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This version of “Slip Through the Cracks” is a demo (recorded on 4-track cassette in Spring 2008) for a song that will be released in the future. It looks like the real version will come out on a seven-song One-Sided LP for Burnt Toast Vinyl later this year.
Half-handed Cloud is an interesting phenomenon. John Ringhofer, the man behind the namesake, is as joyful and frugal as his music. An economical thinker, Ringhofer prefers the subway over a taxicab, is a recycler of plastic, a compulsive note-taker, and a habitual optimist. He doodles in the margins of paperbacks, carries a couple different colored pens, and continues to use an antiquated CD walkman. When not on tour he lives in the California Bay Area & works as a part-time custodian. Half-handed Cloud is able to ensconce complicated theological concepts into playground song without condescending to his subject or to his listener.
