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FOLKLORE - “The Ghost Of H.W. Beaverman” CD - $10.00

At the beginning of 2007, after three years of being a band and two years of performing out live around Athens GA, Folklore completed their first full-length album entitled The Ghost Of H.W. Beaverman. Immediately afterward, the band booked an extensive East Coast tour and managed to fit a SXSW performance into the mix, and all this within 3 months of the album’s completion. But the album has not had proper release until now… bumbleBEAR is proud to present: Folklore!

“Jimmy Hughes might be best-known as a guitarist for Elf Power, but word is spreading of his Athens-based band Folklore. As Jimmy explains, the band's first album, The Ghost of H.W. Beaverman, peels away the layers of the legend it tells, one track at a time, until it reaches epiphanies that are pretty ambitious for what is, essentially, a pop-rock album. What makes the record even more unique is that each track is voiced by a different singer, the names of whom might be familiar to devotees of Athens music: Andrew Rieger (Elf Power), Amy Dykes (I am the World Trade Center), Jon Croxton (Wee Turtles), Bren Mead (Masters of the Hemisphere and Vetran), Ian Rickert (Bugs Eat Books), Heather McIntosh (The Instruments and Circulatory System), Scott Spillane (Gerbils and Neutral Milk Hotel), and, of course, Jimmy himself. But those wary of elaborate concept albums should check out Folklore, if only to see how they can be done right: The Ghost of H.W. Beaverman plays as a collection of beautifully-crafted pop songs, and the story they happen to tell only gains resonance the deeper you dig.”

Jeff Kuykendall - Optical Atlas