The Peach District has teamed up with Gracehaven House to put together a compilation of the best current Columbus, OH music we could find. Then we all got drunk one night and recorded an old Trains song and stuck it at the end. Despite that, we honestly believe this is an objectively great album, and it’s really fucking amazing that such great songs are coming out of this city right now.

We highly recommend you hop on over to gracehavenhouse.bandcamp.com to give it a spin. All the money goes directly to Gracehaven House, a phenomenal local organization looking to provide a safe house for victims of domestic minor sex trafficking. This compilation is a great first step to align yourself with these modern abolitionists and simultaneously support all this fantastic music coming out of this wonderful city.

As for our track at the end, we had plenty of help that fantastic evening, recorded in that wonderful “one mic in the middle of the room” way that’s oh so easy for us and occassionally painful for the listener. For our basement re-recording of “The Cobbler’s Blues,” the following people were kind enough to show up in my basement and help out.

Zachariah Baird – who let him in?
Miles Curtiss – laughter
Joe Camerlengo – stylophone
Jason Dutton – harmonies, whisky
Andy Gallagher – guitar/harmonica, PBR
Joe Gilliland – bass
Adrian Jusdanis – fiddle
Phil Kim – guitar
Tristan Seufert – drums, street cred

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For the curious, the track listing for And Female And Brave, what I think should be our city’s Summer 2010 album:

1. Super Desserts – Yr Heart
2. Andrew Graham & Swarming Branch – Take It Easy On Kathy, At Least She Can Dance
3. Ghost Shirt – WOLFPACK!!!
4. Old Hundred – Winter Months
5. Saintseneca – Grey Flag
6. DJ Moxy – Chicken Scratch
7. Phantods – The Crying Call
8. Monolithic Cloud Parade – Do Ghosts Dream of Death?
9. Alwood Sisters – Perfect Day
10. Wing & Tusk – Home, Sick Home
11. Arlo & The Otter – Passing Lane
12. Moon High – Smoke Before My Eyes
13. Shin Tower Music – Patterns
14. Wonder Twin Powers – WreckUH’d ON
15. Heather Evans – Priceless
16. Fellows, Inc. – From The Shore
17. Trains Across the Sea – The Cobbler’s Blues