The HJB self-titled debut CD is now out there in the world. It is on sale at Megatunes in Calgary on 17th Avenue SW and will be available to retail across the country and on line from Festival Distribution Inc www.festival.bc.ca in just days. The CD will arrive at radio and the press in time for the discs official January 16th 2007 release date. We will be selling it at our show in Rosebud Alberta tomorrow night. The band's big CD celebration in home-town Calgary will be held at one of our favourite venues, the Ironwood Stage and Grill in the heart of the picturesque Inglewood distrist, for two!! consecutive nights Friday Feb 16 and Saturday Feb 17. Tickets are available at the Ironwood by phone or on line www.ironwoodstage.ca The CKUA Radio Network will be on site recording the Friday Feb 16 performance for an upcoming concert broadcast special. A quick mention of our show last weekend in Lethbridge...more than sold out, great audience, lots of fun. Thanks to all our freinds in southern Alberta for helping make it such a blast.

The Highwater Jug band has just spent another three days in the studio this week and we think we have finished our CD. It is ready to send to mastering with a planned released in January. The process has been nothing short of a joyess occasion hanging with good friends and making music that we all seem to love. We had many laughs a few challenges to overcome but all in all a pretty easy time getting what we had set out to do. Just last night Tim, John and Rob Smith from the studio whiled away the hours late into the evening completing final mixes. We will now sit with it for the weekend and listen to it in a more casual setting to see how everything sits and think about the order of the songs for the disc. We have the cover and liner note artwork done and all we have left to do is put the song titles in order and mark the song running times and send it off to get printed and manufactured out Ontario way. We have posted two more songs slated for the CD here on our myspace. Please have a listen and if you feel like leaving us a message with your thoughts we sure would love to know what you think of it all. Thanks for tuning in and check our schedule for a CD release party near you.

how's this for an update?!...the members of the Highwater Jug Band just spent three days tucked away in a Calgary recording studio and have completed all the bed tracks and much of the work on the soon to be released HJB debut CD. There are ten full songs and a couple of instrumental refrains that showcase the sextet's songwriting talents and instrumental prowess with more than twenty instruments making an appearance on the recording. The remaining work on the project consists of only a few overdubs of solos and back ground vocals and cleaning up a few edges. The band will go back to the studio next month for two or three more days with the intent of finishing the recording and mixing process and be ready to send it out for mastering mid November. The best ETA on the finished product is early 2007...hopefully by January 6 for the beginning of the HJB Alberta winter tour but not likely in time for the holidays. We will be posting some tracks from the sessions on this myspace in just a few days. These tracks will be incomplete to some degree but will give a good indication of what is to follow.