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Floyd Mercantile \u2014 a weathered wooden building standing across the road from an open pasture where cows wandered and grazed in the gentle early spring. (One cow even volunteered to be on the album cover.) Inside those old walls, the trio recorded the album live \u2014 no isolation booths, no heavy overdubbing \u2014 just three musicians in a room, listening closely and letting the songs unfold in real time.\n\nThe sessions were recorded by Jeff Oehler and filmed in their entirety by partner Sue Bibeau and their associate Skylar Locke. Together, Sue and Jeff comprise Beehive Pro, an audio, visual, and design collective famed for their intimate recordings and thoughtfully considered visuals.\n\nThey captured not just the sound, but the atmosphere \u2014 the wood floors, the daylight through the dusty windows, and the creak of the porch boards could all be considered session players on this album.\n\nThe repertoire bridges eras. Mostly comprised of songs Peter and Jenna wrote separately, there are a few gems from the Great American Songbook: \u201cSkylark\" (Hoagy Carmichael\/Johnny Mercer), \u201cThem There Eyes\" (Maceo Pinkard\/Doris Tauber\/William Tracey), and \u201cI'll Be Seeing\nYou\" (Sammy Fain\/Irving Kahal).\n\n\nThe visual and sonic tones of the project reflect the periods these songs evoke \u2014 even the newly composed tracks feel in conversation with another time. The goal was not nostalgia, but continuity: to stand inside the lineage of American song and add something honest and present to it.\n\nFloyd Mercantile is not just an album. It\u2019s a document of place. Of three musicians in a room. 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