An Complete Fort Awesome Recordings, by Ten in the Swear Jar

An Complete Fort Awesome Recordings

by Ten in the Swear Jar

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nora_mal helped me, finally cry. Favorite track: When You Write.

unnamed project The perfect album for feeling like you need to escape and accepting that you might not

favorite track: San Jose Fight Song

Dominic James You want me to be quiet but I'm going to tell the whole world Favorite track: Sad Girl.

_2ndplanet Don't sleep on this! Contains some of Jamie's best material Favorite track: Hot Karl.

rano An exploding combination of the sadness of an accordion with the hope hidden in the lyrics which talk about the world out there.
Favorite song: San Jose Fight Song Favorite track: Sad Girl.

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1.	Malafuquana Espana 01:47
2.	Hot Karl 03:04	buy track
3.	San Jose Fight Song 04:20
4.	I Don't Play the Drumz 04:13
5.	Guantlet of Thor the Destroyer 05:33
6.	Fort Awesome Drunk Tank 00:52
7.	Helsabot 03:21
8.	Famine 04:32
9.	I Love the Valley 03:39
10.	Leg Show 04:14
11.	King Earth 04:09
12.	Melon 00:48	buy track
13.	When You Write 03:58	buy track
14.	Worry Boy 03:54
15.	Sita Deth 03:31
16.	House Quake II 03:56
17.	Sad Girl 03:21	buy track
18.	In the Blue Trunks, J.H. 03:28
19.	Accordion Solo! 00:04
20.	Gauntlet of Thor the Destroyer (Live) 05:41
21.	I Love the Valley (Live) 03:21
22.	House Quake II (Live) 04:23
23.	I'm Sorry, Grandma 00:25
24.	Hair, Hair, Hair, Hair, Hair 00:52
25.	Theme From Our Place in the Shadows 01:35

about

From June 1999 to June 2000 Cory McCulloch and Jamie Stewart (founding members of Xiu Xiu) were in a band called Ten in the Swear Jar along with Don Dias (Don Diasco), Tim Kirby and Kurt Stumbaugh (Master of the Bump, Kurt Stumbaugh I Can Feel the Soil Falling Over My Head). This is a complete collection of all the music they recorded at the trash dump house where Cory and Jamie lived, Fort Awesome. Two of these songs, Sad Girl as Sad Pony Guerilla Girl and I Love the Valley as I Luv the Valley OH!, were re-arranged and re-recorded by Xiu Xiu and they became two of the bands best known works. Lyrics from House Quake II and Hot Karl were re-purposed for the Xiu Xiu song, Pink City.

These songs are from two self released EPs, My Very Private Map and Inside the Computer are All My Feelings and an unreleased EP Eat Death, Orphans!

Ten in the Swear Jar played maybe 14 or 15 shows total mostly in the Bay Area.

credits

released November 5, 2021

Don Dias - accordions, harmonium, synth
Tim Kirby - drums
Cory McCulloch - guitar, mandolin, bass guitar
Jamie Stewart - vox, guitar, bass, banjo, drum machine
Kurt Stumbaugh - baritone sax

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shows

Apr 02

Soda Bar

San Diego, CA
Apr 03

Valley Bar

Phoenix, AZ
Apr 04

191 Toole

Tucson, AZ
Apr 05

Sister

Albuquerque, NM
Apr 06

Rubber Gloves

Denton, TX
Apr 07

Elysium

Austin, TX
Apr 09

Gasa Gasa

New Orleans, LA
Apr 10

Chelsea’s Live

Baton Rouge, LA
Apr 12

The Green Room at Crosstown Arts

Memphis, TN
Apr 13

Blue Room, Third Man Records

Nashville, TN
Apr 14

The Earl

East Atlanta, GA
Apr 15

Lodge of Sorrows

Savannah, GA
Apr 16

Motorco Music Hall

Durham, NC
Apr 18

Black Cat

Washington, DC
Apr 19

Le Poisson Rouge

New York (NYC), NY
Apr 20

PhilaMOCA

Philadelphia, PA
Apr 21

Metro Gallery

Baltimore, MD
Apr 22

Stage on Herr

Harrisburg, PA
Apr 23

Beachland Ballroom

Cleveland, OH
Apr 25

The Empty Bottle

Chicago, IL
Apr 26

Cactus Club

Milwaukee, WI
Apr 27

Rozz Tox

Rock Island, IL
Apr 28

Trumpet Blossom Cafe

Iowa City, IA
Apr 29

The Bottleneck

Lawrence, KS
Apr 30

The HQ

Denver, CO
May 01

Urban Lounge

Salt Lake City, UT
May 03

The Vera Project

Seattle, WA
May 04

Holocene

Portland, OR
May 05

The Chapel

San Francisco, CA
May 07

Zebulon

Los Angeles (LA), CA
May 16

Underdogs'

Prague, Czech Republic
May 17

Vintage Club

Zagreb, Croatia
May 18

Dürer Kert

Budapest, Hungary
May 19

Klub RE

Krakow, Poland
May 20

Hydrozagadka

Warsaw, Poland
May 21

Drizzly Grizzly

Gdansk, Poland
May 22

Kuppelhalle, Silent Green

Berlin, Germany
May 23

UT Connewitz

Leipzig, Germany
May 24

Tanzhaus West

Frankfurt, Germany
May 25

Frau Korte

Erfurt, Germany
May 26

Kantine

Nuremberg, Germany
May 27

SALÒ

Bad Freienwalde, Germany
May 28

Nr. z. P. (Nummer zu Platz)

Bielefeld, Germany
May 30

Stapeltor

Duisburg, Germany
May 31

Botanique - Rotonde

Brussels, Belgium
Jun 01

La Bulle Café

Lille, France
Jun 02

Petit Bain

Paris, France
Jun 03

Strange Brew

Bristol, UK
Jun 04

Broadcast

Glasgow, UK
Jun 05

Sneaky Pete's

Edinburgh, UK

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