Uncle Tupelo , Mother Hips , Old 97's , Minibar , Drag the River , the Replacements , Slobberbone, Grant Lee Phillips , Gram Parsons , X , the Clash , Supersuckers , the Faces , Wilco , Let it Bleed era Rolling Stones, Chicken Shit Outfit, Dinosaur Jr.,the Avett Brothers, Son Volt , The Bottle Rockets , Two Cow Garage , Whiskeytown , Jackpot , the Refreshments, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Golden Smog , Neil Young and Crazy Horse ,the Muses (RIP), Elvis Costello , Lucero , Paul Westerberg , George Jones and the Jones Boys, Ryan Adams , Hank Snow, Drive By Truckers, Shurman , Bob Dylan , the Byrds ,Gillian Welch, the Jayhawks , Cracker
And the music of our beloved Alumni - John Usilton, Patrick McGraw, Steve Hoffman and Jon Clarke and David Radmacher
Sounds Like
Americana , Roots Rock , Alt.Country (whatever that is..) , New Depression (2nd wave No Depression ?) , Uncle Tupelo , Whiskeytown
7 (really?) long ass Years into this shit and we still have 3 of the 4 original members. Not too bad for a band playing the least beloved of all musical styles, "Alt.Country". Whatever that means now.
In 2003 we released our first album "Hell or Highwater", it has since sold out of its enitre two print runs (yep kiddies we sold that bastard out twice). For about the last year or four we have been working on a follow up. We have about 25 new songs in the can for a record that we really want to put out this year. But we say that every year. This might be the year though, just so we can thank Alice in the liner notes.
Pennyjar shows can be as jubilant as your first beer bought with your older brothers ID. Or as sad and lonesome as finding out your girl has been screwing your best buddy and also gave him your copy of the Uncle Tupelo "Still Feel Gone/March 16-20" vinyl. Sometimes we are quiet, acoustic and melancholy. Sometimes the guitars are louder then they have any right to be and the drummer knocks his damn cymbals over right on top of my goddamned foot.
We still haven't played a show that followed the planned set list the entire evening. We are prone to playing songs we don't really know in the middle of our set just because it seems like a good idea at the time. Friends, family and the the occasional passerby are often recruited to "help" with a song. Sometimes we get too drunk to play well, usually those are our best shows.
Damn kids, two shows within 24 hrs. I can dig it. Look forward to sharing the bill with you again. It's been far too long. A night of good twangin' and such awaits. Should be fun.
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I finally put up the pictures from Creekside. There's a video from "I'll Take the Whiskey" but I dunno how to get it online, apparently the internet hates me. Here's one of my favorites from Saturday:
Hello from Finland! It's a name-dropping FRENZY!!! I just released my new cd featuring Alejandro Escovedo, Mark Lanegan, Steve Berlin (los lobos), Chris and Carla from the Walkabouts, Peter Case, Scott McCaughey (YFF, REM)and Jim Roth (built to spill). CD has liner notes by Biographer Charles R. Cross (BackStreets-Springsteen...Heavier than Heaven-Cobain...Roomful of Mirrors-Hendrix...etc. Also I have finally put "Passing Thru" on my site as well for you to hear...this is the one with Eddie Vedder, Victoria Williams, and Carla Torgerson trading verses with me...it has not been availablé for a long time, and I also have it on i-tunes, etunes, amazon and rhapsody. Okay...I hope you are doing well!
Apparently Patty McGraw will ALWAYS be the drummer. I feel like the guy who took over for Keith Moon when he died. Yeah, that guy. Who's name no one remembers, or cares about. Thanks, John. I'm feelin' the love right about now.
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