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Finals have been pretty busy but when I wake up on the morning of the 18th I will be free from school for over 3 weeks. I'm excited. Accordingly, I want to have a little fun with you all over the break. The plan is to record a cover song for every day of Christmas vacation and post it on our You Tube page. I already have some ideas of songs from some of you but I don't have near enough. That being said, what would you like to hear? I'm down for anything. You can email me at thesweaterfriends@hotmail.com, post on our facebook page, tweet, comment on here, or even text/call me. Hopefully Allyson and I can find some time to meet up and collaborate on this.

So... let me know.

Jake

My long time friend Nate offered to do the cover art for Dear Abbey and it has turned out awesome. I couldn't be happier with it. Thank you so much bro.

As far as the music itself, things are coming along great. I have heard rough mixes of everything and really like the direction it's going. There is one track that still needs... something. I dunno. We might have to stray a little from our traditional 2 guitars/2 vocals setup but we'll get it. A big reason we decided to do this EP was to test the waters before investing the time "The Ghost and The Guest" is going to require. Like everything, we are learning, or at least trying to. I dunno. I guess we'll just have to put it out there and see what happens. You have to go out on a limb to find the fruit, right?

Love ya.
Jake

Jake

Well, it's taken a few afternoons but... we have t-shirts!



Check them out on our online store here.







My wife Jess helped me finish up our first real batch of them yesterday and they look great (as you can tell from the photo). You can get one online through our Big Cartel site, at any of our performances or by simply asking Allyson or I.





We love you!


Jake

Whenever I read "The Orion" I think of "The Onion", but no we are not playing at a made up news agency, we are playing a really neat music festival the week before Sundance (film festival) in January. I've gotta say, I'm pretty stoked about it. Our EP will be out by then too!

If you'd like to learn more about "The Orion" you can go to http://orionmusicfestival.com/ or read a recent article about it here.

love- Jake