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Roscoe's Links
Website: Castle Builder DesignSaturday, January 30, 2010 Producer Eric "Roscoe" Ambel gave Hello Disaster a sweet link on his "producer/mixer" page. Check it out here. Also, you Facebookers, dig the Hello Disaster post on his "Produced by Eric 'Roscoe' Ambel" fanpage. Thanks Roscoe! 
Banjo's Setlist 1/29/10
Proud Highway I Get Excited Before You Were My Baby Obsessive Born on Third Base Bastard Like Me Gaps in my Resume Keep Me Only You, Lonely Me Elemental Crybaby (with with Drina Seay) I Thought You Were My Friend (with Drina Seay) Whatever Makes You Happy Back To Jesus Lawyers Guns & Money (Zevon) Thank you to EVERYBODY who came out this past month! 
Indiana Tour 2010
Friday, January 29, 2010
 Friends, tomorrow I embark on a literary adventure of sorts that promises to be a musical one as well. The roots of this adventure were planted back in 2005 when I started working as a stringer in New Jersey for the NY Times. Back in those newspaper halcyon days, the Times did a ton of Jersey coverage and they had one main stringer covering the entire Garden State, John Holl. John lobbied his bosses to hire another stringer. That turned out to be me. John and I became great friends. After John married two years ago he got out of daily journalism, wanting a regular 9 to 5 job. Now he misses daily deadlines like mad. Being financially freed from journalism, however, John discovered he could do freelance work and write only about what he loves. And John loves two things. His wife, and beer. John knows every publication that prints a word about beer. Specifically, he knows of a little publishing company in Pennsylvania, Stackpole Books, that publishes state-by-state guides to breweries. John called me up last summer and suggested that we do a Montana brewery book together. "You know Montana," he said. "And I know beer." Hot damn that was a great idea! Road trip through my homestate with a buddy, drink beer, write a damn book and get PAID to do it?! We couldn't send in that book proposal fast enough. Lo and behold the publishers loved it! Said it was great. Only one problem, they said. There aren't enough Barnes & Nobles or other chain bookstores in Montana to make publishing that book profitable. So they asked John if there were any other states we could write about. John worked for a year as a reporter at the Indianapolis Star. "What about Indiana?" he said. "You've got yourself a book deal!" they said. ************** To coincide with our "research" for this book, I'm going to play a series of solo-acoustic gigs (the Banjo Jim's thing). Contact me if you have specific questions: 917-478-4984 Tuesday, Feb. 2 The Volrath" 118 E. Palmer Ave Indianapolis, IN 46227-4151 (317) 632-5199 8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 3 Max's Place, 109 W. 7th Street Bloomington, IN 47404 (812) 336-5169 8-ish Thursday, Feb. 4 Lizard Lounge, 5002 Madison Ave, Indianapolis,IN 317-783-9256 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 5. Melody Inn 3826 North Illinois Street Indianapolis, IN (317) 923-4707 8 p.m. With Stockwell Road Saturday, Feb. 6 Bone Dry Bar & Grill 3805 Ridge Road Highland, IN 46322-2256 (219) 838-2442 10 p.m. sharp "Disaster" Feedback: Thanks Laura! 'Member when I said you look liked a Rock star, and you wanted to know if you sounded like a Rock star? YOU SOUND LIKE A ROCK STAR!!! FRICKEN AWESOME DUDE!!!! l LOVE IT!" Hello Disaster on iTunes Wednesday, January 27, 2010
 Find it here. Thursday Night Tuesday, January 26, 2010
 At Banjo Jim's. I'll sing "Crescent City" and "Real Live Bleeding Fingers and Broken Guitar Strings." Feast of Music Monday, January 25, 2010
 Very happy to see I made it to the tres chic blog Feast of Music after my Banjo's gig last Friday. ******* Sharri in Chicago, your copy of Hello Disaster is on its way! Banjo's Pix & Party Sunday, January 24, 2010 Been having a lot of fun doing my latest solo-acoustic Happy Hour residency at Banjo Jim's. Really appreciate the Banjo's Crew for giving me a welcoming place to perform. Banjo's is an exemplary petri dish for scores of music makers honing their "thing." I've used this latest residency to try out as many as 10 new, unrecorded songs per show -- with at least one brand new song each week. (Funny, you finish a project you've been mired in for three years like, say, Hello Disaster, and you're able to write songs again!) My friend Rich took these pictures on 1.15.10. Thanks Rich!     With friends Christine & Kim Very grateful to my friends Drina and Dave Seay for coming out each show. Drina not only booked me, she duets with me. And after the 1.15 show she invited me back to her & Dave's pad, along with their friend Mimi, for a wild afterparty. How wild? So wild that Drina spun her copy of Hello Disaster and she and Mimi strummed guitars along with each song and sang. Thirty-nine minutes of artistic vindication, baby! Two beautiful women serenading a guy with his own songs can suddenly make even the wretchedness that went into recording Hello Disaster seem totally worth it.  The cheers shot: Mimi, Drina & me; Dave is obviously double-fisting -- a Corona and a camera!Thanks to all my friends who've come out. One more this Friday. ************* Tracy in Binghamton, NY, your copy of Hello Disaster AND your copy of Heathens Like Me are on their way. Setlist, Banjo's 1.22.10 Saturday, January 23, 2010 I Get Excited Lucky Day Elemental Before You Were My Baby Obsessive Crybaby (with Drina Seay) Proud Highway (with Drina Seay) Gaps In My Resume Born On 3rd Base Bastard Like Me Only You, Lonely Me Whatever Makes You Happy Keep Me Back To Jesus I Thought You Were My Friend (with Charlene McPherson) Lawyers, Guns & Money (Zevon) Thank you to all who came out. *********** Laura (on BEAR DRIVE!!!) in MISSOULA, MT your copy of Hello Disaster is on its way! Listener Feedback, New Songs on MySpace Thursday, January 21, 2010 From Carrie: Schwebs- LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the new album!!!! My Fav is Thankless War. Adore it! Lil Dylan Flavor. And Butch was Super Awesome with Pig Pen. Not saying the first album was bad...... but this one is STELLAR! Jim really likes it too. So, obviously, I really like this one. Prolly order a couple more albums from you. I was talkin' to Travis about it (Have been accosting random mutual friends) and he asked if there was a way to listen to clips before purchase. Apparently, $15 is a lot of "Scrilla" for some "dawgs." So, you guys should set that up. I have tons of people I can turn on to you if you did. Until then, I fully intend to roll the windows down in January on my Yukon, blast the album for all of the "Perfect Plastic People" in the over priced, over suctioned pit that IS Virginia Beach! They'll like it. Or they can kiss my ass. OK, enough with the rant. I'll help where I can... So, congrats on a truly capital job on the new album. My couch lesbian is still drooling over the pin up girls on the front. I assume they are Lido's work? OK, really done. It's like 11:18 pm and for a mother of two that has a horrific migraine (taking Imitrex and Percocet which explains my reverting BACK to my abrasive high school pinache!) and I feel the need to take my lil bit high ass to Snoozleville. -CAGD ********* Travis, Carrie and anybody else wanting to hear some of the songs on Hello Disaster, please (get your 2005 on and) visit the New Heathens MySpace page, www.myspace.com/thenewheathens. Chaos Himself Wednesday, January 20, 2010 On a hot, sticky Saturday late morning last summer I gathered in a Williamsburg club with one of my favorite bands in the world, New York's The Izzys. With one microphone in the middle of the room we cut three new songs. I played harmonica. The EP is out. It's called Chaos Himself.  Also available on iTunes. Setlist, Banjo's, 1.15.10 Saturday, January 16, 2010 Crybaby When She's Wasted Born on Third Base Only You, Lonely Me Before You Were My Baby Obsessive I Thought You Were My Friend Bastard Like Me Back To Jesus Elemental I Get Excited Whatever Makes You Happy Lawyers, Guns & Money (Zevon) Collateral Damage, New York Post Page 5 Friday, January 15, 2010 Turned up in this photo on page five of today's New York Post (alas, not Page Six.)  I covered former NY1 news anchor Dominic Carter's sentencing for beating up his wife (to my left). In November she testified that despite what she said in a 911 call and wrote in a statement, it was not her husband who beat her bloody, rather an unnamed day laborer. Mrs. Carter asked the judge for leniency. He showed little, calling Mr. Carter "a classic case of a domestic violence abuser," and sentencing him to jail plus psychiatric treatment. ****** Carrie in Virginia Beach, your copy of Hello Disaster is on its way. Haiti & A Sandwich Shoppe I Can Endorse Wednesday, January 13, 2010 As we watch shocking images of utter destruction come in from Haiti, a nifty thing was brought to my attention by Facebook friends and confirmed on the White House's website. Text "HAITI" to 90999 with your cell phone and a $10 donation will be tacked on to your monthly bill. Did it. While helping with a story about a church group from Hackettstown, NJ that went to Haiti on Saturday (and are thankfully all OK), I parked in front of a sandwich shop on Main Street with this sign hanging above the door:  Hackettstown Sandwich Shoppe, you get a plug! **** Andrew in Phoenix, your copy of Hello Disaster is on its way. Hello Disaster: Reason for Hope in 2010? Monday, January 11, 2010 My great friend Bob Wire really set me on the right path as an impressionable young man by teaching me that country music doesn't have to suck. In high school I associated country music with vicious, chaw-drooling, Wrangler-bursting, Stetson bobbling knuckledraggers all hell-bent to kick the shit out of me because they thought I was gay. Bob Wire's bands, first the Fencemenders and now the Magnificent Bastards, taught me that if you turned off country radio and put in the right CDs (Bottle Rockets, Blue Mountain, Beat Farmers, Steve Earle, Todd Snider, BoDeans, etc.) so-called "country music" could rock like the damn Stones. It could be smart and funny too. Like Bob. Bob's a renaissance man; songwriter, graphic designer, author, political provocateur, dad, husband of the lovely Barb Wire, and blogger. I bookmark him on the great website New West. His rollicking recap of the suck that was 2009 ruled. I'm both flattered and fearful that one of the only things he's got to hold on to for hope that 2010 will be better is a record called "Hello Disaster." Read the blog here.  ***** Mick in Leeds, UK, your copy is on its way! Setlist 1.8.10 Saturday, January 9, 2010 Banjo Jim's January Happy Hour Residency #1 (tried out some new 'uns...) Proud Highway I Get Excited* Elemental* Before You Were My Baby* Born On 3rd Base* Bastard Like Me Only You, Lonely Me* Keep Me* I Thought You Were My Friend Don't Think I Can't Stop (Just Because I Don't) Thankless War Gaps in my Resume Whatever Makes You Happy* Lawyers Guns & Money (Warren Zevon) Back To Jesus For Cryin' Out Loud (Yayhoos) *=first time played out Thank you to everyone who came out, and everybody who bought some of the first copies of Hello Disaster. Here's a picture of me after the show with Joe Cassady, who also played Banjo's last night. Thanks to Melissa, Joe's wife, for this. 
Crazy Harry
Friday, January 8, 2010 I learned how to play harmonica from a dude named "Crazy Harry." He was the mailman when I was growing up. During summer vacations I would sit out by the mailbox with my Hohner Special 20, key of C, and wait for him to make his rounds. He'd always stop, hang out and show me a few licks. I'm still trying to get good enough to play Whammer Jammer, as he would always request. Crazy Harry talks in rhythmic jive and following his thought patterns can be like riding a roller coaster. Having lived all over the U.S. and served in the military he has something to say about pretty much everywhere. As a scholar of rock 'n' roll he is always handy with stream-of-consciousness wisdom. "Girls are like busses," he told me when I was a lovelorn teen. "When one lets you off, there's always another one around the corner to pick you up." Never afraid to raise hackles, Crazy Harry rants, raves, taunts and praises as he damn well pleases. In addition to delivering the US Mail, Hman grows apples in orchards in Montana's Bitterroot Valley. Every couple years some unfortunate ungulate gets in Crazy Harry's crosshairs and a little while later I'll get hunks of its dried flesh, seasoned and scrumptious, in the mail. He just sent me a Ziploc full of jerkey from an elk blasted on the last day of hunting season up Bridger Creek in the Gallatin National Forest. Say what you will about Crazy Harry, that man shoots a delicious elk. 
Four (Frosty) Days of Peace, Love & Music
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
 Banjo Jim's, every Friday in January (1.8, 1.15, 1.22 & 1.29). 7 p.m. sharp. Free. #1 Saturday, January 2, 2010 Thanks to Grant in Rickmansworth, UK for buying the first pre-release copy of Hello Disaster for $15 via PayPal. 'Sss on its way! |
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