The Blue Bayou, July 10, 2010
Jun 28, 2010 Uncategorized
We are pretty excited about returning to The Blue Bayou on July 10. It’s one of our favorite places to play. Judging by the support they got a month or so ago, we are happy to know that it’s one of your favorite places, too. We are going to dig into our back catalog to bring out a few gems we haven’t performed in a while, as well as a few new songs you likely haven’t heard before. Two jam-packed sets starting at 9:30 PM.
Triangle Blues Society Blues Challenge 2009
Jun 14, 2009 Uncategorized
Best of luck at the 2010 International Blues Challenge to Bullfrog in the solo category and to Fat Bastard in the band category. These folks really were far and away the best entertainers of the evening at the Triangle Blues Society Blues Challenge last night. GRS played really well and had a lot of fun. Hats off to the winners! We hope to be back again next year.
We played The Flow, One Of Us Has Got To Go, Three Handed Woman, Cheated You Fair And Square, and Listen To Your Man. We were the sixth band out of six to play. By that time the audience and judges panel energy was waning, but they all seemed to enjoy our set. Fat Bastard really was the band to beat. The had some technical difficulties to overcome and had a great stage presence, as well as some very nice songs. Good thing they have to lay out a year before competing again.
Jun 5, 2009 Uncategorized
After a few days of rain showers and torrents, it looks like the rain is past us for several days at least. Good thing, too. We have a special party to play under the stars tomorrow night for our good friend Muriel. One last gig before the TBS Blues Challenge on July 13!! If you aren’t coming to the party, we hope to see you at the Berkeley in Raleigh for the Challenge. The show starts at 8:00. Your $10 admission goes to benefit the Triangle Blues Society.
I just got a new camera, so with any luck we will have some new photos and videos to post (and use on some new poster designs) soon.
May 30, 2009 Uncategorized
We found some photos from the recording sessions for First Thing Smoking. Check them out in the Pictures page in the First Thing Smoking Session Pics folder. More to come as we find them.
Tags: first thing smoking, photos, pictures, recording
Jack of Diamonds - new track from First Thing Smoking
May 24, 2009 Uncategorized
The track ‘Jack of Diamonds’ is now available! Chuck just finished mixing it, and you’ll find it here for download. Keep an eye on the Music page for a growing number of releases. All of our material will be available under a Creative Commons license, so you are free to download, share, podcast, or totally ignore these songs.
Chuck said…
A friend of mine has a copy of Adobe Soundbooth CS4 that I used to finalize this mix. It’s a really cool GUI that combines some of the best elements of Cool Edit and Sound Forge. Doing basic tasks like trimming heads and tails, minor processing like EQ and compression is a snap.
The song was written around the time when you couldn’t turn on the TV without seeing an ad for a TV poker show. Most of the lyrics while exercising my dog Coda at Lake Jordan. I had just enough time between stick throws to jot down a line or two. The original concept was to make it into a Doc Watson type blues. When I showed it to Mike, he saw that at the heart of it, it really was a Texas blues. It’s been a standard in our repertoire ever since.
Rehearsal last nite
May 14, 2009 Uncategorized
Here’s a peek at rehearsal at Dave’s place. We’re getting ready for the Blue Bayou Club this Saturday (come on out!). Here’s us working through a song called “Belly Up to the Bar” from the new album “First Thing Smoking”. See if you can spot the ill advised Dick Dale lick! This is why they call it rehearsal, partly because it’s where you learn what NOT to do.
Tags: video
Blue Bayou Club Saturday
May 12, 2009 Uncategorized
Heads up that this Saturday (May 16th) we’ll be at the Blue Bayou Club in Hillsboro! Check out the club here, and come on out. We’ll try to get some video from the show and post it next week…
In the meantime, we’re still working on the web site. A calendar was added, and various template changes…still layout out the site…
Tags: gigs
Hey, give us a minute!
May 11, 2009 Uncategorized
We’re switching our website to run on wordpress, content coming soon….I’m working as fast as I can.
Look for new tunes, pics, and news about ‘First Thing Smoking’, our newest album. In the meantime, check us out on MySpace.
