We released Denison Witmer's The Ones Who Wait a few weeks ago, and it's just as good sounding today as it was then. You can listen and buy here.

But Denison has a robust back-catalog, and that includes one of our favorties, Are You a Dreamer? Our own Shara Worden and Sufjan Stevens and the Library Catalog's James McAllistor make appearances on the album, as well as Karen Don Peris (of Innocence Mission). 

As of today Are You A Dreamer? is available via Noisetrade and all it takes is your email address and zip code to download the album. You can also leave a support Denison with a "tip" if you like.

Do so below, or visit the page on Noisetrade right here.

Illustrations by Johnnie Cluney

We've been listening to Daytrotter for a while, and have loved every moment. Their recording sessions are some of the best in the biz. The sound quality and engineering is incredible. The writing and illustration always capture the essence of an artist.

All that to say: Daytrotter gets it.

So when one of our own artists pops up with a session, we rush like lemmings (do lemmings rush?) to the site to hear and download and read. When two our artists go up in one week? Things get a little crazy.

Of Denison Witmer, Sean Moeller  writes, " The one thing that must keep him going is getting to play the songs that he writes every night – these songs that are so filled with deeply personal anecdotes and sentiments. They are the intimate thoughts that he can't bottle up."

And speaking about Ray Raposa of Castanets, Sean wrote that  he "never ceases to mystify when he writes. He never seems to give it all up and for that, he's a master of the form."

If you're not already a subscriber – hey why aren't you? – you can try Daytrotter for free and snag these sessions. Castantets is here, and the Denison session is here.

We welcomed Denison Witmer to the AK Family just a couple of months ago. We’ve been listening to his latest record, The Ones Who Wait, for a while now, and we’re honored that we get to release to the wide world – which means you!

This record is really something special. You can read the whole story here, but suffice to say that The Ones Who Wait represents the culmination of several significant life experiences, ones that we all go through at some point. And this is what Denison has always done best: he writes and sings songs that are markedly intimate, yet appeal to all of us. They are human events, captured on tape for all of us to share.

You can buy the album on Bandcamp here or on iTunes here, or order the CD from our shop here.

Denison is touring with William Fitz Simmons – tourdates here – but he’s also touring via Skype (yes, Skype!). You can win a Skype tourdate on My Old Kentucky Blog right here.

As you may know, Denison joined our AK family last month, which is splendid news for everyone. And somewhere between then and there, Denison and his wife birthed a brandnew son (see here for cute proof)!

But now it’s time to get down to the work of releasing music.  And so we begin with “Brooklyn With Your Highest Wall,” a sublime and perfectly lovely track from the forthcoming record, The Ones Who Wait.

Listen. Download. Think about walking down the dusky streets of Brooklyn. Enjoy!

 All of us, staff and artist roster alike have loved Denison Witmer and his music for a long time. Most of our roster has appeared at least once on any number of his eight albums, or hit the road and toured with Denison. He’s basically family around here, so maybe it’s about time we just made it official-like. Well, ok! Let’s!

Please, welcome Denison Witmer to the Asthmatic Kitty family! (You can even tweet your welcome by clicking here.)

Maybe we should have done this sooner, because it feels like he’s come home.

Of course, there’s always business to be done and the first order thereof is to release his latest album, The Ones Who Wait. Label Mono vs. Stereo released it last year on a limited basis, but when we heard the record we wanted a shot too. A big thanks to them for letting us at it.

We’ll be releasing the record in early March. Between now and then expect some more Denison-related announcements, but for now just know that we’re glad he’s around. We hope you are too.

Read the story behind the new album here.