MP3 of the Day

Today we have a song from the first Crayon cassette, A Cartwheel For A Kiss. This was the very first “recording session” that Jeff and I were ever involved in. A few months after we started playing music together, our band Crayon had a batch of songs, and we decided that it would be a good idea to record them. We employed the assistance of a couple local Bellingham bands, and borrowed some recording gear, including a cassette 4-track. We set-up the equipment and recorded at Michael Griffin’s house, which doubled as our practice space. The result was the six song cassette, A Cartwheel For A Kiss. When I listen to this now I cringe with embarrassment, but back then I was very excited and proud that my band had actually recorded a tape! We sent copies of our newly recorded cassette to various publications and fanzines all over the country in the hope that we might receive a review. One of those fanzines was called Incite, and it was published by Harvard History Professor, Tim Alborn. Tim also ran a small indie label called Harriet Records, and after receiving A Cartwheel For A Kiss, he offered to release a Crayon 7” on his label. I’m honestly not sure what Tim heard on that tape, it really wasn’t that great. Why he ever offered to put out a single by a band that could barely play their instruments from the Pacific Northwest I will never know, but nevertheless he did. Harriet Records would eventually release albums by both Crayon and Tullycraft. Today we have the song Matchbox from A Cartwheel For A Kiss.