Back on the Road… It's been a long time (for us) but we're back on the road playing shows for a select few people out there. We've taken a couple months off after the last tour to gather our lives and our sanity. Tony's been down in New Orleans fixing up his place and helping our friends out. In one now infamous instance he cleaned up our friend's Valerie and Joe's yard without even telling them. Valerie brings it up every time I see her still with astonishment still ringing in her voice. We've been doing the North Carolina, South Carolina thing the past couple days. Last night we played a show with our friends The Greyhounds. It was great to see those guys. Andrew Trube is one of a kind. We've been practicing in New Orleans the last ten days or so writing some new songs. We've got three more close to done but unfortunately not quite ready for this weekend and next. That is unless we make judicious use of Monday and Tuesday which we have off. We were going to head from Huntsville, AL back down to New Orleans for Mardi Gras but since the next show is on Wednesday in Knoxville and the price of gas is about $454 dollars a gallon we might be better off just staying in the area for those couple days. Since we hate days off the plan is to rent a practice space for a couple days and possibly work up a few of those tunes to be tested out live. We can never quite tell where a song is at until we actually play it in front of some people (never too many with us). Otherwise we just have one more show on March 13 before SXSW where we were planning on playing all the new stuff. We had a good show last year there but the newer stuff (see singing and more rock) wasn't ready and we were having equipment problems so we played, for us, a more conservative set. Sort of a shame. This year we're gonna kick it new school. A lot has gone down in the world since we last blogged so there are pretty much endless things to talk about politically. The new supreme court is about to begin the process of dismantling roe vs. wade. A civil war is apparently breaking out in Iraq contrary to all that Bush had told us about how great things were going there. Ports in the two cities I live in are going to be controlled by a company owned by the UAE which is one of three governments in the entire world that recognized the Taliban and where two of the 9/11 highjackers came from and where some of the money to finance 9/11 went through. And finally, Dick Chaney shot an old man in the face and proved that he is so powerful that the victim apologized profusely to Chaney for all that he had put him through. Tony pointed out to me that everyone refers to the "Bush Regime." I don't think it was ever the Clinton regime it was just Clinton did or said whatever. It's never just Bush it's his regime (see the guy who shot the other guy in the face perhaps…).