We’re about to head out on the road again, even braving the wild and woolly Canadian border. Hopefully, this time our papers will be, as they say, in order. As we all try to get our fill of homemade meals and real beds before we leave, we’re also getting excited to see our friends in [...]

The problem with recording is always that the live energy and the ‘vibe’ that a live performance creates, gets squashed and sucked dry until you’re left with some barely recognizable artifact. It’s like translating something into Japanese and back into English: something gets lost.

We had a great time weaving around through dancing girls and a guy who had some early hip-hop moves while looking like a cross between jed clampett and ziggy stardust

When we arrived at the Canadian border for our Montreal and Toronto gigs, we had no idea that we were about to enter a different dimension. The ponytailed, Kevlar-clad Canadian immigration officer seemed nice enough as she took our documents and paperwork and started her online research, but two hours later, as she conferred with one colleague after another without ever looking our way, things weren’t looking so smooth.

The Mercury Lounge show last night in NYC was ‘a good ole time,’ as our fearless organist likes to say. Chris Stamey (along with Anton Fier, Mr. Matt Brandau, and a short cameo from me (Django)) opened up and melted faces with his Ornette-Coleman-meets-Richard-Thompson guitar leads. Then TOC played and it was great having people [...]

On Friday, we played the gorgeous new Brooklyn venue, Bell House. Skippy, who runs it (and also runs union hall), always makes us feel at home, and Friday was no exception. We did an early show, together with my old friend chris moore (moore n sons - check em out!), and then there was a [...]

2:43PM Thursday, February 26, 2009
Not exactly the road blog I envisioned. I’m sitting in the emergency room waiting room at the Vance County Hospital somewhere near the Virginia border waiting to get an EKG for some persistent chest pains. My images of being shuttled breathlessly into the emergency room and hooked up to beeping, humming, [...]

We just saw the final cut of our brand new video for “Walk on Thin Air” for the first time today…It’s like David Lynch and Buster Keaton made a short film together.

For the first five or six songs of our set, these two girls were reenacting the kama sutra on the edge of the stage right in front of me. It was, er, a bit distracting, but not the kind of thing I wanted to discourage per se.

Married people often say that, after all the planning and preparations, their actual wedding was a blur. There is so much going on around them that their processing abilities temporarily slow down. That’s how I felt at our cd release show last night at the Cat’s Cradle.