Sunday, February 15th, 2009

STUDIO UPDATE

Hey y'all!

We are in our third day of recording basic tracks (bass and drums) in the studio. We have been trying to get video blogs up here for quite some time but with our new handy dandy camera we're having some problems figuring out the upload situation. So, for now we will try and update you with pictures and blogs. We have six original songs recorded from this weekend as well as three covers. We will also be recording three or four acoustic tracks which will possibly consist of two Robert Johnson songs and a John Prine song as of now. In our arsenal of studio helpers we have 11 guitars, a plethora of Paiste cymbals brought in by Paul's dear friend Ed Clift, our trusty manager Nigel, our mascot Jenna from Iowa, my trusty co-producer extraordinaire Jason Miller, plenty of coffee, Rockstar energy drinks, a few photographers and videographers wandering around (our hired paparazzi) and our musician-sitter Lucy. We have many assistants that we will be introducing to you after these sessions as well.

This has been quite an exciting weekend and a lot of pre-production has gone in to making these few days run smoothly. As of now we are ahead of schedule but of course that status will probably change daily between now and completion.

We will get more pictures to you over the next few days from these sessions and maybe we'll drop some hints as to the cover songs we have recorded throughout the pictures and what not. There are some great guest artists that will be included on a few of these tracks as well. We will announce such information as we are able.

Also, we are going back to the basics and recording this album much like people recorded back in the day. We are all much more comfortable recording together as opposed to doing tracks one by one so it has a much more live feel.

We can not wait to get this album out for you to hear and tour this year with all of these new songs. To sum it up we're so excited and we just can't hide it! Woot.

Please help us give this album a good launch! If you can get other friends of yours introduced to our music please get them on the mailing list and signed up as my friend on Myspace (www.myspace.com/shannoncurfman) or Facebook (www.facebook.com/shannoncurfman).

Peace & love,
Shannon C.