is where we are, in KANSAS CITY BABY.
In Kansas City the sun shines all day and the trees grow muffins and sweets.
There’s a lake of gin we can both jump in, and the handouts grow on bushes!
In the new-mown hay we can sleep all day, and the bars all have free lunches !
Where the mail train stops and there ain’t no cops, and the folks are tender-hearted !
Where you never change your socks and you never throw rocks,
And your hair is never parted!
Etcetera.
The show tonight is outdoors in an amphitheatre. Cool. Think of the opposite of the Camden Barfly in every possible way, and that’s where we’re at.
Last night we were in St Louis, and we played a great bar called the 2 Cents Plain. In the state of Missouri on a Sunday it’s illegal to sell alcohol on Sunday unless you serve food as well. With this in mind, it’s remarkable how drunk we managed to get. So drunk in fact, we might have left a box with all our t-shirts in by the side road. Shit.
The night before that, we were in Chicago and we played two shows in one night, which was actually a lot of fun. Plus we got to drink two riders.
The night before that, we went to Niagara Falls, which is awesome, even at 1am in the morning. Rob went over in a barrel. No danger.
Shows in Montreal and Canada before that were a lot of fun, and had some of the nicest audiences so far on this tour. Thanks, Canada.
I went to the zoo today.
The day after tomorrow we’re going to Denver where there are scorpions and tarantulas, apparently.
Anyway, enough, here’s a recording of Fix The Sky A Little from The Chicago Allstate Arena, recorded by the excellent Brennan Houser. It’s free. Have it.
Next time, some photos.
65daysofstatic.x


mia wrote,
awesome, a live track!
excellent recording indeed!
Link | May 20th, 2008 at 12:52 am
Blindfold wrote,
Awesome, I’ll have to try that barrel thing if I get there in my lifetime.
Did you really leave that box with your shirts? D A M N!!!
Glad to read that you have a great time over there, I hope you don’t forget about us old world folks ;D
Oh, and thanks for that brilliant live recording!!
Link | May 20th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Lisi wrote,
Hey, saw you in Kansas City last night, you were great! I’m now on a quest to find more of your music.
Hope the rest of your tour goes well!
Link | May 20th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Cletus wrote,
Well glad that happened *after* Chicago. Still sucks large though.
Were the lights still on at the falls when you got there?
Wearing my 65 shirt with pride.
Link | May 20th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Cletus wrote,
To be clear I was talking about the t-shirts part. Not the drunk part. Or the zoo part. I hope the hoboes wear their new 65 shirts with pride too.
Link | May 20th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
DJ wrote,
Quality recording!
Glad your having fun.
Robb, Bilbo wants his barrell back.
Link | May 20th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
TJ wrote,
One of the best live recordings I’ve heard!
Pictures soon. Please.
Link | May 20th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
Tal wrote,
Glad you guys are having fun. So.. Maybe you should come back to Canada soon then. :]
The recording tis great.
tal x
Link | May 21st, 2008 at 12:04 am
brettbum wrote,
Looking forward to seeing you in Charlotte, NC next month.
Curious if maybe you had a chance to visit Cahokia Mounds, couple miles outside of East St Louis. It has something created by Native Americans that resembles a Henge, and also has the largest pyramid in the Americas.
Link | May 21st, 2008 at 8:31 pm
Jonathan Philip wrote,
Fantastic Chicago show. Thanks for the recording.
Link | May 22nd, 2008 at 8:18 am
Rob wrote,
Wow…the drums on that recording are epic…
Have fun with the rest of the tour…get some shows booked in England this summer!
Link | May 24th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Marty wrote,
You guys need to play a headlining show in Massachusetts or Rhode Island soon!
Link | May 24th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
DJ B wrote,
That link is a page for this week’s edition of the Mixdown. I have been playing tracks from the new releases for several weeks now, but can’t find any way other than this forum to try to contact the band to let them know, so if anyone can hep a brotha out in that regard (email would be super) it would be mucho appreciado.
Thanks and sorry for the off-topic post.
jb
Link | May 28th, 2008 at 3:06 am
Stanley wrote,
have you got a link to the mixdown, man?
Link | May 28th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Cletus wrote,
Would this be it?
http://people.vanderbilt.edu/~john.brassil/mixdown/mixdown080525.html
FYI the band’s email is in the ‘archive’ section. But to be honest, their mailbox is probably full right now.
Link | May 28th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
Danny wrote,
Here’s a review of the denver show. http://trunkfiles.blogspot.com/2008/05/so-last-night-friend-and-i-went-to-see.html#links
Link | May 28th, 2008 at 6:53 pm