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5/9/12

We're in Sunday's 5/6 SF Chronicle.

Next Sunday afternoon acoustic set at Bird
& Beckett Books in Glen Park.
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4/20/12

College Roots posted a Blind Willies piece.

Rocket Dog Rescue benefit was cool. Free
biscuits. Master D filled his mojo bag.
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4/3/12

We're dressing in silks for our 1st arena
show at the Warriors game in Oakland 4/12.
It's Bollywood Night with the
KGS Bollywood Bhangra Allstars.
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3/8/12

Trinity Forest was beautiful last week. We had a great time
playing in Redding & Weaverville, but we'll have to drive 15
miles under speed limit next time so that the radar gun reads
our speed at the limit.

My cousin Michael Zegen is currently
playing Randall on AMC's Walking Dead.
See him before anything ugly happens.
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2/15/12
Thanks to everyone at the shows in
Bolinas, Guerneville, and Santa Rosa last
weekend. We were honored to play at
Russian River Brewing for the unveiling of
Pliny the Younger, and the food and
company at the historic Hideaway were a
sweet treat.
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1/17/2012

New York music blog BuzzChips posted a
review of our 9/20 Cafe du Nord show.

Join us tonight at The THING Quarterly
with Dave Eggers. Free reading of his new
short story & music.
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12/30/2011

Happy and healthy new year to all of you. Thanks to everyone
who bought CDs, hosted, reviewed, played, and listened to us.
We hope we'll see you again soon.
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10/18/11
"Absolutely Isabel" was selected for a free
download card that PBS series Roadtrip
Nation has been distributing at college
campuses.

We're in the SF Chronicle's Bandwidth this
week. The interview was cut. Here's the
original.
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9/14/11
See a list of stations that have added and
played the new album.

Randy Clark's excellent new album,
Junebugs and Journeymen, is out. Listen to
a couple songs.
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8/10/11
New review in Aiding & Abetting.

We're featured again on UK podcast Suffolk 'n' Cool.
And in a few recent blogs, The Rebel Agenda, Berkeley
Place, CrayonBeats, Bee Hive Candy.

Under a Big Red Sun is released today. Jezebel is on it
and all proceeds go to Oxfam International.
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7/30/11

A new German review was posted this
week at Wasser-Prawda. We've had a few
translations. It's all good.
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7/15/11

We have another new review in Heaven, a Netherlands
print magazine. See the magazine here.

We're mentioned in a new blog, American Gothic #5.
It's an interesting column.
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7/9/11

New review in Pennsylvania's McKeesport Daily News'
"In Tune" Section today. See it here.

"Lord Thought He'd Make a Man" is on UK's Suffolk 'N'
Cool podcast #279.
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6/14/12

Hear us live on Derk Richardson's KPFA Hear and
Now 6/16. Then at Amnesia with Danny Cohen 7pm
Friday, 6/17.

Owl Mag interview.

"Lord Thought He'd Make a Man" is on Bill Frater's
Freight Train Boogie podcast #122.

Best New Bands interview with Laurel Kathleen was
posted 6/3.

"Absolutely Isabel" and "Trampin'" are featured on
6/2/11 Elbows music blog.

The Mad Mackerel UK blog recommends Blind Willies
on 5/28/11

"Jezebel" was chosen for the Oxfam International
compilation CD, Under a Big Red Sun, due for release
August 1st.
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5/18/2011
The new album has gotten early radioplay in the Netherlands
on Arjen Dekker's Blue Wednesday, Dutch Roots Radio's
Landslide, Gerrit Casper's Goodnoise, Thomas Kaldijk's
Blueprint, and Rootsrevival; in Italy on Massimo Ferro's
Highway 61; in France on Michel Penard's ISA Radio American
Roots Music; in Germany on Radio Marabu, Friedrich Hog's
Radio Free FM, Juergen Kramer's Radio Zusa; in the US on
KPFA, KALW, KCSB, KAFM, WPSU, WFDU, KRCB, KDVS, KBGA,
KZSC, KZSU, KPIG, KKUP. "One Dime Down" is #1 on
Boston's UnRegular Radio National Top 5 list for week of 5/12.

"Sisters of Perpetual Curiosity" was chosen for Tranquilizer
Records Compilation CD.

Thanks to all the radio DJs who've hosted us in-studio
recently: Oy-Dog on KZSC's Musical Jews, Alan Joyce at
KZSU's Everyday Commotion, Bill Wagman's KDVS Saturday
Morning Folk Show, Mindy's Mix at KRCB, John Sandidge at
KPIG's Please Stand By, and Kevin Vance's KALW Patchwork
Quilt.
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5/8/11
We'll play in-studio at KZSC 5/12 on DJ Oy-Dog's Musical
Jews. The show has been bringing Jewish music to Santa
Cruz for 3 years.

You can hear the show we did at KDVS 5/7. Our half-hour set
begins at 2:00 on the itunes timeline.
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4/2/11
Needle, Feather, and a Rope is now available at CD
Baby, Bandcamp, and in our store(where we benefit most,
where the special deals are special, and where you feel best
knowing your money is going straight to the band).
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3/29/11
Thanks to everyone who came to the shows this past week, to
Emile for hawking CDs so ably, to Isaac & Alrik & Perry for
video coverage. It was all fun.

Emile Klein is about to begin an epic 5 year bicycle journey
that will cross 50 states, record stories, depict individual
personalities and faces that contribute nuance and character
to what we are as a nation. Help him.

We played various Muni routes last week. Everyone packs a
camera now and they've sent us videos. Check them out:
Good and Faithful Servant, Last Drop of Midnight, Red Dream
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3/24/11
PLEASE don't let rain, sleet, flood, Furies stop you from
coming to the mysterious Blue Macaw tonight.
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3/20/11
We have the CDs, the package is beautiful, band photos and
complete lyrics on included insert foldout, AND the music will
sound best when played using the actual HDCD disc.
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2/17/11
See video featuring our T-shirt. Max Spiegel is a Pennsylvania
DJ and founder of The Mudcat Cafe.
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1/11/11
Our Cafe Du Nord show, with The Ferocious Few, DIA, and
Kallisto, was wild and memorable. Chukwudi Hodge sat in
with us and brutally dominated the drums. Adam arrived in
time to play the encore with us. Thanks to everyone who came
and to Brian and Jim of SF Melting Pot for their vision of soul
food, bingo, and music. Watch for more Soul Bingo in the
coming months.
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11/9/10
Mixing is done and P aul Stubblebine will do the mastering.

Isaac's film has been picked up for On Demand distribution in
Turkey, so tune-in when you're in Istanbul. AND he's working
temp as a gaffer's ass't. on Coppola's new film
starring Bruce Dern & Val Kilmer.
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9/1/10
We're going to mix the new album at Hyde Street Studios mid-
September. Justin Phelps is coming down from Portland to
work with us. He's recorded and mixed Dresden Dolls,
Amanda Palmer, Dead Kennedys, Cake, The Neville Brothers,
Chuck Prophet, Jolie Holland, etc. Looking forward to it is
understatement.
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7/20/10
We finished overdubbing tracks at Radical House last night
with Charles Gonzalez, Rebecca Pingree, Rachel Woods-
Robinson, Nicolette Yarbrough, and Ken Rosen. Beautiful and
talented every one.
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6/15/10
Shows soon at Bollyhood (with special guest Seth Augustus)&
Ashkenaz (with Brooklyn Afro-Beat band Zongo Junction).
Come, bring friends. Misha's about to leave on tour with Rupa
so we're going to send him off properly. And we're celebrating
birthdays at Ashkenaz.

We had productive 4 long days that passed in a flash at Tiny
Telephone. The 10 songs we planned became 14. Guest
musicians included Randy Clark, Isabel Douglass, Andrew
Walker, Adam Nash.

Isaac's film is released today. The Alameda Sun published a
feature.
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5/18/10

Jonah is playing the Hemlock Tavern this Thursday, May 20th.
It's going to be an AMAZING show. Powell St. John's songs
have been covered by Janis Joplin, Boz Scaggs, Doug Sahm
and Roky Erikson & 13th Floor Elevators. He's in the Texas
Music Hall of Fame and he's currently playing with The Aliens,
Roky's legendary band. Danny Cohen released 3 albums
on Anti and has been praised by Tom Waits among
many others. He's a unique writer and performer. Don't miss
this show if you have any interest in raw, elemental American
music.

My cousin, Michael Zegen, is the lead in a play, "Oliver
Parker!" by Elizabeth Meriwether, that opened in NY last night
to rave reviews. Also, the new season of Rescue Me starts
June 29 on FX. He's a rookie fireman in the series written and
produced by and starring Dennis Leary.

Isaac Pingree's film, Day of Vengeance(aka Blood
Loss) has a US distribution deal and is being released on
DVD across the country. You can order it on Amazon. Isaac
has made an excellent short about the making of the film that's
included as a bonus feature on the new DVD. There are 3 Blind
Willies songs, in various bites, on the soundtrack.
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3/23/10
We're playing 2 sets at Revolution Cafe on Friday night. Randy
Clark is also going to play a set of his great original songs.
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12/10/09
I'm playing new songs at CMC on Sunday 12/13 with Ken
Rosen's Teen Jazz Big Band and a set with Daniel Riera, Max
Miller-Loran, Misha Khalikulov, Jacob Clinton, and Jimmy
Stack.
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7/2/09
Blind Willies will be featured on Hélène Engel's Les Faces
Cachées de la Musique Juive on Radio Shalom in Montreal.
The program airs worldwide 7/28/09 8pm EST
and then will be available in the station's online archive.
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6/5/09
I spent the last few weeks rehearsing for a set at Jerry
Pannone's 6/3 surprise retirement concert in SOTA's Main
Stage Theatre with some great School of the Arts musicians.
Adam Nash/electric guitar, Savannah Harris/drums, Anabel
Hirano/bass, Nicolette Yarbrough/fiddle. I loved performing my
songs with them.

See a list of Blind Willies radioplay

Jonah was a perfect opener for Graham Parker on Sunday
night at Freight & Salvage.
Sold out, excellent show.
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5/20/09
Mom Says No was played on 10 shows in the US, Canada, and
Australia around Mother's Day, and Kevin Vance played it in
SF on KALW's Patchwork Quilt 5/16.

KlezmerShack posted a Sinners Medley video on its
homepage.
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4/28/09
Everybody’s Looking for a Meal is on Don Campau’s No
Pigeonholes Best of 2008 albums.

Blind Willies is on the Top Artists December 2008 list,
compiled by Richard Gilman(KBCS) from 142 folk format
specific DJs. We were in good company down the list.

Our performance of If You Was a Good Pimp is on Princeton's
Cafe Improv Best of 2008 compilation.