[1] In the early 1980s several Fanshawe College students from the Greater Toronto Area who shared a rented house in London, Ontario got together to form the band Tin Mitten.
[2] Lindsay met seventeen-year-old Sarah Harmer while working at Sunrise Records in Burlington,[3] and she joined the band, later commuting to Toronto to perform on weekends while attending Queen's University.
The album was recorded at Grant Ave and Axon Studios, and all but one of the songs were written by the band members.
Harmer left to concentrate on her studies after Yardsale, and later started her own band, Weeping Tile.
[8] They followed up in 2006 with Songs of the Wild West Island,[9] which included a guest appearance by Harmer as a duet vocalist on "Only Lovers".