We’d hoped to have this for you yesterday, but we’ll serve no wine before its time! You can pre-order Jeremy Casella’s Recovery TODAY.

Jeremy and the great folks at Portland Studios have a video about the making of Recovery up on the new JeremyCasella.com. You can pre-order the CD, and after you finish the pre-order, you get a digital download of the album … right away.

I’ve had this album since Thursday night, and it’s all I want to listen to right now. There are just so many facets of this finely-crafted record that I can’t begin to describe them all to you. Andy Osenga and Matthew Smith have both raved about this to me, and when I talked to Derek a couple weeks ago about it, he said, “I haven’t heard it, but everyone I know who has just won’t shut up about it.” For good reason.

The full CD launches 22 May 2007. More details in Jeremy’s post.

Today’s the release day for The Ringing Bell, Derek’s new record. We’ve focused most of our new for that on [derekwebb.net], but we hope you’ll forgive us for that. That said, we do have a sweet page up full of info on The Ringing Bell over there that we think you’ll like. It includes an interview I did with Derek back in February about the album.

If you didn’t pre-order the record on TheRingingBell.com, you missed out on getting signed copies of the graphic novel that goes along with the disc, but Derek will have them at shows as well. There’s a few dates left of the full-band tour he has with Sandra and Andy O left, and we’ve got some recordings of those shows already available on IndieRiver.net, with more coming.