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Toby Oler

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Member Since: 04/05/2006
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Click to Download Toby Oler - Utobya
Utobya takes a quick 27 minute breather from bluegrass and stomps across genres and into your earbuds. Trying to prove my dual citizenship, this one was recorded over 2007 and 2008 at Mission Bells and the Stude in San Francisco and Russian Recording and at the Vices Sonic Workshop in Bloomington.

Click to Download Toby Oler & The Nashville Knives Sampler
This sampler has tracks from the upcoming Nashville Knives live album Sometimes Trouble Just Follows a Man, unreleased studio recordings from Russian Recording in Bloomington, IN and choice cuts from WFHB's live radio show Saturday's Child.

Click to Download Otto Mobile - The Lost Songs of Otto Mobile
The Lost Songs of Otto Mobile is the Stones-y brainchild of Bay Area slide guitarist Matt Lundquist. This warm analog album includes players from Buxter Hoot'n, San Francisco Mime Troupe, Dem Suite, The Stereofidelics, The Nashville Knives, Quinn, and Beep!.

Click to Download Toby Oler & The Nashville Knives - The Kristie Tape
The Kristie Tape documents two September afternoons early in the existence of the Nashville Knives playing a set of original material and interspersed with nuggets of cassette weirdness.

"Psychedelic Bluegrass" - Bluegrass Unlimited

Click to Download Faultlines - Faultlines EP The Faultlines EP is a six song newgrass collection from 2006 of original material by Ryan Deasy and Toby Oler that muddies the bluegrass tradition and showcases the deft fingerwork of Michael Lindau on fiddle and Chris Padgett (Stereofidelics) on guitar.

"Nice to hear a band zig when you think they're going to zag for a change!" - Cary Fields, Fields of Bluegrass

Click to Download Men of Many Vices - Done Worse for Less
Done Worse for Less is a short set of original and traditional material recorded live at RippleFx studio in Indianapolis. The Vices featured the souped-up hillbilly songs of Ryan Deasy and Toby Oler and the fur-lined fiddling of Michael Lindau served steaming over a heaping bed of funky drumming by Nick Mallers (Ladymoon).

"Familiar folk music motifs, like love, loss, and booze, are tackled with a wisdom that belies the writer's youth and delivered with corrosive wit and an English Professor's preoccupation with language." - Bloomington Alternative

Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

HOW TO SIDELINE A MULE

I wouldn't say I grew up with mules plural. We had one, Marvin, and briefly two, but she died while giving birth. One day a trailer from Nebraska pulled into the drive, backed up to the calf barn and...
Posted by on Fri, 03 Oct 2008 06:09:00 GMT

Its time, vol. 4.

In the car we still talk like we used to, you said.  I don't know what I want.  That my peace of mind is a bone that a snarling dog is holding.  That sometimes its just better to walk a...
Posted by on Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:46:00 GMT

Its time, vol. 3: a letter to Puma

Dear Puma, In Re: brown leather Puma shoes, size 11, Factory: VMS 0607; art. no.:301629-01, purchased at the Market St. boutique San Francisco, CA late March I write to you out of sadness.  My d...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:55:00 GMT

It’s time, vol. 2.

So you heard that things are in motion, yes?  And since objects in motions tend to stay in motion, hopefully things will stay more this way than that.  I would be as surprised as you if I wa...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:41:00 GMT

Its time.

I'm on the fifty eighth floor.  I've already met my team, mostly young professional women, and been shown the bathrooms and canteen.  There I acquired a quarter of a bagel, cut it in half with a plast...
Posted by on Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:24:00 GMT

for iNsertion into iPod- free download Kristie Tape

for iNsertion into iPod- free download Kristie Tape http://www.trazmick.com/KristieTape.zipThose good souls @ Trazmick have  agreed to host a free download of the Kristie Tape.&nb...
Posted by on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:01:00 GMT

The next blog will be filled with free music.

but that shit's still in beta testing son.  The appearance of lots of things happening.  Pushing into empty cities.  Heading into the studio tonight with the sonic reducer himself, Char...
Posted by on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:45:00 GMT

Dec 27th Venue Change --Show @ ArtHospital

ARTHospital, conveniently located at 1021 S Walnut St in Bloomington, IN.8pmThursdayDecember 27thTV Mike and the Scarecrowesthe Nashville KnivesUno MossMatt Lundquist
Posted by on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 00:18:00 GMT

Hay Nephew!

So:like a labrat, I can't stay away for long from my feeding tube for long. Bloomington, I love you and I'll be back soon. Please don't be on your best behavior.the 27thdecemberSpace 101Beautiful Do...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:38:00 GMT

I’ve never met a black vampire who wasn’t at least part french, a written study in foma

This blog was originally an academic piece, solely exploring the ground gained in recent elections by the octoroon, but in a rush, I accidentally mailed off some bills in the envelope I had scribbled ...
Posted by on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:37:00 GMT