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Last night Nashville was a busy city. Rolling into town in our Burgandy van (dubbed Jack Johnson for the "flip-flop wearing good feeling" he/she inspires) we had plans for a sound check, maybe a burrito, Logan was even day-dreaming about spending way too long strolling the isles of the drum store while the rest of us sweated off lbs, in the van.... But before all of this could happen we had to meet some celebrities and watch some car theft happen at the BP. Skip and Timshel dorked out heavy when we pulled up to Grimey's and the Danielson Familiare was packing up after their in-store upstairs . We immediately approached their van and bumbled out something suave and uber-cool like "you guyzes music is , like, SOOOO amazing." He dug it. If you haven't heard their new album "SHIPS", check them out.
And the BP. Nick and Timshel went for a pre-show deodorant run and found more then they were expecting. Suspicions should have risen when we noticed that it was late enough (what?) or shady enough outside for them to lock the front doors and only allow you to request your purchase from a small hole in the plexi-glass to the right of the door. Just about the time that all of these "details" registered Nick heard the lady behind the counter say to a man behind him "That man is stealing your car." Sure enough, the man's blue Toyota truck was being driven out of the parking lot by someone else. It became obvious to us all (most unfortunately to the man in the truck) that the straight shift was a "surprise". The man made it across the main street and even managed to back it up with the owner hanging through the driver window punching his head off before he escaped out the passenger door, paused to wave at the police car and darted for the woods. A helicopter was involved.
Thank you so much to everybody who came out for the Nashville residency shows. You all came out with zeal, filled the room to the seems and rep-rezented, Big Time. We had a great time playing The Basement and look forward to seeing you all again next time we are back in town. We'll keep you posted.

Hello and welcome to Nashville. We just got to the hotel after staying up late last night recording in Wilkesboro and alternating naps during our six hour trip,...just in time for a little FIFA. Real quick we wanted to post some pictures of the cd release show in Chapel Hill. More will be coming as well as a live stream clip from the Pourhouse ( we are just trying to organize some killer graphix by way of Dr. Matheny) so keep looking but for now here is a sample of what's to come. Enjoy!

We are all doing our best here to rest up after a weekend full of shows. After the celebrations on Thursday night we played an in-store at Schoolkids in Chapel Hill and then we finished off the weekend in Raleigh where we joined our friends the magnificent Patty Hurst Shifter at The Pourhouse. Thank you so much to everyone who came out to single and multiple shows throughout the weekend. It was quite a way to celebrate and we thank all of you for coming out and putting on your party hats. We will be posting pictures from all the shows in the next couple of days so keep your eyes out for back flips and pyrotechnics. They happened so quick……
Also squeezed into the weekend we managed to pick up the phone around 12:30 a.m and hear Thad on the other line requesting Skip and Timshel back over at Logan and Nick’s to write a Christmas song for the dB’s Holiday album due out this 2006 Christmas. This was Saturday? By some sort of miracle the song was finished by 3:30 (despite multiple breaks by every band member to listen to/read aloud Wesley Willis Lyrics) and recorded the next morning before Thad headed home to Nashville.
This week we are very excited to be heading to Alabama and back to Nashville for our second night at The Basement. We will definitely be pulling some rabbits out of some hats so rally the troops and head on out.
http://www.nashvillerage.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060622/RAGE0202/606220326.
Most exciting for us though we will be stopping mid trip in Wilkesboro to get some recording done for Songs For An Empty Room.

We wanted to write a quick hello to say thank you SO much to everyone who came out to help us celebrate this past weekend. We had such a good time and it was so much fun to see everyone out to celebrate with us. Thank you for making drives and putting on your party clothes, Ya’ll looked fiiiiine!

What is amazing about rock and roll bands is that they can do ridiculous things and blame them on "the crazy life", for example...labelling the shows that you are about to play in a few days with dates from a previous month. We DID play a smoking show with Seth Kauffman and The Real Mothers in Asheville this past weekend, during this very month of June that we are currently living in right now. So... sorry for the miscommunication. loco. Thanks so much to everybody who came out anyways (how did you know?!) and for all of you all let me say this..HOW ABOUT THE REAL MOTHERS?!! Our pants have been officially blown off everyone. The show was incredible with everything from multi-instrumentation to live romance novel reading to MAD maraca/bongo playing. thank YOU to Seth and his Mothers.
The main event as it stands right now is our high security secret plans and rehearsals for the cd release party. We can't even really talk about it. So of course we thought we'd blog about it. s-yyyyke.
See you Hot-lantians this weekend,