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Summer Ends - Summer Begins!

It's a week from now, on Wednesday.  The sun was scorching all day, but now it's night, when the darker impulses emerge.  You find yourself searching for something ... something, but you don't know what it is.

We'll be freshly back from the Kerrville Wine and Music Festival, so we'll be tan, strung out from lack of sleep, and probably hallucinating.  Bruce may finally show his belligerent side, if you're lucky.

In other words, the perfect recipe for World Racketeering Squad's triumphant return to the Red Eyed Fly as we close out the Summer.  We celebrated the beginning of summer in May, and now it's time for summer the season to take a hike - we want to focus on Summer Glau for a while. 

The Squad brings back songs that were on hiatus for 3 months and knocks Red River on its ass with a reprise of our rock opera single, "Omega in Love versus The Supermonsters."

All that and the first 15 audience members get a free copy of our new demo CD More Needful Things, featuring a brand new recording of "Needful Things" ... and more!

See you soon,
Reed, Isaac, and Bruce

Wednesday Sep 3
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Luna Tart loves Bush on Video, thanks to Reed

In a past life I was an independent filmmaker.  No, really.  And I've been putting together the live videos of the Squad for months, but this is the first opportunity I've had to do a quick and dirty video for an artist I respect as much as Isaac and Bruce, the inimitable Luna Tart!

The video is low-key, but the lyrics are NSFW. :)

 

And then we went ahead and shot a bonus video just for giggles:

He had a long way to go, and a short time to get there.

I was really bummed to here about the passing of Jerry Reed yesterday. He was one of my favorite guitar players.

New Alexa Woodward recording project

After hearing the work I did on J Wagner's new album, I was stoked and honored that at this year's Kerrville Wine & Music Festival Alexa Woodward asked me to engineer & produce her next album.

Alexa lives in New York and is an urban banjoist songwriter. Check her out HERE and HERE. You won't be disappointed.

All I want for christmas is my R2D2 DVD/Video Projector/iPod dock

Forget world peace, ending hunger, and christmas cheer - I want one of THESE!

Sweet!

Meanwhile, back at the Ranch ...

Yes, it's time again for the Kerrville Wine and Music Festival, affectionately known as Little Folk, to relax, play and listen to music all night, and engage in hippy hijinks.

Little Folk will always be special for the Squad, because it's where we first performed our songs someplace other than Reed's living room and the positive reactions and love we encountered gave us the boost we needed to start playing open mics around Austin. 

A year flew by so quickly, and the Squad moves with the times, so join us for a drink and tune at Quiet Valley Ranch (hydration is vital!) and we'll see you September 3rd at the Red Eyed Fly for our Summer and CD Combo-Release Fiesta!

Until then, enjoy this clip of the old Gene Autry science fiction movie serial, The Phantom Empire!  I watched these as a kid and loved them.  Yay YouTube!