Some live KUT shows

I hit the ground running once when I finished the tour with Matt Nathanson. (Obviously not updating my website.) I played on KUT with Brett Dennen my first day home. He opened up for us the last week of the tour. I am crazy about his music and he was touring without a bass player. So there you go.

KUT Stream LINK
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A few days later…..back on KUT with my friend Suzanna Choffel. We were promoting her CD release party at the Cactus Cafe that night. More come concerning Suzanna and that night.

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Some fall tour dates–UPDATED

The tour dates for our co-headlining tour with Carbon Leaf are starting to come in, so here are a few. You can find out more info here.

 
Aug. 26th
Berkeley, CA
The Greek Theatre w/ Train
     Gayley Road
 
Sept. 15th
Austin, TX
Austin City Limits Festival
     Zilker Park Austin, Texas
 
Sept. 21st
Los Angeles, CA
Roxy Theatre
    9009 West Sunset Boulevard Los Angeles, California
 
Sept. 22nd
San Juan Cap. Ca
The Coach House
    33157 Camino Capistrano San Juan Cap., California
 
Sept. 25th
Tempe, AZ
Coach House
    1320 East Broadway Road Tempe, Arizona
 
Sept. 26th
Tucson, AZ
Club Congress
    311 East Congress Tucson, Arizona
 
Sept. 28th
Park City, UT
Suede
     1612 Ute Boulevard Park City, Utah
 
Sept. 29th
Denver, CO
Bluebird Theater
     1135 13th Street Boulder , Colorado
 
Sept. 30th
Ft. Collins, CO
Aggie Theatre
    204 South College Avenue Fort Collins, Colorado
 
Oct. 1st
Boulder, CO
Fox Theater
    3317 East Colfax Avenue Denver, Colorado
 
Oct. 2nd
Lawrence, KS
The Bottleneck
    737 New Hampshire Lawrence, Kansas
 
Oct 3rd
Minneapolis, MN
Fine Line Muisc Cafe
    318 1st Avenue, North Minneapolis, Minnesota
 
Oct 4th
Madison, WI
Palace Music Club
    1401 University Ave Madison, WI
 
Oct 5th
Chicago, Il
House of Blues – Chicago
    329 N. Dearborn Chicago, IL
 
Oct 6th
St. Louis, MO
Mississippi Nights
    914 N. First Street St. Louis, MO
 
Oct 7th
Louisville, KY
Headliners Music Hall
    1386 Lexington Road Louisville, KY
 
Oct 9th
Nashville, TN
Exit/In
    2208 Ellison Place Nashville, TN
 
Oct 10th
Cincinnati, OH
20th Century Theater
    15711 Waterloo Road Cleveland, OH
 
Oct 11th
Cleveland, OH
Beachland Ballroom & Tavern
     3021 Madison Road Cincinnati, OH
 
Oct 13th
Indianapolis, IN
The Music Mill
    3720 East 82nd Street Indianapolis, IN
 
Oct 14th
Detroit, MI
St. Andrew’s Hall
    431 East Congress Detroit, MI
 
Oct 15th
Toronto, Ontario
Elmocambo
    Sharo
 
Oct. 17th
Philadelphia, PA
Theatre of the Living Arts
    Theatre Of The Living Arts 334 South Street Philadelphia, PA
 
Oct 18th
Pittsburgh, PA
Rex Theatre
    1602 East Carson Street Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
 
Oct 19th
Baltimore, MD
Rams Head Live!
    20 Market Place Baltimore, Maryland
 
Oct 20th
Washington, DC
9:30 Club
    815 V Street NW Washington, DC
 
Oct 23rd
South Burlington, VT
Higher Ground
    1214 Williston Road South Burlington, Vermont
 
Oct 25th
Providence, RI
Lupo’s At the Strand
    79 Washington Street Providence, Rhode Island
 
Oct 27th
New York, NY
Irving Plaza
    17 Irving Plaza NY, NY
 
Oct 30th
Jacksonville, FL
Freebird LIve
   200 N. 1st Street Jacksonville Beach, FL
 
Nov 1st
Miami, Fl
Studio-A
    60 NE 11th Street Miami, FL
 
Nov 2nd
Orlando, Fl
The Social
  54 N. Orange St. Orlando, FL
 
Nov 3rd
Macon, GA
The Grand Opera House
  651 Mulbury Street Macon, GA
 
Nov 4th
Atlanta, GA
Roxy Theater
  3110 Roswell Road Atlanta, GA
 
Nov 5th
Birmingham, AL
Zydeco
  2001 15th Avenue South Birmingham, AL
 
Nov 7th
Dallas, TX
Gypsy Tea Room
  Elm St. Dallas, TX
 
Nov 8th
Austin, TX
The Parish
  6th St. Austin , TX
 

More radio recordings from the past week :: Wendy Colonna

img_wc34.jpgI just got hold of the recording from the KUT Eklektikos show I did with Wendy Colonna this past Thursday. Check out these two songs.
She is a great singer/songwriter and was one of the 50 semi-finalist for Rockstar::SuperNova along with Patrice.

Eldridge Goins is the drummer on these songs with Wendy and also the ones with Suzanna. Plus he also plays with Patrice Pike.

He is a total bad ass, but you already knew that if you’ve heard these songs.

Right Where I Belong 

Noah 

On Air Tonight With Suzanna Choffel

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EDIT: The show was a blast. Here is a clip of Weeds. SCWeeds 

HERE are some pictures from the taping.
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Fall Tour with Matt Nathanson

matt_4c.jpgThings are gearing back up with Matt Nathanson. There have only been a few fly out shows this year with some recording in the spring. We have a gig opening for Train at The Greek Theater in Berkeley next week and then the tour starts up on September 15th with our show at the Austin City Limits Festival. Then there are a few days of rehearsing and the rock starts in L.A. at the Roxy as part of our co-headlining tour with Carbon Leaf. They have some great songs and I hear they are great live. It should be a blast and it will end sometime in November. More dates to come.

Patrice Pike on Rock Star Supernova

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My long time friend/collaborator/bandmate, Patrice Pike is one of the 15 finalists on the new Rock Star Super Nova, a new-band formed by drummer Tommy Lee with bassist Jason Newsted and guitarist Gilby Clarke. She is a slamming singer and performer and I’m sure she will take America by storm. I’m glad she has this opportunity, but I’m also a bit sad she will have to put her independent singer/songwriter career on hold for a while. We starting recording her new record almost three years ago and it’s been held back for different reasons. Mainly because she has been going through so many changes musically and she wants this record to be a best representation of where she is musically.

So vote for her.

BTW, Jim McGorman, the keyboard/guitar player on Matt Nathanson’s new record is in the RockStar house band and he did the INXS version last year.
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You can hear me playing with Patrice on the record New Cool Sampler at the iTunes music store.

EDIT:: Here is a galley of old pictures of Patrice, myself and our bands.

Jade and Blu

Such a colorful weekend. I play tonight at Momo’s with Jade Day and tomorrow with Blu Sanders. I’m playing the ol’ doghouse bass with both of them with lots of bowing on both gigs. Jade has been a weekly gig for the past month or so, but it’s been years since I’ve played Blu. He lives in Nashville now. I really miss playing with him and I’m psyched to play with him and Jason White (drums) again and we’ll have Aben Eubanks on guitar. Aben and I played together in Matt Nathanson’s band and now you’ll find him playing with Kelly Clarkson.

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Matt Nathanson in Rhode Island with Lifehouse

We did a co-headlining show at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island with LifeHouse. I always forget that Matt is so big in the North East that a University would booked us us on a co-headlining show with a band that has several huge singles. I guess it goes to show how a grass roots following can have a similar impact as a shit load of radio airplay. The show went as well as can be expected considering it was in a gymnasium and we were using rented back line gear. I twisted up my knee after the third song, so I gimped around on stage the best that I could. We got to see some of our favorite fans, which is nice since we probably won’t do a full tour until the fall at the earliest. Matt wants (needs) to finish tweaking lyrics for the new album which is basically ready to go as far as the band is concerned, so that is a priority this summer. I know we have some fly-out gigs in June like the Ever-fine festival in Cleveland and a KFOG radio show in San Jose.

LifeHouse are a bunch of great guys and they write some incredible pop songs. I think they are cursed with being the guys that have songs that everyone has heard, but no one can name the band that does them. Or maybe that’s just me.

Texas Shows with Matt Nathanson

Matt is out doing a short solo tour for his new solo acoustic record, but we are all meeting up in Texas so we can play some full band shows. We will be playing a bunch of new songs from the upcoming new record.

04-15-06 Gypsy Tea Room & Ballroom

2548 Elm Street
Dallas, TX 75226
>>Map It!

04-17-06 Warehouse Live

813 St. Emanuel St
Houston, TX 77003
>>Map It! Doors: 8:00 PM
Show: 9:00 PM

04-18-06 Stubb’s BBQ

801 Red River
Austin, TX 78701
>>Map It!
Doors: 8:00 PM
Show: 9:00 PM 04-19-06 Texas State University

Riverfest
601 University Dr
San Marcos, TX 78666
>>Map It! Doors: 5:00 PM
Show: 11:00 PM
River Fest at Sewell Park-Texas State University-San Marcos. We go on around 9:30pm and best of all, admission is FREE! Brandon Stanley is also on the bill.