About this item

The story of Overcome By Happiness is one of great risk and greater payoff. Its the story of a disgruntled country singer struggling to define himself against prevailing musical trends. It's the story of a songwriter just finding his voice, an artist so desperate to express himself that he scrapped one band to form another, risking his record contract and arguably his career to put the sounds he heard in his head onto tape. Its the story of a musician embracing the sounds of his childhood: AM easy listening, sophisticated chamber pop, baroque lounge music, Bread, the Carpenters, Bacharach, Manilow. It? s the story of a poet driving through Massachusetts in a rusted-out Bonneville with a wooden bumper.

This time has come for this story to be told on vinyl.

TRACK LISTING

Black Vinyl Edition
Dimmest Star
Monkey Suit
Chicken Wire
Wait To Stop
All I Know
Shoes and Clothes
Wherein Obscurely
Ferris Wheel

Double Orange & White Vinyl 
Crestfallen
Overcome By Happiness
Sick Of You
Clear Spot
Dimmest Star
Monkey Suit
Chicken Wire
Wait To Stop
All I Know
Shoes And Clothes
Wherein Obscurely
Ferris Wheel
Jimmy Coma (1997 Sub Pop Single)
Monkey Suit (1997 Sub Pop Single)
Square World (1997 Summershine Single)
In Plain Sight (1997 Summershine Single)
Love My Way (Psychedelic Furs Cover / Clear Spot UK CD Single B-Side)
Sick Of You (Earliest Sketch Demo) 1:48
Cut You Free (Demo) 4:00
Overcome By Happiness (Earliest Sketch Demo)
Clear Spot (Earliest Sketch Demo)
Dimmest Star (Earliest Sketch Demo)
Song #2 (The Queen Of NYC) (earliest Demo)
Courage Up (Demo) 2:40
Let That Show (Demo) 4:00