The warming-up voice of Johnny Delaware, frontman of The Artisanals, echoed from the first-floor restroom of the Quad-City Times building a few minutes after the band arrived. After offering a hug and hello, the smiley Delaware said his voice doesn't work well in the morning and he needed al the warm-up time he could get. The band is based in Charleston, South Carolina and drove this August morning from St. Louis to play a Paper Jams session at the Quad-City Times ahead of a two-day festival with other Charleston bands, such as Susto, at Codfish Hollow, the Maquoketa venue that Delaware declared the best in the country. Delaware must've made an impromptu decision to make up for his "morning voice" -- he, along with Clay Houle, made the set not feel so acoustic (Look for the guitar solo at the 5 minute mark). At the end of their two songs, Delaware apologized to online and in-person viewers for his voice sounding like “garbage” in the morning, to which his bandmate remarked, “You need to stop saying it’s morning. It’s 1 o’ clock.” To us, it sounded great all the same.