Welcome to the new website! It’s up and running thanks to Kimrea who did the new design and created the beautiful look to the website! Thanks to peter nevins for the silkscreen print, and mark johann for the band photos you see on the new CD and on the website. The website banner photos were taken by alisa comfort burmeister a few years back at the riptide… We also want to welcome Kim Grant to our crew. Kim, of KG Press is going to tirelessly work this new CD to get Nearly Beloved in the press, electronic media and over the airwaves. I think it’s about time we had a proper launch and we’re very excited to be in such capable hands… Now what the hell are we up to in the meantime? We’re doing our regular gig at Vasco in Mill Valley and planning a late winter/early spring tour to support the new CD! So far we’re heading to Big Sur, LA and Denver. Check the calendar for updates, I’ll put them in as they get confirmed… We’re working on getting up to the pacific northwest where we’ve promised to hang with our pal Mary Tilson at her new digs in Seattle (thanks for the couch mary….did I mention we?)...about that Vasco gig, Paul Olguin was guest bassist last week, and we had a damn fine time. I got to play my new amp, a Savage 12x12 (12 watts, 12 inch speaker), and our set went from Booker T. and the MG’s Hiphugger to The Tennessee Waltz by the great and diminutive Pee Wee King. Then we played an afro-beat version of the traditional bluegrass tune Wild Bill Jones. Then someone very alertly asked for a Fela song, so we obliged with Zombie! That’s what 27 years of collaboration will do for you, thank you Paul Olguin!!!...by the way, I highly recommend the Fela! show, Nicole and I saw it in NYC with Patti Labelle playing Fela’s mother. It was incredibly good, though the horns were oddly in tune…This week we welcome back Joe Kyle to Vasco, and our good friend Lisa Kindred, come join us Tues. 11/22 at 8 pm.

A word on the merchandise page…we realize that this is a hard time for people to scrape together the dough to buy a CD. If you’ve been out of work, or your just plain hard-pressed to buy the CD for the full price, send me an email at matt.lax@mindspring.com and we’ll work something out along the sliding scale lines, though all the money is pretty much going to operating expenses. Cheers! Matt Lax.