I’m playing a the Elbo Room this Saturday, 11/6, as part of the Chicago Root Collective Fall Festival. My set goes from 9pm-9:15pm, or so, in the upstairs lounge area. I’ll be playing a set of all new songs, but I will have copies of my CDs on hand, so come out and get one before they’re completely out-of-style. And, also, don’t forget to vote for the Barehand Jugband in the Chicago Blues and Bluegrass Festival “Last Banjo Standing” contest.

We have a great chance of winning a slot on the main stage this year with a lot less bands taking part in the contest. So, please vote for us as much as you can. You can vote every day (once using your email address, or many times using many different email address on many different computers) from now until November 13.

Just click here to vote. We need some help…we’re currently in 9th place.

A new song’ll be up tomorrow. And then another one first thing on Monday morning.

Played a set with the Barehand Jugband last night as part of the Armando show at Improv Olympic. I had no idea what to expect, but the comedy was down-right good and our songs went over pretty well.

We did these tunes:

• The Ballad of the Boll Weevil
• Hotel Yorba
• A short intermission set (Richland Woman, [A song I can’t remember], 500 miles)
• Oh! Red
• Take a Whiff on Me

Jonas was the MC for the night and gave some great intros to the songs and some really fine oral history of jugband music. You should check out his solo records…he’s got one here and another one here (with Maria McCullough). And he’ll be performing new material all month long, each Thursday in November at the Grafton Pub. Here’s an event link to the first one on facebook.

And, remember, I’m playing a the Elbo Room this Saturday, 11/6, as part of the Chicago Root Collective Fall Festival. My set goes from 9pm-9:30pm, or so. I’m playing in the upstairs lounge area. I’ll have plenty of CDs on hand, so come out and get one while I still have copies.