Oct 13th-Oct 16th: Beach Farming, Love Songs, and House Parties

Howdy Friends and Neighbors,

Welcome to another edition of Thrown Under the Love Bus, where even if you're under the bus at least you're smothered in heavy dose of Love.   If you enjoy this please re-post so we can get the word out!
UPCOMING SHOWS
10.20.11 - The Blind Tiger (Greensboro, NC)
10.21.11 - The Bathtub Gin (Mooresville, NC)
10.22.11 - The Whiskey (Wilmington, NC)
SPREAD THE LOVE
We would LOVE for you to help us out with the street team activities. Fun stuff like inviting your friends and spreading e-flyers around... even helping at the merch table. If this is your idea of a good time, please email streetteam@ufomusic.net and we'll hook you up! We also have some great tools you can use to spread the word online! Click here to check them out.


Thursday, October 13th

We headed up to a place called Doc Taylor's in Virginia Beach.  This is a funny little place, since it is only open on Thursday nights!  But it works out great because all the locals know that they will have quality music and come out no matter who is playing.   The show was good, and since this is the Richmond/Va Beach area, you know that we'll be hooking up with our good friends Jackass Flats.  Cory Potrafka came and played some harp with us.  Always a treat!

After the show a guy comes up and starts chatting with us and then asks if we have anywhere to stay yet.   His name is Trevor DeGroat and he offers some space in his house that is just one block from the ocean, so we excitedly accept.  I knew something was very familiar about this guy, and as soon as I took this picture when we stopped to get pizza after the show it hit me.  He's practically a spitting image of my best friend JonJon Davis from Boone NC, who I've played with in Boss Hawg (click to hear us) for over a decade.   And anyone who knows Jon Jon will see it right away in this picture, and not only that, they act alike too, jumping around and saying funny things.  It's amazing!

Friday, October 14th

The next morning I got up early (big surprise there) and walked down the beach to find some coffee and discovered that the town of Va Beach - which, like everyone else, is broke - has decided that they are going to capitalize on the most famous television show ever, Baywatch, and raise and export mini Pamela Andersons and David Hasselhoffs!   I think this is a fantastic idea and I hope that it works well for them.  I could also foresee a fancy flip-flop and fan farm that would be financially feasible for the future farmers.  



Mid-day we headed to Richmond for our next gig and stopped by Travis Reinhart's house for a little downtime.   And this is where the magic happened.  Thank goodness I was able to catch it on my camera!  I don't think I've ever seen Dan and Joey happier than right here singing their favorite songs in the whole entire world.

Whew!  That was a doozy huh?!

Friday night we played the Cary Street Cafe, which holds a special place for both The Wookie and me (one of the few things we agree on!) as it is based around the music of the Grateful Dead.

Saturday Oct 15th

We headed back to Virginia Beach to play a wedding for two special people.  You know a wedding is going to be fun when the couple's first dance song is a Bob Marley tune!  Let me introduce you to this week's BDL Fans of the Week, the newly-married Brad and Becca Ellis.

Sunday Oct 16th

BDL video fund-raiser party.

This was a really great party put together by our very own Tori Steinberg, Jenny Viars, and Claudia Kelly, so we can shoot a real-deal music video! The amount of work they put into this party is just amazing and we can't thank them enough.   Jenny has a few photo albums that you can view here.
BDL and our side-project Breakin' Jimmy's Martin played some fun acoustic sets throughout the day.
 

Dan and Joey at the party photo booth.  

Ashley and I in a rare moment of agreement, maybe we both hit the right chord at the same time. 

And the music never stops....

Brian and BDL
Lonesome Banjo Chronicles



UPCOMING SHOWS
10.20.11 - The Blind Tiger (Greensboro, NC)
10.21.11 - The Bathtub Gin (Mooresville, NC)
10.22.11 - The Whiskey (Wilmington, NC)
SPREAD THE LOVE
We would LOVE for you to help us out with the street team activities. Fun stuff like inviting your friends and spreading e-flyers around... even helping at the merch table. If this is your idea of a good time, please email streetteam@ufomusic.net and we'll hook you up! We also have some great tools you can use to spread the word online! Click here to check them out.

Sept 15-18 2011 Raleigh and Bristol Rhythm and Roots Festival

Howdy Everyone!
We had a great weekend at two of our favorite places in the southeast, Raleigh and Bristol!

        We kicked off the weekend with our our great friends from Richmond VA, Jackass Flats, at the Pourhouse in Raleigh.  We can't even begin to say how much we love these guys. 
        A highlight of the show for both us and the fans was playing "Mid-Summer's Dream" into "Dreamwalker" like we did on the album.   We first attempted it at our Ziggy's show with the great fiddle player Merle Johnson and the amazing percussionist Shawn Roberts.   But this time we were doing it with just us, and we had no idea what to expect.   It went fantastic, and Joey was on fire during the middle of it.  We are looking forward to incorporating this into our show more often.

We have started a tradition of jamming acoustic bluegrass in the alley after the show and Jackass Flats wasn't about to miss out on that fun.   Here's a clip from our friend Jenny Oram!

       On Friday we made it to Bristol TN/VA for the fantastic Bristol Rhythm and Roots Festival.   This is one of the best festivals of the year and is located in downtown Bristol on State Street.   This street is the state line between VA and TN, and I've noticed that on the fall equinox the sun sets directly down the middle of the street for a beautiful view.   So I assume the state line was actually drawn  by the sunset on the equinox.  This is just a hunch and if anyone knows for sure I would love to hear!

There are over 200 sets of music through the weekend at this festival, and one of the highlights that we caught were The Infamous Stringdusters.  (you can stream their music here) Here's a quick video of them playing the Old and In the Way tune "Midnight Moonlight."  This song comes from the iconic 1975 album "Old and In the Way" that featured Jerry Garcia, Peter Rowan, David Grisman and Vassar Clements.   I believe this album opened more people up to bluegrass music than any other album released, and it's amazing to hear how many people start their stories with, "Well, it all started when I got the album "Old and In the Way!"

And we also caught our friend Jim Lauderdale playing with his honky-tonk country band.

Here are our new friends William Walter and Co playing on the Borderline Stage right before us.  We've gotten to know these guys lately and really like them a lot.  Check them out!

and finally, here's a video of us driving up to WV for the Camp Barefoot Festival a few weeks ago.  It was a beautiful drive and Ashley had a little "issue" on the way up!

Thanks for keeping up with us!   See you soon!
Brian and BDL
Lonesome Banjo Chronicles