Beautiful spring-like day in Portland.  I feel like I’ve been overly obsessed with the weather in this blog, but it really was a tough stretch of driving in winter conditions so the clear roads/sunshine/warm weather is feeling particularly awesome.  Had some actual free time to spend as we were already in town and didn’t have […]

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Very smooth drive down to Corvallis.  Hit a wee bit of Seattle traffic, and saw a lot of Portland traffic headed the other way, but we made great time and were in Corvallis pretty early.  It definitely feels like spring has sprung, the first rest-stop Frisbee of the season manifested itself.  Starting to feel excited […]

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Now that was a rock and roll show. Can’t even hope to do it justice (and not just cause some of it’s kind of hazy) in this spot. I think we got some video, maybe Tyler will figure out how to put video up in the road diary.
 
But the video probably won’t do justice either. […]

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Our second time ever in Salmon, Idaho.   We played a few summers back as part of a summer concert in the park series.  The promoter of that event, our friend Janice, invited us back for a Valentine’s weekend dance at the Elks Lodge.  It’s a relatively short drive down from Missoula, so we didn’t leave […]

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Thanks to the driving work we did yesterday, today was a pretty easy travel day.  How’s that for a life lesson?  Put in the work, reap the rewards.
Didn’t leave the Spokane HoJo till check out, and still got to Missoula in time for some quality hotel R & R.  Then down to the Top Hat, […]

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Though there’s no gig till tomorrow, we left Vancouver around 5pm today.  It was a real border-line call whether or not we should just leave early Thursday.  It would have been doable, but would have involved a ridiculously early departure.  And while we’ve had countless great shows after long drives, you still gotta think breaking […]

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Gorgeous day in Boise. It really did feel like a spring day. I think that sense was exaggerated by the rather severe winter conditions we’ve been experiencing lately. Apparently, we’re told, that Boise has also been having a harsh winter of late. So we all just got lucky. Mainly we […]

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Left Vancouver around 3:20am or so.  Uh huh, that’s what I said.  You heard right.  3:20am.  Normally when we play Boise we leave the day before, but some schedule issues prevented that.  Which wouldn’t, a different time of year, equal an oh-three-hundred departure.  But with the winter driving we’ve experienced lately we didn’t want to […]

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Finally started actual recording of our long overdue next album this week. We’re doing it at Whitewater Studios in Surrey, British Columbia. Carolyn Arends is producing and Roy Salmond is engineering.
We recorded the lion’s share of six songs (still have some violins and maybe ‘extras to overdub, and didn’t get to vocals […]

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Unlike the leisurely pace of yesterday, today was kind of crazy. Hectic, even. It’s a fairly long drive down to McCall, and we lost an hour as it’s a different time zone (despite being almost directly south), and it’s a mountain drive made up completely of single lane highway, and we were scheduled to start […]

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