This is the debut EP from Lazy Acres!
Recorded during the summer/fall of 2018
All song written by Wes Jones/Jeff Spradlin

Artwork by Sarah Martin

My story: Around May of 2018 I started jamming with some guys in Sedro Woolley. This was quiet a far drive from my home at the time, in Edmonds. I would drive sometimes up to 2.5 hours just to get to practice. Our practices usually lasted between 45 mins and 1.5 hours. Something Strange was starting to fade away, even though we all resided in the same house, so I started exploring my options. I kept up with taking the long trek up north and eventually started investing some of my time into the guys from The Woodland Giants, in hopes to start a new project. (Toast the band)
So at this point I have Something Strange (that is soon to be nonexistent) Foxy Apollo, “The Woodland Giants” and the guys up north I’m jamming with. Lots to keep up with, especially when there’s about 75 miles between everything.
Eventually we named ourselves Lazy Acres. We got the idea from the sign right outside where we practiced that read: “Lazy Acres 55+ Mobile Home Park”
And all was good, we started playing shows. Our first show, opening for Whiskey Fever. Later, Birdstock. Then since I’ve been playing at the Skagit County Fair for the past 5(?) years, I got Lazy Acres a slot on the main stage.
In June, I had moved out of the Something Strange house in Edmonds and was staying in Tukwilla. During this time is when we started recording our EP. So I was driving to Sedro Woolley, from Tukwila, for sometimes only an hour practice, or a few hour recording session.
As we started to finish the work on the EP, I knew that things as a whole weren’t anywhere close to being finished. So I tried to start drawing logos and album cover ideas, eventually I gave up and commissioned Sarah Martin. She gave us a bunch of really great options to chose from. I have all of the originals, but it’s so sad that they used one of the pictures I sent them as the album cover, it was such bad quality (because I sent it to them from my phone) that they had to put it in back and white. The EP would look so much better with the original artwork.
Anyway, at this time I’m moved to Bellingham and am attending practices sometimes more than twice a week, taking charge and leading them.
The next biggest thing we did was when Brandon decided to put together the show at the Lincoln Theatre, which only happened because of Brandon - you would have thought, with so many people involved with the show, it wouldn’t have all been one persons doing- but it was.
The night after that, we played a sold out show at the Conway Muse, along side Kickin’ Names and Whiskey Fever. The venue kinda screwed the show up, but we played good and everybody enjoyed it. The next day, the guitarist came into my work and paid me my cut from the show. Two hours later, I was blindsided with a text message from the band leader. Explaining how, as a band, they think I’ve been stretched myself thin between everything with Toast and Lazy Acres. Like Toast was going to suddenly get big and Lazy Acres was going to get too big for me to keep up with. They wanted to cut it off now, before anybody else got too invested.
It had nothing to with me personally, or my musical abilities. I’m the best drummer they’ve ever work with, I hope we can all still be friends and play shows together, blah blah, all that jazz when you break up with somebody.
Yet never responded to my message back or has said a word to me since.

They broke up with me over text then ghosted me. Great people.

Anyway, here’s the EP

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