The Daredevil Christopher Wright

We played at The Shop in the afternoon before the Super Bowl. My cousin lives there so it was great to visit him and totally sneak in for some free Ithaca College food at the school sponsored Super Bowl party. That's right Ithaca College, we stole your free food and I don't care who knows it. ;)

Emily Arin was kind enough to play the show as well. She has a stand out voice and played a really great set. My favorite tune was When You Knew Me When. That is a hit song if I've ever heard one. And such a nice girl. She should play in Wisconsin.

And, we made our second visit to Moosewood Restaurant, home of the famed Moosewood Cookbook. I had some Spicy Szechuan sauce with shiitake mushrooms, broccoli, and walnuts. To die for. Maybe to live for.

So Cleveland for the first time was a wholesome experience. Before the show I was in the green room warming up. Luckily enough, I heard The Infamous Stringdusters pick a few tunes before their show in the Beachland Ballroom. My mind was enhanced (+3) by their dizzying abilities, to be sure. (Travis, if you read this, I didn't peak in for your set but I know it was amazing.)

The dudes of Like Bells out of Oberlin, OH were kind enough to add us to the bill at Beachland Tavern. They killed it, my friends. They played seven new tunes and you wouldn't have known it was the first time, in all honesty. Then we were slayed, just beat to a pulp, by the true restraint of The Trepanning Trio who are actually a decatet, if that's a word.

We played in Ypsilanti, MI last night at the Elbow Room Bar. The fine folk of Lightning Love put together the show for us in their home town. Ypsilanti is pretty close to Detroit and even closer to Ann Arbor. Some of the dudes on the sound team there are involved in an Ann Arbor based label called Quite Scientific so I'm checking that out today.

There may be about a million bands doing wonderful things these days. Perhaps our friend Erik's dream that local musicians will be supported by a local community will one day come to pass.

This is a picture of us on our way. We're so small and fuzzy and I was very cold.

Look at all these dates! Yay!

We received this lovely Christmas gift so I thought I'd post in on our refrigerator.

Thanks Chelsea.

Hello Friends. The year is winding down and we are looking to the future. However, as a gift to you, please check out the Christmas song that we recorded. (Note: it sounds as good as I could get it on the old GarageBand. I suggest you turn up your speakers or listen to it on headphones)

Also, check out the myspace or facebook for the February and March tour dates soon to be posted.

Love,

jesse, jason, jon

Right!

We made it home safe and sound. I checked a bunch of things off the list: gear in house, car clean, road laundry, shower... Now I'm heading to a potluck, good old weekly potluck, with my friends in Menomonie. So grand!

THANKS are so due:

Thank you so much to all of you who came out to see us in the last year. We are so thanksgivingful to have had the opportunity to play in so many places for so many wonderful people throughout the year. Thank you for buying our record! We are so close to paying back our fine label Amble Down Records for the investment they made earlier this year. Perhaps they might even make a buck on us one day. So thankful to them for their hard work. Thanks to all of those floor/couch owners out there who let us take up space for the night. You're tops! Thanks to our families for supporting us so graciously and digging the music.

THANKFULNESS is so in order:

I believe I've neglected to say in this blog that we will have a release of our album in France next year on a young label with lots of spunk called Almost Musique. So amazing! So one day I may write you an email from a cafe in France with people saying lots of things I won't understand. I'm thankful for that.

A stamp of FINALITY:

So our last show on the year will be back home:

Dec 10 | 8pm | all ages | $0
UW - Stout (the Undergroud) - Menomonie, WI
w/ Peter Wolf Crier and The New Audrey
Facebook invite (invite your friends?)

We are so, so happy to play our last show of the year in the place we love for the people we also love. Hope to see you!

Love,
jason.

Nature is off the chain out here. - Doe (from Oakland)

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Where we're going- Big Sur State Park
A humorous recent event- The lead singer of an 80's/early 90's style rock band fully dressed as Batman inserting the "F" word as much as he could into a rousing cover of the Beatles "Helter Skelter."