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Down In The Valley exclusive Red & Blue vinyl, limited to 500 copies. The red & blue colors are a tribute to the Minneapolis Wrestling Territory colors from the AWA era of professional wrestling in Minnesota. Vern Gagne, Greg Gagne, Jesse Ventura, Curt Henning, Rick Rude, Road Warrior Hawk, Bob Backlund, Paul Ellering, Rick Rude, are all fellow wrestlers to come from Minnesota.
"Beat The Champ" is the 2015 release from the veteran indie folk band led by John Darnielle. "Beat The Champ is about professional wrestling, which was an avenue of escape for me when I was a kid. Wrestling was low-budget working class entertainment back then, stricktly UHF material. It was cheap theater. You had to bring your imagination to the proceedings and you got paid back double. I wrote these songs to re-immerse myself in the blood and fire of the visions that spoke to me as a child, and to see what more there might be in them now that I'm grown." --John D.