Right now, I'm offering specials on all of my CDs and shirts, including two new t-shirt designs.
I like to think my music makes good gifts (even just for yourself), and I like to think these prices are very reasonable.
I hope you agree!

During this sale, you can get:
1. All five of my full-length albums for just $39.

2.
Any album and a T-shirt (you pick the design and the size) for $23
3. Your choice of any three albums on my label for $25.


All orders will come with a handful of free goodies (balloons, stickers, etc), and any order for $30 or more will also include a new mix CD called "Winter Comes" with some of my favorite unreleased songs by a few friends including Evelyn Evelyn, Geoff Berner, Sxip Shirey, Zoe Vermillion and myself.


To take a look, please visit my web-site.


Wheeeeeeeeeeeee!
-Jason

I am writing again from Norilsk.

For those who didn't read my blog a couple months back, Norilsk is in Northern Siberia, the only true city in the world (over 250,000 people live here) above the Arctic Circle. A former Gulag and the nickel and copper mining capital of the former Soviet world, Norilsk is now one of the biggest environmental disaster sites on Earth. Closed to foreign visitors and even cut off from the rest of Russia except by prohibitively expensive flights from Moscow, it is also the home of a rare magic and intangible beauty.

Last May, through a chain of circumstances, I was invited to perform here while I was on tour in Europe and Russia. The concert was such a success, that the organizers insisted on flying me back for the city's 55th Anniversary Celebration, this time with my entire Russian band.

The show was last night. Apparently the tickets were gone as soon as they were made available. I am told there were about 1,500 people in attendance, which makes it the largest headlining show I've ever given. The other big event for the anniversary was a concert by the the old Russian Band "Time Machine" - maybe only comparable to the Rolling Stones in terms of longevity and output. But by all accounts, my show made a bigger impression.

It is surreal. I'm not used to actually being treated like a rock star. People recognize me on the street, they applaud when I walk into a restaurant. It is strangely humbling. What have I really done? I live such a blessed life, traveling all over the world while these strong hearted people are trapped in this harsh frozen city with poisonous air. Yesterday, as I was walking in the streets, I met an older man who was a part of the choir that sang with me at the concert. Tears filled his kind eyes as he embraced me.

*****
THE COST OF LIVING - IN STORES AND ON VINYL:

In less exciting news, my new-ish album, "The Cost of Living" is finally available in stores. If you are the sort of person who doesn't like to buy things on the internet (I am still actually kinda one of those people myself) you should be able to now find the new album in record stores all over the country (and supposedly in some stores outside the US.) If your store doesn't have it, please ask them to order it from my distributor, Lumberjack-Mordam. The entire Eleven Records catalog should also be available, as well as through digital download outlets like i-Tunes.

I've just printed up a limited run of 12" vinyl records of "The Cost of Living." I'm really excited about how these turned out. The record is pressed on beautiful black and orange colored vinyl. Only 1,111 copies were made and each record comes with a free copy of album on CD.

Also, I've dug up the last remaining copies of the "Only Just Beginning" 12" LP from 2004. There were supposed to be 1,000 of these, but only 500 ever got printed. I think I just have about 80 of them left to sell.

You can order either from:
http://www.jasonwebley.com

I've also sent copies of the new record to most of the college and alternative radio stations in the country. Please call your local stations and request that they play something from the new album!!


*****
MINI CAMP TOMATO:
On Sunday, August 3rd, there will be a modest gathering of tomatoes in Seattle.

My schudule has been too crazy to properly organize the great grand return of Camp Tomato that I've been dreaming of. But rather than let the tradition die, I'd love to get together on a sunday afternoon for a few hours of food, song and perhaps a little game of Tomato Raid. Please come join us if you can, and help sow the seeds of future, bigger Camp Tomatoes.

Little Camp Tomato 2008 will be at the picnic area of Ravenna Park in Seattle. We will begin with a potluck lunch at 1 pm. Then there will be some games and a bit of music. More details and directions are at:
www.jasonwebley.com/events.html


*****
MONSTERS OF ACCORDION 2008
Last year's Monsters of Accordion Tour was one of my favorite parts of 2007, and I am happy to say that we've put together an even more amazing line-up for this year. This time I will be joined by Mark Growden, Amy Denio and Duckmandu for ten nights of accordion mayhem all along the West Coast.

Aug 14 - Santa Rosa - Church House Theater
Aug 15 - Los Angeles - Safari Sam's
Aug 16 - San Francisco - 12 Galaxies (21+)
Aug 17 - Oakland, CA - 21 Grand
Aug 18 - Garberville, CA - Octagon
Aug 19 - Ashland, CA - The Black Sheep
Aug 20 - Eugene, OR - Wow Hall
Aug 21 - Portland, OR - Kennedy School Theater
Aug 22 - Spokane, WA - Caterina Winery
Aug 23 - Seattle, WA - Fremont Abbey (upstairs)

Mark, Amy, Aaron and I will also be joined by special guests in most towns. For more details about the tour, the players, music samples and tickets, please visit:
http://www.monstersofaccordion.com

*****

THE FUTURE:
At the end of September I am touring Ireland, the UK and Germany with Amanda Palmer of the Dresden Dolls, and then playing a big accordion festival in France. Then I come home for a weekend of Halloween shows in the Northwest. After that, I am not exactly sure... In 2009, the Evelyn Evelyn full length album should be done, as well as the next few installments in my series of Eleven Collaborations.


That's all for now!

From Siberia with love,
-Jason

I'm writing right now from Norilsk.

About four months ago, my Russian promoter wrote to me and said: "There is possibility to play festival in Norilsk. It will be great. A true journey to end of world!"

Norilsk is in Northern Siberia. It is the only city in the world of over 100,000 people North of the Arctic Circle. In fact, there are about 250,000 people here and at it's height it housed half a million... which is a lot of people for a place that is only accessible by an airplane, or a long journey by boat in the Summer.

A lot of those people had not come willingly.

Began as a Soviet Gulag, Norilsk is one of the world's largest providers of nickel, copper and other metals. Tens of thousands of prisoners were worked to death in the mines here. Prisoners were taken from all over the former Soviet Union. This mostly ended in the sixties, but If I understand correctly, this process wasn't fully eradicated until 1979. There are families still alive who at one time were split down the middle between prisoner slave laborers and guards. I am told these things are almost never spoken of.

Norilsk is also one of the biggest environmental disasters in the world. A slight chemical odor is immediately noticeable whe you first get off the airplane (and the airport is two hours from the city.) As you drive into town, everywhere you look, massive smokestacks are filling the sky with slow moving smoke. Apparently, for 100 kilometers in every direction around the main nickel smelter, not a single living tree can be found. And the average life span here is still ten years less than the average in the rest of Russia.

The city is officially closed to tourism. No foreigners are allowed, and even Russians are supposed to have special permission on their passports to come here. When I arrived and the police saw my US passport, they looked sternly amazed. I gave them a pile of official invitation papers, and they took me directly off of the flight and into a police car. I was driven to a special section of the airport and taken to a holding cell.

I was a bit nervous at this point, and thought I might either be spending much more time or much less time that I had expected in Norilsk. But after one of the longest fifteen minutes of my life, they asked me a couple questions and released me.

The venue for the concert was the "Museum of History and Industry of Norilsk Industrial Region." I was part of the culminating night of a week-long festival at the museum. Most of the other participants were well known Russian authors, composers, artists and personalities. I was invited because one of the organizers used to produce events in a club I have played in Moscow a number of times.

I wasn't really sure it was a good idea. My shows in Russia usually are pretty successful, but they are always in towns with established countercultures - Moscow and Saint Petersburg. This was a really different event. I was tired, jet-lagged, and overwhelmed, having just flown from Seattle via London and Moscow. And I was honestly pretty nervous about how I would be perceived in such a place. In a big gaping wound of a city with such a painful history.

I felt a certain poverty in what I had to offer these people.

For the past few years, I've had this mounting feeling that there must be tens of thousands of other guys with guitars or accordions going about trying to let the world know how awesome they are. It is not necessarily the most noble of professions.

I give about 200 concerts a year. And every once in a while I need one of those concerts to produce a miracle. Not all of the time. Maybe once a year... maybe once every two years. But I couldn't keep doing what I do without them. I need them like you might need a meal, a drink of water, or a hug.

A miracle, for me can a very simple thing. Often it is just a moment when I forget that I've played these songs a thousand times and I forget all of my own tricks and games and become truly surprised again during my own concert.

Last night was a miracle.
Last night was one of the best concerts of my life.

I won't really try to describe it. But it was like my songs were written to be sung to these people. The room exploded as soon as I began. It was one of the most enthusiastic crowds I have ever played for. The organizers of the festival said they have never seen an audience in Norilsk behave like they did last night. The city is known for being reserved and suspicious. I feel very honored that something in my music makes them relax this...

Here is a short video of me singing a Russian folks song with members of the local Russian choir:


I've already been invited back for the city's big anniversary celebration in July. I'm not sure if I can make it yet... but I hope to make Norislk a regular stop on my touring.

A concert like this makes it much easier to keep playing every night.

I am flying back to Moscow and about to begin the weirdest European tour I've ever had. I am happy to be going a bunch of new places. I am playing a few other new Russian towns, Bratislava, Budapest and then flying to the capital of Moldova... all new territory for me. I'm really excited! I'll also playing in more conventional places like Germany, France, Holland and England.

Here is the whole tour. If you know anyone in any of these place, please let them know I am coming:

May 17 -Norilsk, RUSSIA - Museum of History and Development of Norilsk Industrial Region
May 22 - Moscow, RUSSIA - Club Gogol
May 23 - Kostroma, RUSSIA - Dudki Bar
May 24 - Saint Petersburg, RUSSIA - Madison Theater
May 25 - Rostov-on-Don, Russia - Cork
May 28 - Berlin, GERMANY - Echcloraque
May 29 - Leipzig, GERMANY - Galeria KUB
May 30 - Volyne, CZECH - Volyne Fortress
May 31 - Prague, CZECH - Kastan
June 1 - Brno, CZECH - Mandragora (my birthday!)
June 2 - Ceske Budejovice, CZECH - Club Solnice
June 4 - Bratislava, SLOVAKIA - Sub Club
June 5 - Vienna, Austria - Vorstadt
June 6 - Budapest, HUNGARY - Siraly
June 8 - Chisinau, MOLDOVA - Mihai National Theater
June 10 - Paris, FRANCE - Studo de L'ermitage
June 13 - Utrecht, NETHERLANDS - dB Studio
June 14 -Netherlands - Beekestijn Pop Festival
June 15 - Hoorn, NETHERLANDS - SWAF
June 17 - London, UK - The Green Note
June 19 - Exeter, UK - Northbridge Inn
June 20 - Brighton, UK - The Cowley Club
June 21 - Southampton, UK - The Homestead

The full details about all of these shows are always up at:
http://www.jasonwebley.com/events.html

-Jason

About a week into the 'The Cost of Living' tour I was on the phone with a friend in Seattle.

I was complaining a bit. The first day we were out of the Northwest, there was a major family emergency and I really wished I was home. Attendance on the tour had been frustratingly low for a lot of the gigs from Missoula to Phoenix. And our El Paso show had been cancelled on us at the last minute. I was seriously wondering if I really even should be out touring.

"At least the van hasn't broken down," my friend offered.

"That is because we aren't yet at the farther point from home. We'll be there in two days," I joked.

Two days later on the drive from Albuquerque to Phoenix, the van suddenly, violently overheated and lost power. We pulled over as white smoke poured out from under the hood and the semis kept speeding by us.




We were about a mile outside of Gallup, New Mexico. I called Triple A and we got a tow. Our driver wasn't very impressed by us. He had chiseled features, dark sunglasses and refused to respond to our attempts at small talk. His answer to pretty much anything we asked was "not a problem."

He took us to a local shop called Automotive Industrial that I had found after a few phone calls. We drove along a few miles of historic Route 66, before pulling into the shop in a semi-industrial part of town. The folks there were very kind and quick to help us figure out what went wrong. They must have known a lot about engines, otherwise there wouldn't have been hundreds of car engines in various states of dismantled-ness all over the property.

We had blown our head gasket and some other gasket. And some mysterious things had gone wrong with the way the car was idling. It was going to be about $1000 and a couple days labor to get the van going again, and then there was still the question of whether it would just overheat and break down again.



It was about 3 in the afternoon and there was a 5 hour drive still to Phoenix for an 8 pm show. We had to decide what to do quickly. Alex (violist in my band) got on the phone and started calling rental companies. I made myself useful by pacing around a lot and shaking my head.

We decided it was best to rent something and keep going to our shows. We were within walking distance of the Gallup airport, where we were rented the smallest vehicle to ever be classified as a 'van'. We loaded up about half of our gear and drove to Phoenix just in time to play the show an hour late.

The next part is where it all gets totally ridiculous.

The band made me go to sleep so I could drive the next day, while they went to the airport to rent a second, slightly larger van. In the middle of the night(with the help of a very kind Phoenician named Joseph) they drove both vans 5 hours back to Gallup to return the first rental van and get the rest of our stuff from the big, broken van. We had to do this for two reasons. First, we needed to return the first rental van to avoid a $500 penalty for bringing it to a different location. Second, we needed to get the rest of our stuff somehow.

They then drove another 5 hours back to Phoenix to get me and the rest of the gear. We had to store some things and mail some things from Phoenix (thank you so much to Jay from Trunk Space!).

Then I drove us to LA just in time for soundcheck.

I still can't believe we made all of the shows.

I had thought I might get the van fixed and come back to get it somehow. But once you factor the cost of the repair, the cost of me getting out there and the gas to bring it home... it just doesn't seem worth it. It would be about what I paid for the thing.

So, I'm going to just mail the title to one of the mechanics who seemed interested in it. I'll miss that van. I didn't have it long... but I had gotten rather attached. We never even named it. If I'd had time to paint it red, maybe it could have been a Beefsteak Tomato.

Farewell big nameless van! I hope you get resurrected and lives a happy, colorful life in the Southwest.

Here is a photo of my last time with the van. In order to access it in the night, we had to move it to a parking lot across the street from Automotive Industrial. One of the friendly mechanics gave us a push with his truck. This and all of the other photos were taken by Michael McQuilken (our drummer).



So the moral is, don't complain about things when you are talking to my friend on the phone.

Between the loss of the van and the cost of the rental car, our afternoon in Gallup cost about $2,500. I guess this is the sort of thing that happens when you put out an album called, 'The Cost of Living.'

A few folks have suggested I set up a fund and take donations to replace the van. If I were scraping the bottom of the barrel, I might do that, but this setback thankfully did not break the bank. If you feel like helping out, I encourage you to just buy some of my merchandise. Especially the new album. You know, 'The Cost of Living.'

You can order it here.

I hear it is pretty good.

-jason

"The Cost of Living" Release tour:

The Jason Webley Quartet (Jherek Bischoff, Michael McQuilken and Alex Guy) will be touring the Western US from October 11th to November 3rd to support the new album.

More information about these dates HERE.
Thursday October 11th
Semi-Private release party in Belltown / Seattle, WA
10:00 PM / 21+ / Tickets $11.00

Friday October 12th
Underground Coffeehouse / Bellingham, WA
With: Ribbons, Led to Sea, and Quilken.
7:30 PM / All ages / No cover

Saturday October 13th
The Capitol Theater / Olympia, WA
With: Ribbons, Led to Sea, and Quilken.
8:00 PM / All ages / $8

Sunday October 14th
Masa / Tacoma, WA
With: Ribbons, Led to Sea, and Quilken.
8:00 PM / All ages / $5.00

Tuesday October 16th
Kennedy School Gym / Portland, OR
With: Ribbons, Led to Sea, and Quilken.
7:00 PM / All ages / $10.00/$8.00 advance

Wednesday October 17th
Caterina Winery / Spokane, WA
With: Ribbons, Led to Sea, and Quilken.
8:00 PM / All ages / $7.00

Thursday October 18th
The Loft / Missoula, MT
With: Ribbons, Led to Sea, and Quilken.
9:00 PM / 21+/18+ w/$2.00 surcharge / $8.00

Friday October 19th
The Reef / Boise, ID
With: Ribbons, Led to Sea, Quilken, and Matt Hopper & The Roman Candles.
9:00 PM / All ages / $5.00

Saturday October 20th
Red Light Books / Salt Lake City, UT
With: Led to Sea, Joshua Faulkner, and Ian Accord.
7:00 PM / All ages / $5.00 suggested donation

Saturday October 20th
Burt's Tiki Lounge / Salt Lake City, UT
With: Ribbons, Led to Sea, Quilken, Slender Means, War on Terra, and TBA.
10:00 PM / 21+ / $8.00

Sunday October 21st
Swallow Hill / Denver, CO
With: Ribbons, Led to Sea, Quilken, and special guests Zebra Junction.
7:30 PM / All ages / $8.00

Monday October 22nd
The Curio / Albuquerque, NM
With: Ribbons, Led to Sea, and Quilken.
8:00 PM / All ages / $6.00

Tuesday October 23rd
Margaritas / El Paso, TX
With: Ribbons, Led to Sea, and Quilken.
8:00 PM / All ages / $6.00

Wednesday October 24th
Trunk Space / Phoenix, AZ
With: Ribbons, Led to Sea, and Quilken.
8:00 PM / All ages / $7.00

Thursday October 25th
Safari Sam's / Los Angeles, CA
With: Peculiar Pretzelman, Ribbons, Led to Sea, and Quilken.
8:00 PM / All ages / $8.00/$23.00 Reserved Seating

Friday October 26th
924 Gilman / Berkeley, CA
With: Ribbons, Led to Sea, and Quilken.
7:00 PM / All ages / $7.00

Saturday October 27th
12 Galaxies / San Francisco, CA
With: Ribbons, Led to Sea, and Quilken.
9:00 PM / 21+ / $8.00

Sunday October 28th
Delta of Venus / Davis, CA
With: Ribbons, Led to Sea, and Quilken. Outside show - dress warmly.
8:00 PM / All ages / $5.00+ donation

Monday October 29th
Jambalaya / Arcata, CA
With: Ribbons, Led to Sea, and Quilken.
9:00 PM / Ages 21+ / $6.00

Tuesday October 30th
The Black Sheep / Ashland, OR
With: Ribbons, Led to Sea, and Quilken.
8:00 PM / All ages / $5.00

Wednesday October 31st
WOW Hall / Eugene, OR
With: Architecture in Helsinski
8:00 PM / All ages / $17.00/$15.00 advance

Thursday November 1st
Lewis and Clark College
With: Ribbons, Led to Sea, and Quilken.
Details TBA

Friday November 2nd
Reed College
Special Dia de Los Muertos show.
Free for Reed students.

Saturday November 3rd
Vera Project
With: Ribbons, Led to Sea, and Quilken.
8:00 PM / All ages / $8.00 (Bring $1.00 Cash for Club Card)

The Monsters are coming!
In just one week, the Monsters of Accordion are playing in Seatle, Portland, Eugene, San Francisco and Oakland. I have gotten four of the craziest, most amazing solo-accordion performers in North America for a five night tour of the West Coast, joined by a local performer in each town.

August 21 - Seattle, WA - Fremont Abbey Arts Center
with special guest Amy Denio

August 22 - Portland, OR - Kennedy School Gym
with special guest Eric Stern of Vagabond Opera

August 23 - Eugene, OR - Sam Bonds Garage
Two shows - early all ages show at 6 pm. 21+ at 9 pm.

August 24 - San Francisco, CA - 12 Galaxies
with special guest Mark Growden

August 25 - Oakland, CA - 21 Grand
with special guest Kimric Smythe

More information about these shows and advance tickets available here:
http://www.monstersofaccordion.com

Here's a bit more about the line-up:

Corn Mo (New York, NY)
http://www.cornmo.com
Corn Mo plays songs on piano and accordion that sound like 70's rock anthems, but with ridiculous lyrics and rambling stream-of consciousness introductions that make me fall of my chair laughing. He has opened for They Might Be Giants, Ben Folds and I the Polyphonic Spree. He is awesome. Videos don't do him justice, but here is a clip of him on the Jimmy Kimmel show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j244DN-09Wo

Geoff Berner (Vancouver, BC)
http://www.geoffberner.com
Geoff Berner plays his own version of Jewish Klezmer music. "I want to make original Klezmer music that's drunk, dirty, political and passionate." He has performed with the likes of Billy Bragg and the Be Good Tanyas. He has released three records, has a substantial following in Scndinavia and his song, "Light Enough to Travel" has become a minor standard in the Canadian folk circuit. Listen to the title track from his album "Whiskey Rabbi":
http://www.geoffberner.com/mp3/whiskey.mp3

Duckmandu (Oakland, CA)
http://www.duckmandu.com
Duckmandu is the stage name of Aaron Seeman, a composer/pianist who at some point turned the precision of his meticulous mind to the bizarre task of figuring out note-for-note interpretations of the entire first Dead Kennedys album on the accordion. I'm not sure what else to say. He can also do 70's rock, Broadway, klezmer, classical, country, Sousa marches, punk rock, and even a polka or two. He's recorded with Mr. Bungle and plays regularly with the Romanian folk group, the Fishtank Ensemble.

Jason Webley (Seattle, WA)
http://www.jasonwebley.com
http://www.myspace.com/jasonwebley
Hopefully you have some idea of who I am already. It recently occurred to me that just judging by web-presence, I may be the best known singer-songwriter accordion player in North America at the moment. Wheee! I tour all over the world, I am famous in Russia, I play with the Dresden Dolls, I drive a tomato, I like to eat sushi.

Amy Denio (Seattle, WA)
http://www.myspace.com/deniomusic
Amy Denio is a Seattle-based composer and multi-instrumentalist known world-wide for her work with a number of artists including Bill Frisell, Danny Barnes, Kultur Shock, the Pat Graney Dance Company and even Chuck D. She currently plays with the Tipton Saxaphone Quartet, Quintetto alla Busara and her accordion-only ensemble, Hell's Bellows.


***

I am producing this tour myself, flying these accordion players around and hopefully feeding and paying them well. I think it will be a success. I hope it will be a success.

Hope to see you at one of these shows,

wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
-Jason Webley

http://www.monstersofaccordion.com

May 1st is the most amazing holiday that almost nobody knows about. The generation before us would leave flowers on the doorsteps of those they loved. For ages before that it was also the pagan holiday of Beltaine, when huge fires were set, maypoles erected and ancient rites performed to celebrate and insure the fertility of spring. It is a day to plant seeds, a day to make love. And sometimes a day to bring a new king to the throne.

Across the world, it is also a day of political protest. Socialists, anarchists and labor organizers celebrate the 1st of May. In many countries it is Labor Day. In the US, in recent years, it has become a day to protest for immigration reform.

May Day is also a call for help.
Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!

I am sick right now. I have bronchitis. I am in the Southwest. It is hot and dry and I am miserable. But beyond that, I have been feeling a bit beaten and broken in a lot of ways for the past couple years. Not overwhelmingly so, but there has been a slow and steady fatigue setting in.

I love what I do. I travel all over the world, and watch people put their arms around each other and sing and love life. But there are so many cancers in this world. There is the cancer that is causing the temperatures to rise, the cancer that is causing the bees to die, the cancer that causes teenage girls to cut at their arms with razors. Some kind of cancer has its fingers on the wheel of our military machine. Another kind of cancer makes it harder to convince people to get up from their televisions or computers to go out into the world and see a little concert some guy with an accordion is giving.

And it is easy to be cynical, or to just hide in some kind of small comfort and hope that the cancers won't get to you. But cancer is getting bolder. It isn't just for the old anymore, I've seen cancer hanging out proudly with the young and beautiful. I've met a number of 18 year-olds with cancer.

I am not sure exactly where I am going with this, or what exactly May Day has to do with any of it. Except that for me, the first of May has always been a bit of a challenge, a challenge that I always feel that I fail at in some way.

Spring. The sowing of our seed. Whether we are making love, or playing music or making hamburgers and french fries. Any of these things can be a holy act. Or not.

When we make love, is it a holy act, or are we just getting off?

Does it matter?
I'd like to think so.
I'd like to think, somehow, that
the cure for cancer
is
holy acts.

Last night in Phoenix, some small miracle happened. I was so miserable on stage, bieng sick and all. I almost had lost my voice. My show lacked energy, and during a story I was afraid I was going to lose the room. And I accepted that and just went through the motions of doing my show hoping it would be over soon. I was tired and irritable and just wanted to get it over with.

But something happened. I forgot my sickness and the audience seemed to forget too, and my voice grew strong and returned and suddenly the room became one. It was a good night. A holy night, perhaps.

Damn it! I don't know exactly what I am trying to say.
But celebrate this day. IT IS SPRING!
Go out and sing, dance, talk to strangers, protest the government, call out for help, light a big fire, make love in public places,
and be holy.

love,
-jason

Happy tax day!!!

Go take a listen to the new song on my page. It is from my new EP out May 3rd recorded with The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band from Indianapolis.

The records have been selling quickly already and I haven't even made an announcement yet to my mailing list. If you want to make sure you get a copy, you should order now.

It is a pretty cool project with a limited edition colored vinyl 7" plus a full length CD in a sturdy cardboard sleeve. It also includes a small dictionary, which tells you how to say "two bottles of wine" in one hundred-eleven languages.

Please let me know what you think of the new song,
And thanks for all the comments so far.

Wheeeeeeeeeeeee!
-jason