February 2020

We were playing Leonard Cohen's "Chelsea Hotel No. 2" last night (rather well I might add) and this older woman came up, complimented us and then said to liven it up some, she'd "had to live through all that".  Requested "Me & Julio" which we did.  Seems to me that song is rather depresseing as well.  C'est la vie.  Anyway.  A new original called "Coffee Cup" struggled it's way out of the ether while I was in North Carolina in December.  Good finger-picky song.  Art and I have also worked up a slow version of Tom Petty's "Won't Back Down" which we're liking.  Had a few couples slow dancing to it the other night.  Hmmmm.  See you out there...

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November 2019

Apart from a few idea sketches, aptly named thing like "New Song No. 2",  "Oh Kay Song" and "Pastoral Song", nothing much new on the originals front.  Covers though continues to be a different story.  I've enamored Art to the joys of R.E.M.'s "Wendell Gee" (1985) and The Decemberists' "Leslie Anne Levine" (2002), the first track off their first record.  May try out these two at some upcoming shows.  Oh yeah, and Art has another new bass.  : )  Also, we have a few private gigs this month (awesome!), including a friend's 25 wedding anniversary drunken blowout, and a company holiday party drunken blowout.  "Keep it upbeat!" they say.  Wish us luck.

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September 2019

Hope everyone is surviving this recent spat of close-call hurricanes.  Good riddance Dorian and Humberto.  The new cover slipping into our sets is a nice acoustic version of The Cure classic "Pictures Of You" (1989). 

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June 2019

A couple of notable covers have mysteriously slipped into recent sets, including Vampire Weekend's "Harmony Hall" (2019...we can finally claim to play "contemporary" music!)...which sadly is already being used in Choice Hotel commercials even though the song/album just came out in January(!), but I digress...and "Synchronicity II" (1983) from The Police.  Super fun to play.  The Murdock's crowd voted it a keeper when we debuted it last weekend. 

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May 2019

A new song has begun percolating out of the ether...the first of 2019.  Currently titled "Silver Screen Smokescreen"...a semi-nod to one of R.E.M.'s last decent songs, "Supernatural Superserious".  In fact, Mike thinks it sounds like late-period R.E.M. a bit.  Art says it's in 6/8 or 12/8 time...not that Mike would know.  Art says the intro sounds like a 16th Century minuet.  Mike takes that as a compliment.  Another new cover has joined the list...Wilco's "Passenger Side" (1995), after Mike and Julie saw Jeff Tweedy do it back during a solo show in March.  Oh yeah...Art bought another bass.  : )

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March 2019

We've worked up a few new cover songs, including the Morrissey standard"Everyday Is Like Sunday" (1989) and John Prine's mid-period classic "Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness" (1986).  Oh yeah, and this new website.  And I'm sure Art bought a new bass and amp since I checked last.

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December 2018

Some more interesting new covers added to the setlist.  Art's new favorite is Pink Floyd's "Fearless", from one of our favorite Floyd albums "Meddle" (1970).  A super nice chat with a new fan at Murdock's recently got Mike digging deeper into those Athens, GA bands he keeps rambling about, with a decent rendition of Vic Chesnutt's "Gravity Of The Situation" (1995) as a result.

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October 2018

Mike's long writers-block finally broke.  Two new originals percolated up out of the void during the summer while he puttered around on a North Carolina mountaintop.  "Forks Of Ivy" name-checks a tiny town lost between Asheville and Burnsville, and has a pretty decent groove, with at least one verse inspired by the awesome film Annihilation.  Another new song is called "Falling Through Holes", a relationship ditty that somehow blends rebellion, songwriting, modern physics, and the more positive side of nihilistic existentialism.  Art says "Eh...what a load of pretentious bulls**t."