On October 4, 2011, Common Wall Media announced through its website that it was releasing a new solo-record by Joel Marquard of Gospel Claws, seemingly because he had recorded it all on his own without telling anybody.
[4] The LP was released by Common Wall Media as a "pay-what-you-want" album through Bandcamp, although Marquard has burned a few CD-Rs, photocopied and the album art, and made them available at Gospel Claws' shows for the download averse.
Influencing Marquard for this project was certainly the baptist songs of his own upbringing,[2] Marquard grew up the son of a minister,[3] as well as some rare discoveries he made a local library, including Songs of the Old Regular Baptists (a collection of 50s field recordings) and Fire in My Bones: Raw Rare + Other-Worldly African-American Gospel [1944–2007] (a rare record featuring the work of Phoenix-based street evangelist Reverend Louis Overstreet).
"[5] Noting the efforts that Marquard went through to make the album sound like an old recording, with all of the static and crackling of an old vinyl LP, Collin Fletcher wrote that the record had a truly authentic sound that he "loved.
[6] Although his recordings made quite a splash in the scene, The Through & Through Gospel Review did not perform live until the "Balls Benefit Show," a concert organized for Marquard's benefit, to help him with his medical bills after a bout with testicular cancer.