Fans of The Essex Green should be somewhat familiar with Guppyboy, the embryonic version of the band formed in Vermont circa 1992, and subsequently issuing cassette after cassette of folk rock in a lineup that included Michael Barrett, Jeff Baron (pictured left), Sasha Bell (pictured right), Chris Ziter and Zach Ward. Eventually they moved to New York, melded with Gary Olson and The Ladybug Transistor, formed a musical collective at "Marlborough Farms" in Brooklyn to rival Elephant 6, and finally became a bona fide Elephant 6 band proper as The Essex Green, with Robert Schneider mastering their self-titled EP at Pet Sounds Studios in Denver.

Meanwhile, Guppyboy passed either into legendry or obscurity, depending on your point of view. Every year or so someone says, "I just found a Guppyboy CD at [Parasol, Gemm, Insound, etc.] for real cheap!" But when you click there, you get a tentative order confirmation, and an email two weeks later that they never had it in the first place.

But for now, at least, you can download Guppyboy's album Jeffersonville HERE courtesy E6 Townhall's lou2ser. Thanks go out to lou2ser for contacting us about this.

For posters, photos, reviews, a discography and a fair dose of Guppyboy nostalgia, you can visit their website, which is still mysteriously online, even if some of the links therein are broken.

Let's hope the band rereleases their early material soon.

Take note, I updated my earlier post about Essex Green's Cannibal Sea with some additional promotional information from Merge.