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Mysteries of Life

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Member Since: 27/02/2006
Band Members: Jake Smith, Freda Love
Sounds Like: Wild women and wild men battling for primitive love with prehistoric monsters of forgotten time! Facing the facts of life of humans unadorned rising from the mud!
Record Label: Affirmation Records & Musical Family Tree

My Blog

VOCAL TRACKS blog

So, my book is out (Vocal Tracks: Performance and Sound Media), and the publishers (University of California Press) suggested I start a blog to post some of the sound recordings I write about. It's no...
Posted by on Sat, 23 Aug 2008 04:47:00 GMT

Tired of You

It was great to see everyone in Indy, Bloomington and St. Louis. Hope we will be back before too long. Here is an old Fats Waller song we recorded for Tom Danforth's wedding.
Posted by on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:50:00 GMT

Indy shows!

Jake will be playing a short acoustic solo set, and later play bass on a full electric set with the Vulgar Boatmen at Radio Radio in Indianapolis on Friday July 25. On Sunday evening, Jake and Dale wi...
Posted by on Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:05:00 GMT

Songs for LP benefit show

Posted 3 songs we recorded for the LonPaul Ellrich benefit show. "In the Dark" is by Bloomington punk band Moto-X.
Posted by on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:52:00 GMT

Jake’s book out in August

Info on Jake's forthcoming book:http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/10902.php
Posted by on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:21:00 GMT

Undermined

Our version of a song by the late, great EL NINO.
Posted by on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 04:38:00 GMT

MOL fakebook

Just saw the great new Todd Haynes Dylan bio-pic, "I'm Not There." Thought it would be good to kick off what we hope will be a CD-length collection of covers with Dylan's "I'll Keep It With Mine." Loo...
Posted by on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 04:21:00 GMT

Forthcoming Demo Collection

Just put up one more demo - our version of the MOL song, "Magnetic Fields," which appeared on the last Some Girls CD. Set for release later this year at Musical Family Tree: The Mysteries of Life, "Gr...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 05:54:00 GMT

More New Demos

Just posted a few more new home demos: "Way Past Eight" and "Out on a Limb."
Posted by on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:50:00 GMT

New Demo

We've been working on an album's worth of new demos at our palatial home studio. Enjoy a sampler - a new track called 'All Possible Worlds.'
Posted by on Thu, 17 May 2007 06:40:00 GMT