compilation available on bandcamp with 100% of proceeds split evenly between Community Foundation of Western North Carolina, Rural Organizing and Resilience (ROAR), and BeLoved Asheville #Helene
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compilation available on bandcamp with 100% of proceeds split evenly between Community Foundation of Western North Carolina, Rural Organizing and Resilience (ROAR), and BeLoved Asheville #Helene
Cardinals At The Window, by Various Artists
Cardinals At The Window by Various Artists, released 09 October 2024 1. The War on Drugs - Harmonia’s Dream (Live from New York) 2. Angel Olsen - Can’t Wait Until Tomorrow (Live At Echo Mountain) 3. Sluice - Hard Times 4. S.G. Goodman feat. Bonnie “Prince” Billy - Nature’s Child 5. Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats - Smilin' 6. Rosali - Hey Heron 7. Luke Schneider - Vapor Ascensus 8. Fleet Foxes - Blue Ridge Mountains (Live from The Spring Recital) 9. Floating Action - We Live Inside A Dream 10. The Dead Tongues - Daylily (Demo) 11. Lambchop - Is There a Doctor in the House? 12. R.E.M. - King of Birds (Live in Greensboro, 1989) 13. Little Brother feat. BeMyFiasco x Denaine Jones - The Way 14. Yasmin Williams - Untitled 15. Setting - Night Divers 16. Magic Tuber Stringband - Flotsam 17. Weirs - The Carolina Lady 18. Tyler Childers - Bus Route (Live) 19. Waxahatchee - Wrecking Ball 20. Gillian Welch and David Rawlings - Hashtag (Live from Newport Folk Festival 2024) 21. Oak City Slums - Electric Tribal 22. Shirlette Ammons - Corner Pocket (Small Pond Sessions) 23. Helado Negro - Running (Live at Drop of Sun) 24. William Tyler - Near a Thousand Tables 25. Sylvie - On The Wind 26. John Andrews & The Yawns - Talking To Me 27. Keven Louis Lareau - Your Tender Loving Care 28. Spencer Cullum, Sean Thompson & Rich Ruth - Levon's Bark 29. Geologist & D.S. - Route 9 Falls 30. Daniel Bachman - Lovers On The Turnpike 31. The Avett Brothers - Cheap Coffee (Live) 32. Terry Allen & The Panhandle Mystery Band - Rainy Day 33. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit with Jerry Douglas - Children of Children – Live At The Ryman 10/15/17 34. Dawes & Hiss Golden Messenger - Haunted House 35. Deer Tick - Time To Leave 36. The Nude Party - Fallin' Rain 37. Tim Heidecker - Property (Live at Dynasty Typewriter) 38. Chuck Johnson - Arctic Halo 39. Laraaji - Music Laughter Episode Track 78 40. Universal Light - Minor Suite 41. Feist - Borrow Trouble (Demo) 42. Kevin Morby - American Holly 43. Jeff Tweedy (feat. Karly Hartzman) - How Hard It Is For Desert To Die (Live from Solid Sound) 44. Mipso - Cornfields 45. Danny Paul Grody - Distant Blue 46. Real Estate - Pink Sky 47. Real Companion - Long Leaf Overtime (iPhone Demo) 48. Sam Evian - Long, Long, Long 49. The Go-Betweens - Ashes On The Lawn 50. M. Duffy - Easy and Down 51. Indigo De Souza - Hungry & Croaking 52. BeMyFiasco - Take My Strong Hand 53. Marta Salogni - For Vibraphone and Tapes 54. Pachyman - NYC 55. Skylar Gudasz - Lean Closer To Me Now 56. Lou Hazel - Bulldog 57. Blue Cactus - The Gift (Demo) 58. Nathan Bowles - Gadarene (Tarboro) 59. Drive-By Truckers - Baggage (Live, 2018) 60. MJ Lenderman - Pianos 61. American Aquarium - Crier (Live at Red Rocks 5/9/24) 62. The Hold Steady - Certain Songs (Live at 9:30 Club) 63. H.C. McEntire - Dovetail (Get Down Version) 64. Futurebirds - 5am (Live from Moodright’s) 65. Fust - The Highlands of the Heart 66. Joseph Allred - Marion 67. Libby Rodenbough - Oh What A Beautiful Morning 68. Uwade - Belvedere 69. Iron & Wine - How Can You Mend A Broken Heart 70. Tyler Ramsey - New Lost Ages (A Parkway Session, from Asheville) 71. Bahamas - Say What You Like - Live At Massey Hall 72. Water Liars - Swannanoa (Demo Version) 73. Joseph Decosimo & Jake Xerxes Fussell - Bob Wills Stomp (Live at Nightlight 7.26.22) 74. Lonnie Holley (with Jacknife Lee) - Tonky’s Rocket Ship 75. Sophie Thatcher - My Friend 76. Riggings - Strep Season 77. Etran De L'Aïr - Ighre Massina (Live at Madame Lou's) 78. the Mountain Goats - Hand of Death 79. Superchunk - Wild Loneliness (Live for the Current) 80. Archers of Loaf - Great Holding Down 81. Hotline TNT - Candle 82. Karly Hartzman - Baby Me (Demo) 83. Squirrel Flower - Finally Rain (Live in St. Louis) 84. Object Hours - Street Scene (Live at Shadowbox) 85. Adeem The Artist - Freight Train (From DR Byen) 86. Sy Smith - Bigger Than The Work 87. Hayden Pedigo - John Frusciante’s Trailer House 88. Little Mazarn & Jonathan Horne - Lightning in the Water (Live at the Historic Dry Creek Cafe 10/17/21) 89. Carpenter / Cohen - Monuments 90. Jenks Miller & Rose Cross NC - Summerland 91. Christopher Paul Stelling - Me and I 92. Matthew E. White - Shine a Light (Solo Piano) 93. James Elkington - MEQZ 94. Rich Ruth - Super 8 95. Darien Brockington - Only One (Zo! & Tall Black Guy Remix) 96. Sylvan Esso - One More 97. Sonny Miles - Silverpieces 98. pat junior - U.D.O. 99. Flock of Dimes - Potential 100. Fancy Gap - Starlight Motel 101. Carlitta Durand - Slip Up 102. Wye Oak - No Good Reason 103. Eric Slick - Another Sunset 104. RIBS - The Blues II 105. Lydia Loveless - Loser 106. Julianna Riolino - Don’t Put Me In The Middle 107. Mary Lattimore - I’ll See You Tomorrow 108. BCNC - PB Yards 109. Wood Ear - Ex Winter 110. Eli Winter Trio - Dayenu (Live) 111. Little Wings - Honey Bird’s Power Outage 112. Nathaniel Russell - Time Machine 113. Sharon Van Etten - Weather 114. Boulevards - Mad Man 115. The Foreign Exchange - Can’t Turn Around (Nicolay’s Hostile Takeover Mix) 116. Daughter of Swords - Alone Together 117. Tune-Yards - Hypnotized (Live from Brooklyn) 118. Calexico - Across The Wire (Live from Tollhaus) 119. The Decemberists - William Fitzwilliam (Live) 120. Bill Orcutt - Sad And Familiar 121. Ethan Baechtold - small talk between friends 122. Watchhouse - Harvest Moon 123. Sarah Louise - Dancing and Keening (My Body is a Part of the Earth) 124. Wet Tuna - So Much Vibe in the World (A Sweet Pond Nug) 125. Sunburned Hand of the Man with Mazozma - JJ Fale 126. David Michael Moore - A Little Spanish Delight 127. Les Savy Fav - Four Divided By One 128. Six Organs of Admittance - Sunrise at Sunset 129. Mind Over Mirrors - Rushing Airglow 130. Eric Bachmann - Wicked Little Dream 131. Wooden Wand - Sky Blue Aster (Homegrown Version) 132. Edsel Axle - Wipe Your Eyes and See 133. House Band - Psych-Out 134. Tropical Fuck Storm - Chameleon Paint (Live at Lincoln Hall) 135. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Change (Demo 4) 136. Phish - Sand (Live at Reynolds Coliseum, 1999) 100% of proceeds split evenly between Community Foundation of Western North Carolina, Rural Organizing and Resilience (ROAR), and BeLoved Asheville ----------------------------- I was raised and still live in a community five miles west of Asheville, North Carolina, called Candler. Over the last 40 years, I’ve watched it transition from a small rural outpost into suburbs. The face of our community has taken a variety of new shapes along the way. From 160,000 the year I was born, the population of our county has ballooned to 275,000. One thing has remained constant: We’re river people. We identify as Mountain Folk, but the truth of it is, we’re river people. The rivers and springs of our home have been the lifeblood of our communities for generations. The mountains are hard, unforgiving land, so it’s the natural waterways that make it habitable. The mighty French Broad that runs through the center of town—along with the Swannanoa, Green, Hominy, Pigeon, Oconaluftee, and others—sustains us. Near the turn of the last century, one of my great, great uncles earned the honor of becoming North Carolina’s oldest living man. He claimed that it was a result of daily plunges into the icy waters of Cataloochee Creek. On September 27, 2024, I watched as the rivers began to take back what they had given us for so many generations. To say that we were unprepared would be a mistake. We’ve learned the hard way about floods: where they happen, how they impact us, what works, what doesn’t. In 2004, I was in college in Chapel Hill when friends who attended Western Carolina University drove several hours to sleep on my couch and floor as we watched news of what we were told then was a “once-in-a-lifetime storm.” It eradicated the downtowns of Biltmore Village, Clyde, Canton, and others. They returned and started putting the pieces back together. This time was different. Not only was our collective hubris about how often we’d been seized by flooding on full display, but the scale was unlike anything we’d ever experienced. Communities were drowned. We lost power and then cell service and then water. The radio reported that the only interstates and highways that could carry supplies and lives in or out were impassable from landslides and collapsed bridges. Food, gas, and water became accessible only to those with cash, solar panels, or hand-pumped wells. The haves and have-nots were starkly divided, but, to be totally honest, no one truly had all they needed. Thousands went straight into survival mode and, for the most part, handled the situation collectively. Resource management became a complex formula that most of us have never had to navigate; the stakes of that calculus became, well, mountainous. My family, which includes three generations of people who have mostly lived their entire lives in Candler, got out as soon as we were able. It was hard to decide whether to stay and help or leave. For us, it became a question of whether we’d actually be of service or just another gaggle of people in line at water distribution centers or gas stations. We had the means to leave and felt it only right to go, to avoid taxing the dwindling resource supply. Now we’re working to help get more food, water, gas, diapers, formula and cash back into the area. It won’t happen overnight, and there won’t be one fix that comes from a single government agency or aid organization. It must be a network of efforts happening, both at once and over a long period of time, to put it all back together. After driving out of the Blue Ridge, I finally reached a place with a reliable cell signal. It was an overwhelming and bittersweet experience. We were flooded with images of what our friends and neighbors were going through in further-flung parts of Western North Carolina. We also received a massive amount of concern and love from friends and loved ones around the world, including the people organizing this benefit. The funds raised by this effort will end up in the coffers of people on the ground doing good, impactful work in the region. Give what you can. Hug your friends and family. Use our experience to illuminate what, unfortunately, this new future will be like for us all: always on the precipice of climate disaster. It’s a stark, cold reality, and we’ll only get through it together. A friend of mine who stayed behind to spearhead aid efforts in his neighborhood shared these words earlier, and I think they’ll live with me forever: “Our terrain wasn’t meant to handle this storm, but our community was built for the aftermath.” —Rusty Sutton Chapel Hill, North Carolina My fondest memories of Western North Carolina all involve the rain. There was my first wedding anniversary, sitting on a cabin high above Hot Springs, watching the weather roll in over a ridge as if it were god’s very breath. There was the time years later when we visited the home we’d eventually buy, also outside of Hot Springs, and got our van intractably stuck in mud. We sat on the porch, watching the water come down and deciding this was home just as we heard a tow truck rumble up the long dirt road. And then there was the time, again years later, we took a day off in that very home while walking 2,200 miles northward on the Appalachian Trail, eating ice cream by the pint as it poured outside. More than any other mountain range in the United States, water helps make the Appalachians special, so green in the summer that it can feel like no other color exists. The peaks are old and worn, so that the spaces between mountaintop and the gaps or valleys, where the creeks and rivers run, is rarely very large. I have traveled most of this country’s mountain ranges by foot now, and I remain spellbound by the way earth and water exist in perfect tandem in the Appalachians. They have coexisted for so many millions of years that they seem a perfect system, a distillation of deep time before our very eyes. Sometimes, of course, even seemingly perfect systems temporarily fail, overrunning our own human designs and desires. In recent weeks, the world watched with increasing horror as the suddenly unnatural waters of Appalachia overran entire communities and cities, towns and farms. Places so many of us have loved for so long may now only exist as fading memories and lingering highwater marks, devastated not only by nature but also the fundamental ways we have changed nature. For some of us, it is a tragedy beyond imagination; for others on the ground, it is absolute reality. Cardinals at the Window—named for an expression we’ve all heard in Appalachia, meaning that there’s a little luck on the way—is our modest attempt to help the best we can, to do what we might to help restore some small piece of a place so many of us love so much. Friends far and wide instantly offered up their work, only with the caveat that there be something more they could soon do, too. It is very tempting to curse the rain and the water that drowned and destroyed so much of Appalachia. Most of the time, though, it is part of what makes the place special, unforgettable, unique—a home worth keeping, where land and water and sky merge into perfect union, natural and spellbinding. —Grayson Haver Currin Missing Home, Colorado
Cardinals At The Window (cardinalsatthewindow.bandcamp.com)