Aria was intended to be The Echoing Green's 1992 debut album on Blonde Vinyl Records. However, Blonde Vinyl suffered a major problem with their distributor, and was forced out of business. Most of the songs were re-recorded and released on 1994's Defend Your Joy on MYX Records. Several tracks from Aria have appeared on later releases, such as Electronica ("Deep Inside Your Heart") and the Oceanaria v1.0 mp3.com release.

Because the tape ran out. This seems to happen with live recordings of The Echoing Green. ;)

See the Justified Type Discography, or go to the "Music" section on this page and filter the song type to "Covers."

Atmospheric was the original title of what eventually became Hope Springs Eternal. The former name apparently was passed onto retailers and was entered into their databases, and was generally not corrected. Ordering Atmospheric should score you a copy of Hope Springs Eternal.

Joey has, in an interview with Steve White (for The Phantom Tollbooth), said that he feels it is time to move completely into the mainstream market. The song "Epiphany" was a subconscious statement that he doesn't feel that the CCM industry understands what The Echoing Green is about. It's best to read Joey's own words on the matter.

See Justified Type's Echoing Green Discography (use your browser's "find" function to search for "End of the Tape")

Please look under "L" on Steve White's "A to Z" list on Echo Base 2000

People often think Joey B. probably got the name from a song called "The Echoing Green" by synth-pop group Cause and Effect.

However, he got the name from William Blake's 1789 poem "The Echoing Green", originally written in his Songs of Innocence

The first verse:

The sun does arise
And make happy the skies;
The merry bells ring
To welcome the spring;
The sky-lark and thrush,
The birds of the bush,
Sing louder around
To the bell's chearful sound,
While our sports shall be seen
On the Echoing Green.

Aaron co-founded The Echoing Green with Joey and left the band not long thereafter. He can be heard performing on early EG songs and is credited with the vocal arrangements on "Beautiful." Joey also considers him a brother, in a spiritual sense.