On August 19th, Todd Snider will release “Peace Queer”. Here is an article about it: http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2008/07/todd-snider-to-go-peace-queer-in-august.html

The CD has a song on it we wrote together, and one I play at almost all my shows these days: “The Ballad of Cape Henry”

Exciting for me to have two of my favorites, Todd Snider and Little Feat, release songs I have a hand in, in one month.

Besides, I’m a peace queer, too.

Happy Birthday, America. If you haven’t seen the John Adams series, watch it and see how our country was invented.

I’ll be in Nashville with my family, low-key fourth.

I was talking to a friend today whose cousins lost their home in the Iowa tornados. I was counting my blessings, which are many.

I wish you all peace, love and happiness. See you out there again sometime, when the gig-getting is good again.

Little Feat’s new album, “Join the Band”, will be released on August 26th on 429 Records. The new album features many special guests, including Dave Matthews, Sonny Landreth, Bob Seger, Vince Gill, Jim Mayer, Jimmy Buffett, Bela Fleck, Mike Utley, Brooks and Dunn, Chris Robinson, and Emmylou Harris. That’s a broad scope of artists, but Little Feat’s influence is probably even broader. The exciting thing for me, aside from simply getting to hear a new Feat record, is that they have recorded a song I co-wrote with Gwil Owen, “The Champion of the World”. Jimmy Buffett guests on the song. Mac McAnally produced the album. It’s an honor. So go out and buy the record. Support a great American rock n roll band. And me, too.

We had a great time playing the Mercy Lounge Saturday night. We dedicated several songs to Cher. Seemed like people were digging the songs. We also had a great weekend with our friends from New York. Here’s Rob’s blog page:

http://dreamsong14.blogspot.com/

My buddy Rob also does the Village Voice’s Possibly 4th Street series, which takes musicians into the New York streets to perform in unlikely places with interesting results.
For instance:

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/archives/2008/06/possibly_4th_st_11.php

OK, anyway, it’s been fun being so busy on the road for the past several years. It’s going to slow down a bit starting…now. Don’t worry, we are looking for dates. I had planned another UK tour, but it looks as if I will not be touring the UK in the Fall. There are still Irish and Netherlands dates pending. I will let you know as soon it is all sorted.

So it’s time to knuckle down, keep writing and recording. Soon there will be a Daddy record ready for whatever it is we are going to do with it. And soon after that there will be another solo record, etc.

Cheers. Happy Summer. Keep your chins up and keep practicing peace. With a lot of practice, we may one day get it right.

The Bluebird show last night was wonderful. Another great night with friends, playing songs. Great friends in the audience too. Brad Jones brought Felicity Urquhart and Richard Julian. Saw neighbors from my hood. Cher showed up with five friends and stayed for the whole show. She sang along on “Yo Yo Ma”. Seriously folks. They left right as we said goodnight—I reckon Cher didn’t feel like doing a meet and greet, so she got the hell out. But Swan Dive (who just returned from playing in front of 90,000 in Thailand!), Jason White (joined by the lovely and talented Andrea for one song sung in French) and Kim Richey sounded fabulous.

I’m looking forward to Saturday night’s show at Mercy Lounge.

The weekend in Mississippi was a good one. I enjoyed the Natchez and Carrollton shows. Got to meet and play with swamp blues great Jimmy Anderson in Natchez. Visited Avalon, Mississippi, home of Mississippi John Hurt, while in the Delta.

The North Carolina weekend was a good one, too. Played shows near Greensboro and near Charlotte. Took the whole family along and got to visit our sweet nephew and meet our beautiful infant niece.

I’ll be at the Bluebird Cafe here in Nashville tomorrow night, June 24th, along with Jason White, Kim Richey and Swan Dive. I’ll be at Mercy Lounge, also in Nashville, on Saturday night, June 28th, with Kim Richey and Mando Saenz. Our band’s called Double Starred Blast, and also features the marvelous Rich Malloy on drums and Bonnie Whitmore on bass and vocals.

Bonnie is opening the show, so get there on time to hear her. She’s great.

That’s about it for my summer dates, except for a handful. I’ll be recording and writing new music as fast as it comes to me. See you at one of the summer dates and then in the fall.

Here’s a pretty big archive of my recorded live shows online. Enjoy:

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=collection%3Aetree%20AND%20format%3Amp3%20AND%20creator%3A%22Will%20Kimbrough%22&sort=-date

Headed for Mississippi. See you there.