Roots & Crowns

Roots and Crowns. "Uniting where you come from - your roots - with what you strive to be or what you reinvent yourself to become - crowns," explains Califone's Tim Rutili. "At the bottom of these songs are the memories and images you sift through in the process." Imagery of rebirth comes up often on this CD. Limitations, obstructions, darkness, and the new possibilities they illuminate is what "Roots And Crowns" is all about. The LP is limited to 1,000 copies and comes in a jacket hand-screened by Tim Rutili. Califone have toured with Wilco, Iron And Wine, Modest Mouse, The Shins, and The Sea And Cake, and were invited to the Sonic Youth-curated ATP.