Howdy gang ... hope all is swell with our cyber-friends.

The Tim Lee 3 is currently residing in that limbo that occurs right before your new record comes out. Our first full-length release, "Good2b3," drops locally on 4/29 and nationally on 5/2. The promos have been mailed out, and we (along with Paisley Pop) have hired Becki Carr at Yarr PR! (anything with a pirate motif, of course) to do the follow-up. The disc will be available for sell at www.paisleypop.com and www.timleethree.com, as well as discerning indy record stores and online retailers.

Lately, we’ve been keeping our gigging to here in east Tennessee, hitting such illustrious burgs as Morristown, Maryville and Johnson City. Honestly, we have as much (if not more) fun playing small towns like these. People seem to be more excited about live music in these places, and they like rock n’ roll, which seems to be becoming less fashionable by the day. To paraphrase the old Stiff Records slogan: "Fuck Fashion, Let’s Dance."

Once the record’s out, we’ll expand our horizons again, making forays into some of our familiar territories, as well as a few unchartered terrains. We hope to cross paths with you out there somewhere. Watch the myspace page for gig updates.

The band’s been working on some new material together (we have one new song that ends by sliding into a version of Funkadelic’s "Maggot Brain," one of my fave guitar pieces of all time), and everybody’s had their various projects going as well.

We’re all three heavily involved with an upcoming compilation called "Re-Distilled: 25 Years of Knoxville Rock," which is a collection of Knoxville artists covering songs by other Knoxville artists to benefit WUTK 90.3 Radio, the local college station that is a huge supporter of local music. We covered an R.B. Morris song, "Distillery," with our friends Black Atticus, Star and Mercedes. Also included on the disc are Scott Miller, the Tenderhooks, Mic Harrison, Superdrag (original band reunited), Angel & the Lovemongers, Westside Daredevils, Todd Steed, R.B. Morris and John T. Baker, among others. Former Judybats singer Jeff Heiskell did a cool version of mine and Susan’s "Dead Guy Story" from the Concrete Dog disc. This disc will be out on April 15 and will be available from www.wutkradio.com. We’ll probably have some on our site as well.

Our first CD release show is an in-store at Disc Exchange here in Knoxville on Tuesday, April 29, at 7 p.m., and our big blowout is that Friday, May 2, at Sassy Ann’s. The Sassy Ann’s show also features our pals Black Atticus and the Tenderhooks. The first Friday in June will find us back at the Hummingbird in our adopted second home, Macon, Georgia, where we’ll have another CD release party. Local photog/all-around good guy Adam Smith is also having a photo show opening earlier that evening, so a good time is guaranteed for all.

(For our Knoxville friends, here’s a heads-up about a cool show in town on Sat., April 12. TL, along with Dave Nichols and Nate Barrett, will be backing spoken word artist Jack Rentfro at the Time Warp Tea Room as part of a triple-bill with R.B. Morris and Marshall Chapman. Tim, Dave and Nate, along with Phil Pollard and whoever else is on hand, will probably back R.B. some as well. Should be a great night of words, music and caffiene.)

That’s enough for now ... keep those cards and letters coming.

yr. pals,

Tim, Susan, Rodney
www.timleethree.com
www.myspace.com/timleemusic
www.myspace.com/susanbauerlee
www.rodneycash.com
www.myspace.com/rodneyccash
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(if you can’t find us, you ain’t lookin’)