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After self-releasing three brilliant LPs, a record label has finally scooped up Philly-based singer-songwriter Timothy Showalter, AKA Strand of Oaks. He joins Phosphoreoscent, The Tallest Man On Earth, Destroyer, Brazos, Night Beds, Akron/Family, Philly's Sun Airway, and more on Dead Oceans. All of the songs Timothy Showalter writes as Strand of Oaks are based on true stories. And in Strand of Oaks songs, lovers get divorced, murder John Belushi's drug dealer, go bowling with mythical giants, watch their youth slip away and commune with John F. Kennedy's illegitimate son. Obviously, Showalter has allowed himself many liberties with what constitutes the truth, and his commingling of fact and fiction, of humor and heartbreak simultaneously distinguishes him from the bearded, acoustic-toting singer-songwriters he's so easily compared to: immerse yourself in a Strand of Oaks record and confessionals turn into metaphor, autobiography transferred into tall tales. LP - Limited Edition Clear Vinyl.