Bill Taft is an American

United States

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 rock

Rock music

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 musician

Musician

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 living in Atlanta, Georgia

Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788...

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Biography

In 1982, Taft moved from Ohio

Ohio

Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...

 to Atlanta to attend Emory University

Emory University

Emory University is a private research university in metropolitan Atlanta, located in the Druid Hills section of unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The university was founded as Emory College in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia by a small group of Methodists and was named in honor of...

. His first band of note was The Chowder Shouters, whose instruments included garbage cans. They released a six-song vinyl record.
After the demise of the Chowder Shouters, Taft joined The Opal Foxx Quartet, a group consisting of anywhere from 2 to 14 members at a time. They broke up in 1992 after the deaths of several members. They released a posthumous CD, which was largely produced by Michael Stipe

Michael Stipe

John Michael Stipe is an American singer and lyricist. He was the lead vocalist of the alternative rock band R.E.M.Stipe is noted and occasionally parodied for the "mumbling" style of his early career as well as his social and political activism. He was in charge of R.E.M.'s visual image; often...

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Around 1988, Taft started An Evening with the Garbageman, a spoken-word open-mic variety show, which he hosted and that eventually morphed into The Jody Grind. The Jody Grind released two CDs before disbanding following the deaths of half their members. Drummer Robert Clayton and bassist Robert Hayes died in a horrific traffic accident which also claimed the life of performer Deacon Lunchbox

Deacon Lunchbox

Deacon Lunchbox was the stage name of Atlanta performance artist and poet Timothy Tyson Ruttenber . Ruttenber, a construction worker by day, was popular in the Atlanta area for his flamboyant spoken-word performances. He often punctuated each line of his poems by banging an old torpedo casing or...

. The accident occurred as the band was returning to Atlanta after performing in Montgomery, AL.

After The Jody Grind broke up in 1992, Taft formed Kick Me, with Allen Page (of Opal Foxx Quartet) and Kelly Hogan

Kelly Hogan

Kelly Hogan is an American singer-songwriter born in Atlanta, Georgia.In the 1990s, Hogan sang with The Jody Grind , singing on their full-lengths One Man's Trash Is Another Man's Treasure and Lefty's Deceiver . The group disbanded after two of its members were killed in a car crash...

 (of The Jody Grind). They recorded several songs that eventually came out on a compilation album called Hidden Tracks, released by Daemon Records

Daemon Records

Daemon Records is an Atlanta, Georgia based, not-for-profit independent record label started by musician Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls. The label is run mostly by the musicians who record on it....

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Kick Me broke up after Allen Page died of a drug overdose.
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Smoke recorded two full-length CDs and several compilation tracks, playing until 1999 when lead singer Benjamin

Benjamin Smoke

Benjamin Smoke was a musician who fronted the Atlanta, Georgia band Smoke. He was noted for being a radical, gay rock 'n' roll performer. He died on January 29, 1999 due to liver failure caused by Hepatitis C at age 39. He performed his final concert in Atlanta, Georgia on New Year's Eve, 1998...

 died of hepatitis C.
A year after Benjamin died, Taft started Hubcap City

Hubcap City

Hubcap City is a band from Atlanta, Georgia that formed in 2000 after the end of Bill Taft and Will Fratesi's previous band, Smoke.- History :...

, which continues to this day. He has also started Another Evening with the Garbageman, an open-mic spoken word project similar to An Evening with the Garbageman.

Bands and Instruments

• Dr. Dixon and the Operators: guitar
• The Chowder Shouters: guitar and vocals
• Opal Foxx Quartet: guitar
• The Jody Grind: guitar and vocals
• Kick Me: guitar, vocals
• Smoke
  Smoke (band)
  Smoke was a band from the Cabbagetown neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia that dissolved in 1999 with the death of writer/singer Benjamin. Benjamin is the subject of Peter Sillen and Jem Cohen's documentary Benjamin Smoke .- History :...
  
  : vocals, cornet, banjo
• Hubcap City
  Hubcap City
  Hubcap City is a band from Atlanta, Georgia that formed in 2000 after the end of Bill Taft and Will Fratesi's previous band, Smoke.- History :...
  
  : vocals, guitar, cornet, banjo

The Chowder Shouters

• Chowder Shouters vinyl (1986)

1. Weather Report
2. Little Wing
3. Amazing Grace
   Amazing Grace
   "Amazing Grace" is a Christian hymn with words written by the English poet and clergyman John Newton , published in 1779. With a message that forgiveness and redemption are possible regardless of the sins people commit and that the soul can be delivered from despair through the mercy of God,...
   
   
4. Instrumental
5. The Arkansas Side
6. The Old Tar River

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Opal Foxx Quartet

• The Love That Won't Shut Up CD (1994, LongPlay Records)

1. Clean White Bed
2. Frail Body
3. Blue Exception
4. Sleep
5. Tub of Love Rumble
6. Nightingale
7. MTM
8. Christmas
9. Dirt
10. I Don't Know How to Love Him
    I Don't Know How to Love Him
    "I Don't Know How to Love Him" is a song from the 1970 rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice , a torch ballad sung by the character of Mary Magdalene who in Jesus Christ Superstar is presented as bearing an unrequited love for the title character...
    
    /Strange Fruit
    Strange Fruit
    "Strange Fruit" is a song performed most famously by Billie Holiday, who released her first recording of it in 1939, the year she first sang it. Written by the teacher Abel Meeropol as a poem, it exposed American racism, particularly the lynching of African Americans. Such lynchings had occurred...
    
    
11. Aliens

Track 1 written by Tracy Snow.
Track 2 written by Grady Cousins.
Track 4 written by Debbey Richardson.
Track 5 is Deacon Lunchbox

Deacon Lunchbox

Deacon Lunchbox was the stage name of Atlanta performance artist and poet Timothy Tyson Ruttenber . Ruttenber, a construction worker by day, was popular in the Atlanta area for his flamboyant spoken-word performances. He often punctuated each line of his poems by banging an old torpedo casing or...

 sleeping in the back of a truck.
Track 7 is The Mary Tyler Moore Show

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

The Mary Tyler Moore Show is an American television sitcom created by James L. Brooks and Allan Burns that aired on CBS from 1970 to 1977...

 Theme Song, "Love is All Around."
Track 10 is a medley of the song from Jesus Christ Superstar

Jesus Christ Superstar

Jesus Christ Superstar is a rock opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber, with lyrics by Tim Rice. The musical started off as a rock opera concept recording before its first staging on Broadway in 1971...

 and the Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing...

 song.
Track 11 written and performed by Deacon Lunchbox

Deacon Lunchbox

Deacon Lunchbox was the stage name of Atlanta performance artist and poet Timothy Tyson Ruttenber . Ruttenber, a construction worker by day, was popular in the Atlanta area for his flamboyant spoken-word performances. He often punctuated each line of his poems by banging an old torpedo casing or...

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The Jody Grind

• One Man's Trash is Another Man's Treasure CD (1991, DB Records
  DB Records
  DB Records is a record label owned by Danny Beard. The label's headquarters reside in the Wax N Facts record store in the Atlanta, Georgia neighborhood of Little Five Points.-History:In 1978, Danny Beard helped some friends in an Athens, Georgia rock band...
  
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1. Peter Gunn
   Peter Gunn
   Peter Gunn is an American private eye television series which aired on the NBC and later ABC television networks from 1958 to 1961. The show's creator was Blake Edwards...
   
   
2. One Man's Trash (Is Another Man's Treasure)
3. Eight-Ball
4. Mood Indigo
   Mood Indigo
   "Mood Indigo" is a jazz composition and song, with music by Duke Ellington and Barney Bigard with lyrics by Irving Mills.-Disputed authorship:In a 1987 interview, Mitchell Parish claimed to have written the lyrics:...
   
   
5. Death of Zorba
6. Blue and Far
7. Governor of Hong Kong
8. Just Because You Wear Big Shoes
9. It Ain't Necessarily So
   It Ain't Necessarily So
   "It Ain't Necessarily So" is a popular song with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin. The song comes from the Gershwins' opera Porgy and Bess where it is sung by the character Sportin' Life, a drug dealer, who expresses his doubt about several statements in the Bible.The role of...
   
   
10. Love, Love Alone
11. Wishin' and Hopin'
    Wishin' and Hopin'
    "Wishin' and Hopin" is a song written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach which was a Top Ten hit for Dusty Springfield in 1964.The song was first recorded by Dionne Warwick and was the B-side of Warwick's single "This Empty Place" in the spring of 1963; the track was also featured on Warwick's debut...
    
    
12. My Darlin'
13. Florida Maine
14. I'm a Fool to Want You

• Lefty's Deceiver CD (1992, Ichiban
  Ichiban Records
  Ichiban Records was a hip hop record label founded in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1985. Wrap Records and Nastymix Records were some of its subsidiary labels. Urgent! Records was distributed by Ichiban. Most of its discography is now out of print. Besides hip hop groups, Ichiban also released albums by...
  
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1. 3rd Of July
2. Lounge Axe
3. Funnel Of Love
4. Friday
5. Hands Of June
6. Can't You See
7. Promise Of Sleep
8. Circle
9. Driving At Night
10. Superhero
11. Rickie
12. Carry You
13. Blues For The Living

Smoke

• Dirt 7" (1993, Colossal Records)

1. Dirt
2. Pretend
   • Heaven on a Popsicle Stick CD (1994, LongPlay Records)
3. Hole
4. Awake
5. Freak (Winn's Song)
6. The Trip
7. Hank Aaron (lyrics by Dana Kletter)
8. Luke's Feet
9. Beeper Will
10. The Pond
11. I Do
12. Ballet
13. Guilt
14. Abigail
15. Curtains
    • Another Reason To Fast CD (1995, LongPlay Records)
16. Trust
17. Friends
18. When It Rains
19. Clean White Bed
20. Shadow Box
21. Dream
22. Fatherland
23. Train Song
24. Debbey's Song
25. Chad
26. That Look
27. I Don't
28. Snake

Hubcap City

• EP 1 CD (2001, Self-released)

1. Day Job
2. My Punk Ass
3. Paul's Boot
4. My Wasted Friends
5. Weegee
   • Live: 2001-2002 CD (2002, H.I.G. Records 004)
6. Action!
7. Breakfast at Taxi Driver's
8. The Man Who Never Forgets
9. Hubcap City
10. Paul's Boot
11. Reservoir
12. Some Things
13. Stomp/Atomic Fireball
14. Faulkner's Typewriter
15. Debby
16. Vital Pimp Flash
17. Ready to Serve
18. Rahab
19. Jack Henry
20. The Top of the Hill
21. Sandbox
22. Beautiful and Fucked Up

Tracks 1-8 recorded at WREK radio on 11/13/01.

Tracks 9 and 12 recorded outside at Railroad Earth Studios 5/19/01.

Track 10 recorded at Eyedrum

Eyedrum

Eyedrum is a non-profit art space and venue in Atlanta, Georgia focused on contemporary art and experimental music ranging from contemporary chamber music, sound sculpture to drone noise music, and art rock. Up until Jan. 1, 2011, they were located in the Old Fourth Ward district, and had three art...

 3/10/01.

Track 11 recorded 12/30/01 at The Earl.

Tracks 13-17 recorded 8/02/02 at Earthshaking Music.

• EP 2 CD (2002, self-released)

1. Reservoir
2. Breakfast at Taxi Driver's
3. Action
4. Atomic Fireball
5. Hubcap City

• EP 3 CD (2004, self-released)

1. Jack Henry
2. Kiss Me, Arturo
3. Left Eye Went the Wrong Way
4. Sandbox
5. Cat Hair on Rockabilly Dress
6. Slug Party
7. Door

• More Songs For Dead Children CD (2004, self-released)

1. Will's 4-Track
2. Damaged
3. Fried
4. Hold On
5. Slough of Despond
6. Court
7. Dumped
8. Sassy Magazine Record Review #2: Dear Madonna
9. One-Eyed Rapists Attack
10. Unfinished Film Festival Song
11. Beautiful and Fucked Up

• Super Local 13 CD (2005, self-released)

1. Staircase
2. Hurrah Hurrah
3. U Don't Know Me Stomp
4. Message Received 2:34 AM Thursday
5. Guest of Honor
6. Five Slugs More Party Minutes
7. 7 Zebra Heads 2 Plastic Skulls
8. Yippie Yeah Yeah
9. Message Received 2:51 AM Thursday
10. Preacher
11. Blackout
12. Ham on Rye
13. Snarl Baby Snarl

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Hubcap City (from Belgium)

• Deerhunter/Hubcap City Split
  Deerhunter/Hubcap City Split
  Deerhunter/Hubcap City Split was a 7" vinyl, which featured music from Deerhunter and Hubcap City. It was released in 2006 on Rob's House Records. 300 were pressed on black vinyl, all of which sold out. In 2008, the 7" was repressed, however only the Deerhunter song appears on the repress...
  
  7" (2006, Rob's House Records)

1. Hubcap City - Mad House
2. Deerhunter - Grayscale

• Five More Minutes b/w Sally 7" (2006, Ponce de Leon Records)

1. Five More Minutes
2. Sally

• Superlocalhellfreakride CD (2007, Xeric 112)

1. Get Rid of Now
2. Unexpected Guest
3. Ring Around the Rosie
4. Wind Blowing on a Sick Man
5. Deer Hunting
6. Sticks in the Graveyard
7. Valley of Bones
8. No Return
9. When the President Sez
10. Bottle of Rum
11. He Brings the Hatchet in the Evening
12. Rahab 2:39
13. Boxcar Gamelan
14. Guy on Street
15. Hippest Trick
16. More Guy on Street
17. Arabella Sabotage
18. The Anti-Christ is Alive...

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with Kelly Hogan

• The Mother of all Flagpole Christmas Albums CD (1992, Flagpole)

1. Introduction - Deacon Lunchbox
2. Santa's Hard - Follow for Now
3. Thomas Tinsel's Holiday - Kevn Kinney
4. Santa vs Magneto - Bliss
5. Santa Baby - Michelle Malone
6. Santa Claus - The Woggles
7. Jingle Bells - Flat Duo Jets
8. Learn to Love Again - Dreams So Real
9. Papa's Home - Widespread Panic
10. Here Comes Christmas - Daisy
11. You're a Mean One Mr. Grinch - Labrea Stompers
12. Santa Claus, Go Straight to the Ghetto - Seersucker
13. Snowflakes Are Falling - Hear it Love it Dance it
14. Christmas in August - BloodKin
15. Just Think About Christmas (And Sing What You Want) - Five Eight
16. O Magnum Mysterium - Kelly Hogan and Bill Taft
17. No Vacancy - Marlee MacLeod
18. On Christmas Day - Opal Foxx Quartet
19. Candles and Miracles - Hetch Hetchy
20. This Holiday Season - Porn Orchard
21. Christmas With the Devil - Allgood
22. White Christmas - Vic Chesnutt

Cake

• Low Life 17 LP (1993, RRRecords
  RRRecords
  RRRecords is a used and new record shop. RRRecords is distinguished as being the first American record label to specifically publish underground noise music in the early 1980s, and published the first American vinyl by Merzbow, Masonna, The Hanatarash, Violent Onsen Geisha, and many more artists...
  
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Side a:

1. Tinnitus - Seven Minutes or Less
2. Cake (Tracy Snow) - Blue Moles
3. Cake (Tracy Snow) - I Want to Sleep
4. Freedom Puff - Visiting with the White Rock Girl
5. Freedom Puff - 2 Dixie Cups and a String

Side b:

1. Murray Reams & Paul Hoskin - The Dispossessed
2. Murray Reams & Paul Hoskin - Submission
3. I See the Moon - Somnambulist Waltz
4. I See the Moon - Snellville
5. Dairy Queen Empire
   DQE (band)
   DQE, or Dairy Queen Empire, is a band formed by singer/songwriter Grace Braun, New York photographer Chris Verene and former Fat Day drummer Zak Sitter in 1986 in Atlanta. The band later evolved into one built around the core of Grace Braun and her husband/drummer, music writer Dugan Trodglen...
   
    - The World
6. Dairy Queen Empire
   DQE (band)
   DQE, or Dairy Queen Empire, is a band formed by singer/songwriter Grace Braun, New York photographer Chris Verene and former Fat Day drummer Zak Sitter in 1986 in Atlanta. The band later evolved into one built around the core of Grace Braun and her husband/drummer, music writer Dugan Trodglen...
   
    - Burning

NOTE: Bill played banjo for Cake on this record.

Solo

• The Soft-Spoken Beatnik Cousin of the Flagpole Christmas Albums cassette (1994, LongPlay Records)

Side 1

1. Gayle Danley - Just Like the Girl on Channel 17
2. Chris Chandler - Just Say No But Spell it with a K
3. Hillary Meister - Latkes at Chanukkah in America
4. Gwen O Looney - Meditations for Women who Do Too Much
5. Randy Blazak - Jump Around Santa
6. Charlie Ginste - Flockogank
7. Mudcat - Rudoplh's Party
8. Copacetic Chris - A Holiday Poem
9. David Oats - Shopping Prayer
10. David Greenberger - Let Women Chase Me
11. Blondie - The 12 Days of Christmas
12. Murray Attaway - Up on the Housetop
13. Sheila Doyle - Christmas Island

Side 2

1. Deadbeat Burt - Rudolph the Red Eyed Reindeer
2. Douglas A. Martin
   Douglas A. Martin
   Douglas A. Martin is a poet, a novelist and a short story writer.-Biography:He was raised in Warner Robins, Georgia and moved to New York City in 1998...
   
    - Undercover Empty Moon Gazing
3. A.E. Stallings - A Winter Nursery Rhyme
4. Vic Varney - True North
5. Ripley - I Drank with the Devil
6. R. Tod Smith - Christmas at Charter
7. David Greenberger - Quincy Sore Throat
8. Julie Thrasher - Cowboy Dreams
9. Richard Fausset w/Neutral Platypus Uncollective - Under the Breath of The Salvation Army Santa
10. Scott Royal - Joke
11. Emory Laughing Wolf - Merry Grimace
12. Todd Mortensen - Autumn's Prayer, Winter's Touch
13. Bear Step and Joe Brennan - Bear and Joe's Wish List
14. Bill Taft - Happy Birthday Baby Jesus

Smoke

• ? CD (1992)

1. Smoke - Dog

The lineup on this song was Benjamin, Bill Taft, Brian Halloran, and Todd Butler. This CD was a benefit compilation.

• Radio Oddyssey Volume 2: The Georgia Music Show CD (1997 Altered Records/Ichiban)

1. The Rock*A*Teens - Black Ice
2. The Continentals - Please, Please
3. Pineal Ventana - Dark Cloud
4. DQE
   DQE (band)
   DQE, or Dairy Queen Empire, is a band formed by singer/songwriter Grace Braun, New York photographer Chris Verene and former Fat Day drummer Zak Sitter in 1986 in Atlanta. The band later evolved into one built around the core of Grace Braun and her husband/drummer, music writer Dugan Trodglen...
   
    - Mermaid And The Sailor
5. #1 Family Mover - Hey Soul
6. Bob - Ants
7. Velvet Overkill Five - Pillow Talk
8. The Goodies - Live On WRAS-FM
9. Tweezer - Sucking Midgets
10. Marcy - Driver
11. Heinous Bienfang - Stay Behind The Cones
12. Babyfat - Redd Lobster
13. Frontstreet - Scandinavian Pamphlet (Sex Book)
14. 17 Years - Doing Wrong
15. Smoke - Hamlet
16. Benjamin - Big Daddy Story and Other Saucy Tales

• Rudy's Rockin' Kiddie Caravan CD (1997 Bloodshot Records
  Bloodshot Records
  Bloodshot Records is an independent record label based in Chicago, Illinois which specializes in roots-inflected indie rock, punk blues, and a Chicago brand of outlaw country...
  
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1. Susie Honeyman - Bus
2. Schoolly D
   Schoolly D
   Jesse B. Weaver Jr. , better known by the stage name Schoolly D, is an American rapper from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.- Career :...
   
    - This Old Man
3. Smoke - Old Joe Clark
4. Calexico - The Man on the Flying Trapeze
5. The Waco Brothers - Them Bones
6. Giant Sand
   Giant Sand
   Giant Sand is an American rock band, based in Tucson, Arizona, USA. The name is shortened from the original Giant Sandworms, a reference to the creatures in the Dune books. Overseen by singer-songwriter Howe Gelb, its membership has shifted over the years—at times with each album...
   
    - Blow the Man Down
7. Anne Richmond Boston - What Can the Matter Be?
8. D.L. Menard & the Louisiana Aces - J'ai Passe Devant Ta Porte?
9. Zydeco Elvis - The ABC Song
10. Sally Timms
    Sally Timms
    Sally Timms is an English singer and songwriter. Timms is best known for her long involvement with the Mekons whom she joined in 1985....
    
     - Hush Little Baby
11. New Orleans Klezmer All Stars - Nokas for the Kinder
12. The Chiselers - Playmate
13. The Rock*A*Teens - She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain
14. Moonshine Willy - Skip to My Lou
15. Kelly Hogan
    Kelly Hogan
    Kelly Hogan is an American singer-songwriter born in Atlanta, Georgia.In the 1990s, Hogan sang with The Jody Grind , singing on their full-lengths One Man's Trash Is Another Man's Treasure and Lefty's Deceiver . The group disbanded after two of its members were killed in a car crash...
    
     - The Great Titanic
16. The Black Mama Dharma Band - A Frozen Road
17. Mekons - Oranges & Lemons
18. New Kingdom - John Henry
19. Rob Gal - Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
20. Blacktop Rockets - Froggy Went A-Courtin'
21. Vic Chesnutt
    Vic Chesnutt
    James Victor "Vic" Chesnutt was an American singer-songwriter from Athens, Georgia. His first album, Little, was released in 1990, but his breakthrough to commercial success didn't come until 1996 with the release of Sweet Relief II: Gravity of the Situation, a tribute album of mainstream artists...
    
     - Home on the Range
22. The Grifters - The Muffin Man

• Hidden Tracks CD (2000, Daemon Records
  Daemon Records
  Daemon Records is an Atlanta, Georgia based, not-for-profit independent record label started by musician Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls. The label is run mostly by the musicians who record on it....
  
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1. Kick Me - Arms
2. Smoke
   Smoke (band)
   Smoke was a band from the Cabbagetown neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia that dissolved in 1999 with the death of writer/singer Benjamin. Benjamin is the subject of Peter Sillen and Jem Cohen's documentary Benjamin Smoke .- History :...
   
    - Midnight
3. DQE
   DQE (band)
   DQE, or Dairy Queen Empire, is a band formed by singer/songwriter Grace Braun, New York photographer Chris Verene and former Fat Day drummer Zak Sitter in 1986 in Atlanta. The band later evolved into one built around the core of Grace Braun and her husband/drummer, music writer Dugan Trodglen...
   
    - Ivytwine
4. Parlour - The Cold Snap
5. Kick Me - Black Coat
6. Kick Me - Blue Midnight
7. Parlour - Baby Doll
8. Bill Taft & Neil Fried - Old West
9. Smoke
   Smoke (band)
   Smoke was a band from the Cabbagetown neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia that dissolved in 1999 with the death of writer/singer Benjamin. Benjamin is the subject of Peter Sillen and Jem Cohen's documentary Benjamin Smoke .- History :...
   
    - Pretend
10. Palookaville - Seventh Day
11. Long Flat Red - Eighty-Six Days
12. Railroad Earth - Keep Seeing That Soul
13. Kick Me - Lucky Nights
14. The Hollidays - Miles Away

Guest appearances

Indigo Girls

Indigo Girls

The Indigo Girls are an American folk rock music duo, consisting of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers. They met in elementary school and began performing together as high school students in Decatur, Georgia, part of the Atlanta metropolitan area...

 - Shaming of the Sun CD (1997, Daemon Records

Daemon Records

Daemon Records is an Atlanta, Georgia based, not-for-profit independent record label started by musician Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls. The label is run mostly by the musicians who record on it....

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12. Hey Kind Friend

Taft played cornet on this song, written about his friend Benjamin

Benjamin Smoke

Benjamin Smoke was a musician who fronted the Atlanta, Georgia band Smoke. He was noted for being a radical, gay rock 'n' roll performer. He died on January 29, 1999 due to liver failure caused by Hepatitis C at age 39. He performed his final concert in Atlanta, Georgia on New Year's Eve, 1998...

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The Rock*A*Teens - The Rock*A*Teens (January 23, 1996)

13. Arm in Arm in the Golden Twilight We Loitered On

Taft played cornet on this track.

Greg Connors

Greg Connors

Greg Connors is a contemporary singer-songwriter from New York. He is friends with singer/songwriter Joseph Arthur who produced and contributed backing vocals and other instrumentation on Greg's 2006 solo album Here, There and Anymore which was released on the Scared label.-Musical history:Greg...

 - Full Moon Flashlight CD (2009, Scared Records

Scared Records

Scared Records is an independent American record label founded in Atlanta in 1999, notable for re-releasing some "lost" Atlanta artists, especially from the punk and post punk era....

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4. Two Women and A Flood (Sweet Distraction)

9. September Baby, a cover of a song written by Joseph Arthur

Joseph Arthur

Joseph Arthur is an American singer-songwriter and artist from Akron, Ohio. Combining poetic lyrics with a layered sonic palette, Arthur has built his reputation over the years through critically acclaimed releases and constant touring; his unique solo live performances incorporate the use of a...

Taft played cornet on both these tracks.

See also

• Smoke
  Smoke (band)
  Smoke was a band from the Cabbagetown neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia that dissolved in 1999 with the death of writer/singer Benjamin. Benjamin is the subject of Peter Sillen and Jem Cohen's documentary Benjamin Smoke .- History :...
  
  
• Hubcap City
  Hubcap City
  Hubcap City is a band from Atlanta, Georgia that formed in 2000 after the end of Bill Taft and Will Fratesi's previous band, Smoke.- History :...
  
  
• Sweet Pea interview with Bill Taft