History From Below is the follow-up album to 2008's critically acclaimed Ode to Sunshine by San Diego's Delta Spirit

Delta Spirit

Delta Spirit is a band from San Diego, California. The group combines unconventional instruments such as trash cans lids and orchestral bass drums, multi-instrumentalism and spiritually themed lyrics into a hybrid of rock and northern soul...

. The album was released on June 8, 2010.

The band began streaming "White Table" on its website, http://www.deltaspirit.net, on May 6.

"Devil Knows You're Dead" was featured in the series finale of Friday Night Lights

Friday Night Lights

Friday Night Lights is a 2004 drama film which documents the coach and players of a high school football team and the Texas city of Odessa that supports and is obsessed with them. The book on which it was based, Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream, was authored by H. G...

 on July 15, 2011.

Track listing

1. "9/11" - 3:16
2. "Bushwick Blues" - 3:42
3. "Salt in the Wound" - 5:51
4. "White Table" - 5:07
5. "Ransom Man" - 4:28
6. "Devil Knows You’re Dead" - 3:58
7. "Golden State" - 3:16
8. "Scarecrow" - 4:07
9. "Vivian" - 4:29
10. "St. Francis" - 4:23
11. "Ballad of Vitaly" - 8:05

The last song on the album, "Ballad of Vitaly," was inspired by the story of Vitaly Kaloyev

Vitaly Kaloyev

Vitaly Konstantinovich Kaloyev is an architect and deputy minister of housing from North Ossetia, Russia, known for his 2004 murder of Peter Nielsen in the Swiss town of Kloten. Kaloyev's family died aboard Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, which collided with another aircraft over Germany in 2002...