BIO

I wanted to make a rock ‘n’ roll record with my friends. I wanted to write ten good songs, put everyone in a room, and roll tape. So that’s what we did. We played a song until we got a take we liked, then we moved on to the next; didn’t usually take too long. In between takes, we laughed a lot and talked about records, politics, and baseball (in that order). That’s the way it’s supposed to work, right? You make art you’re proud of and you have a good time doing it — it’s called playing music for a reason.

I hope you like this record. I’m proud of these songs, and proud of this band. It was a pleasure to go to work with them every day, and it will be an honor to get up on stage and sing these songs with them every night.

I called the record Heart of a Dog after Mikhail Bulgakov’s novella, which contains this passage:

By kindness. The only method possible in dealing with living creatures. By terror you cannot get anywhere with an animal, no matter what its stage of development. I’ve always asserted this, I assert it today, and I shall go on asserting it. They are wrong thinking that terror will help them.

That just about sums it up.

I’ll see you out there soon. Until then, take care of each other.

Kasey Anderson
Portland, Oregon
November 28, 2010

One more thing: please play this record loud.