nighlight Dance (Disco Mike Remix)
- futureappletree records (FAT036)
- released 11 January 2011
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I Felt the Bullet Hit My Heart
- Don't Let the Nightlight Dance (1)
- Always Untrue (2)
- King of Your Blue Eyes (3)
- Bullet (4)
- Push Through the Dark (5)
- Summer and Smoke (6)
- Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (7)
- Fox Tries to Sing (8)
- Love Finds a Way to Torture Me (9)
- All Nerves Serve (10)
- Where We Might Wonder (11)
- Heart (12)
- Recorded April 2007 to May 2009 at Coal to Cola Studio,
- Chicago, IL. Drums on 1,4,6 tracked by John Peacock.
- Pat Stolley recorded the rest of the drums and mixed
- the whole thing at Futureappletree Studio Too,
- Davenport, IA.
- Mastered by Carl Saff.
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I Woke Up Early the Day I Died
- Glad To Be Scattered (1)
- Sound As Ever (2)
- Seashaken Heart (3)
- Happy (4)
- Here At The End (5)
- I Don't Understand These Machines (6)
- It's Pretty Hard To Go Home (After Something Like That) (7)
- Flood (8)
- With Stars Down (9)
- "Woke up early the day I died" is a collection of songs
- Jim Vallet recorded under the name Track a Tiger.
- The project began in August in 2003 after sifting through
- some old 4-track tapes and a notebook with a few song ideas.
- A 16-track digital recorder and a few microphones were bought
- and recording began in his Chicago apartment (listen close
- for a cat, squeaky wood floors and occasional late night
- drunken lover's quarrel on the street below).
- The songs started with acoustic guitar and then
- were slowly worked over a two-year period. Keyboards,
- guitars, banjo, cello, female harmonies and other assorted
- blips and bleeps were added. Jim Viner, an old friend back
- from their days in the Iowa City band Head Candy
- (Link/Elektra), added drums to seven tracks.
- Deciding the project needed an ending point, time was
- booked in June 2005 at Paul Oldham's Rove Studio in rural
- Shelbyville, Kentucky. Although happy with the mixes, it
- was decided some of the songs weren't quite done. A few more
- lyrics were written, additional harmonies added, and the
- result was mixed and mastered by Pat Stolley at
- futureappletree Studio 1 in Rock Island, Illinois.
- The sound? Moody. Lots of male-female harmonies.
- A little rock, but mostly slow, sad, sleepy late nights.
- Maybe Richard and Linda Thompson and the Sea and Cake having
- drinks in the living room while Low and Sonic Youth make
- dinner in the kitchen. Fleetwood Mac is out getting more ice.
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