OKKERVIL RIVER

THE PRESIDENT’S DEAD b/w
THE ROOM I’M HIDING IN

“The President’s Dead” is the first release by Okkervil River since 2005’s masterful Black
Sheep Boy project. Having spent most of 2005 touring and writing, the band and
Jagjaguwar wanted to get this single out before 2006 came to a close. Locked in the grooves
of this limited-edition vinyl-only release is what might be Okkervil River’s most accessible
and most contentious song, “The President’s Dead.” A two-minute and forty-two second
serving of alternative historical fiction camouflaged as a folk anthem tarted up as a pop
single that never was, “The President’s Dead” depicts with tenderness and empathy the
shock felt by a sensitive young Republican upon hearing news of an assassination over the
radio, its lyrics shifting sneakily from images of public horror to those of private tenderness
as its music performs a similarly schizoid leap. Meanwhile, sequestered away on side 2, the
lyric that bobs atop the loping, twangy pop of “The Room I’m Hiding In” depicts a
paranoid flight from vastly more powerful pursuers determined to exact the most severe
punishment and revenge.

The President’s Dead
The Room I’m Hiding In

CATALOG #:

JAG101

RELEASE DATE:

DECEMBER 5, 2006

FORMAT:

12”  (VINYL NON-RETURNABLE) 

AVAILABILITY LIMITED TO 2000 UNITS
12” BOX LOT:

25 UNITS  

GENRE:

FOLK ROCK / INDIE ROCK

KEY MARKETS:

CHICAGO, BALTIMORE,

WASHINGTON DC, ATLANTA, NEW YORK CITY,
SEATTLE, PORTLAND, SAN FRANCISCO, 
LOS ANGELES, SAN DIEGO, SALT LAKE CITY,
MINNEAPOLIS, PHILADELPHIA, BOSTON,
COLUMBUS (OH)

12” UPC:

656605210117

1. Jagjaguwar’s highest selling and hardest working band, Okkervil played over 200 dates in
2005/2006 with the Decemberists, Rilo Kiley, Azure Ray, Two Gallants, John Vanderslice,
Shearwater, Man Man, among others.

2. Two exclusive never-before-heard tracks on this vinyl-only release.

3. Last year’s Black Sheep Boy and Black Sheep Boy Appendix have shipped a combined 35,000
copies.

4. New full-length will be released in 2007.

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