JASON will be opening the Ian Hunter UK tour March 11-30. His old friend and Jason & The Scorchers’ colleague Andy York will be playing guitar with Ian, so there might be some jamming going on! 12-30 March 2013 UK and subsequent dates: http://www.farmerjason.com/dates Because of this tour, the Dickson Tennessee Farmer Jason show on March 23 has been moved to March 2.
Much wailing and gnashing of teeth amongst Nashville’s guitar playing elite this month as award winning guitarist and children’s entertainer is interviewed on the Epiphone guitars. EPIPHONE ARTICLE
The Nashville Public Television’s (NPT) IT’S A FARMER JASON video interstitial program has received an Emmy nomination for BEST CHILDREN’S PROGRAMMING MID SOUTH REGION. This newest round of video interstitials (video shorts played between the station’s long programs) uses songs from the new My Kazoo Music/Universal Music Enterprises album NATURE JAMS. The program was produced by NPT with the cooperation and support of My Kazoo Music/UME. NPT’s Ed Jones directs the program. Kevin Crane at NPT and Rick Dobbis from My Kazoo Music are the executive producers. Congratulations!
WARNER’s been quite busy with The Bluefields lately (Warner, Dan Baird, Joe Blanton, welcome aboard Brad Pemberton) their new release“Ramshackle” is now available for pre-sale shipping 19 March 2013. CLICK HERE. They had exciting shows in Nashville and Atlanta last weekend and excited about their upcoming tour 08 March 2012 are in Belleville, WI and 09 March in Wapaoneta, OH (FACEBOOK EVENTS PAGE) and then Spain, UK, Sweden and ? THE BLUEFIELDS’ EUROPEAN TOUR DATES then, Warner and Dan’ll just stay there for DAN BAIRD AND HOMEMADE SIN European Dates.
AL is happy to report their LIVE record and DVD pre-sale fundraiser was a smashing success! Together with friends, fans and supporters from around the world assures the Stacie Collins Live record & DVD will be a reality and can’t WAIT to share the music that you helped make. An ENORMOUS THANK-YOU to everyone that donated to this project! An estimated April/May release date, they have started the process of mixing the record and the first single “Better Get In Line” has been sent as an exclusive download to their GOGO supporters. The video footage looks great and is coming along nicely as well. For those who want to order an advanced copy, they’ll be setting up a website pre-sale button soon. In the mean time, keep up-to-date and check out their upcoming dates at http://www.staciecollins.com/.
PONTUS’ been busy touring with BONAFIDE, Songs are being written, plans are being made... 2013 will be Massive! They just heard that HOT METAL Magazine just voted "Ultimate Rebel" the 2:nd best album of 2012 (Read the complete list here). Only beaten by the Mighty Van Halen and their excellent "Different kind of Truth". Thanks! There´s been a vote going on through ROCK FUSION in the UK - for best band of 2012, and they’re Nominated among Rival Sons, Gun, The Treatment and others! Wonderful news about Tours and a NEW SINGLE & VIDEO coming your way Soon! http://www.bonafiderocks.com/
And I have been quite remiss, busy, busy and a little tired, I bet none of you can relate (and loving having Winnie). . . a very late Merry Christmas, Happy New Year’s, and not to be too creepy, Happy Valentines’. . . you folks hold a special place in my heart, thank you sincerely for all the support and love you’re continually sending to my guys!
