Greetings from Carp,

For those of you unfamiliar with Carpinteria, it's a quaint surfing town just south of Santa Barbara.  It's kind of the "Cheers" of coastal towns, if you lived here everyone would know your name.  Yesterday, we played a hip wine bar, Corktree Cellars, and had a great time.  Thanks to Jessica for having us and Lea for putting the whole shindig together and letting us get sniffed and tickled by Rayna.

Tuesday was my first time in San Diego and I can't for the life of me figure out why that town isn't a whole lot larger.  The weather was spectacular, the air was clean, the people were great and the city was beautiful.  We only had a couple hours, but we walked Balboa park which has the most prehistoric fig trees I've ever seen.   We also caught some live music outside at the Organ Pavillion which was quite nice.  But my favorite was just standing on the hill at 5th street with jet's screaming by a couple hundred feet above your head on their approach to the San Diego Airport (have I mentioned I still have a 6 year old's infatuation for big machines).

Many many thanks to Kelsey and Paul for being such wonderful hosts at the Tin Can Ale House.  If you're ever in San Diego look that place up.  They have something like 60 different kinds of canned beer from all over.    Also huge thanks to Greg Gibson for having us open up the show, Greg is an immensely talented songwriter that I should be playing a show with in SF in late August.  I'll keep ya posted.

Cheers,

David & Kenny

Mexican meals eaten: 3
Near deaths witnessed: 2
Celebrities spotted: still just 1
Hours of sleep: not enough 

Hello from paradise everyone. 

We're having a great time on the road so far.  Our first show at Guitar Merchant in Canoga park was super cool, thanks Emily for hooking us up.  Tons of great music, Ryan McDermot, Matt Simons and a cool Police-ish band "With Engines" were all phenomenal; and good guys too.

Thanks to Kenny's friend Biagio for the couch to sleep on and the blow to my self esteem.  Biagio keeps a broken chair in his kitchen for unsuspecting guests to sit on.  At 2 in the morning I crashed loudly to the floor.   It was actually quite funny.

We surfed yesterday and I stood up on my first wave ever, I'm thinking of entering Mavericks this year.  By the way if you ever want some really cheap entertainment watch me try for 20 minutes to squeeze into a medium wetsuit.

Last night's show at The Scene rocked something fierce.  We got to enjoy another set with Mellisa and Tim from "The Hard to Get" - great Tracy Bonham-ish kind of band.  The after show hang out at Canter's Deli was a blast too.  Although our friend Bob had to literally pee into a puddle on the floor in the bathroom as the urinal backed up.  Thank God I've got a big bladder. 

Celebrity sighting:  Harold Perrineau walking his dog down the street.  Oh yeah, we're in the big time now.

sometimes my body alerts me at four in the morning to it's discontent of the things i ate the day before.  this is an argument we frequently have.  i'm of the opinion that if one has an opinion you should share it while there is still time to do something about it.  

Greetings everyone,

I trust you've been well.  It's gearing up to be quite a nice summer.  We just got our new Cd, Lunchbox Cowboy back from the printer in Jersy and boy is it handsome.  We hope to have it available to ya'll thru Cdbaby within a week or so and up on itunes/amazon and the like within a month.  Thank you for your patience.  

Kenny and I are headed out on tour in July.  We're planning on playing about 18 shows from San Diego up to Vancouver, BC and back.  This is where you come in.  We're quite behind schedule booking the tour and most venues are all filled up.  If you live anywhere near or have friends/family anywhere near: San Diego, La, Santa Barbara, Portland, Tacoma, Seattle, Ashland, Eugene, Salem or Vancouver, send us a couple of cool spots to play.  Nothing is too small for us, coffee shops, bookstores, divebars, house concerts, anything at all would be a big help.

Thanks in advance for all your help and have a great weekend!

-david

I'm up late listening to the Fleet Foxes and missing my band. The album is finally mixed with the artwork finalized and the whole thing is in South Jersey being printed. After a couple nights catching up on sleep, I'm ready to start playing live again. I think I may have forgotten how to sing actually. Hopefully it's just like riding a bicycle.

Kenny and I celebrated the album's completion with horseshoes in Central park amongst all the homeless Davis guys. It was 65 degrees and peaceful, but who knew Kenny was a closet shoe shark, I got creamed.

We've got some shows coming up two here in Northern California and I've got one solo show back in Pennsylvania. It will be nice to see my family again, it's been almost a year and a half and that's far too long.

I hope all of you are well. We'll let you know as soon as we've got the album in our hands.

Cheers,

-david