unsteady all ears binky with you around dirty hands the role model biggest rift six by two lullaby chromosome falsified punishment

Credits:

• Ken E. Anderson: Drums, Crotale, Piano
• Scott Born: Vocals, Guitar
• Patrick Grassy: Vocals, Bass Guitar
• Ron Hayes: Guitar
• Additional Lap Steel Guitar on "The Role Model" performed by Kory Willis
• Engineered by Ed Rose at Red House Recording in Lawrence, Kansas
• Produced by Ed and Scott
• Mastered by Stephen Marcussen at Precision
• Supervised by Dave Allman
• Guitar Consultation by Alonzo Beardshear
• Art Direction by Lane Wurster
• Graphic Design by Chris Eselgroth
• All Songs Written by Kill Creek and copyright Pancho and Boot / Threptos Music (BMI)

Proving Winter Cruel was recorded in 4 day shifts (with one day between) during the month of September, 1995. Finishing touches were applied after a Canadian tour during October, and took around 22 days in the studio to complete. The overriding atmosphere in the studio was pretty heavy, but was controlled by a policy of policing band members by issuing demerits which affected daily pay scales. Each demerit was deducted from the daily studio allotments of $17.50. The Kill Creek Band Demerit Schedule stands as a document of some of the most horrifying studio experiences musicians can witness, including the constant need for non-guitarists to steadily annoy everyone by regularly grabbing the nearest guitar and making noise, and having studio interns mulling about the control room making nuisances of themselves. Demos for the record were recorded both with Ed at Red House in January, and then later at Trent Bell's (of Chainsaw Kittens fame) studio in Oklahoma City, with the first day coinciding with the bombing of the Federal Building Bombing (April 19, 1995), which smoldered in the distance as we recorded early versions of The Role Model, Chromosome, Six by Two, and Lullaby. Proving Winter Cruel was essentially written in two very short but productive periods, one during December of 1994, and the other in March of 1995.

Tisha Heyka came up with the line "Your anger suits you" in All Ears.

Bruce Zimmerman, the intellectual truck driver, was of invaluable assistance with making the rest of the lyrics vaguely tolerable.

Alonzo Beardshear loaned various rare guitars that we eventually just kept and owed him for because they were so amazing. He also cut us HUGE deals on necessary musical supplies, and is one of the kindest souls that we have ever met.

Ellen Williams let us practice in her basement forever for no reason other than being one of the most beautiful, supportive, and loving women on the face of Lawrence's little map. And she doesn't even date anyone in the band. Certainly not for our lack of trying.

Dave Allman kept morale just above the suicide window, and still hangs around us for some unexplained reason. He will sit at a bar table in heaven with Ellen and Alonzo, endlessly complaining about us in their kindhearted and angelic ways. Unfortunately, Dave also refuses to date anyone in the band.

Our parents have the annoying habit of being some of the greatest parents luck can provide, but they SHOULDN'T date us. Anyway, it was hard to be cool as kids when we had parents that we couldn't bitch about, and the same holds true now. For this, we sort of resent not having what is otherwise a universal teenage experience. But, at the end of the day, that's probably for the best.