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The Artists

Deep thanks to the following bands and recording artists for donating their time and music to this project. Please check out their web sites, buy their CDs, and catch them live. And please, don't swap the mp3s they've graciously donated for this charity project. All tracks used with permission of the artists!

Note that the following tracks are listed in alphabetical order by artist, not the order they are going to be posted in. They will be posted approx one every hour between 9 a.m. (est) Saturday July 26 and 9 a.m. Sunday July 27. Please do not write me about when I am going to post a particular track. It will be posted when its time comes and linked to from the writing project.

The Bellrays

"Thunder All the Time"
Unreleased
Written by Tony Fate
©2003 Vital Gesture Music
Official site

Bright Eyes

"A Lover I Don't Have to Love"
From the Saddle Creek album "Lifted, or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground"
©2002 Sony / Bedrooms and Spiders (SESAC)
Saddle Creek Records

The Constantines

"See Line Woman" (removed at request of band)
Written by Bass/Simone
©2003 The Constantines
Unreleased
Recorded at Woodshed Studios, December 2002, and mixed in
January 2003 at Chemical Sound.

&

"Hyacinth Blues" (live)
Written by The Constantines
©2003 The Constantines
Unreleased
Recorded at Lee's Palace, Feb 2, 2002
The original version of this song appears on the 2001 Three Gut Records release The Constatines

Look for the forthcoming record from The Constantines, available from SubPop Records.

Official site

Coyle and Sharpe

"Druggist"
©1995 213CD
From the 1995 2.13.CD release "On The Loose".
Coyle and Sharpe
Official site

dos

"joy"
Written by kira, published by tHUNDERsPIELS (bmi)

"Kira plays one bass (left) and I [mike watt] play the other (right).
she's also the singer.

I recorded it at my pro tools studio here in my apt called thunderpants located in san pedro, ca, usa this year (2003).
Right now this is just an unrelased track though we have plans to release it on an album."

mike watt's hoot page
dos

Guided by Voices

"My Kind of Soldier"
©2003 Robert Pollard, Needmore Songs/BMI 2003, courtesy of Matador Records. From the forthcoming album "Earthquake Glue", due on Matador Records on August 19.

GBV.com

Jim Guthrie

"Time is a Force"
©2003 Three Gut Records
Players: Jim Guthrie, Simon Osbourne, Evan Clarke, Owen Palette, Mike Olsen
Recorded in London at The House of Miracles
WWW.THREEGUTRECORDS.COM

Lambchop

"Flub"
Taken from the Treasure Chest of the Enemy (US Tour CD 2002) - Out of Print
Written by Kurt Wagner
©&p Lambchop
Published by Pathetic Hindsight Music
Official site

Lift to Experience

"These are the Days"
Available from Bella Union
Words and Song by Josh T. Pearson
©2001 Delabel Music Publishing

Josh also writes: "Seek God while He may be found."

Official site

Lucky Lukashevsky, Yucky Lukashevsky

"Party in Pain"
It is written and performed by Lucky Lukashevsky, Yucky Lukashevsky
©2003 A. Lukashevsky

Kosher Rock Records
Deep Dark United

Lullabye Arkestra

"Summertime"
Written by George Gershwin
©2003 Lullabye Arkestra
Appears on the 2003 release Bzaster

Catch th' Ark live:
July 31, 2003: Sneaky Dee's w/ T.B.A
August 23, 2003: Mississagua (Venue T.B.A) w/ The Creeping Nobodies, The Sick Lipstick

Official site

Manitoba

"Dundas, Ontario (remix)"
Written and produced by Dan Snaith
©2001 The Leaf Label
From the 2001 Leaf Records release Give'r

Official site
Leaf Recordings

Marah

"Faraway You" (live)
Unreleased
Published by Rykomusic/Muskie Moon Music (ASCAP)
Songwriters: David Bielanko and Serge Bielanko
Recorded live for VPRO Radio (Holland) March 10, 2000.
Original version appears on the E Squared Records/Artemis Records release, "Kids In Philly"

And

"East" (demo)
Unreleased
Published by Rykomusic/Old Lady Music (ASCAP)
Songwriters: David Bielanko and Serge Bielanko
Recorded live in Dave's apartment January 2003

Visit Marah on the web and check out pictures I took of them at their last Toronto gig.

My Morning Jacket

"Just One Thing"
© 2003 ato records
written by Jim James
From the forthcoming album "It Still Moves" (August 2003)
Official Site

New Wet Kojak

"Stick Out Your Tongue" (remix)
Original version appeared on the 1995 album New Wet Kojak (Touch & Go Records)
© New Wet Kojak
Get the flipside of this remix at www.newwetkojak.com

June Panic

"Hung Up"
©June Panic and Secretly Canadian
From the album Baby's Breadth
www.secretlycanadian.com

Polmo polpo

"SKY HISTOIRE" (EDIT)
© 2003 SANDRO PERRI
Features Brodie West on Saxophone
From the upcoming full-length LP "LIKE HEARTS SWELLING"
Release date Sept 22, 2003 thru Constellation Records.
Alien8Recordings
Official Site

Adam Puddington

"When You Run Out Of Road"
©2001 Adam Puddington
Adam Puddington - vocals, acoustic guitar
Dale Murray - bkg vocals, electric guitar, pedal steel
Ruth Minnikin - vocals, keyboards, accordion
Gabe Minnikin - bkg vocals, mandolin
Serge Samson - bass
Brian Murray - drums, banjo
Recorded by J Ball and Paul Aucoin at Nervous Sound (Seabright, NS)

Queries can be directed to theguthries@theguthries.net or check out theguthries.net.

Rockets Red Glare

"Go Away Salt"
From the album "Moonlight Desires" on Blue Skies Turn Black.
©2003 Rockets Red Glare
Written by Jeremy Strachan, Evan Clarke
http://www.rocketsredglare.ca/

Shikasta

"Comin' Round"
Unreleased.
Recorded live from the floor, 2003.
Written by Shikasta
© 2003 Shikasta
Shikasta

Starvin' Hungry

"'Cuz We're Alive"
©1999 Starvin' Hungry
Unreleased.

This song is taken from the 2-day session John (guitars; vocals) and Glenn (drums) did in March of 1999. It was recorded live to 8-track by Daryl Smith at Chemical Sound in Toronto and mixed and mastered by Morris Applebaum at Silent Sound Studios in Montreal.

Three other songs from this session are available on CD at any Starvin' Hungry show or direct from http://www.starvinhungry.com

Sweep the Leg Johnny

"Please Give Me Roses Before I am Dead"
From the Southern Records release "Tomorrow We Will Run Faster".
©1999 STLJ Capades & Follies
SWEEP

A photo I took of STLJ at Tequila Lounge in Toronto.

Sybarite

From the "+" EP, Volume 15 in the "Travels In Constants" series from the Temporary Residence label.
© 2001 Sybarite

The "+" EP was made during a few infrequent trips over a year and a half... Driving from Brooklyn, up the Hudson, to Poughkeepsie, NY...often getting lost along the way. (In more ways than one...)

Recorded and mixed at Space with Jaques Cohen
Written and played by Xian Hawkins
www.meusic.net (Official site)

TW Walsh

"start without me"

©2003 published by the moth eats walls (ascap)
written by timothy william walsh
tim walsh - voice, drums, bass, guitars, keyboards, recording, avocadoshaker
this song is from a new album in progress.

Official Site
Truck Stop Records
My Pal God Records

Jorma Whittaker

"Molly Melancholy"
©Jorma Whittaker and Secretly Canadian
From the album "Jorma Whittaker"
Secretly Canadian

Jorma was in the band Marmoset. His father was the bus driver for Rush.

Bob Wiseman

"3 Men"
Unreleased
©2003 Grow or Die Music
Official site