Description: I lived in a trailer once and my bedroom had a pocket door. I swiped a "David Bowie Live!" record from where I was working as a data entry specialist. There was a poster of David smiling inside. I taped it to the bedroom side of the pocket door so he could smile me to sleep as the sun came up (5:15, train's overdue, Angels have gone). David slid into the wall and never re-appeared. A light ripping sound and a bit of resistance and then nothing but a few balls of scotch tape. I've been thinking about him for years in that wall and now I'm thinking about him somewhere else. Dead Man's Cattle Call pays tribute to the dadgum best in a grape arbor in Topanga with a small fortune's worth of military smoke bombs and top-notch instruments and recording equipment to better capture our one take magic. Check out: Dan Silk's legs, Jeffrey Howell, Mustang, Michael Parnin, Matt Hayes, Chad Brown, Will Greene, Jason Soda as Mick Ronson by way of Marc Bolan, Jason Soda again! Thanks to Tom Arcuragi for mastering the colored smoke. Thanks to Rory Coleman Mitchell and Josh Polon at Beard and Glasses VR for pulling this off and making it look so great and if yr not getting what's going on stand in one place and spin around slowly... ok?

Description: George Jones Country Gold Dog Food was my introduction to the man who might be the greatest damn singer ever. We bred big dogs on our property in Atlanta. Briards, Boxers, St. Bernards... Big dogs. I remember the bags with his smiling face inside a gold record. I thought he had his silvery-blond hair flopping down over his ears like that because it made it look like he had dog ears but I don't think that was the reason if there was a reason. I've been too intimidated to do one of these tributes to him because of how much love and respect i have for his singing so i chose to do a duet so i could spread some of the blame around. That's my friend Mimi Michel singing the Melba Montgomery part so beautifully. From reading about George and the stories I've heard from friends who got to work with him he seems to have been a very difficult man to understand, but all the music he left us paints a very clear and powerful picture of desire and pain and longing and love. Nick Tosches described him as "a man whose unequivocal soulfulness abided beneath an inert mind." While this may not be the most flattering description, it is great writing. George, you are as good as music gets and as great an inspiration as a singer could hope to have. For this, we pay tribute... Thanks to Mark Lane, David Henning, Jason Soda, Stephen Patt, Mustang, C. Foam, Miranda Penn Turin, Chad Brown, Michael Parnin and Mimi Michel...

Description: Dead Man's Cattle Call is a vehicle to pay tribute to recently deceased musical heroes... God bless you Thomas Paul...

Description: Dead Man's Cattle Call is a vehicle to pay tribute to recently deceased musical heroes. The Everly Brothers occupy a unique position in kick-ass music. From Phil Spector Pop to Mighty Wind Folk to Classic Country to The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Simon & Garfunkel, and The Bee Gees among many others, their influence is everywhere. This song is one of the earliest pieces of music i can remember and has always carried the visual parallel of a piece of peppermint candy. It is like a perfect little jewel box. It has also always carried a sense of light-hearted doom along with it, perhaps because of my childhood fear of clowns. Anyhow Phil, for your singular singing, for your great hair and better songs, we pay tribute...

Description: Dead Man's Cattle Call is a vehicle to pay tribute to recently deceased musical heroes. Lou Reed's tower of song and sound has been a constant source of wonder since i was in short pants. From the Robert Mitchum lyric in "New Age" to the guitar sound on "Vicious" to the leather duster and curly-haired mullet look he sported in the 80's, Lou Reed has confounded and inspired at every turn. For this, we pay tribute.....