Beulah "A Small Cattle Drive In A Snow Storm" 7" Elephant 6 Recording Co. (US)

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A1I ♥ John, She ♥'s PaulA2Slo-Mo For The MassesB1Dig The Subatomic Holdout #1B2S.O.S. Bass – Cello – Clarinet – Trombone – Viola – Violin – , 

Beulah was an  band from , , often associated with .

Early Years: 1996-1998

The band was formed by Miles Kurosky and Bill Swan in  in 1996, while the pair were both working in the same office mail room. The pair discovered that they shared similar musical tastes and, disregarding some mutual dislike, decided to form a band. This early incarnation of Beulah recorded a song every 6 weeks for 16 months, on their 4-track recorder. The band received attention from  frontman and  member , who expressed interest on releasing what was to be their first single, , on Elephant 6 records. Their first album, , was released in the same year, also on Elephant 6 and mastered by Schneider. The record soon sold out. This association with the collective has continued throughout their career, despite the fact that they did not release anything more on the label - they are listed as being part of the close family of Elephant 6 bands, on the official Elephant 6 website, and they have toured with other collective members, such as , ,  and . In order to tour in support of the album, Steve La Follette, Steve St. Cin, and Pat Noel joined the band, with the band playing their first shows in support of the Apples.

Middle Years: 1999-2002

Their second album, , followed two years later to critical acclaim. The sound of the band had shifted — as Kurosky put it, the band's production values had shifted "from lo-fi to mid-fi", and it incorporated a very wide range of instruments, utilising eighteen additional musicians —  and were heavily incorporated, along with more exotic instrumentation, the instruments totalling a number of several dozen. Also, at this time, the band added keyboardist Bill Evans to their line-up. , an ,  based label, also released two UK-only singles in 1999, namely Sunday Under Glass andScore From Augusta, with Emma Blowgun's Last Stand released the following year. These singles featured b-sides culled from Handsome Western States, which remained unreleased in the UK, and had fallen out of print in the , until 2000 further copies were made available by the band in 1999, with different artwork.Emma Blowgun's Last Stand was also released in  by Elastic Records, this time with two exclusive bonus tracks.

The band continued to tour extensively throughout 1999, taking a break in 2000. Steve St. Cin left the band after this extensive touring, to be replaced by , best known from his days in . In this time, Kurosky went to , staying with a friend for eight weeks, here writing the songs that would eventually turn into their third album. He then mailed demo tapes of the songs to each band member, who would in turn mail back their own versions of, and additions to, the songs. This process created interesting juxtapositions in the band's songwriting process, as Kurosky describes: "Bill might have heard it as a soul song and Pat might have heard it as a country song — and I might happen to like both parts, and use them both". Kurosky then turned these recordings into the basis of the band's new record, . During the recording process, however, Kurosky was diagnosed with , and took daily therapy sessions, which informed the lyrical mood of the record, which was often incredibly downbeat, very much at odds with the breezy, summery feel of the music. This also made the recording of the record difficult — Bill Swan's studio diary often contains excerpts such as, "Miles threatened to hit me over the head with a mic stand. This is going to be a long record". To add to these personal problems, Beulah also encountered other problems with the release of the record, primarily the buy-out of , which had previously signed Beulah after When Your Heartstrings Break was released, which included the purchase of all of the label's acts save Beulah and three others. In the end, the record was released on newly founded independent label  on September 11, 2001. The record again gained a great degree of critical acclaim, and the band continued to tour, despite having to cancel their European dates in the winter of that year. Shortly after the release of the record, Steve La Follette and Bill Evans left the band, to be replaced by Eli Crews and Pat Abernathy.

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