I’ve been wanting to “discontinue” our first two CDs, Bawdy Parts and Barley Legal, for a few years now. My reasons are many, but primarily, that band doesn’t exist any more. The sound was different, the talent pool was different, the type of music performed has changed and evolved.

Some have made the argument that those discs are a snapshot of what the band used to be, and that’s undeniably true. Although our discography is a chronicle of the band’s history,  most of those who may potentially buy our CDs don’t see them that way.

Take this very likely scenario: say a member of our audience decides not to purchase our CD while enjoying our show at Rogues’ Reefe. As he gets home, he regrets his decision and decides to look us up on line and buy a disc from CDBaby.

Now, he doesn’t know the titles to any of the songs. He probably only remember a few snippets of lyrics or melody. Let’s say he buys Bawdy Parts. Firstly, he’s not going to hear any of the songs he heard at the show. Secondly, the band he’s hearing hasn’t sounded like that in a decade.

Is he going to be happy with his purchase? Maybe, maybe not. It’s certainly not what he’s expecting.

The plan at this point is to re-record a handful of songs with every new CD, and we’ll probably also have them available when we start selling our complete collection on USB drive.

But the final case of The First Two Albums and the small handuls of original run Bawdy Parts and Barley Legal will end up in storage until we come out with our 20th anniversary huge, giant boxed set.