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Tried To Do’s is the second full length album from Trippers & Askers - the songwriting and recording project of Jay Hammond. Drafts of this record started as early as 2019. The initial idea was a Parable of the Talents concept album to follow 2021's Parable of the Sower concept album Acorn and/or an album about Hammond's hometown of Jackson, TN. Many moves, much traveling and many losses later - the loss of his future child, the loss of his grandmother, the near loss of his father in law, and the hit of hurricane Helene in his adopted hometown of Asheville, NC - this record became a record about loss. It’s a record about ways of mourning, ways of "re-membering", both with the family in which Hammond was raised as a child and the family of which he has come to inhabit multiple roles as an adult. The album was recorded over a series of three sessions in Durham, NC and Brooklyn, NY, and features mainstays of the scenes in both of those cities including Andy Stack (Wye Oak, Lambchop, Helado Negro), Joe Westerlund (Bon Iver, Califone), Casey Toll (Nathan Bowles), Libby Rodenbough (Mipso, Fust), Chessa Rich, Joseph Decosimo, Stephanie Coleman (Nora Brown), Matt O'Connell, Matt Evans, Adrian Knight, Michael Hammond, and Greg Chudzic. The cover art was created by critically acclaimed songwriter Will Stratton.

Adelyn Strei is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist based in Brooklyn via Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Alone on stage with clarinet, voice and guitar, her live compositions demonstrate a fluid, melodically intuitive and improvisational arc. Adelyn credits her current approach—blending songs into a carefully woven bed of texture—to over a decade performing and arranging for friends’ projects before her solo debut in 2023.

Small Sur - Drawing as much from his rural South Dakota upbringing as he does from his domestic existence as a Baltimore english teacher, Bob Keal creates “bedroom country” filled with intimacy and shadows. Surrounded by sympathetic players, his delicate vocals and classical guitar playing reveal a sensitive musician growing in confidence and expertly applying his craft. With touchstones like Joni Mitchell and Daniel Lanois, as well as textural artists like Grouper and Mt. Eerie, Small Sur find that sweetly accessible place inhabited by Red House Painters and Bill Callahan.

Helmed by Washington, D.C.-based musician and multidisciplinary artist Raul Zahir De Leon, Canandaigua is rooted in traditions of folk storytelling and songwriting. De Leon explores various aspects of American mythmaking and identity, deconstructing classic elements, and weaves a sonic tapestry uniquely his own. His recent EP, Slight Return, has been described as "a country-tinged wobble through the most careworn spit ‘n’ sawdust joints in the American south, it presents the yearning vision of an artist whose relationship with his country has been knocked out of whack."