It's shaping up to be a busy first half of the year for me.
"The Price Of Sin" will be released throughout Europe on February 24 on Blue Rose Records. I'm real proud of that album and I hope you'll like it as much as I do. Keep your fingers crossed that we can get an American label interested in this one.
We'll start taking pre-orders next month.

And we expect to be all done with our work on the Los Solitary Men record real soon.

I'm having a lot of fun listening to the first mixes of "Ghost Riders In The Sky", "Guitar Man" and lots of other great country & rock'n'roll classics. This record will also be released within the next few months.

 

And for those of you who can't wait, there's two songs of mine on the new compilation "Blue Rose Nuggets, vol. 17". Every song on that album was recorded at label head Edgar Heckmann's 50th birthday party in June. It features my solo version of Johnny Cash's "Big River" and an impromptu jam on "Where Do We Go From Here" with Sean Staples and Steve Mayone from Todd Thibaud's band. You can also hear me here & there as a member of the "Blue Rose Rockestra" founded that night with Elliott Murphy, Todd Thibaud, Joseph Parsons, Jabe Beyer and the members of Todd's band. This record's available through Blue Rose Records

 

I'm fixing to go on a little roadtrip for shows in Berlin and Stickhausen way up in the north of Germany st the Alte Zollstation on the weekend of January 20/21. The show at one of Berlin's coolest venues, the Tabou Tiki Room, will feature my friends Martin Abend on pedal steel and Leonardo von Papp on drums. Joining us will be bass player Joe Budinsky from the band of a very talented young songwriter from Berlin, KC McKanzie. KC & Budi will be opening for us that night.
Come on out to these shows and bring your friends!

 

There's a new sound file for you to download here . It's a live version of "Billy's Song" recorded in 1998 at Radio Hot FM in Hof/Germany. And there's some new pictures from an October show in the gallery.

 

And here's my favorite records of 2005. Check 'em out!

 

1. James McMurtry - Childish Things

2. Charlie Sexton - Cruel & Gentle Things

 

other worthwhile albums: Tift Merritt - Tambourine, Robert Earl Keen - What I Really Mean, Smokestack Lightnin' - Home Cookin', Ray Wylie Hubbard - Delirium Tremoloes.

 

Stay in touch, folks, be well, hope to see you soon,