Nature is off the chain out here. - Doe (from Oakland)
list. Take a look HERE on Amazon's site. We like to think that Eau Claire is slowly taking control of all online sales outlets. Check out Laarks record An Exaltation of Laarks HERE.
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A fire drawn around
Her like a shawl
A mind for a whip
A heart for a stone
To hurl
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Hey Friends.
Here are a bunch of photos from the last two weeks of our travels east of the Mississippi. Starting with the aftermath of the van getting broken into in Montreal (my computer was stolen.....ARRRRRGH thievery!). The swarthy Brazilian looking fellows...Are in fact swarthy Brazilian fellows. They are a band called Momo who we were lucky enough to play with twice. Really good band, really great dudes. Check them out HERE. Then a bunch of photos from our time recording with Eric Neave and the rest of the Cedarwell family in Sheboygan. Their record is really going to be great and we were so happy to share a little bit in the project. If you don't know Cedarwell, educate yourself HERE.
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More Photos! Check out some shots from the amazing end of tour show with Bon Iver at the riverside theater in Milwaukee, HERE. It was a very humbling and beautiful night.
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Also, Check out this video interview we did in Milwaukee prior to the Riverside show. Find it HERE.
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We just played in Salt Lake City two nights ago at a great place called Kilby Court. Fine long standing all ages venue. Fine people.
We played with two bands from the area, one being David Williams, check him out HERE, and the other being Bronco, check them out HERE. (I'm rather confounded by the structure of the previous sentence. Please forgive my almost certain misuse of comas.) We stayed with a friend from a band out of Salt Lake called Band Of Annuals. Check them out HERE. He has a dog named Lady who is a puppy. She is enormously cute and ungainly. I was struck again, as I am with some frequency when around friends with pets, that if you look objectively at the situation for a moment, isn't it strange that we have little furry creatures running around our houses? On top of which, these little creatures yearn for another species' affections...It's just a thought that strikes me now an again. We're heading to Boise today. Also, I'm reading the seventh book of the Harry Potter series and it's gotten really heavy. Was Dumbaldore as good as Harry always thought? I mean he really wasn't very forth coming with his past now that I think about it..... love.jonThe Below Photos: Jason "Mountain" Sunde, Jesse "Laser Eye Patch" Edgington, Jason "Face of Concentration" Sunde, The Dardevil Christopher "Playing at Kilby Court in Salt lake City" Wright
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Ouch. Forgive me it's been quite a while since our last post. Some things happened:
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I'm making certain observations about venues where we make music. It's an art really, to run a venue. I think maybe the state of the venue says something about the attitude of those who run it toward the music that happens there and the patrons of the arts. Every place has it's own appeal and aesthetic to be sure.
You have the do-it-yourself sort of underground venues that look like they haven't been cleaned probably ever, which is totally rock because cleaning is not my favorite thing. What I love about these places is that they operate on a shoestring budget so that the music can go on and on for the kids who love it. Without this type of venue, music would be old, stale, and elite. You have the weathered pro venues where everything is painted black partly for the dark underbelly contingent who lurk in the belly of the place and partly to be a blank slate for the music like a black box theater or something. These can be some of the most pro places in my experience and they might be clean too. I've even see toilet paper there and doors that lock to the bathroom. There are so many kinds of places that you can't list them all but finally, for the sake of this note, you have the kind of places that have a comfy, well lit green room with golden bloom chamomile tea, strawberries, lemon slices, and homey mugs. What I love about these places is that being comfy is totally rock. Without this type of venue, musicians would be weary, ragged, and of less sunny disposition. Thank you rock venues.
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(above Jesse, Jason, and I in front of a really big plant outside the Cook residence in Durham, NC)
We are traveling toward Knoxville from Asheville, NC (which by the way is a most beautiful mountain city....most beautiful) and then we're heading north to Indianapolis on this our travel day. It's been a really nice time down south for the past week or so. Things I would like to do now after spending some time down here: 1. Revisit Grimey's Record store in Nashville, TN and buy more music 2. Return to Lexington, KY to see horse races 3. Learn more about Praying Mantises (I saw one in the flesh or whatever their body is composed of, note: learn what praying mantis is made out of if not flesh, on a shrub just a few feet away from me. It was wild.....both literally and figuratively). The Reason for the Blog entry:I want to let you know about two amazing bands that we have had the opportunity to meet and play with whilst on the road. It would benefit you enormously to listen to them. 1. THESE UNITED STATES
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