Winner of 3 Canadian Folk Music Awards International Songwriting Contest winner 13 tracks, featuring Jaron Freeman-Fox & The Opposite of Everything, joined by some very special guests we've met through our musical misadventures: Kevin Breit, Christine Duncan, David Travers-Smith, Teresa Doyle, Rykka, Frank Evans, and Taylor Ashton "Extraordanary album"- TORONTO STAR "..like a fiddling Frank Zappa or Sun Ra and his Arkestra, changing pace and styles on a dime but always with consummate musicality" - PENGUIN EGGS 'This is a suite of tunes where great technique, virtuosic playing, and a sense of excitement and unexpectedness abound. There's the idea that you don't know where the tune will go next, and I love that feeling of surprise in music." - 9 out of 10 - Shapenote Music "Jaron Freeman-Fox calls his band the Opposite of Everything. With a name like that, you might expect his music to be pretty adventurous - which it most certainly is. His new album begins with a remixed sample from a horse auction that melds into Indian vocal percussion. Before the album is finished, you'll hear growling that would make Tom Waits proud, a version of the Doors' "People Are Strange" that makes Jim Morrison sound boring and even some throat singing. Freeman-Fox's musical exploration has literally taken him all over the world and he finds inspiration everywhere he goes."- Reuben Maan - CBC Music The Opposite of Everything: Jaron Freeman-Fox - violin, lead vocal, banjo (track 6), guitar (track 4) Charles James - basses, moog, vocals Dan Stadnicki - drums, percussion, vocals John Williams - clarinet, harmonica, vocals Johnny Spence - piano, keyboards, accordion, vocals Edwin Sheard - saxophone, vocals Honorary Opposites: Kevin Breit - guitar (tracks 1, 3, 8, 9, 11, 12) Frank Evans - banjo (tracks 3, 7, 8) Matt Maclean - trumpet (tracks 2, 4, 5) David Travers-Smith - trumpet, peck horn (tracks 6, 13) David Atkinson - organ (track 9) Taylor Ashton - banjo (track 6) vocals (track 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13) Christine Duncan - vocals (tracks 3, 11) Rykka - vocals (tracks 2, 12, 13) Teresa Doyle - vocals (tracks 2, 5) Jocelyn Barth - vocals (track 5) Rabid Ribbits (track 8): Shelder Jane Footz, Lea Kirstein, Reenie Pekovic, Raphael Roter, Simon Meloche, Garcia Franks.
1) Auctioneering Everything
2) Pyrite Pirate
3) Dogwood
4) The New Ruckus
5) Clarity
6) Flabbergasp
7) Burnin' Sun
8) The Rabid Rabbi
9) Back to the Boonies
10) Stray Camino
11) People Are Strange
12) The Tip of Your Lungs
13) Rainwood
14) Rabid Rabbits