One day a few years ago I had the extreme pleasure of hosting Rodriguez for an evening. He was in town on a PR tour and wound up hanging out at the Secret Stash offices after meeting with local media folks. A small group of us were hanging out listening to records and talking about […]
I suppose I should start at the beginning… 2am on a Wednesday. That’s when we had to wake up to catch our flight to Albany to open for Black Joe Lewis And The Honeybears at the city’s popular Empire State Music On The Plaza Series. Our flight was originally set for a 5:20am departure from […]
Three of our favorite towns in one trip…. What could possibly go wrong? As we’ve already discussed on this blog, we recently had to retire our trusty tour bus, The Knight Train. We really haven’t used it at all this year. Instead we’ve just been carpooling to gigs as far as North Carolina (which […]
Recently we said goodbye to our trusty ol’ tour bus, The Knight Train. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t get a little blue as I cleaned it out before taking photos and posting it to Craigslist. As I was sorting through all the junk behind the seats; orphaned socks, a gameboy, and unopened packages […]
John (Secret Stash Records’ Chief Engineer) and I spent all day Saturday mixing. Below is a little clip from one of the songs that will be on our new record. It’s very different from the first record, which we’re thrilled about. That’s not so say that we don’t like the first record, but we already […]
Though we haven’t been touring much lately, we’ve been staying very busy. In January we collaborated with Jab’o Starks and Fred Wesley on a James Brown tribute show in our hometown on Minneapolis. Shortly after that was complete we hit the studio to track our new album. Because of everyone’s busy schedules, we wound up […]
A lot of people have been asking us how the James Brown Tribute show we just did came about. They want to know how we connected with alumni of his band, and what it was like working with them. Well, here it is… One day back in late July I was driving into the Secret […]
Although it has been awesome to be home a lot lately, it also felt great to hit the road for a few days. Last weekend we played Iowa City and Des Moines, IA. We’re still in the market for a new bus (the knight train went down and the cost of repairs are higher than […]
Last weekend we drove down to Lewisburg, WV and Tryon, NC (birthplace of Nina Simone) to play a pair of performing arts center dates. It’s a lot of driving for just two gigs, but the truth is we had offers for an entire east coast tour and this time we decided to just keep it […]
It’s been nice to be home for a while. Friends, family, your own bed, healthier food, and of course more time to practice are all things to enjoy once your back home. You’d think that while touring you get to practice all the time, but it’s actually very hard to find time to practice on […]