Reading the leaves Get the Blessing return.
The Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry-loving ones note:
''Way, way back in 2008, very soon after the release of our first album All Is Yes we played at the much missed Big Chill Festival.
''It turned out that the tent adjacent to our stage had just hosted the great John Hegley, a national-treasure-in-waiting if ever there was one, and he was later asked to recommend a track for the Big Chill charity compilation record released later in the year. He chose one of ours.
''A correspondence developed and before we knew it, we were all in the studio together with 'Toggle Buttons' the fine result. So it's fitting that this, one of our earliest collaborations, should be the first release from a forthcoming collection Rarer Teas, a selection of hand-picked and previously unreleased items from the GTB archives. We went on to produce a handful more tracks and appeared live on stage with John (and he with us) a number of times.''
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