From butch at butchross.com Tue Aug 5 11:49:21 2008 From: butch at butchross.com (Butch Ross) Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 11:49:21 -0400 Subject: [ From Butch Ross ] Two great shows in Chattanooga this week! Message-ID: Tonight! O/F Asylum Street Spankers Market Street Tavern 850 Market St. Downtown Chattanooga (423) 634-0260 FREE! 8pm I am opening for the Asylum Street Spankers tonight as part of the Market Street Tavern's Grand Re-Opening. This is a FREE SHOW and it starts at 8pm. Amanda Cagle will be joining me on upright bass.This is gonna be great! Saturday, Aug 9th - 7pm Charles and Myrtle's Coffeehouse Christ Unity Church 105 McBrien Road Chattanooga, Tennessee 37411 423-892-4960 $10 suggested donation. I have no idea who Charles or Myrtle are, the guy who runs this place is named Andy. Charles and Myrtle's is an under-appreciated listening room that brings in some great singer/songwriters (Jonathan Byrd, Tommy Womack, Lloyd Maines and Terry Hendrix etc.) to an intimate venue. I'll be doing two sets, One solo, one set of old-time tunes with Amanda Cagle on vocals and upright bass. Oh kids, I used to have so much to say with these things. I would languish for hours putting together the right amount of prose and pith to create the perfect gig announcement email. I'd also sometimes just come home drunk and rant on something. Surprisingly the difference in quality between the well-crafted and the drunken spewings were negligible. But i don't drink as much these days, so I guess the brilliance is gone? Well not really, I've just been up to my ears in good stuff. Playing many a gig in town, plotting out the rest of the year for touring, attending old-time festivals, and most recently collaborating with the talented Ms. Cagle who plays about twelve different instruments. Yes, there's a new record on the horizon, but it's still a ways off. There's a lot of stuff on the horizon, I'm coming to the end of the summer doldrums where Butch goes from kinda locally busy to crazy stupid busy. Anyway, more about that when it happens. In the meantime I just wanted you to know about this week's fun. The last-minute announcement for the Spanker's show is not indolence on my part, I literally got the call yesterday as the folks at the Market Street retool and reopen. Short notice or not, this is gonna be a good time. If you haven't seen the Spankers well... what are you waiting for? And then Saturday, there's this great listening room gig and hey, I get to play for church the next day too, if you're inclined to THAT sort of chicanery. Anyway, here's the details again. c-ya out there. -Br Tonight! O/F Asylum Street Spankers Market Street Tavern 850 Market St. Downtown Chattanooga (423) 634-0260 FREE! 8pm Saturday, Aug 9th - 7pm Charles and Myrtle's Coffeehouse Christ Unity Church 105 McBrien Road Chattanooga, Tennessee 37411 423-892-4960 $10 suggested donation. From butch at butchross.com Wed Aug 20 13:24:34 2008 From: butch at butchross.com (Butch Ross) Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:24:34 -0400 Subject: [ From Butch Ross ] Great Show in New Jersey this Weekend and exciting news! Message-ID: 1. Great Show 2. Great News 3. Help me save the Post Office. 1. GREAT SHOW! Friday, August 22nd Minstrel Coffeehouse co-bill with Randall Williams Morristown Unitarian Fellowship, 21 Normandy Heights Road, Morristown, NJ. http://www.folkproject.org/fp_minstrel.html That's right my first co-bill here. The Minstrel has always been one of my favorite places to play, and they have my favorite cover charge ($7 to get in, plus what you thought it was REALLY WORTH on the way out). Mike Agranoff and the gang have been trying to set up the right bill to split for literally years. So, I'm splitting it with right guy Randall Williams,(http://www.whereisrandall.com/) who is the king of the partial capo (or something like that) and an all-round nice guy. This will be my ONLY show in the northeast between now and the end of the year. Sure love to see you there. For those of you who are dulcimer players, I will be teaching a workshop at the Off the Wall's dulcimer club picnic near Mechanicsburg, PA on Sunday the 24th at 2pm. Contact me butch at butchross.com if you want to go and I'll get you in touch with those folks. 2. GREAT NEWS! The other great news is that I've been invited to the UK to do ten days of shows! I'll be doing a full-on Pub/Festival tour with two other bands. Dates and other info will be posted on my site (and elsewhere) soon enough, but I just wanted to let you all know the good news. Honestly, I can't believe it. 3. Help Me Save The Post Office. Way back in the day (the nineties) everybody used to send out postcards with upcoming shows. It made for a great way to clutter up your refrigerator. Then this thing called the internet came along and everybody could send emails to everybody for free. No stamps, no postcards, no overhead. More room for all that art yr. kids were making by then. Well I think it's time to bring it back, so I'm going to. Any of you who are on this list and would like to get old-fashion mail updates in a schmancy postcard form can get yourself on that list by going here: http://www.butchross.com/members.html and scrolling to the bottom. I probably won't send out more than a couple a year and you'll still get email updates. But having a snail-mail address will also allow me to send you free stuff should it strike my fancy (like last year's Xmas card CD). Okay that's all the news. Great show this weekend. I'm looking forward to being back in the northeast ever so briefly. Flying in just for the weekend, just for this gig. Makes me feel like a rockstar. An unfocused, spendthrift rockstar who's not all that bright, but a rockstar nonetheless. C-ya out there. -Br Here's that show again. Friday, August 22nd Minstrel Coffeehouse co-bill with Randall Williams Morristown Unitarian Fellowship, 21 Normandy Heights Road, Morristown, NJ. http://www.folkproject.org/fp_minstrel.html From butch at butchross.com Wed Aug 20 13:50:30 2008 From: butch at butchross.com (Butch Ross) Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:50:30 -0400 Subject: [ From Butch Ross ] I always forget something. Message-ID: the show starts at 8pm. -Br