Cannon Falls Forever [FLAC Download]

"I used to have a band called Taurus. In 2010 we made a record called “Cannon Falls Forever” in the pre-streaming days of yore. It’s always irked me that the music on this record isn’t there alongside all my other records on “platforms”. Well, thanks to my label GroundUP Music you can STREAM AWAY, BABY! 

This band and music appeared insanely quickly out of nowhere the way it might in an implausible coming of age movie about a jazz bassist moving to new york, feverishly writing 11 rock songs on a borrowed guitar in a bedbug infested apartment then asking his best friends to learn the songs and fly themselves to Minnesota to record for 12hr/days indefinitely.

Rich Hinman, Mark Stepro, Jake Hanson and I did just that - and I remain very proud of what we made at Brent Sigmeth and Wendy Lewis’s home studio in Cannon Falls, Minnesota. My current band still plays a few of these songs in our shows, in fact.

In addition to Brent’s incredible recording and mixing (and generosity of time and attention), the record also features appearances (albeit quiet ones) from Wendy on “Getting Younger” and my sister Jess Helle-Morrissey on Born A Lion. Also, it’s how I met (indirectly) Jesske Hume whose husband Nate Wood had been recommended as a mastering engineer to me.

Aaron Lee Tasjan would eventually replace Jake who couldn’t justify flying to New York 4x/month to play Spike Hill and Banjo Jims.

Anyways, if all this is news to you - maybe check it out. If you’re like me, and this triggers wistful and nostalgic memories from Rockwood and Glasslands and Bowery Electric and Sofar Sounds and 7 train sessions and Cameo and the living room and spike hill and cakeshop in the LES and Williamsburg of christmas past, well you might wanna check it out too. See how it holds up after all these years later." - Chris Morrissey