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The second in a series of revived unreleased singles, I present to you Jason Molina’s “Get Out Get Out Get Out”

It was a compulsive afternoon recording. My grandfather had just died and I was sifting through some of the academic recordings he’d made as a trumpet player and I guess thinking about our similarities. The Jason Molina song came to mind – it’s a dark love song, hopeless I guess, but in a way I was singing it to my blood relative. He had run a little record label for publishing contemporary trumpet compositions, some of which were very experimental. At some point I’d made a little recording from one of his records, slowing the record down on the turntable with my thumb, letting it growl and yawn back to life.

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DM Stith - “Gravity”
Extremely pleased to announce that DM Stith has joined the yk Records roster of artists. His first release, available right now, is a track entitled “Gravity” that was recorded at National Freedom with Richard Swift, circa 2012. Here’s some insight from Stith directly regarding the history of the song:
Looking over Richard Swift’s career is daunting and reveals equal parts artist and collaborator – I think he found deep satisfaction in the work of drawing the best out of an artist, and in my experience, he did this with the amity and patience of a confessor. He worked on so many projects, with so many artists, and playing whatever role needed playing. It’s pretty astounding really. Anyway, I met Richard on the Sufjan tour in Portland I think – he was on the tour bus when I boarded after our show, so it could’ve been anywhere (I rarely saw more of each town than the strip of road between the stage door and the bus). Richard was there. He had a handful of the band enthralled in a story, a grandfatherly caricature leaning into his yarn. I recall excusing myself through the bunch, slipping through on my way to my bunk. We regularly had friends of the band slip onto the bus to share in the decrescendo after the show with bottles of whatever hadn’t been opened backstage. I probably crawled into my bunk, turned on my humidifier and thumbed whatever book for a bit before heading back to the loadout to see if the crew needed any help. But on my way off the bus Richard stopped me to thank me for the show. I think I saw him the next night too – maybe he even rode with us there? Time’s eroded these memories. He came to the next show extra early to make sure he caught my full set. A year and a half later in his Cottage Grove studio, we laughed til we cried at his impersonation of Paul Stanley winding up a stadium crowd, mixed a record, and discovered I looked a little like a young Bob Dylan circa “the times they are a-changin’”. At some point during that visit he set up some mics and told me I had 10 minutes to write a chord-progression for a song. We bashed through a demo in a single take, recorded some stomps, claps, ooohs and aaahs, and stuck em all on a hard drive for me to fiddle with later. The song sat around, half-finished for years, always part of the early running order of several albums, but never feeling right stuck in with the rest.
Seven years after its conception, I’m so happy to finally share this track with folks. I think it’s aged well.
“Gravity” is the first of many tracks mined from the archives of Stith’s new home studio. More is on the way.

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DM Stith “Get Out Get Out Get Out” (Official Video)

DM Stith - “Gravity”