Kong Size your Record, 89 cents. Hello folks.. we are officially recording thad cockrell's new project. 530 am and finishing another hot sesh. oh man can he write some songs. thad is recording an electric sitar track as i write. not really. we haven't really emerged from this basement apart to eat, make coffee and play with jude. we did indulge in about a half hour of conan the destroyer last night though. thad's two songs we've been hammering out are (at the moment) called "she's a navigator" and "rosalyn". Happy new year by the way.
really though, the sign on the burger king right as you pull onto 268 (wilkesboro) says "kong size your whopper - 89 cents".

We here at roman candle certainly hope that everyone is in the middle of a fine Christmas, and we would further like to wish all you blog-readers a happy new year. thanks to all who sent us holiday wishes, cheer, gifts, etc. we are heading up to wilkesboro tomorrow to begin recording some of thad cockrell's new songs. as we have said many times before, "LOOK OUT!" the man know what he is doing behind a guitar.

here's a Christmas message for you. you cannot top the iron and wine song "passing afternoon." It is playing at this moment in our house. God bless us every one. it is one of those bells, etc. in the same boat is alfred hitchcock's dial m for murder and strangers on a train. man - Santa came early this year by dropping those sweet things into our netflix. unbelievable. if you've ever seen a play and said, "that would make a rip roaring movie..." then LOOK OUT!" Dial M for murder. Ouch. The film basically takes place in one room - and one would almost not notice until you saw the talking heads in the bonus features. WOW. Chatting about Alfred Hitchcock's greatness is like sitting around talking about how great Rubber Soul is. At Christmas-time, it has to be done, no matter how endless the praise could be --. so here it is. ba doosha.

We do have a new european booking agent and we will be in england playing shows in february. more deatils to come when we get them. here is their website:
primary talent international. the man to look out for is Andy Wooliscroft.

Chris Stamey is currently mixing some delectables from the keegan dewitt record we have been working on. between him and us, we should have the record mixed and listenable sometime before springtime. in the meantime, if you want to hear some d-lux demos, visit keegan's myspace page. look out for guest appearances on keegan's record form Thad Cockrell, and others.

speaking of TC, we will be involved in some (ineviatbly smoking -- have you heard warmth and beauty?) recording sessions with the man during the first two weeks of January. As always with new music from Thad Cockrell, we feel obligated to say "look out" because his new songs and his singing will undoubtably blow your brain out/break your heart. ---- this picture by the way is keegan in wilkesboro NC recording "so high so low". this picture below is Keegan and Chad Hartigan visiting the dude in los angeles.

Rumors are flying that we will be doing some U.K. shows in february. they may even be true. we'll keep you posted

Well hello. Christmas time, and the phone is ringing off the hook. reporters. courtesy calls (thumbs up), landlords, vicky pollard. and you want to know what they are all asking? what does the spirit of Christmas mean in our modern age? nope. they want to know if Chris (Stamey)'s acoustic guitar was ever repaired after our db's/maxwell's shows. the answer, thankfully is a sweet pie yes. Here is a quick background if you missed this tidbit of our live show history:

This past Sept. we played two shows at maxwell’s in Hoboken NJ, opening for the fully reunited dB’s. (if you don’t know who the dB’s are, visit thedbsonline.net). Half way through our second show, skip announced to the audience that we were all using the dB’s gear that night, and that they had graciously lent it to us, so that we could open for them as a full band. He also put in a special thanks to Chris for letting us borrow his acoustic guitar, which he’d brought to NY just for us to use during these opening sets.

Exactly three minutes after this “thanks, thanks and thanks” interlude, we were in the middle of a "when does night begin" and skip managed to trip over a piece of equipment on stage stand and fall into Chris’s acoustic guitar, smashing it in two. Though this was both dramatic and spectacular to the audience (who i might add consisted of 100% -sold out months in advance- dB's fans who had waited over 20 years to see this fully reunited band), It was absolutely mortifying for us. yikes. the looks on the faces of the people in the front row were pretty special. However, thanks to modern medicine, Chris's guitar has now been repaired and is home safe in chapel hill.