For more information about the band and these songs, read The Road to Mercy Music: The Oral History of Absent Minded, Lydia Vance and Deadhand. This is their story, as told by Jarred Cooper (Lydia Vance, Deadhand, Mercy Music),  Adam Fisher (Absent Minded), Rye Martin (Mercy Music), Travis Naegle (Absent Minded), Rocko (Absent Minded), Brendan Scholz (Absent Minded, Lydia Vance, Deadhand, Mercy Music) and Aaron Weislogel (Lydia Vance, Deadhand), as well as other musicians and friends who knew the band. ...