As Damien Jurado has written in the blog on his website, the release of This Fabulous Century LP is closer to completion. Once Damien finishes the artwork, the LPs will be ready in about 4 weeks. All copies ordered directly through btv or Damien will be on white vinyl. You can pre-order copies through the website now and these will ship when they are complete. A dozen of us are off to see Fahrenheit 9/11 tonight. Go see and join in the controversy. Aspera’s final show ever will be at the Northstar in Philadelphia on Saturday night. See you there. The one-sided LP will come out post-humously once a new B side etching is finished. The re-issue of Denison Witmer’s Philadelphia Songs with 2 bonus tracks and the Andrew Bruntel/Ali Zubik directed video for “24 Turned 25” will be ready in very early July. I’m driving Unwed Sailor Marionette LPs and books, Saxon Shore LPs, and The Six Parts Seven The Attitudes of Collapse one-sided LPs to Secretly Canadian in Bloomington next week in plenty of time for a 17 August retail release. :::scott:::
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Happy Mother’s Day, Mom. I’ll change the splash page as soon as I get some new photos. I got back from the cross country road trip today after dropping Jess off in Jersey City. It was such a fun time. Thanks to our friends that we got to see along the way, especially Brian and Carolyn for putting us up in Austin and for Jamie and Matthew for showing us the proper way to eat crawdads in Jackson. We ended up driving over 4,000 miles on the trip and got to see quite a lot of things I’d never seen before. New Orleans was a bit of a letdown, but Jackson made up for it. Austin was great, just how I’d remembered it being. Memphis wasn’t all that great, but the tour of Sun Studio made me feel close to the history of rock and roll, even though there was too much of a focus on Elvis and not enough on Johnny Cash for my liking. In Kentucky, we stopped off at the monestary where Thomas Merton lived and is buried and bought some of the Trappist made cheese and bourbon fudge. In West Virginia, we visited some very large…
Baseball season opened today with what true fans are hoping is proper foreshadowing, that the Yankees will be going down in flames much like the first game. Thursday night was the Burnt Toast Vinyl fantasy baseball league draft and we’re all ready for the season to be in full force. I’ll be at the Phillies spring training game to open up the new baseball stadium on Saturday. I’m hoping it’s not going to be too cold. My friends Dave and Nicole were able to go to the Daily Show yesterday in NYC. I was supposed to go and couldn’t at the last minute. I’ll be up on Friday night to see Sufjan Stevens with John Vanderslice and Will Johnson at the Knitting Factory. The second pressing of the vinyl for Sufjan’s Seven Swans should be ready soon and off to your favorite local record shops for purchase. There are still copies available from the btv on-line store and the sounds familyre store, as well. My parents, Jess, Jamie, Matthew and I all managed to find the senior citizens’ center in Queens and catch most of a Brother Danielson set there on Friday. It was a performance that was part of…