Thanks so much to everyone who came out to The Living Room last night!!  So good to be back home, even if just for a moment!!

Get all the info on our upcoming shows HERE!

Photo Credit: DuckDuck Collective

So here we are, about a year after leaving our lives and home in Brooklyn behind for music and the unknown.  And we are still going!  The new album is in the works AND the booking of ‘The Great VW Camper Van Tour of 2012‘ is in the works.  And one of the things that we wanted most for this next tour is to play more shows with amazing musicians.  So as we’ve booked, we’ve looked for  musicians we’d want to share the stage with and I must say, I am CRAZY PUMPED about some of the people we get to play with this spring.  And when I say people I mean ass-kicking, songwriting, singing from the heart BABES.  It just kinda happened that the shows lined up in favor of the ladies and I think you’ll understand why once you watch these videos!

Please check out these videos + then go ‘like’ these lovely ladies on Facebook and tweet about them and all that good stuff.  And mark your calendar for the shows we’re playing with them (all listed below with more details HERE).  Or tell your friends to mark their calendars.

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Playing with HEATHER MALONEY on Feb. 18th in NYC @ The Living Room

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Playing with CARTER SAMPSON four times!!

• March 1st, Broken Arrow, OK – Troubadour’s Emporium
• March 2nd, Ft. Smith, AR – R. Landry’s New Orleans Cafe
• March 3rd, Norman, OK – The Chouse
• April 14th, NYC – The Living Room

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Playing with CARY COOPER on March 8th in Dallas, TX @ Poor David’s Pub

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Playing with NICOLETTE GOOD on March 9th in San Antonio, TX @ 502 Bar

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Playing with LOUISE MOSRIE on March 24th in Birmingham, AL @ Moonlight on the Mountain

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Playing with CAITLIN ROBERTSON in Minneapolis, MN (Date TBD)

This past summer we got to hang out with the French documentary maker Christophe Cousin and photographer Matthieu Paley, who were in America for four weeks seeking ‘nomadic America’ by following in the footsteps of Jack Kerouac in his book ‘On the Road.’  In the course of a four week trip across the US they captured the stories and images that would become “The Road to Kerouac; Portaits of a Nomadic America.”   We met up with them in a state park in Michigan and our story and some great photos are included in the book!

The book is in French, so I unfortunately can’t read it, but the photograhps are breathtaking.  The photos I show above (photos of photos by Matthieu) don’t do it justice and some of the nomads they encountered on the way – cowboys, hippies, a hobo, and many more are fascinating.  Not to mention the pictures of the American landscape, which we got to see so much of this past year, which is just gorgeous and so well captured in this book.  We are honored to be a part of such a beautiful book. You can see more of Matthieu’s photos, including some from the book on his website HERE. (FYI, some of the photos would go in the NSFW category.)

I am excited to announce that there is officially a new album in the works!  We are renting an incredible house in Knoxville, TN (until March when we hit the road again in the VW) that has a studio in it: mics, a drum set, a grand piano, a fireplace, a suit of armor – Ya know, all the things every good studio needs.  It is dreamy.

We have a ton of new songs, most of them written on ‘The Great VW Camper Van Tour’ and a couple we wrote in the studio recently, and we are working hard to do them justice.

I am REALLY excited about what we have so far, but there’s a lot of work still to do.  I will keep you updated!

OK, so that’s not really work that’s happening in the above pic, but it was fun!  My brother Shane, the blur on the right, is trying out our new stomp box as Matt plays along.

I will post more pics soon and keep you updated with our progress.  I can’t wait to get these new songs out into the world!!

I wanted to share some awesome pictures that our friend, John Tornow took at our show in Dallas in early December.  Check out more pics at John’s blog HERE.

And speaking of Dallas, we have a show booked there at Poor David’s Pub in March, so mark your calendars!  In fact, we have a lot of great shows shaping up for this spring.  Check them out HERE.

Click here to view the video on YouTube.

Click here to view the video on YouTube.

Click here to view the video on YouTube.

We had a wonderful time last week in Clyde, TX at the lovely restaurant Bonterra Blu where we helped celebrate the 30th birthday of our friend D. Grant Smith of ‘The Appetizer Blog’ and radio show.

We did an interview with D. Grant Smith back in March during week #1 of ‘The Great VW Camper Van Tour,’ so it was fun to be able to do a show with ‘The Appetizer’ over 100 gigs and many, many miles later.  (You can listen to that interview HERE.)

This is a shot from outside the restaurant looking in.  That’s the birthday boy and his lovely wife Leilani dancing as we played.  Love it.

Bonterra Blu is one of those places where everything about the place works together to create a wonderful experience:  the art, the lighting, the food, the people.  (Note on the food:  The chef, Joel, fed us organic goat enchiladas with cheddar and chive, grass-fed New Zealand lamb chops with sweet chili and basil, and prickly pear lemonade.  Holy friggin’ crap it was delicious.)

Thanks to D. Grant Smith and Bonterra Blu for having us!

ALSO!  We have been nominated for ‘The Appetizer’s'  GOLDEN FORK Award for ‘Best New Artist.’   This is a FAN VOTED award, so give me some love HERE.

Look at this thing.  I must have it!!