for comparison, here’s the official original version:

1. Say Brother, All I Got is Time
Imagine finding The Band‘s Music From Big Pink and Creedence Clearwater Revival‘s Bayou Country in a thrift store bin and hearing them for the first time; that’s the kind of vibe Say Brother gives off with every note of this rollicking country-fried rock ‘n’ roll release.

2. Sea Wolf Mutiny, The Last Season EP, The Apple Tree EP
As epic as drama on the high seas, The Sea Wolf Mutiny jumps ship on convention and artifice to probe both the depths and the stratosphere, musically speaking.

3. Treadmill Trackstar, Leaving Ohio
An introspective song cycle that is more about the potholes than the road.

4. Whiskey Tango Revue, Seersucker Soldiers
Genteel southern country gentlemen they’re not, but this is about as country as a rock ‘n’ roll band can get in South Carolina.

5. American Gun, Therapy
Singer and principal songwriter Todd Mathis uses his band for therapy but he’s the only one paying the bill; the rest of us just get the benefit of the confessions.

6. Marshall Brown, Blue Shades EP
Wherein flights of lyrical fancy turn a regular-looking dude into Jeff Buckley and Rufus Wainwright‘s bastard musical love child.

7. Haley Dreis, Taking Time EP
To borrow a song title from her polished-to-perfection EP, Haley Dreis is like candy in the summertime, an irresistible musical confection that sticks with you for a long time.

8. Ghosts of the Great Highway, Wrestle It Down
Spare, stark, and somewhat haunted songs delivered with understated conviction.

9. Hot Lava Monster, Weed Sessions
Glad these recordings, the most professionally produced the band has done to date, finally surfaced in official form.

10. The Lovely Few, The Perseids
The plainspoken, vaguely electric indie pop of The Lovely Few is the kind of sound that sneaks up on you, coming over the horizon when one least expects it, bursting into your consciousness and back out again in the time it takes for, say, a meteor to streak across the sky.