About this project

Dear Fans, Friends, and Family,

I have set up a fund raising project with the help of this great website Kickstarter. As many of you may already know, I have self-released two albums of songs by my band Folklore: The Ghost Of H.W. Beaverman (2007) and Carpenter's Falls (2008). Both initial runs of those CD's have sold out, and we now have our third album done, and we'd like to press how we all think an album should be properly pressed... ON WAX! So we're trying to raise $1500 to pay for a short run pressing of the new album, titled Home Church Road, on a 12" VINYL RECORD!

Home Church Road is 16 songs telling the story of the Earth after humans have become extinct. Only a few species of mammals, birds, lizards, and bugs remain. They peacefully coexist on Earth until the day they discover, alive but buried in the ground, the last human. Musically, it is a landscape that does not commit to one immediate style, but rather, it is orchestrated in whichever direction the song/story goes. Started and nearly completed with the full Athens Georgia version of the band and then finished with the help of the new Philadelphia version of the band, Home Church Road is a soundtrack to an epic narrative with woodwinds, brass horns, strings, didgeridoo, and much more.

Your donations to this project will get you a copy of the new album, plus there are incentives for more cool things if you're feeling generous. If you poke around here on Kickstarter you can read all about how the site works, but just so you know, all payments are with a credit card and Kickstarter is teamed up with Amazon, so if you've ever ordered something from Amazon then it's the same thing. If you haven't, it's easy... check it out! Your card will not be charged unless my goal is met. So if we don't reach $1500 then all backers are charged $0. But there is no limit to what we can raise, so please help if you can, and even if you can't then please help spread the word for us.

Thanks for reading and for your support, on behalf of all Folklore,

Jimmy Hughes

THE WHO'S WHO OF A BAND CALLED FOLKLORE:

Folklore was started in 2005 as an outlet to write fiction. A live band then formed around the stories and the Athens band was born: Jon Croxton (drums), Aaron Jollay (bass/trombone), Ian Rickert (bass/clarinet/harmonica), Che-Na Stephens (clarinet), Raoul De La Cruz (trumpet), and David Specht (oscillator, violin, bells). This band released two albums: The Ghost Of H.W. Beaverman (2007) and Carpenter’s Falls (2008).

In 2009, I relocated to Philadelphia where I quickly managed to find ten people who wanted to continue playing as Folklore with me. So what would have most likely faded into a lost bedroom project is now a stronger than ever live band in Philadelphia: Jason Henn (drums), Chad Arnett (guitar), Scott Churchman (double bass), Charlie Biando (double bass), Avalon Clare (clarinet), Yianni Kourmadas (bass clarinet), Cheryl Nguyen (violin), Andrew Keller (viola), Sam Tremble (keyboards), Nick Bronson (trumpet).

SOME KIND WORDS FROM THE PRESS

Folklore’s debut is a lovely opaque work that should appear on all serious Best of 2008 lists… a totally satisfying blend of imagination, truth, myth, personal history, bullshit, nostalgia, experiment and philosophy.
-PopMatters

The yarns that (Hughes) spins are reminiscent of those that a babbling old man at the end of his days would produce.”
-Daytrotter

The Ghost of H.W. Beaverman is united by Hughes’ surprising strength as both a songwriter and as a storyteller.
-Optical Atlas

WAYS TO LEARN MORE:
www.fairmountfair.com/folklore
www.myspace.com/folkloreband
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Folklore/43279549267