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Setlist, Banjo's 2.26.10
Website: Castle Builder DesignSaturday, February 27, 2010 July 1, Near Helena, MT Lucky Day Before You Were My Baby Born on Third Base Keep Me Gaps in my Resume I Get Excited Elemental Only You, Lonely Me Whatever Makes You Happy Proud Highway (with Drina Seay) Don't Think I Can't Stop (with Charlene McPherson I Thought You Were My Friend (with Charlene McPherson) Thank you to everybody who came out! ******** Ralf in Lauchhammer, Germany and Jarle in Grimstad, Norway, your copies of Hello Disaster are on their way! Star In A New Heathens Video -- Proud Highway Thursday, February 25, 2010 Friends, I want you to be in the little YouTube video I'm making for the song Proud Highway, which is on the new record Hello Disaster. Here's how it will work. The video will feature clips of different folks each lip-syncing a line from the song (lyrics posted below). If you want to be in the video, please video yourself lip-syncing some or all of Proud Highway and e-mail it to me at newheathens(at)gmail.com. Get a free download of the song from our MySpace site http://www.myspace.com/thenewheathens, download it for $0.99 off iTunes, or e-mail me at newheathens(at)gmail.com and I'll send you an MP3. Videos must be compatible with Mac's iMovie. Can't lip-sync? Send me a video of you playing air-guitar. Can't play air-guitar? Send me a video of you dancing. Can't dance? Send me a video of you doing something fun. Keep it clean, we're out of our blue phase. DEADLINE: FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 2010. I'll post the video on Thursday, March 18, the day of our Disaster Release show at the Lakeside Lounge at 9 p.m. PROUD HIGHWAY Take the proud highway Gets you where you're going Take the proud highway Hammer down you're gone You can come And you can go That's all right by me But don't say yes And then say no I can't stand duality I wouldn't mind To spend your time I can't speak for you The proud highway is out the door my friend And you are free to choose To take the proud highway Gets you where you're going Take the proud highway Hammer down you're gone Rest stop Truck stop Engine block Classic rock Lug nuts Bug guts White cross Cheesy puffs Butt-cramp RV camp Runaway truck ramp Trucker tan Minivan Take me to the promised land On the proud highway Gets you where you're going Take the proud highway Hammer down you're gone Black ice Jesus Christ Something in the headlights Little town Broke down Tow yard Tow pound Stay awake Don't be late Lost on the interstate Too much speed Cop sees "License registration please." I drive fast and I take chances That's the way I live And if you want to ride with me I'll give you all I got to give But if you've got somewhere else to be Put your signal on and go The proud highway will take you there I might see you up the road On the proud highway Gets you where you're going Take the proud highway Hammer down you're gone On the proud highway Gets you where you're going Take the proud highway Hammer down you're gone Proud highway Take the proud highway Hammer down you're gone Hammer down you're gone Hammer down you're gone On and on and on Lakeside Lords Wednesday, February 24, 2010 Friends, I know I've been away for three weeks but I've never been so happy to return to New York City as I was on Saturday night. I went straight from Newark Airport to the Lakeside Lounge and have visited that favorite bar o' mine every night since. I'd like to give you Reason #17,304 and Reason #24,001 why It's Great to Live in New York. Reason #17,304: Secret Happy Hour Shows by Bands Reunited After Two Decades  The Del Lords rocked the hell out of New York City from the bands inception in 1984 through their fourth and last studio album in 1990. After 20 years the four original members, Scott Kempner, Eric "Roscoe" Ambel, Manny Caiati and Frank Funaro, reunited and cut an outstanding new EP entitled, "Under Construction." Check it out. Yesterday at the Lakeside Lounge the Del Lords (billed as "The Elvis Club") played a secret show that was hard-charging, rhythmic, exciting and totally rocking. Today the Del Lords flew to Spain for a tour. I knew of the Del Lords from Roscoe's biography and I own their compilation CD but seeing them yesterday was a shot in the arm. Check these dudes out. They rock. Reason #24,001: J.D. Hughes  I'll never understand why people go to comedy clubs in New York City. Rather than suffering through scores of unfunny Andrew Dice Clay wannabees, visit the Lakeside Lounge on Monday and Friday nights. Those are the nights that J.D. "Doggie" Hughes bartends. He may be the funniest man in New York City. J.D. has a whip-quick wit and a Muppet's sensibility (indeed, one of his favorite utterances is Fozzy's "Waka-waka-waka!"). J.D. will switch from scatting gibberish ("A-doo-ba-da-ba-dee, a-dee-ba-da-ba-doo!") to miming a zombie singer, to playing air-drums complete with stick tosses (in another incarnation, J.D. is one of the best drummers in the city). On top of all the wackadoo humor, J.D. can fire off puns and witty comebacks the likes of which would make Groucho Marx cheer. This guy is a gem. If you go to the Lakeside on either Monday or Friday nights and don't leave in hysterics, your tab is on me.  One more Lakeside thing: New Heathens will play a little Hello Disaster gig there on March 18. 9 p.m. Free. "Can't Go West, Can't Go East," A Bottle Rockets Landmark? Sunday, February 21, 2010
 "Right now my future's in the hands of the boys down at Firestone/Stuck in Indianapolis, feeling all alone," -- Bottle Rockets, "Indianapolis." Outta' Indiana but possibly not before finding a shop name-checked in a song by one of my favorite bands. Chalk this up to Bottle Rockets fan nerd-dom to the Nth degree, but while stuck in Indianapolis myself I thought it would be cool to seek out a landmark immortalized in that classic tune, named after Indiana's capital city. In the song "Indianapolis," songwriter Brian Hennemann (a guy who can write a song as good as they come, particularly when he teams with mysterious "5th Bottle-Rocket" co-writer Scott Taylor) tells a hilarious story of being broke down in Indy, homesick, sick of hearing about sex offenses, sicker of hearing John "The Coug" Mellencamp, and utterly bummed out. I'm guessing this is the exact Firestone along Michigan Road in downtown Indianapolis that Hennemann sings of taking his van. Is there any way to confirm this?  **** There is an article about me and my Hoosier Oddyseey in a blog called In The Mix Uncut, written by Indianapolan Kurt Matthew Pfeiffer. Check it out here.  My co-author John is back in Indiana drinking, I mean, working on his half of the book now. Godspeed, sir. More Good News From British Columbia Friday, February 19, 2010 Time to check in with a couple homestate issues close to my heart that I keep tabs on in this blog. In addition to the great US performances at the Olympics in Vancouver (and, seriously, Shaun White was amazing), there is more great stuff to report from British Columbia. You may recall me blogging about possible Canadian coal mining in the North Fork of the Flathead river drainage putting sensitive bull trout habitat at risk. The North Fork of the Flathead starts in British Columbia and flows across the US border into Montana where it forms the Western boundary of Glacier National Park before joining two other Flathead River forks and eventually pouring into Flathead Lake, the largest natural freshwater lake west of the Mississippi. This week Canadian Premier Gordon Campbell announced that the Canadian side of the Flathead River drainage is now off-limits to mining and hydrocarbon development. Montana's two senators (the much-beat-up-about-health-care) Max Baucus and Jon Tester will write a bill for our side of the border to also protect Flathead's North Fork. As someone who visits the North Fork annually, and an enthusiastic angler who has been delighted the couple times he's caught a bull trout, I am thrilled about this news. North Fork, Summer 2009  Meanwhile, progress on protecting America's last wild, free-roaming bison herd, Yellowstone's, took a step back. Marty Zaluski, head of Montana's Department of Livestock, announced that the agency would go back on its plan of allowing an unlimited number of bison to cross out of the park's border in the winter in search of food at the less-snowy lower-elevations to the west. Sorry guys.  At issue here is that some Yellowstone bison carry the disease brucellosis, which can cause cows to abort their fetuses. However there are zero cows in the area in which Yellowstone's bison would cross, and there has never been a documented instance of a buffalo giving brucellosis to a cow. I follow this issue closely. I think we need to put Shaun White in charge of bison management in America. Let Me Not Fail, Lord, For Lack of Trying... Monday, February 15, 2010
Elbo Room Chicago 2.11.10
Saturday, February 13, 2010
 Great to play Chicago again and really a treat to share a stage with my good friend Dan McGuinness. Can't say enough good things about the dude. He's as generous as they come, he's a hard worker and it sure is a treat to hear him sing. Do yourself a favor and pick up his song, "Blue Diamond Revival." Lord of his domain: Dan.  Dan and I traded sets the whole night. Here's what I did. Set 1. Crybaby/I Thought You Were My Friend/Thankless War/Don't Think I Can't Stop (Just Because I Don't)/Bastard Like Me/Proud Highway/Lawyers Guns & Money (Zevon)/Feelin' Lucky Again Set 2. Getaway Baby/141/When She's Wasted/Back To Jesus/Wild Horses (Jagger/Richards)/July 1, Near Helena, MT/Kansas Romeo/For Cryin' Out Loud (Keith Christopher/Yayhoos) Set 3. I Get Excited/Lucky Day/Elemental/Before You Were My Baby/Born On Third Base/Only You, Lonely Me/Keep Me/Whatever Makes You Happy/Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues (Dylan) This was cool. This lady, Carole, went to high school with my mom, got back in touch with her recently on Facebook, and came out to the show. Far out.  Likewise my mom's cousin Steve, Dee and friends Julia & Jason came out. Great to see you all. Be it visiting family, wandering around Wrigleyville, eating good, thick pizza, listening to WXRT 93.1 FM or hanging out with my great friend Dan, I love Chicago. It was great to be back! Thanks to the Elbo Room. 
Elbo Room in Chicago on Thursday With Dan McGuinness
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 Dan & Nate  Indiana odyssey wraps up Thursday night with a cool show at the Elbo Room in Chicago with great friend Dan McGuinness. Dan's been a buddy since before the Heathens played Chicago and we did a show together in New York in Sept. '08. He's a great singer and great songwriter. We'll trade sets on and Thursday night and it should be real fun. Hope to see some Midwestern friends out. The Elbo Room 2871 N. Lincoln Ave. Chicago, IL 60657 Phone: 773-549-5549 9 p.m. sharp! Message From Butch: Monday, February 8, 2010 Attention New Heathens fans, I'm playing a show this week with my band, The Buck Ups! That'll be at our favorite NYC bar, the Lakeside Lounge, 162 Ave B (between 10th & 11th St.) on Wednesday, Feb. 10th at 9:30. If you haven't seen me perform recently, this would be a great time to check me out. I've got a ton of great new songs and I'm playing with a rockin' group of musicians. You can hear a few of the new tunes I'm working on my website, www.Thebuckups.com If you like my song Pig Pen from our new album, Hello Disaster, why not grab a brew and hear a little more of what I'm doing. I'd love to see ya there! Setlist, Highland, IN 2.6.10 & Cousin Brad Sunday, February 7, 2010 Three cheers for Bone Dry Bar and Grill in Highland, Indiana. Joannie, who runs the place, loves music, good beer and the Chicago Cubs. Bone Dry reflects that. There are great Indiana brews on tap and the place is decked out in Cubs stuff (Yes! I feel at home at last. I love the CUBS, do you hear me New York? I love the CHICAGO CUBS and I'll NEVER CHANGE!!!) Best of all, Bone Dry knows how to treat its musicians. They get fed AND paid. Even sold a couple CDs. Setlist (if you really wanna' know) Proud Highway, Lawyers, Guns & Money (Zevon), I Thought You Were My Friend, Thankless War, Don't Think I Can't Stop (Just Because I Don't), Wild Horses (Stones), Crybaby, When She's Wasted, Feelin' Lucky Again, For Cryin' Out Loud (Yayhoos) Set 2: Getaway Baby, 141, Goodnight Paterson, July 1, Near Helena, MT, Kansas Romeo, Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues (Dylan) When The Night Comes, Back To Jesus, I Was In The House When The House Burned Down (Zevon)Set 3 I Get Excited, Lucky Day, Elemental, Before You Were My Baby, Obsessive, Born On Third Base, Bastard Like Me, Gaps In My Resume, When Things Go Wrong (Baby I'm Easy), Only You, Lonely Me, Keep Me, Brick City, Indianapolis (Bottle Rockets) Today, watching Pete Townsend's minor wardrobe malfunction in Kokomo, IN with my awesome cousin Brad and his sweetie Courtney. Brad works at this bacon makin' factory and has graciously offered to keep me in bacon for my entire stay in Indiana.  Brad, I loved ya' even before the bacon, but now...wow. Setlist Melody Inn, Indianapolis, IN 2.5.10 Saturday, February 6, 2010 Me & the billboard advertising the show  Proud Highway Getaway Baby Before You Were My Baby Don't Think I Can't Stop (Just Because I Don't) Crybaby Keep Me Born On Third Base Bastard Like Me Thankless War Feelin' Lucky Again Lawyers, Guns & Money It was a snow show. I was psyched to snag a gig at Indy's Melody Inn, a super-cool joint that does roots rock on Fridays. I was to open for the regular first Friday band, Stockwell Road. Apparently, the plows didn't reach Stockwell Road because the band didn't show due to snow. Unfortunately, the audience were all "snow shows" too, yuk-yuk. Instead of taxing Mike The Soundguy and making him set me up onstage, I played a set from my barstool for Mike, Carla the bartender and John, my co-pilot and co-author on this weird Hoosier odyssey.  John and I are getting buzz in Indiana, garnering a blog post on IndianaBeer. I'll be playing a cool show in Chicago this Thursday at the Elbo Room with my great friend Dan McGuinness. 9 p.m. And tonight at: Bone Dry Bar & Grill 3805 Ridge Road Highland, IN 46322-2256 (219) 838-2442 10 p.m. sharp ******* Jim in San Francisco, your copy of Hello Disaster is on its way. Setlist Max's Place, Bloomington, IN 2/3/10 Wednesday, February 3, 2010 Proud Highway Crybaby Elemental Lawyers Guns & Money Thank you, open mic hippies! Setlist, Vollrath, Indianapolis, IN Crybaby Elemental Bastard Like Me Proud Highway Lawyers, Guns & Money Getaway Baby Only You, Lonely Me I Get Excited Back To Jesus Allegedly, there is a streaming video of this (fast forward about two hours). The Vollrath is a funky, 84-year-old neighborhood bar with red lights, red walls and allegedly tunnels burrowing underneath that gangster John Dillinger used to escape police. The guy to my left was missing a tooth, the guy to my right was missing an eye and a woman who claimed to be a former Vegas stripper did the most impressive bar trick I've ever seen. She balanced my beer on her head, did cheerleader kicks, and then dropped to the ground and did one-handed push-ups. All without spilling a drop. Go Indianapolis! ************* Iain in Perth, Australia and Nana & Grandad in Chicago :-) , your copies of Hello Disaster are on their way. |
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