July 09 2009…1:05pm
“2009 Summer News Blog:
Euro Tour, Tree O Records, New Albums, Personal Stuff etc…”
Ireland/U.K. Tour:
We will depart for Dublin,
Ireland
from Charlotte, NC
on June 18th. We will tour as a three piece acoustic trio with our
good friend and long time collaborator and former Carter Brothers Band member
Mark Vernon on bass and vocals. As most of you know the entire world is under
an unprecedented financial recession with European countries getting hit
especially hard. It was just started to happen in Ireland
when we were there last October 2008 and has gotten dismally worse. We are
playing mostly theaters on this tour and a few of them didn’t get funding
appropriations for 2009 due to the tight money situation. The festival dates
are not affected. We have had several shows cancel only to keep our booking
agents in Ireland and Northern Ireland scrambling to replace and fill the
canceled dates. The Spain
portion of our tour was totally canceled by the promoter there who ended up
getting cold feet and shallower pockets. We do apologize to our fans in Spain
who bought advance tickets to our shows there. We are personally disappointed
to not being there in July as planned but we’ll be back again soon!
We will perform 14 dates in Ireland and Northern
Ireland(U.K.) and will headline the North Wales Music Festival in Conwy, Wales
for 3 days…please see schedules at all our websites for any changes and
updates(recommended).
We will be back in Ireland
along with noted compadre Steve Earle at the Johnny Keenan Festival in Longford,
Ireland in
September. We hear that the fan club is organizing a trip from the USA
for interested parties. Check the Carter Brothers Band Fan Club site(google
it). We also usually play a few scattered shows around the country when we play
the Keenan festival, before and/or after.
Tree 0 Records (Nashville-Boston) and Tree O Studio (the
TreeHouse):
Tree 0 Records was born last year when Danny’s solo album
‘Barcelona’ was
released. Tim’s re-release of his solo album ‘Bang Bang’ has also been added to
the label. The label, created and owned by Brian Budzinski-Tim and Danny Carter
was conceived with the plan to sign independent singer/songwriters who excel at
their craft as lyricists, players and vocalists. We have recently just signed
our third artist to label. Chris Cook, a longtime friend and incredible
musician, from Charlotte, NC just completed his first album for Tree O Records.
Recorded here at the studio in April it showcases his natural penchant for
southern soul, blues, gospel, Motown and pop. An incredibly GREAT singer and
one of the best acoustic guitarists in the Carolinas!
We’re very excited and happy to have Chris as a labelmate and look forward to
some collaborations with the Brothers on future projects!
Meanwhile Danny and Tim both are trying to squeeze in
writing time for their unprecedented “co-write album project” for the new Carter
Brothers album. Their extremely busy Spring/Summer touring schedule along with
the nothing short of phenomenal success of their Tree O Studio has kept them
extremely busy seven days a week since January 2009. Such friends and
luminaries as Vince Gill, Mike Scott, Sonia Isaacs and Alison Krauss have laid
their praises and approval about the great vibe and sonics at the Bros little
slice of heaven high up there in Ridgetop, TN outside Nashville. There appears
to be no slowing down anytime in the near future for the two brothers.
Tim: Besides being totally immersed as main engineer and
‘ruler of “the chair”…’ at TreeHouse studio Tim writes for his next solo album
(untitled). Loaded with a plethora of new product endorsements for both his
artist status and for the studio the UPS/FedEx folks stay busy in the driveway
around here!
Danny: Writing, playing on and co-producing projects with
Tim in the studio keep Danny Reid plenty busy while at home. Brand new product
endorsements have also befallen good fortune on the effervescent ‘older
brother’. He will receive the first ever world reknown Gallagher Guitars ‘Danny
Reid Carter Signature’ model guitar this week. The guitar, which Danny helped
design, was 7 months in the building and to say he is like a little kid at
Christmas is not an understatement. The totally handcrafted instrument
aesthetically reflects his personality on and off the stage as well. Good mojo
here!
The Brothers will spend some time at home after the Euro
tour between July 11 and August 22….about 6 weeks with just a smattering of
“one off” gigs in between. Maybe they can find the time to finish that long
awaited Carter Brothers album…the first in 5 years!
“The end is nothing. The road is all.” Willa Sibert Cather
Much Peace