''Old Blood'' is an album by Mayday, released May 14, 2002. The album was recorded in May and November 2001 at

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. Mayday features the vocals and compositions of

Lullaby for the Working Class Lullaby for the Working Class was an indie folk rock band from Lincoln, Nebraska, active from the mid-to-late 1990s. Fronted by Omaha, Nebraska singer-songwriter Ted Stevens (of the bands Mayday and Cursive), the group also featured multi-instrume ...

frontman

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. Ted is joined by the remaining Lullaby members, including

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and A.J. Mogis, whose talents extend from behind the mixing console as players on the recording. The instrumentation of ''Old Blood'' is referential to the Lullaby staples of guitar, vibraphone, strings, and banjo, extending the formula with piano, organ, tympani, and loads of guest vocals. The resulting sound is both raw and ornate. Revisited themes of spring, rebirth, solidarity, florescence, and distress establish a unity of imagery amidst sporadic changes in song dynamic. The songs were selected from a long and arbitrary collection of demos that have been in the works for years. The name "Mayday" is significant in that Stevens and friends have held a small concert billed as Mayday each May 1 for the last six years. Stevens has spent the last couple of years playing in Cursive, as well as backing up Bright Eyes, Dave Dondero, Azure Ray,

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, and The Good Life. As Lullaby, Ted, Tiffany, Mike and A.J. released three albums on

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and a host of vinyl releases for

Saddle Creek Saddle Creek Records is an American record label based in Omaha, Nebraska. Started as a college class project on entrepreneurship, the label was founded by Mike Mogis and Justin Oberst in 1993 (as Lumberjack Records). Mogis soon turned over his ...

. For even more Mayday, scroll backwards at the beginning of the first track to reveal several more songs buried in the CD's

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. This album is the 44th release of

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Track listing

# "Cinquefoils" # "Come Home" # "Captain" # "Tone/Atone/Atonal" # "Lullaby For The Sleeping Elephant" # "I Know Moonlight" # "Confession" # "Pilot" # "Temple/Temporary/Extempore/Tempo"

External links

Saddle Creek Records
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