ARGUE WITH A TREE
Argue With a Tree… Now Available To Watch
We are excited to announce the official digital debut of our concert film, Argue With a Tree!
You can rent or buy the full-length film now. Check out the trailer and get ready to be transported back in time to the Lakewood Theater in Dallas, Texas on June 4, 2004.
Watch Argue With a Tree by purchasing or renting at getbackup.tv
Stream on your computer or download the Get Back Up app to enjoy on Apple TV, Android, Roku, Fire TV, and more!
Life was full of opportunity and every dream of being a writer, performer, and musician was being fulfilled. We had lost our major record label deal with Universal Records after only selling 15,000 units, but we had been picked back up by two amazing men who owned a record label called Rainmaker Records. Both Swin Swinford and Paul Nugent stumbled upon myself and my father at a South by Southwest lunch where I handed over a demo EP that my father and I had invested in together.
After listening, these two gentlemen immediately got us in the studio to record what is now known as “History For Sale”, one of our most colorful and eclectic albums ever made.
To take it a step further, Swin and Paul had the idea of capturing our live performance on film and making it into an album. All three of us sat and discussed putting on a concert where we could do all of our favorite tracks from all three of our existing albums live and release it as a double album and live film. They were very cutting-edge and believed if we could capture the magic of our live connection with the audience that we could showcase an intimacy that was unheard of at the time. So I hand-picked my favorite and most powerful songs that we had released and put on the longest most passionate show we had ever done complete with all three albums plus sneak peeks into new songs that would end up making it onto our multi-platinum album the following year.
Life was magical and there were no rules whatsoever during this time in our lives. The only thing we were on earth to do was to show thanks to everyone who had supported us through our failure to become famous during our “big chance.”
Little did any of us know that things were just getting started for us. That we would soon pave our own way through this business called music and proving everyone wrong at the label that dropped us. Then living on to create our own destiny by dropping them to start our own. We were so bright eyed and full of young angst, so heartbroken and in love with life, so driven and passionate about proving ourselves not only to our fans, but to the entire world.
This is a collection of some of our most gut-wrenchingly raw and un-produced honesty that we’ve ever released so sit back relax and let me take you back in time.
- Justin Furstenfeld
