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Last Updated: 10/10/2009

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City: CHICAGO
State: Illinois
Country: US
Signup Date: 8/4/2006

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Friday, August 07, 2009 

Category: Music
The live album is done! The live album is done!
 
It's called "Now That It's Burning" and consists of 14 tracks recorded live at concerts and radio stations in 2008 and 2009. It's got songs from Hand Me Down and Beautiful and Treacherous Thing plus several that will be included on our next studio album.
 
The songs were recorded all over: in Chicago; St. Louis; Paw Paw, Michigan; and Johnson City, Tennessee. We tried to replicate a live concert experience: it's very acoustic--mostly vocals, acoustic guitars and mandolin; it's very natural--no overdubs, no second takes; and the song order follows the setlists we've been using lately at our shows.
 
Another fun feature: Doug Zylstra finally gets to play the bass line he wrote for "Mexico" on a recording.
 
We're excited for you to hear it. You can sample it and buy it at www.thespares.net/store or CD Freedom.
 
A couple of other notes:
    'Now That It's Burning' is an electronic-only album--we're not pressing any physical CDs.
    It will be on iTunes, Amazon mp3 and other big sites, but buying on our site or CD Freedom is the only way to get the cool digital booklet that tells the story behind the recordings and shows off Dana Chen's cool design and Jessie Stevens' cool photography.
    Also, we'll be selling the album at our shows as a download card--a little business card-looking thing that enables you to download the record using a secret code number, similar to an iTunes giftcard.
  Ok then! Get to the downloadin'! (Thanks!)
5:12 AM 
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Monday, June 29, 2009 

Category: Music
The Spares' CD Beautiful and Treacherous Thing is one of ten nominees for Americana Album of the Year in the Just Plain Folks Music Awards! JFP is the premier indie music awards program, so we're pretty excited.
4:30 PM 
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Friday, June 12, 2009 
Hosted By:
The Spares

When:
Saturday, June 20, 2009

Where:
FitzGerald's
6615 Roosevelt Road
Berwyn, IL
60402

Description:
The Spares are playing at FitzGerald's next Saturday. It's our second time in this cool, historic room. It's a three-act bill, also featuring Guttenheim Grotto, a great Irish duo that's on its fourth US tour and is much more famous than us, and Bianca DeLeon. $8, 21+. fitzgeraldsnightclub.com. 6615 Roosevelt Road, Berwyn, IL.

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Monday, May 04, 2009 
The amazingly talented photographer Jessie Stevens was at our show on Saturday, taking pictures for our upcoming live CD. Check out some of her favorite shots.
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Thursday, September 25, 2008 
Hey, we just did an interview on BFN Networks, and several songs in the studio. Here's the link
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Thursday, April 10, 2008 

There’s a story about The Spares in today’s Chicago Tribune RedEye. Here’s the link.

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Monday, February 18, 2008 

The Spares are the ’Chicago Rox’ Band of the week at thelocaltourist.com. Here’s the link.

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Thursday, May 31, 2007 

Hey there -- check out the archived version of our radio interview with BFN Networks that originally aired on WUIC in Chicago.

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Wednesday, February 21, 2007 
Five stars from HarderBeat.com
Four stars from ReadJunk.com
And three from Music-Critic.ca.

Also, "Waiting for the Smoke to Clear" is the Track of the Week at GarageBand.com for the week of February 26.
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Saturday, January 20, 2007 
Another cool review, this time from the blog Herohill: "I've fallen in love with the finger picking style and Jodee's lovely voice. I've been playing the MP3s on repeat while I enjoy my coffee this morning. . . . I sense it's going to be one that gets a lot of play here at herohill HQ."

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