Festivals, new album etc. etc. etc.....

Hey everybody! Holy cow we've been busy... well Omar and our producer Steve have been busy in the studio. We just got back rough tracks of new guitar for a bunch of tunes.. Let's see if remember we've got: It Wasn't Me, Just For You, Karma, Let Them Go, Need The Music, One For Two, Trouble and, What You Don't Know. They're all sounding pretty great with two exceptions... Need the Music and It Wasn't Me, these two are turning out pretty damn awesome!

We're getting really excited about the album and hope we can get it out soon. We're tentatively looking for a mid-late fall release. So hold tight, I know it's been a while since we've given you anything new but hell you've waited this long, just wait a little longer. I promise it will be worth it!

Just a heads up but we're throwing around the idea of trying to "fan fund" the album. That basically means that we ask for donations and in return for those who donate they (or you) get a cd and shirt and a back rub from Omar or something like that. We're still working out details. Records these days aren't cheap to make man and we're trying to do this one the right way. But we're not makin John Mayer money...yet?

We've got three, yeah three festivals left this year (at least for now there could always be more). Hot August Blues is this weekend! Check out this line up:



Main Stage
8:00-10:00pm - LYLE LOVETT and his Large Band
5:30-7:00pm - Keb' Mo'
3:30-5:00pm - Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears
1:30-3:00pm - The Bridge
Noon-1:00pm - Jackie Scott and the Housewreckers

Side Stage
1:00-2:30pm - Dean Rosenthal
3:00-3:30pm - Choo Choo Charlie (Children's Show)
4:00-5:30pm - Sweet Leda
6:30-8:00pm - Higher Hands

Nice... We just got our very first lanyards....sweet. That probably doesn't mean much to most people but this is our first show where we have to wear a lanyard instead of a wristband or sticker so that's pretty cool. Some of my other music people are probably thinking "aww ain't that cute, Sweet Leda's first lanyards". Some of my friends have a bunch of lanyards from a bunch of shows they played.... Derrick Dorsey I'm talkin to you!. Anyway we're pretty darn excited. Tickets are still avaliable at the gate. Just go to hotaugustblues.com for more details.

Then next week is Annapalooza! It's the actually the second Annapalooza but this year it's at the Anne Arundel County Fairgrounds. August 28th.... Don't forget this one either here's the line up:

 stage 1 schedule 

noon “Summer of Rock” winners: Have Gun Won’t Travel, Synesthesia & High-brid

1:30p Afro Bop Alliance

3:00p The Cheaters

4:30p Bill Kirchen

6:30p Pietasters

8:30p Soja

 stage 2 schedule 

noonUnified Jazz Ensemble

1:30p Jarflys

3:00p Blue Miracle

4:30p Grilled Lincolns

6:00p Mambo Sauce

8:00p The Bridge

 absolut® alley schedule 

noon Rhythm Method

1:00p Bay Jazz Project featuring Justine Miller

2:00p Annapolis Bluegrass Coalition

3:00p Gary Wright & Leah Weiss

4:00p Skribe

5:00p Higher Hands

6:00p Pressing Strings

7:00p Dean Rosenthal Blues Review

8:00p Sweet Leda

9:00p Wax

Again nice... Cool thing is... if you notice in the lineups. We're playing with Dean, Higher Hands and The Bridge both times. Hell yeah I say. We haven't met the guys in the Bridge but I know they're from around here, Broadneck area I think. We'll have to meet up with those cats and do a shot or push-ups or something. Nah screw that, shots please.

So if you live anywhere near Annapolis.. or even Maryland you might want to check this out. The Ren Fest starts that weekend too...

The last one is Island Bay days Festival in Stevensville. Check it out here . This one is cool too. Cool lineup of local talent. Across all genres. Check this one out:

11:00AM - 11:40PM - Roadhouse Clams

11:45AM - 12:25PM - School Of Rock

12:30PM - 01:10PM - Fuzzbox Piranha

01:15PM - 01:50PM - Off The Hook

01:55PM - 02:35PM - Guthrie Matthews Method

02:40PM - 03:20PM - 88/6

03:25PM - 04:05PM - Sweet Leda

04:10PM - 04:50PM - Wicked Rosie

04:55PM - 05:35PM - Quagmire

05:40PM - 06:20PM - 8 Ohms Band

06:25PM - 07:05PM - Korupt

07:10PM - 08:15PM - No Pets For Noah

08:15PM - 09:15PM - Defrayal

09:20PM - 10:50PM - Kix

We hit kinda early on this one but that's cool with me man, we get to see Kix! That's gonna bring me back to metal days. I may need to break out my wrestling shoes and spandex and tease my hair for that. Never did I ever guess that I would be doing a show with Lyle Lovett and Kix. You just never know man, you just never ever know.

O my god I almost forgot to tell you about the single, "Can't Stand". We have tentatively decided to go with Drew Mazurek for the final mix and hopefully he can get it back to us pretty quick. Just his preliminary mix of sounded pretty friggin good, I mean really good. We've got a new logo and website in the works. We'll be releasing the single and going live with the website at the same time so wish us luck it should be fun... in a good way. Look out on WRNR and WTMD they're both spinning some SL pretty regularly, thanks to both! Best time to catch us is on WRNR is Naptunes at 9pm during the week. Ok I'm done. Too much coffee does this to me.

Check out a video from Artscape... pretty cool

Ok that's it...thanks and see you from the throne! -DonBoy