February 10, 2008 — Longtime Friend of Zach and J, Drew O'Doherty, recently assembled an unbelievable eBay auction to benefit Cal and it was a raging success. Folks donated various items (rare records from their own collections, posters/prints, test pressings, etc.), as well as rare prints, a drum lesson from Zach, a guitar lesson from Geoff Farina of Karate, an Evens poster signed by Ian McKaye and Amy Farina, signed Mission of Burma one-sided singles, and various other completely awesome miscellany. The results were astounding, raising over $5,000 for J and Janet's ongoing health care needs for Cal.

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Longtime fan and cellist Gordon Withers realized that now was the time to dust off the Jawbox cello arrangements he'd written for a college project back in 2000.

Earlier this year, he hooked up with producer and songwriter Alex Nelson and headed into Alex's Ft. Lauderdale studio. The result is Jawbox on Cello: A Benefit for Cal Robbins, a collection of twelve Jawbox songs, several from each of our four albums, arranged for cello ensemble. Gordon released the collection digitally on December 18, but sometimes we're a little slow on the uptake around here. Gordon is something of a cello wizard; he played all the parts on the album, as he puts it, "using the wide dynamic range of the cello to highlight Jawbox's amazing melodies and song-craft, which were formerly often hidden behind their walls of guitar distortion." You can buy this benefit comp from Amazon or iTunes, as well as many other usual haunts for digital downloads.

Learn more about Gordon here.

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We bought the rights back from Atlantic to re-release the long-out-of-print final two releases from Jawbox. For Your Own Special Sweetheart and Jawbox are downloadable from iTunes! Read more >>

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