Flies the Fields

Shipping News formed as a result of Jeff Mueller and Jason Noble writing and recording music for the NPR program "This American Life." The two met in 1996 and were joined a year later by Kyle Crabtree, making the band complete. The three took the band's name from a novel by E. Annie Proulx, and released their first record, Save Everything, in the summer of 1997. They followed up the album a year later, in May, with a split EP CD with Metroshifter. Three years later, in 2001, Shipping News released...