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News 3.21.12Happy Spring folks! Hope everyone is feeling groovy!
It's been busy days getting ready for the upcoming ALO release. Sounds Like This, our fourth album for Brushfire Records, comes out May 8th. Being at SXSW with ALO, flyers in hand for the new record, made it feel official.
After a few sprinkled shows in March and April (Steamboat Springs, Fort Worth, New Orleans), ALO will be back on the road in May tackling the East Coast, Southeast and Midwest. We can't wait to return to this part of the country! In addition, we're psyched to be back at some great music festivals: Summer Camp, Wakarusa, Bonnaroo, High Sierra and a handful more! It's looking like it will be a busy year for ALO. Good thing we made a fun record!
Woven into the ALO action is a variety of other adventures underway and upcoming... Nicki Bluhm is currently in the studio working on her third LP. We tracked all the basics as a full band, all 6 of us gramblers! Within a week, we had nearly a dozen songs practically fully recorded. It's tweeks and touches from here on out. The songs sound great. Dave Simon-Baker and Mission Bells are doing it again!
In April, Scott Law flies back down to the Bay Area for another couple weeks on the road with the Bluhms and Lebo and Brogan from ALO. Brokedown in Bakersfield, our tribue to the vintage Bakersfield country sound, plays SOhO in SB, the Great American Music Hall in SF, the Sierra Nevadad Brewery in Chico and more!
One more record on the horizon is Big Light's 2nd LP, due out in June. Marc Freidman, bass player of The Slip, covered the bass duties as well as production on this next collection. I wasn't able to make the basics but was able to add back-up vocals later, a role I really love in the band. The album sounds amazing and I really look forward to people hearing it.
That might be good for now. Enjoy the days and I'll see ya on the flip. Steve
Project Websites:
ALO |
Big Light |
Nicki Bluhm & The Gramblers |
Brokedown in Bakersfield
Wear Music bracelets made from my old bass strings! Proceeds go to Music In Schools.