Crutch Of Memory

06/15/2026

Yo PPL- This is an Appleton Drawing Club event. What does that mean? Well, Richard Edge is comin to town for a live performance / drawing session fusion show.

ADC has had many models (and some birds) as subjects before, but never something like this.

Any skill level is welcome to attend and those who'd like to see Richard play but don't wanna draw... Well that's cool too!! Their new album VESPERS just dropped on the Crutch Of Memory label and while you can order it direct through the label, they'll have copies at the show.

There'll be a short posed portrait sitting halfway through the show as a traditional portrait opportunity for those drawing.

It's at our fave art-forward compound in town Photo Opp - Appleton at 7pm and admission is 15 bucks. Register online with Appleton Drawing Club or pay cash at the door.

Gonna be chill!!!

06/05/2026

Richard Edge's debut LP, Vespers, plays like a stoned Southern ode to the primitive guitar.

A rushing flood of steel-stringed vibration; pristine; plummeting: higher music not made for a concert hall. Casual like the rubber burning off a pair of sh*tty sneakers on a cooked, overgrown summer sidewalk. It's Richard's vernacular: deeper than dumb- in fact, incredibly deep- a universe of buoyantly drifting particles settling in a creek bed after some buck-toothed kid in cutoff jeans made that poor-man's ocean skin their landing pad.

Call it folk; call it blues; call it punk. It's an outsider classical music with inherent twang. It's a window into Richard's world, and it's the latest installment in Crutch of Memory's irreverent catalog.

Richard Edge's VESPERS is out today on LP and digital formats. Get your copy at the link below

06/02/2026

Richard Edge's debut LP drops in three days on our lil label, Crutch Of Memory . It's called Vespers. If you dig the left-of-the-algorithm sounds of true outsiders who play from the heart and aren't kissing ass for likes, subscribes and craft-festival slots, this should land on your turntable. It's blemished American music that sparkles like dented chrome in a sea of shattered plastic.

Richard hails from Alabama but made the journey up to our humble studio on Meade Street to track this thing a couple years ago. It's COM #005 and it hits the streets on Friday. Jump into the link in comments to preorder your copy or nag your local record store to get some copies from us. And if you insist, stream at your will starting Friday morning.

Richard hits the road on the 2026 Vespers Summer Tour starting Saturday in Jackson, MS. If you live in the Southern or Midwestern United States, observe!! If you don't, get your LP now, we've got less than 150 copies in stock.

05/01/2026

The latest installment in 's irreverent catalog:

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Birmingham, Alabama's stoned Southern ode to the primitive guitar

LP drops June 5 /// preview/preorder now at the link in our bio!!

05/01/2026

the newest installment in 's irreverent catalog:

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Birmingham, Alabama's stoned Southern ode to the primitive guitar

LP drops June 5 /// preview and preorder it at the link in our bio!!

03/12/2026

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come cram in to the moodiest room in town!!

03/11/2026

is hitting the road later this month. Getcher copy of Partner!!

March 27 - Dubuque, IA @ The Lift
March 29 - Kansas City, MO @ house show
March 30 - St. Louis, MO @ Chill Dawg Cove
March 31 - Bloomington, IN @ Orbit Room
April 1 - Indianapolis, IN @ Dear Mom
April 2 - Fort Wayne, IN
April 3 - Chicago, IL @ Judson & Moore
April 10 - Milwaukee, WI @ Jazz Gallery

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03/03/2026

'Belly Laughing' live at Crutch Of Memory

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Caley Conway - vocal, guitar
Julia Blair - vibraphone, vocal
Amos Pitsch - drums, vocal, electric bass [overdubbed]
Frank Anderson - pedal steel guitar

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Filmed and recorded at Crutch Of Memory studios
Shot and directed by Finn Bjornerud
Audio engineering and mixing by Amos Pitsch
Audio mastering by Mystery Room Mastering
Still photography by Chloe Allyn

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'Belly Laughing' originally appears on Caley Conway's 2024 Crutch Of Memory LP, 'Partner'. Order your copy at www.crutchofmemory.com

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03/03/2026

LIVE @ CRUTCH OF MEMORY // Belly Laughing (ft. Caley Conway)

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: vocal, guitar
: vibraphone, vocal
: drums, vocal, electric bass [overdubbed]
: pedal steel guitar

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'Belly Laughing' originally appears on Caley Conway's 2024 LP, 'Partner'. Get your copy now!! (Take a lil visit to our bio)

03/02/2026

's 16 song opus of gleeful cynicism, "I CAN'T EAT" is bulging with such excessive earwormism that it could be difficult to imagine outtakes living among the intakes.

Your imagination isn't fooling you-

The physical cassette version has SIX additional tracks that don't live on the internet ANYWHERE. And they're all killer, no filler:

- Erase My Mind
- I Will Try (Not To Die)
- What's On Your Chest
- Get Your Hands Off My Friend
- I Wonder Why I Always Wonder Why
- I Feel It All Over

We've got a small box-worth of these tape sets still living on our shelves, get your copy before *P**F* they're gone!!

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