Hi Friends -

What's UP?

* December shows in West Los Angeles, Glendale, Bakersfield, and Long Beach
* End of the Year News


DECEMBER SHOWS

December 4th, 2008
The Cinema Bar
3967 Sepulveda Blvd, Culver City, CA 90230
Appearing with Rich McCulley and his fabulous band.
21+, FREE (there is a tip jar of course), we're on 2nd - Show starts at 10pm


December 5th, 2008
The Scene
806 E Colorado St
Glendale, CA 91205
(818) 241-7029
Appearing with Siggy, Man and The Motorcar
21+, $5, We go on at 9:45


December 6th, 2008
Fishlips
1517 18th St
Bakersfield, CA 93301
(661) 324-2557
Get directions
Playing 3 sets for your listening/dancing pleasure
21+, $5


December 13th, 2008
The Pike
1836 E 4th St, Long Beach, CA 90802
Playing 2 sets
21+, FREE (there is a tip jar of course), Show starts at 9pm



End of the Year News

It's the end of another year, can you believe it? I'm sitting in a Stabucks in Decatur, Alabama listening to Bob Marley sing Three Little Birds:

"Don't worry about a thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right.
Singin': "Don't worry about a thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right!"

We've had some hopeful changes in 08 and there's some rough road ahead, but I'm starting to think that every little thing IS gonna be all right.

Duff Ferguson is hard at work on a new website for me and the band. The launch is imminent. It should be attractive, easy to use, and informative. I'm very excited because i'll be selling downloads from my own site for the first time. I'll still be on itunes, and the other international sites, but i'll offer very high quality 320kbs files for those who are sticklers for quality, as well as 192kbs files (itunes generally offers 128kbs) for the those who are fine with the standard fidelity.

I'll be doing some more blogging - I've already started a blog on mog.com - a music site, and if you'd like to check it out it is a http://mog.com/Grant_Langston. I did a review of the Lucinda Williams show at The Wiltern. You can read that at http://mog.com/Grant_Langston/blog/244099

Larry and I did a couple shows in Austin in mid November, including the ill-fated World Music Festival. (You can get the details of this newsmaking meltdown at http://mog.com/Grant_Langston/blog/240453) We plan on doing more shows in Austin in 2009.

The new record is chugging along...with only two more songs to track. At this point the song list looks like:

Stand Up Man
Pretend You Love Me Tonight
30 Days
Burt Reynolds Movie Brawl
Broken Clocks
Shiner Bock and Vicoden
The Only Me
Not Another Song about California
The King of Sunset Hills
Damn Good Day
Call Your Bluff

and a couple more for good measure.


We would really love to see you out at one of these shows....

THANKS for your continued support of independent music!

g


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