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When Hazel played the bouncy-ball piano music machine at Elsewhere. 

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When we disturbed a thousand-thousand swans on Assateague.

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"Red" - A new song captured by Dave and co. at Medusa in Gainesville, FL.

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Austin and New Orleans

We've arrived in the lands of sunlight, and we feel so very blessed to spend some time here.  We've played a number of house shows with some of our favorite people- Dwight Smith, Julia Lucille, The Loblolly Boy, Kia Ochun, Billy Cook, Michael Smith and My Graveyard Jaw.  Thank you to all of you kind and inspiring loves!  

When we first stepped out of the car in Austin, I noticed how many kites are stuck in the trees down by the river, and in the winter, they are bright and hopeful against the bare sky.  We had the most amazing time, filled with bike rides, good coffee, texas barbecue and huge breakfast tacos.  Roger Sollenberger was such a generous host!  While we were there, we experienced, what I would call an intimate rager of a house show, hosted by Luke Kalloch.  

On the way to New Orleans, we experienced "The Best Stop" and their amazing Boudin balls, following the advice of Michael the gator-wrassler, saw player extraordinaire.   

And oh, New Orleans, I don't know what to say.  You've impressed me and inspired me beyond belief.  The city, so alive and so real, where celebration is a way of life, and time feels like the slow and unnoticeable flow of the river.  We drank and we danced, we feasted and we fell in love with so many of you wonderful people.  The shows we played, hosted by the Mudlark Theater and Eleanor Warner and Co., warmed my heart so thoroughly, I still feel red in the cheeks.  

Our time in Austin and New Orleans has renewed in me the feeling that music is life, that just like breathing and talking, it is the way we survive and communicate and love each other.

Tonight we play in Montevallo, Alabama, and for the next few weeks, we will travel through the south, to places we have never been.  How exciting!

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The Shadow Tour So Far

The Shadow tour has taken us from Seattle to St. Louis, through beach towns and desert flowers, bars and living rooms, post-industrial landscapes and winter wonderlands. 

The adventure always makes the world feel new, as if memory lives in the places behind us. This is the first time we've toured with my music, and it's wonderful and terrifying at the same time. There is no one to hide behind. The character of the shadow, as described by George MacDonald in his fairy tale "The Shadows" if often on my mind. The shadow is a creature that lives between worlds, and only comes out in the most intimate of circumstances, in a living light. The shadow exists outside of the truth and it's opposite, above them, dancing down between them. While we sat on the ground and looked up at the sky in Tonto National Forest, we saw the moon cast such long and terrible shadows. The saguaro cacti became impressive monsters, and the cholla needle bushes were shifting like clouds. The entire landscape was cold and clear, but also in some sort of impossible motion. And so the adventure continues, and the details of yesterday are locked somewhere away. Thank you to all of the people who have been so kind to us on our journey!  Johnny Bell and Shannon in Santa Fe, Scott Stobbe in Santa Cruz, Tom in Portland, Ali Baker and Olivia Rose in Olympia, Anna Tivel and Jeffrey Martin, and all the wonderful musicians and friends we have met.

 The tour resumes on January 9 with a kick-off show in St. Louis, then down to Austin, TX for more adventures. Visit our calendar for more info.