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anchors {the green album}    

IT'S HERE! and it's got
no carbon footprint!

"Ahhhh the instruments on the new CD, Anchors by Nervous But Excited are organic and rich like good soil. The arrangements are layered in a way, which makes me want to listen and hear it grow. The songs are honest and dimensional. It's music to my ears."

-Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls

Our new album is the first 100% carbon footprint free CD release in history. (at least that we can find). We worked really hard to avoid/offset all the energy we used in the project through renewable energy sources, and hence are calling it anchors: {the green album}. We brought in a ton of really talented national and local musicians in to add their layers to the songs, including Girlyman, Lyndell Montgomery, Chris Bathgate and a bunch more.

Musically, this album is far beyond anything we’ve done so far, and we are so proud to share it.
{home} spun (live)    

listen here - >

homespun

$15

"...If Cleaver's voice is a shiny beam, Peterson's is a blue spotlight, all warmth and atmosphere, and the blend of the two has become an NBE success story... the spark of their vocal interplay - sometimes harmonizing, sometimes bouncing against each other in gleeful contrariness - lights up the CD." -Lansing State Journal

{home}spun is the essence of nervous but excited: live, alive and lively. recorded in an old wooden house in ann arbor, michigan, with a select, intimate crowd, this 54 minute  collection of songs and stories captures kate and sarah at their most comfortable. their charming and funny qualities shine throughout the dead-on harmonies, finely-crafted songwriting and diverse instrumental arrangements. this is a live album like you haven’t heard yet. it will leave you feeling like a part of it all.

   
bootleg from the basement    

bootleg from the basement
it is available for download here. name yr price. thanks!

or if you want to feel it in your hands, purchase a hard copy...

$5

this is a collection of songs we recorded in the winter of 2007. it is dedicated to the folks that continue to help us
o u t  o f  o u r   b a s e m e n t and on onto the road.

dirt road is a favorite from several years ago.

ashes was recorded the day after it was “finished.” we like to refer to this version as a rough draft.

smaller taller is so you can sing along with us next time we come to your town.

long ride home is a patty griffin song that we really like.
   
     
once more... with feeling
{tracks}
/sounds

About Once More... With Feeling:
"...how I feel about the whole thing - so real. This music comes from such an honest, beautiful place. Their voices sound beautiful together and the production is great - sparse and lush at the same time. I love how their voices can be soft yet retain their strength. Just beautiful. "

- Natalia Zukerman, Singer Songwriter

Once More... With Feeling is the first studio album by Nervous but Excited. Their intention while recording this album was to capture the raw connectedness that is their songwriting, while keeping the light-hearted flare that is their live performance. Recorded mostly in their Lansing, MI home, this album captures the comfort of the space.

eight live songs
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/sounds
  
mighty ocean
 mp3 (3.4 MB)  
coffee stained
 mp3 (4.6 MB)
moonshiner
 mp3 (4.4 MB)
it was nice
  
200 years
 
whats left
 
echo
  
wagon wheel
 mp3 (3.2 MB)

eight live songs was recorded live at Uncommon Ground in Chicago on September 13, 2005 and was mastered by Gary Reid.

torch song evolution
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eightlive songs

Hard copies of this one are pretty much gone! There
are a few left @ CDBaby or you can buy on itunes

Buy on Itunes
undone
mighty ocean
queen & holding
200 years
sundays (acoustic)
where i'm standin

torch song evolution is kate and sarah's first duo release.

press kit

undone
{tracks}
{sounds}
undone
 mp3 (3.3 MB)
loophole
  
more to me
  
shiny apple
  
coffee stained
  
queen & holding
 mp3 (4.3 MB)
it was nice
  
whats left
  
songbirds
  
splinter
  
sundays
 mp3 (4.2 MB)

{about this cd}
Review by Heather Corcoran, CoffeeHouseTour
It’s a rare occasion when an artist can loosen up the strings on ordinary folk music but pull together tight an array of songs that cover almost every emotion known. Kate Peterson has done exactly that! If you’re looking for 100% pure extraordinary folk music, you found it! She carries her husky yet soulful voice through this heartfelt, mellow CD. Her music lunges at you with a powerful force, knocking you to the ground in awe of this artist. She’s strong, independent and finds life needs nothing else then the comfort of her friends over a cup of coffee and some good conversation. Kate uses a sprinkle of magnificent poetic measures throughout her songs, so deep in detail, you can feel the colored picture she is describing in her words. With smart lyrics against fast paced guitar, there is no other way to describe this CD then “folking fantastic!”

{production}
produced by kate peterson with some help from jason lantrip
all tracks recorded/mixed @ trash 180 by jason lantrip
except bass on sundays recorded at distracted studios
mastered by kirk marrison @ kricketridgesoundpad

{music players}
kate - the singer and the acoustic guitar player
rachel alexander - cello player on undone, queen & holding, songbirds and what's left
sarah cleaver - additional singer on undone, harmonica blower on queen & holding
jason lantrip - shaker shaker and bass player on more to me
alex wilson - djembe groove on sundays and more to me
nicholas koby - upright bassist on sundays

from where i stand
{tracks}
Cry
Shotgun
Over
Where I'm Standin
Sleepwalker
India
Oil in Water
Thank You
Change

For now, listen @ CDBaby.

Sarah Solo from 2003. Yes, she does have long hair!


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