Between the earnest records there was always a second current: songs about polar bears, Mister Rogers, caffeine, and leprechauns. They filled all-ages shows and fan-club mailings, and they're preserved here with the same care as everything else.
The set
More strays live in the deep shelves — radio ads, outtakes, and oddities in the trove.
Brushes with fame
Five years of conference booths, festivals, and Nashville coffee shops meant the band kept wandering into famous people. Some encounters left photographs. Others left only a theory about aliens.
Not pictured, but on the record: Edwin McCain caught a show and complimented the djembe; Governor Joe Manchin III came to the Armory to see them off to the Middle East; and Nicole Kidman looked at Micah once in a Starbucks, with documented consequences.