I recently got back from producing/recording for my lovely friend Brian Webb.  We tracked 4 days up in Athens, Vermont at Pete Weiss' studio Verdant.  It was the first phase of making his long awaited new album.  We had all the members of the Brian Webb band up there in the freezing cold (it got down to -17):  Jeff Berlin (drums and the Honest Abe), Jeremy Curtis (electric and upright bass), and myself (guitars and other instruments).  Sean Staples came up for a day for some singing and beautiful mandolin playin'.  And Rose Polenzani and Rose Cousins were there to sing some incredible harmonies.  We also did a version of Bird on Wire with Rose P. on ukulele (her first solo)!

Jason Myles Goss has just finished his album and it will be mastered on Monday!  I had a great time working on his record.  I think it came out beautifully.  It was co-produced by myself, Zack Hickman and Joel Arnow and features all of us playing many different instruments as well as Sam Kassirer and Neil Cleary.  We mixed it over four long days at Q Division with the amazingly talented Rafi Sofer.  It should be out late in the spring.

In the recent past I was fortunate to get to play on (I recorded in my home studio) Mark Erelli's new album Delivered.  This is a great record (produced by Zack) and Mark is such a pleasure to work with.  And before that I played on Rachael Davis' album Antebellum Queens, which is just lovely.

Yaaahh!!  Austin    

Tour with Anais Mitchell and Antje Duvekot:

6/08/08 Kerrville Folk Festival, Kerrville, Texas
6/11/08 House Concert, Ruidoso, New Mexico
6/12/08 Windchime Champagne Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico
6/13/08 House Concert, Sante Fe, New Mexico
6/14/08 Front Porch House Concert, Boulder, Colorado
6/15/08 Avogadro's, Fort Collins, Colorado
6/17/08 Blue Door, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
6/19/08 Cactus Cafe, Austin, Texas
6/20/08 Uncle Calvin's Coffeehouse, Dallas, Texas
6/21/08 Anderson Fair, Houston, Texas

Josh Ritter:

6/22/08 Taste of Randolph Street, Chicago, IL
6/27/08 Symphony Hall with the Boston Pops, Boston, MA
7/17/08 Gallivan Center w/Andrew Bird, Salt Lake City, UT
7/18/08 Sheridan Opera House, Telluride, CO
7/19/08 Mile High Music Festival, Denver, CO
7/21/08 The Big Easy Concert House w/Andrew Bird, Boise, ID
7/22/08 Bing Crosby Theatre w/Andrew Bird, Spokane, WA
7/23/08 Woodland Park Zoo w/Andrew Bird, Seattle, WA
7/25/08 Calgary Folk Festival, Calgary, AB
7/26/08 Calgary Folk Festival, Calgary, AB
8/02/08 Shangri-La Festival, Blue Hill Fairgrounds, ME
8/15/08 Rocky Mountain "Folks Festival", Lyons, CO
8/21/08 Molson Amphitheatre w/Blue Rodeo, Toronto, ON
8/30/08 Electric Picnic Festival, Ireland

Josh Ritter and the boys played on Letterman the other night (1/22/08)--we had a blast--it was surreal and really fun:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3rcUsFatXw4

We recently got to play on the Jools Holland show on BBC2 in London:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/later/series30/episode05/

Just click on the link to watch the whole show...we performed 2 songs. It was pretty wild because all the bands set up in the same room and they just panned the cameras around depending on who was performing...we played with The Who in the opening sequence...sweet!

We just played Mountain Stage in West Virgina last night--that will be airing in the near future:
http://www.mountainstage.org/html/live_schedule.html

Last week we played at the 9:30 Club in DC and had a great time.  Here's a link to the concert and photos:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14939797

Love, austin

We played a show on September 10th at the Melkweg in Amsterdam--oh yeah:
http://www.fabchannel.com/josh_ritter_2007

Love, austin

I have recently joined the Josh Ritter Band and we've been having a whole lotta fun. Here are some links to things we've recently done:



8/24/07--We played on WXPN at the World Cafe Live--you can listen to the whole show on NPR:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=13877719

And here are some great photos taken by Doug Seymour from that show:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/epochshot/sets/72157601644588373/

And these were posted in the Paste online magazine:

http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/1000words/view/josh_ritter_philadelphia_world_cafe_life_8_24_07



8/22/07--We played at the Box (a beautiful old NY venue in the Lower East Side) for a live WFUV show. Here are a couple of youtube videos of that night:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCIqRJJsEa4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPWOr8V63fw



A while back we performed on an independent TV show called Juan's Basement:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOx_DrxHVHI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4aBD0z0iaY



Much Love, Austin

On May 7th, 2007 a wild event took place at Passim involving many fun loving people: Laura Cortese, Taylor Armerding, Tim Gearan, Josh Ritter, Matt Smith, Ronald Reagan, and many others...Here are just a couple of pictures of that evening...

Aoife O'Donovan had a special night of her own songs at Toad a while back--to help make the music there was: John Sands, Zack Hickman, Kristin Andreassen and myself. Cindy was able to take a few photos to remember the magical night.

There are also a few more photos of these nights at: www.austinnevins.com
Just go to the "About" page and click on the photo link at the bottom

I have changed up the songs on here...they are all live tracks:

Anais Mitchell and I playing at Toad in Cambridge, Ma on 10/1/06

Boris McCutcheon and the Salt Licks...we played live on a radio station in Holland a while back

Rose Polenzani and I--she is singing on this one and am playin' things--this happened at the Lizard Lounge during our residency with the lovely Jennifer Kimball on 11/21/06

Changer--Anais (vocals and acoustic), Austin (electric)

Santa Fe Dream--Anais (vocals and acoustic), Austin (electric, slide)

Meet Me--Boris McCutcheon (vocals and acoustic), Jeff Berlin (drums), Shawn Barber (bass), Austin (electric, slide)

Sometimes--Rose Polenzani (vocals), Austin (electric, loop)