Who knows why certain musicians decide to team-up together for collaborations or for tours. Maybe it’s a deep and intangible musical kinship, or maybe it’s merely an advantageous pairing birthed in the minds of record execs. But it’s probably just the shared love of cute costumes! I’m sure that this is the ultimate motivation behind the upcoming Cryptacize and Danielson tour. The costumed cohorts kick off their U.S. tour on Halloween, and rumor is that certain Cryptacize members will be pulling double duty as Danielson family band members.

The Natural Good Time Family Band Solution known as Danielson will be touring in support of the upcoming anthology Trying Hartz, a two-disc compilation gathering a decade’s worth of previous material, live jams, unreleased tracks, and track commentary from the trunk of the Tree of Knowledge himself, Daniel Smith.

Trying Hartz tracklist:

Disc 1: 1. Now Try 2. Body English
 3. Flip Flop Flim Flam 4. Singers Go First 5. Jersey Loverboy
 6. Animal in Every Corner 7. Rubbernecker
 8. Sold! To the Nice Rich Man! (Live) 9. Thanx to Noah 10. Rallying the Dominoes
 11. The Lord’s Rest (Live)
 12. A Meeting With Your Maker 13. Daughters Will Tune You
 14. Runnin’ to Brother

Disc 2: 1. A No No 2. Good News for the Pus Pickers
 3. Don’t You Be the Judge (Live) 4. The Wheel Made Man 5. Fetch the Compass Kids (Live) 6. Idiot Boksen 7. Nice of Me (Live) 9. Cutest Lil’ Dragon (Live)
 10. Pottymouth 11. Southern Paws 12. I Am My Beloved’s (Live) 13. Hammers Sitting Still (Live) 14. Smooth Death
 15. Cheer Hart

Tourdates:

10.31.08 - New York, NY - The Knitting Factory 11.02.08 - Philadelphia, PA - 941 Theatre 11.04.08 - Pontiac, MI - The Crofoot Pike Room 11.05.08 - Chicago, IL - Reggie’s 11.06.08 - Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock 11.07.08 - Omaha, NE - The Waiting Room 11.08.08 - Denver, Co - Hi-Dive 11.09.09 - Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court 11.11.08 - Seattle, WA - Vera Project * 11.12.08 - Portland, OR - Backspace * 11.14.08 - San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill * 11.15.08 - Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour $ 11.16.08 - Phoenix, AZ - Modified 11.18.08 - Austin, TX - The Mohawk 11.19.08 - Houston, TX - Walter’s on Washington 11.20.08 - Dallas, TX - Granada Theater # 11.21.08 - Memphis, TN - Hi Tone 11.22.08 - Athens, GA - 40 Watt Club 11.23.08 - Asheville, NC - Grey Eagle

* Bart Davenport $ Soul Junk # Mt. Righteous