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3/5/2018 Updates

New shows coming up! 

3/17 - Philadelphia, PA @ Century Bar w/ Squidd Subject A, Joe Jack Talcum and Driftwood Soldier.  https://www.facebook.com/events/677939488996930/

3/24 - Clifton, NJ @ Joe Billy’s BDay Bash w/ Joe Billy, Alamo Alex, Jolly Bentonamo,  Finding Feebas,  Between Pam and Cynthia,  Cartoon Violence! - Private event, if you’re in the Northern Jersey area and want to come message me directly.

4/5 - Philadelphia, PA @ TBA w/ Taillight Rebellion, Seth Doud plus more TBA

4/26 - Ashland, PA @ The Drunken Monkey w/ TBA

4/27 - Detroit, MI @ The Korner Bar w/  Labour Day Weekend, Maggie May and Pancho Villa's Skull.

4/28 - Lansing, MI @ TBA

4/29 - Harrisburgh, PA @ The Goat House w/ Doughland Stucks - https://www.facebook.com/events/1564743613607215/

Also one of my blog posts/articles has been selected to be printed in Issue Magazines April edition!   Follow them here: www.facebook.com/cfrissuesmagazinewww.facebook.com/commodityfetishrecords

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CD Release show on August 26th...my new release, “Heads Up”

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Dog Bites

You’ll find the link below to my songs for the week for 5/1-5/7. 

https://youtu.be/Slov3vEhUDA

Another song about privacy, but many people don’t take their personal privacy seriously and don’t understand the potential consequences to their freedoms, so I’ll keep writing songs about that topic.  The song is a couple days late, but I think I’ll be easy on myself.  Almost two weeks ago now I was walking my dog and he was attacked by an off leash dog.  I did everything I could to shake the dog loose, eventually with the other owners help we were able to pry them apart.  My dog ended up with a pretty decent head wound above his ear, and I with a couple of puncture wounds in my left hand.  It wasn’t pretty to say the least (this is the short version of the story).  Both Cash (my dog) and I are recovered, Cash is still wearing a cone until his head wound finally tightens up and I still have some soreness in my left hand and the wounds are still scabbed over.

Initially I was dramatized, and worried about my hands.  Screen printing and guitar playing are my life, and needless to say I was concerned for how long I would be inured.  Within a few days I was able to play guitar, and by Friday of the following week I was able to play my show opening up for Jeffrey Lewis and Los Bolts.  As far as my song a week challenge is concerned, I had wrote and recorded two songs the week before, so I uploaded the second song the week of the injury to keep the streak going.  Last week I hardly had time to write anything, between recovery and the show, and working live screen printing events through the weekend.  I did write a song late Sunday, but too late to record (trying to be respectful to the neighbors).  So I think I can be a couple days late...I don’t think anybody is counting except myself!

In other news my tour is coming together for the beginning of June with Churches and Trains, just looking for a Sunday show on June 11th, somewhere between Rochester, NY and Boston, MA.  Click on the show page for an update.  Also playing Compost Heap Fest in Denver Colorado the first weekend of June https://www.facebook.com/events/1324139360986916/