Awful Purdies debut album featuring the original songs"Lila, what haven't you done", "Mechanical Ditch Digger","Settle Down Maddy(lu)", "Mountain Man", "Lament to Apathy" and "Homesick Birds". Covers include "Turtle Blues", "When I grow up", "Cluck Old Hen" and "Just Says She's a Rhymer". A decidedly more bluegrass influenced release than their next album, this album was recorded in the vault at the Velvet Pagoda (Iowa City), at The Rural Incident (Oxford, IA) with Tucker Burnes and at Flatblack Studios with Luke Tweedy. Read review here.