Thanks to everyone for coming out to Cafe Mattino last weekend … the show was really well-attended & some great pieces were sold, & the quality of the work was encouraging.

It was also the release of our new CD Essays In Pop. Skip over to the multimedia page to hear some of the new songs. For the cover art, I went over to Kathleen Wyllie’s house & looked at a bunch of her pieces & picked out some favorites. It was a treat to see more than 3 decades of diverse & engaging work. Kathleen’s been a mentor to me for a decade & I’m grateful to her for use of the artwork & proud to have it on our CD. Some of her work is at Cafe Mattino if you want to see more. (www.CafeMattino.com)

I just got confirmation that our new disc 10 Radio Singles & a Murder Ballad is in the mail, so we’ll have it at Truman State’s Squirrelfest this weekend & at Vintage Vinyl next week.

We’ve also been scheduling recording sessions for this summer to track songs for the next record. We may re-record some out-of-print tunes from Cd-Rs, but the new tunes include:

• Soft Rock Radio
• Clear As a Bell
• In a Time of Halogen
• To Be My Love
• Two Things
• The Picture My Father Carries
• Born That Day
• The Cold of Winter

We’re pleased with the new tunes & we’ll be playing some of them at all our upcoming shows.
-Joe

We’re looking forward to playing Squirrelfest in a couple weeks because there’ll be tons of people, snow cones, T-Shirts, & music all day.

The weekend of the 21st our new CD will be playing at an art opening for a group showing of Le Pouce & L’Orteille at Cafe Mattino in St Louis. See www.CafeMattino.com for info. The show opening will be Friday April 21st pm & Saturday April 22nd afternoon, but it will be up for a month. Lots of St louis artists I admire will also be showing work, including Greg MacNair, Mark Taylor, Aubrey Hawkes, & Kathleen Wyllie.

10 Radio Singles & a Murder Ballad will also be for sale if we have it by then … we’re expecting it next week or the week after, so we’ll have it for sure by Squirrelfest.

Cheers, -Joe