A live, one-microphone acoustic recording of Eric Bachman of Crooked Fingers featuring Emma Pollock of The Delgados.

Eric Bachman took his music in a different direction forming Crooked Fingers in 2000. Instead of the angular, rambunctious rock of his former band, Archers of Loaf, he's been creating melancholic, sincere and somewhat less rambunctious songs.

Touring with celebrated Scottish indie-rockers, The Delgados in the Autumn of 2004, Eric played solo shows billed as Crooked Fingers and invited Emma from The Delgados as well as their cellist, Alan Barr to accompany him in making some incredibly memorable moments for anyone lucky enough to see (and hear) them touring through North America.

Recorded with one microphone onto a MiniDisc player in the parish room of the First Unitarian Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, these two songs represent the necessary documentation of both the tour and these incredible renditions of Eric's songs.

"Sleep All Summer" features Eric Bachmann and Emma Pollock singing, Eric playing acoustic guitar and Alan Barr playing cello. Lara Meyerratken, Eric's vocal partner on the new Crooked Fingers album also sings back-up vocals in this version. The Australian singer, keyboardist and songwriter has also collaborated with Luna, Nada Surf, Luscious Jackson and Ben Lee. The B-side, "You Must Build A Fire" is a heart-felt duet featuring Eric and Alan Barr's cello.

The recording itself is slightly distorted in places, but all involved unanimously agreed, at the time of the recording, that it's "pretty cool like that" and that "you can't expect too much from that microphone and a MiniDisc." We hope you can agree.