We drove up from Florida to find finals week at MTSU, or whatever they call it now. So, meh. Nice place though. Add Comment We took a 2 lane highway across from one side of the state to the other. It was kind of a long boring drive, but we saw a police monster truck. Yes, that's right, a police monster truck. If only I had the fast twitch phone response to get a picture. The show was o.k., not too many folks, in a very small place. Everybody was very nice though and we did sell a couple of things before we headed out. We made the drive back to Bradenton that night, as the rest of the Johnson siblings were rolling in. All right, we're back up and running. We just got done doing two shows w/Adam Lee and J.P. Harris. Always a pleasure. Both bands will pretty much country your face off. It was a good winter, we played several shows, made our first run to Chicago and met a lot of new folks. In a few days we leave for a run through N.C. and points South. We come back into Missouri to play our first Blue Note show. So, lots of things going on. We are going to be recording a full length, whatever you call it these days, over the summer. For the first time we will be turning over a lot of the recording control to someone else. I will be updating this blog throughout these events, although there will be radio silence during the Shakori Hills Festival. Come out and see us. We're getting very, very good at Cadillac repair. Little stuff, nothing big. Our winter has been slow, but semi successful. We've played some shows, but only the ones we really wanted to and that's very nice. Now, though, it's time to get back to work. We're ramping up to release a full length record at the end of the summer and take our first steps outside the U.S. It seems like a long time from now, but it's not. We're heading out in April to go back to Shakori Hills in NC and through Florida, Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama to boot. We're also taking our first Nebraska trip. Lots of miles, lots of fun and hopefully a bunch of new friends. Hope to see everyone soon. Well, we've reached the slow time of the year. We're doing a couple of shows before Christmas, but that's about it for the year. Enjoy whichever thing you choose to celebrate this year. I'm not sure what the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster's winter festival is, but I bet it's awesome. Hope to see all our old friends in Chicago in January. Several new shows posted, in various parts of the country. for 2012. Many more to come. The new record is, in fact, up at itunes, amazon, cd baby and I'm sure some others. It's 6 songs for less than $6. That means I'm going to start shuffling some music around on the site. Thursday starts a pretty busy month of shows. I'll try to write about all of them. It should get entertaining. Assuming I get really mad somewhere in there. I know people don't buy music anymore, but do it anyway. We are up and running. I won't say we're getting a lot done, but we will get done. As this finishes several things are going to change on the site. There will only be a couple of songs up and only to listen to, after that it will be buy, buy, buy. So, you'd better download what you can, while you can. We are still looking to fill in a couple of shows, one or two in Florida (if it's still there after this weekend) and one on the way to Shakori Hills, so let us know if you want us to play in your living room. I maintain that's where we sound the best anyway, in your living room. Just not in mine, because I don't want to clean up. Brock's slaving away on the artwork for the recording, as well as playing bass sometimes. Doc is making sure the proper people, animals, things and smells get barked at. I refuse to do much of anything, other than play and record and mix and master and cook lunch and do dishes, sometimes and... mostly sleep and watch tv. It ain't diggin' ditches son. Over the next couple of weeks we're going to have a bunch of new music and show dates up, starting around Thursday. That's what it's about, shows and music, right? Show in Wathena got moved from Sat, to tonight. Apologies for any inconvenience. Should be a hoot. The show tonight has been moved to El Lenador 3124 Cherokee in St. Louis. I'll try to update this thing every day with show details, etc. as we are heading out for a long weekend (roughly 21 days). |
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