The Marlboro Chorus was almost a goner.  The musical expressions of Patrick Stolley, Marty Reyhons, and Gary Heitman that gave birth to the idea of Daytrotter.com (it was Stolley's studio that sparked the concept of the site), was swallowed by the schedule of Daytrotter itself.  Sometime in there, after a disintegrating hiatus of the three co-conspirators, Stolley grabbed a handful of ideas and enlisted drummer and fellow DT worker Phil Pracht to commit them to tape in the winter of 2006/7 amidst a relative lull in the sessions coming through Futureappletree Studio 1 (now the "Horseshack").  The Broken Kid EP tunes are all over the map, from repetitive loop to short pop anthem, and five of the strongest songs in the TMC catalog.  Sean Moeller was recruited for a backups on a few tunes, possibly his first foray into the spotlight as a performer on record for general release, and a distant glimpse of Sean’s own musical existence.  Winter 2009 finds TMC snuggled as often as possible in the confines of a new studio/space Futureappletree Studio Too in an 1800s school building down by the banks of the Mississippi river in Davenport, Iowa.