NOTES:
This cd was both preconcieved and an accident. Because we had already recorded an acoustic sessions demo for Media Play weeks before, we had no intentions of going into someone else's studio and rerecording them. But at the same time we did want to do something special for everyone who had stuck by us through all of our hard times that year. Thus, we felt a Christmas album was in order. Joyful Noise, "The closest we will ever come to writing a Christmas song" [or so the liner notes read], was actually written the night before we went back into the studio to record it. The disdain Daval had for the imagery of Santa Claus was ironic considering the lyrics he sang for this tune... Eventually this was remastered and became the Snow Songs album.

ART:
The cover was a collage of an old Christmas card from the early 1900s and individual pictures of us from various locations that year. From left to right: Daval & Justin [from an outdoor Halloween show a couple months before], Nixon & Bob [Bob's basement where we bashed out our first few demos]. Picture credits go to (Or)angie. This also kept in theme with the listener not being able to see our faces.

PRODUCTION:
The day after our in-store set we ended up bright and early in Elkhart, IN with a ton of expensive equipment that wasn't even our own. But upon arrival at the studio, it occured to Justin that all of his effects and other toys were left back in Michigan! So long before a single note was played, him and Daval made a mad dash a couple hundred miles and back. Luckily, Bob and Nixon remained busy setting sound... But in the end, everything we needed was right there. Our long and frustrating journey was for nothing!