You're listening to Nakedly Examined Music, a podcast about songs and songwriters.

My name is Mark Linsonmeyer.

My guest for episode 227 is Django Haskins, a North Carolina singer, songwriter, and guitarist, who has since 2004

fronted a band called The Old Ceremony. You're right now hearing the song Beautiful from his first

solo album, Folding Stars, from way back in 1996. Today we're going to talk about Too Big to

fail from the old ceremony's new album, Earthbound.

Then look back to their 2009 album, Walk on Thin Air, to talk about the song The Disappear,

then look back to the second album by the Old Ceremony, Our One Mistake, 2006.

The song is called The Reservations.

We'll conclude by listening to another song from

the new album, Hangman's Party. For more information, please see The Old Ceremony.com. For more about

this podcast, please see Nakedly ExaminedMusic.com and support the effort at patreon.com

slash nakedly examined music.

So I've played a little bit of beautiful from your first solo album, 1996's Folding Stars.

We want to get pretty quickly to the new stuff.

Do you want to give us just a little picture of starting out then, getting to now at some

point, what, 2004?

When did the old ceremony become to existence?

The old ceremony started in 2004.

So, yeah, folding starts was my first professional album.

I had moved to New York City from, I had lived in China for a year before that.

And, you know, it was just kind of getting started, you know, trying to do it full time.

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