Wanda Waterman-St. Louis, the "Mindful Bard" of Canada, mentioned our CD recently as something to revel in.  http://themindfulbard.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/whats-up-thursday-11-february-2010/


Her blog really is an amazing thing, it gives you the feel that art and music is something anyone can grasp in a few spare minutes here and there.  


Which is about the only time we have, isn't it?  

We continue to get a bunch of overseas airplay, which is starting to raise the question as to why there is so little independent radio at home?  A lot of the overseas shows are run by amateurs, including retirees, who take a spin at the DJ Booth once a week for a couple of hours at the local station. What a hoot that would be, eh?  The cynic in me thinks that they may be seeking out independent material to avoid royalty payments, but so what....god, how nice that would be to be able to flip on the radio and hear something new?  

Closer to home, we're booking a bunch of shows in March and April, so stay tuned. 

"A Man Without a Country" was the number one featured song for No Depression Magazine as of February 3, 2010 through February 6, 2010.  It was also featured as an Editor's Pick at Indie-Music.com on February 6, 2010. 

Reilley has posted some of the show at VIC on youtube, I think it recorded pretty well and I could hear the fiddle! (Reilley has also been working way to hard,' don't hurt yourself now'.) After watching the show I realized I shouldn't wear my house sweater on stage, it's so comfy, but I don't like the way it looks. I should costume more, sparkles, dresses, lipstick.. what does everyone think? Also should Reilley, charlie, randall, chase and ian wear tuxedos? I know they would love that.. hmm, it's a thought. -tally-ho *JLo*

What a great evening it turned out to be at Vics! Thank you to everyone who came, drank and had merriment with us! Grassahol, started the evening and are  awesome btw. We hope to play with them again soon!!! Apart from some sound problems all went pretty well. I know on my part I'd really like a fiddle player on more of a regular basis! Ian you are great and thank you so much for playin' with us!! I love the element  it adds to the album and would like so much to do that live! Thanks so so so much to Chase who played bass at the very last moment, we hope to see him again, please? :) Our new drummer Randall is working out swimmingly and we adore him, keep it up! We sold a few copies of the album, thank you to those folks! Also, big thanks to Jessika, Jim, Brianna, and Jeanne for helping sell cd's and record the show!  That will be watched and uploaded soon! SO look for that! Thanks again to Ed for the Miller Kelton freeway sign stickers, hilarious!!     
Peace out -jLo

We had a nice little band meet at Ruby's  on Tuesday, hopefully a show there soon! We are looking forward to our Show tonight with Grassahol, at Vics Cafe. We play after them around 930! We have some new covers that I need to work on today, yes Riley, stage fright may set in? I know I should be past it, but I am glad we have a set list and a fiddle player, Thank you Eon, sp, don't know how to spell..sorry, but I am so happy and so are our fans!! Go ED for getting our music out there, you are awesome! OH and we have stickers now, again, thanks to ED. 
Julia was here.

Band meeting today on CD sales, posters, stickers, the whole nine yards.  Is this getting too much like work?  Not yet, not yet....

The next couple of shows we are ditching the acoustic guitars, bongo drums and various acousticana for the Telecasters and Les Paul etc.  It seemed a pretty good sound at Vic's on NYE, much better than the acoustic set.  Julia seems cool with it for the time being.  


So at this point, I want the band to sound like the Ned Braden quote in Slapshot -- Somebody's gonna kill you, ya dumb son of a bitch, but it's not gonna be me