Hammers & Nails

Hammers & Nails is being released simultaneously with a book on Mark's life of the same name and requires a bit of explanation - even Kurt Cobain has only put out one new song in the past year and he's only been dead for 9 years and yet here's Mark Heard with 11 new songs 11 years posthumous. Recorded as demos from 1987-1989 and just prior to Mark's final series of masterworks, Dry Bones Dance, Second Hand, and Satellite Sky, these songs function as the prequel to his brilliant final chapter and a bridge from his earlier work.

Paste is proud to join with Mark's family to help ensure that his musical legacy is perpetuated. Hammers & Nails contains six bonus tracks rescued from now out-of-print compilations in addition to eleven unreleased recordings.