"Friendship,position,wealth everything that makes life desirable to an ambitious man were about to be swept away by my answer."

VOA: special.2010.01.28

The only cover song on Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away" is a Ray Bonneville track, Run Jolee Run.

VOA: standard.2009.04.21

By the time he finished recording Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away, Slaid had worked with three different producers.

VOA: standard.2009.04.21

"Dreams" is just one of the 10 songs Slaid Cleaves wrote for Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away, his first collection of original material since 2004's "Wishbones."

VOA: standard.2009.04.21

And so he did the final version of Cry. So there are three producers on the record, it was an all-year project!" Following the U.S.release of Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away, Slaid will spend the next several months touring North America before setting off on a tour of the U.K.and Holland in October.

VOA: standard.2009.04.21