A note from founding Posies member JON AUER: "I'll have to own up to being suspect when I first heard the concept of forty-five different artists recording new versions of Posies songs. I guess at my core I feared polite, cursory renditions of our relatively 'best known', the proverbial 'skating on the surface' as they say in the vernacular or at the very least folks just 'phoning it in'. Still, as skeptical as I might like to portray myself, and after lending my ears to the procession, I couldn't deny the ultimate conclusion I arrived at: a lot of Beautiful Escape... truly manages to surprise me and I'm really touched that it does. At its best, if you will, I'd liken it to diving headfirst into a sonic mirror from a slightly alternate universe, a place where clusters of tone, choices of instrument, and phrasings of word are reinvented enough to render me able to enjoy something I originally created as if never considered possible in the first place. Wow. In a similar sense, perhaps it's like a stranger finding one of your old photo albums and restaging your favorite pictures in ways and with colors you might never have visualized. Colors that look and feel somewhat familiar, but upon closer inspection smell like a fresh coat of paint on a house you barely remember building. Double wow. Who would've 'thunk' it possible? Not me, I assure you. I suppose until now, that is."