Toting their recording studio cross-country in a rented RV, the duo over the course of 24 days made 12 songs at 12 locales with 12 different collaborators. The journey was filmed as a documentary for the CD/DVD release “Don’t Give Up Your Daydream.” The movie, which earned a special jury prize at the Nashville FilmFestival, captures Stiles and Kyber — former rockers in the failed major-label band Absinthe — as they wrestle with their motives for making music in the first place.

The musical travelogue also features a zany cast of collaborators that includes Bingo Richey (in whose “Integratron,” pictured above, “Square Houses” was made; Bugs Salcido (with whom they worked on a ranch in Marfa, Texas); Ron “Black” Guidry (who recorded with them on his swamp-tour boat in Houma, La.); “Daddy Mac” Oar (an auto mechanic who demanded $500 for the session in Memphis); and actor/musician Adrian Grenier (a friend of the band who rendezvoused with them in Louisville).

It’s a trip you could not make up, and, in retrospect, how an album emerged from the journey is pretty remarkable.

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The movie itself got a proper theater debut right in hollywood, with contributor/producer and “entourage” icon adrian grenier taking the stage with the band. while grenier plays a critical role in making the documentary a reality for the good listeners, it’s really the music that takes center stage, along with a story that inspires to the very end.

And the record, with or without the movie attached, is EPIC. i have played it non-stop for months now, and every time “if i stay,” “good enough,” or “eighty steps away” comes on, i am reminded why the daydream is so important.

PLEASE buy this album, and download the movie. it may just save your soul. PHOTO LINK!

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The Good Listeners' Nathan Khyber and Clark Stiles are no strangers to unconventional recording conditions. The Los Angeles duo's 2005 debut, Ojai, was recorded in a marathon 10-day stretch, one song per day, in a makeshift home recording studio; their 2007 album, Crane Point Lodge, took shape in a creaky country lodge in the Adirondacks, straight out of The Shining. If both of these situations involved self-imposed isolation, The Good Listeners have made good on their name for their fascinating new project, Don't Quit Your Daydream. Khyber and Stiles took a month-long road trip across the United States, finding a new co-writer in each new town and filming the entire odyssey. They spend time with hippies and drunkards, riverboat captains and precocious kids. The band even takes a detour to the Kentucky Derby with co-producer Adrian Grenier, star of Entourage.The result of The Good Listeners' adventures is more than just twelve new tunes and a document of the Good Listeners' journey. Don't Quit Your Daydream explores why music-makers feel compelled to create.

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Starting in Joshua Tree, Calif., they meet Bingo, a minimalist with a keen sense of vocal harmony. He takes them to the famed Integratron, an acoustic dome of – literal – biblical proportions. There, they lay in the structure and improvise melodies and lyrics, and before the end of the day, they’ve created and recorded a song.

One of the most profound statements of the movie comes from their first collaborator in Joshua Tree, who utters, “Just do what you really love to do, because that’s what you’re best at.”

The best parts of Daydream are glimpses into their minds when a note or lyric turns into melodies. When they enter a metal shop in New Mexico, they look at sheet metal and think about how they can integrate it into their music; as it turns out, a complete stranger integrates himself into their jam session and an amazing but sad track is produced. The art gallery owner/video game genius in Texas took what might be one of the most innovative approaches to music I’ve ever seen.

With their new album of the same name releasing in conjunction with the movie, the Good Listener’s “daydream” will soon become a reality, and they’ll finally get the recognition they deserve.