six weeks of each other in the late spring of 2001. Echotown was a self-titled album by Jeff Feltenberger's pick-up band and had a definite country-rock sound. Pete Palladino released a solo album, Sweet Siren of the Reconnected, in June 2001 that included contributions from every member of the Badlees to various degrees. The Cellarbirds also released their debut album, Perfect Smile. Despite being separate from the Badlees, these projects did include some common traits. Each was recorded at Saturation Acres, either produced or co-produced by Alexander, and Simasek played drums on each. Renew and long hiatus (2002–2008) The Badlees got back together and make music once again as a band for a charitable event, Concert for Karen IV, in 2002. They got together at Saturation Acres and recorded four songs for an EP to be released in conjunction with the live event and decided to continue on to make a full-length album. This decision was spearheaded by Chris Fetchko, a native of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, who at the time worked at Capitol Records and would eventually replace Terry Selders as The Badlees' new manager. The album, Renew, was released in June, 2002 and to support it, the band filmed a special show at the Grand Ballroom of the Manhattan Center in New York City in July, 2002. The show was titled Renew and Rewind and aired on a local Pennsylvania television in late August. Bret Alexander and Mike Naydock did many songwriting sessions in late 2002 through 2003, intending to have a new Badlees album in 2004, but this album failed to materialize due to other projects that Alexander, Fetchko, and Saturation Acres were involved in at the time. These included Lit Riffs, a soundtrack to a book of the same name by MTV, for which the Badlees recorded a cover of Rod Stewart's "Maggie May", and Gentleman East, an Americana-flavored solo album by Bret Alexander, which was originally intended to be the soundtrack for a motion picture produced by Fetchko called Everything's Jake. Also in that period, Alexander, Simasek, and Smith (as The Cellarbirds) backed singer-songwriter Johnny J. Blair on a cover of "Sunday Morning" by Velvet Underground. The track was part of a Lou Reed tribute project, After Hours, which was released to global acclaim and was eventually commended by Lou Reed himself on Reed's official website. In March 2004, Jeff Feltenberger announced he was officially leaving the