This is the cover of Jared Grabb's online-only released solo EP "Crude Songs" (a collection of protest song demos from May 2003). He was still living in Peoria at the time, but whenever he came up to visit I would make him sit down in front of my boom box, which could record exterior room noise, and play whatever new songs he'd been working on, which were mostly for a concept album "The Spaghetti West" -- a record that never saw the light of day. Instead, some of the songs went on to be re-recorded for Scouts Honor's first LP "Roots in Gasoline. The rest simply fell between the cracks, until now...
It was during this same period, and during one of the 'sessions,' that we were interrupted by the screams of a homeless woman on the sidewalk outside my window. The din continued for some time, and we decided to set the boombox up in the window facing the street and record her rantings. It went on for a good thirty-plus minutes, and some of this field recording made it onto Scouts Honor's first EP "A Spirited Conversation Between a Blind Man and a Mute."
