Category: gigs

acclaim, local and international

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We’re trying not to let it go to our heads. You know, now that we’ve recorded an album that our families all want as Christmas gifts, and that has found sales far and wide. In fact, we’ve gone international already:

Locations of paid downloads on our BandCamp site. The astute map reader will note that these downloads have come from two different countries.

We’ve even sent a few CDs across state lines. Yet, it’s just as exciting to see our CDs on the shelves of our local record store, Lavender Vinyl. In case you’re looking for a copy and can’t find us in person, this is a great solution to all your holiday shopping needs. (And we love Lavender Vinyl, even if they didn’t carry our CDs. I just picked up an old Fats Domino record along with a classic Stevie Wonder album I’ve been wanting.)

And if you page through the local Indie Ogden magazine, holiday edition, you’ll find us right there with all the other bands on the scene:

Our mark in the December gig lineup for Ogden.

So, it could all go to our heads, all the fame and attention. But we don’t pay too much attention. We’re getting ready to play our favorite consignment store in Brigham City this Friday night. Hope to see you there.

gig & release party

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Well, that was fun.

On Friday night, good people from all over paid $5 to get in the door; they stayed and listened to music; they bought a few of our freshly pressed CDs; they clapped and sometimes whistled and even danced; and we all got to play music we love. The very welcoming Lighthouse folks worked the sound, heated up Caryn’s water for tea, and brought us beverages from whatever tap we requested. I can’t think of a better way to spend an evening.

We’re already looking forward to returning to Lighthouse on February 1.

December 2019 Lighthouse gig and CD release!

released!

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It’s here!!!

Happy birthday to our album! As of today, December 6, it is live on streaming services, downloadable, and arriving as an old fashioned CD! Take a look at our music page and visit the liner notes to get a preview.

And it turns out that tonight we’ll celebrate with a gig at Lighthouse Lounge (~9:00 – Midnight, 21+, $5 cover) here in Ogden. We’ll bring CDs as well as our live selves.

It’s us! On the back cover of our very own self-titled CD!

December 6

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So, it turns out that we play Lighthouse Lounge in Ogden on Friday, December 6th. This is exciting for us for so many reasons: fun stage, good crowd, great setting, etc.

But it also turns out that December 6th is the day when (surprise!) our full length album comes out on all streaming services.

And, the delivery date for our real hold-in-your-hand-and-marvel-upon-its-significance CD is December 6th, too!

(We’ll host streaming links on our music page when they’re up, and I’m sure we’ll post an update here, too. Because we’re really excited, proud, and just generally tickled with the prospect of all this.)

So, it will be a release party. And we’ll play a couple of holiday tunes. And other things. We’re excited.

joy & wonder

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Earlier this week we worked three new songs that we can offer out to a live audience at the Funk N Dive on Friday, 9-Midnight (along with The Proper Way). We’ve gotten into a routine of putting a recorder on the floor when we want to run a new song straight through for the first time. Besides giving Caryn a track to rehearse with, we all get an irrefutable memory of exactly how we rehearsed that song. (Sometimes it’s a fun time capsule, too, realizing how much a song morphs for us as we work it over time.) I put the tracks on my phone and listen to them to get the feel for the changes and entrances. But more than those technicalities I love to hear the end of each recording.

It’s a small miracle, playing a new piece, start to finish. So it makes sense that after the music has finished there’s this pause as the last note fades, and then laughter. It’s some cross between laughing at a punch line and the laughter of astonishment. There’s delight in giving life to something that wasn’t clear before, the genuine joy in figuring something out.

And, I never imagined I’d ever get to play a Stevie Wonder cover.

Hope to see you Friday.