*Note: These records will begin shipping in early November

Who would have thought we’d be back here again, and Joe Jack’s protest album from 2020 would be so incredibly relevant again? Originally released to protest Trump and celebrate a Democratic victory in 2020, it’s time to dust off Joe’s Word Salad and bring it back into the limelight, because that big orange a-hole just won’t go away.

A lovesong written to the people who fight with us and a lambasting of those who attack us, Word Salad is as witty as it is cutting, featuring Joe’s trademark brand of humorous, intelligent, folk-pop earworms. This time around we’re doing a clear 10” lathe cut version of the record cut on our two lathes, a 1937 Presto 6DSP and a 1947 Rek-O-Kut Challenger. In addition to the 10”, you can score a 7” featuring Joe’s contribution to the Mütter Museum benefit comp released in 2020, The Evolution of Disease, as well as a live bootleg of Dean’s Dream I made when I saw Joe in 2021 recorded using a 1988 PXL-2000 toy camera, straight to cassette. Here’s a neat tidbit of information: Joe originally recorded Evolution of Disease to be ON the Word Salad album, so it’s from the same recording session.

Here’s information from the original listing:

Just in time for Thanksgiving, you can bring some Word Salad to the table. Joe Jack Talcum's latest release is an EP of love ballads & protest songs, which go hand in hand in this case.

Word Salad Track List:
1: Not Dumb
2: Bubbles
3: Puzzle Piece
4: Beautiful War
5: Say Their Names
6: COVID-19 SARS CoV-2

We initially were going to release this album cassette-only (Joe Jack loves tapes - this whole album was recorded straight to cassette!), but we thought, this is a new age, why punish folks who don't have tape decks? So there's also a digital option to purchase the entire EP as one sound file, ripped directly FROM a cassette! Includes a free download of Joe Jack's cover of Ogikubo Station's Take a Piece of All That's Good, found on the split we released with Strange Parts last year.

Keep loving, keep fighting,

Joe (of T&TT) & Joe Jack