Watch the official music video for our newest single!
Find “Children with the Blues” on your favorite streamer at your leisure.
Go see Sweet Teeth and Xioma and Mercedes Aviles at Kafe Kerouac in Columbus on Saturday
i don't have a cat but i wish i could have a cat because i am allergic to cats but they say i can get shots to deal with that but it would cost money and time and is not guaranteed to work so this is my friend's cat
i am planning to see @xiomamusic and @sweet.teeth.band and @mercedes_aviles_ at @kafekerouac on saturday night in columbus, ohio and i think you should too.
that is all.
Listen to a song about stamps for Gems in the Rough 2023!
I caught the light this morning to make a submission for the @gemsonvhs contest, Gems in the Rough 2023
This song will come out this year, but this is just a solo sneaky peek for now.
It's a new song about stamps and I played it on a marvelous Atkin J43 from @atkin_guitars across the pond. Extra thanks to @btmguitars in Nürnberg for helping me fall in love with it in the first place!
--lyrics (for now at least)
I bought a whole roll
Of these forever stamps
Guess I thought that I’d use them
More than I am
But it stings as it clings
To the top right corner of
The envelope that I stole from
The last job I loved
If you don’t mind the American flag
We can send this one first class
Give me a second to think
In light of everything
I bought a whole roll
Of these forever stamps
It’s like a bet I won’t be around
When it all comes crashing in
What’s gonna be
On that final piece of post
“We’re alive but it’s crowded dear
On the midwest coast”
When the levees fail and the trains derail
And the water towers run black
Will they deliver the mail?
Rain, sleet, snow, or hail?
If you still trust the American flag
We can send this one first class
Forever’s only a blink
Compared to everything
Do you still trust the American flag?
Listen to a brand new song for NPR's Tiny Desk Contest!
Hey there. Sam here with a new song for you. If you think someone else might like it, then it’s for them too!
a few notes
NPR runs their Tiny Desk Contest every year. They invite bands like us to record a video in front of a tiny desk, then invite a lucky winner to their offices to perform. This is a song from my 28-in-28-days challenge last August/September. I hope you like it.
Performed and written by Hello Emerson Daniel Seibert on percussion Jack Doran on keys Sam Emerson Bodary on voice and guitar Video by King Productions (https://portfolio.kingedits.com/) thanks to a generous skill swap from David at Yellow Weld (https://www.yellowweld.com/)
lyrics
When I wake up I reach for my coffee cup
Not full but just full enough
To raise a toast
To ambition to big plans
To booking some shows
Where we play to more than just the band
That played before us
And the one next up
Would that feel like enough?
Cause I might not be In love with this honestly
All the promo and content
And the hustle and bustle
And the Siren calls To NYC
Would it be enough to just do this kind of stuff
On work nights and weekends
With family and work friends
To build a community and tour inconsistently
Hopscotching on PTO
And say no no
No competition
No PR
No good distribution
So the vinyl we press can go far
To find strangers like me
Browsing aimlessly
Stack by stack
Do we deserve that?
My ambition is small plans
It’s writing some songs
That won’t ever be covered again
And playing with friends for
Friends of friends
And if something happens
Something happens
But when I wake up
I reach for my darling love
Awake but not quite woken up
4-Track Cover | "Grace Cathedral Hill" by The Decemberists
Grace Cathedral Hill by @thedecemberists was one of the first songs that I ever learned how to play on guitar. So here's another 4-track cover. Wishing you well -- and thanks for listening to the first 2023 single.
Show Reflection: Friday 2/24 at Rambling House with Eliza Edens
Feeling incredibly thankful to be able to play music with my friends, organize special nights with fantastic touring musicians, and continue to fall deeper in love with writing songs every damn day.
To Eliza and Dex — thanks for making the trip to Columbus. Hope you all have that post tour glow and are getting plenty of good sleep at home.
New music comes out tomorrow... or at 5:35p on CD 9.29 FM!
Thanks to local radio for their support and @knisely.music for their gorgeous contributions on clarinet, vibraphone, violin, and piano (and director @theseibertron for that arrangement). Pre-save the new song here!
Release show tomorrow at @theramblinghouse with @eliza.edens. Music at 9p. Tickets are $5 cheaper if you buy online today at this link!
Children with the Blues comes out this Friday!
first new music in three years.
the first of our new singles project for 2023. cheers to @bunjumun on bass & new dad @trice1212 on engineering & @knisely.music for the collab on clarinets, violins, vibraphone, and piano. chamber overdubs completed at @oranjudio. underdubs completed at uncle john's house.
4-Track Cover | "I Needed You" by Eliza Edens
A cover of "I Needed You" by Eliza Edens on my Zoom recorder's 4-track setting featuring several barbers giving the neighbor's roof a haircut.
See Eliza Edens and our band at Rambling House in Columbus on Friday 2/24 at 9p. Buy tickets here.
----lyrics
I want a simple house, simple man
Dancing in the wilderness
Never mind what I might find down the road again
Little car, dotted line
Are you passing through to another time?
Never know which one of us will bend
Wasn’t kind of you, wasn’t always true when
I needed you
Your flannel shirt, your calming words
I needed you
City lights, country nights
Playing pool and tossing dice
Never know who’s arms I’ll lay in
Coffee cup, wish me luck
Circle through the redux
Never know what cycle I’m spinnin’
Wasn’t kind of you, wasn’t always true when
I needed you
How cruel to be, this kind of free when
I needed you
Big heart, highway mind
Rock ‘n roll baby turn the dial
Never know what song I’m singin’
I’m a simple person with a simple truth
I want a simple way to love you but I
Never seem to know which way’s the wind
Wasn’t kind of you, wasn’t always true when
I needed you
Your soft t-shirt, your calm embrace
I needed you
I needed you
Listening Notes on “We Will Become the Flowers” by Eliza Edens
Eliza Edens’ record “We Will Become the Flowers” evokes Nick Drake from its outset — particularly an unbothered flute flitting between her stretched out melody with quick percussion, but never in the way of the guitar. The second track fingerpicks with a little flourish at the end of the line when lyrics lift away to make just a bit of space, passing our ear right to her thoughtful guitar playing before laying out more of the scene.
It’s a beautifully arranged record. I love beautifully arranged records — and I hope that you agree that our records are beautifully arranged. But sometimes when I hear a beautifully arranged record, I have a quiet worry that the live performance won’t live up without the additional instrumentation. I have no such worries here. The songs shine through, and will shine even brighter in a room of people.
I am eager to hear her words and her guitar — on Friday, February 24th at Rambling House in Columbus. Tickets are available now.