I believe I can fly

Why haven't you written? Where have you been? These are questions people have asking me. I was shot after that freaking tour. I thought I was Superman but I was rudely awakened from my super-hero fantasy by the hard cold bite of reality. It snapped at my heals like a rabid doberman and sent me into a panic. I was woke with a sense of ennui and wanted to do nothing at all.

So here I am in San Francisco getting ready go to work. We are filming an episode of The Hugh Thompson Show tomorrow at The Moscone Center. Then I have a few shows this weekend in the bay area. I play 2 nights in a row at The Connecticut Yankee in San Francisco. Friday and Saturday night. Then on Sunday night I play in Santa Cruz at The Crepe Place. If you can't make it to those shows then here's what I suggest:

Steve Poltz will be playing LIVE in Videoranch on Saturday April 12h, at 6PM Pacific Time. This is a virtual concert so you attend by logging on from a computer. You do not have to leave your house! Bring the performing arts into your home and be a part of a live audience of music lovers!

Show Times Around the world:
Pacific Time: 6PM to 7PM
Mountain Time: 7PM to 8PM
Central Time: 8PM to 9PM
Eastern Time: 9PM to 10PM
UK Time: 2AM to 3AM Monday
European Continent: 3AM to 4AM
New Zealand Time: Sunday, 2PM to 3PM
Sydney AU: Sunday, 12 Noon to 1PM
Tokyo: Sunday, 10AM to 11AM

What is Videoranch?
Videoranch is a membership-based, 3D virtual world on the internet, where LIVE musical performances are video-cast, seamlessly embedded, and viewed, in real-time, by a virtual audience made up of people logging on from all over the world.

To attend the show, you need high speed internet access and newer computer with Windows on it (Intel Macs work great if Windows is installed).

WATCH IT LIVE: Go to www.videoranch.com, click Enter, then click on the "Visit Videoranch 3D" link on the front page. This will take you to a page where you can download the browser and log in as a "Visitor". You can become a "Ranch Regular" by signing up for a FREE 7 Day Trial from the same page. No payment information necessary. Ranch Regulars have unlimited access and full software functionality! Note: 7 Day Trials are set up manually by Videoranch, so please sign up well in advance of the show.

INTERACT WITH THE ARTIST: Once inside Videoranch, you can move around, dance, cheer, chat and meet other Videoranch patrons. Steve and his band will be able to see your Avatar and read your comments LIVE, so be sure to let them know how much you are enjoying the show! Ranch Hands will be on duty to help you and will greet you the moment you log on.
Find out more information by emailing vr3d@videoranch.com or calling toll free 1-866-727-2639.

Below is a blurb coming out in the upcoming issue of Singer and Musician magazine. I thought this might help give you a sense of what the experience is like to attend a Videoranch concert:

"Imagine a place where the air is clean, the temperature is always in the pleasenties, you are surrounded by nice folks and there's a live band that knows you by name. Plus, there are free movies and hot air balloon rides. It's VideoRanch, a virtual world cooked up by Michael Nesmith (One-time member of the Monkees and, more importantly, music video pioneer). Feel free to roam the ranch at your leisure, and then check out the event calendar for upcoming live groups. I popped in on a Sunday afternoon and was immediately greeted by name (my chosen nickname) by the house band, Ranch Dressing (these guys are great!). A bit later, The Refugees took the stage for a full hour live show. Other performers have included The John Jorgenson Quintet, Eliza Gilkyson, James McMurtry, Laurence Juber, Laura Love, Mumbo Gumbo, The Greencards, Ledward Kaapana, Tony Furtado and Jason Nesmith. What makes this so unique is that the band is actually playing in real time from a studio. And, as they know who is coming and going, they can interact with you (actually, your avatar). It's very much like just hanging with some friends and listening to some great music is in an intimate, outdoor atmosphere. And, after the band has gone home, you can stroll the ranch's tree-lined cobblestone walk-ways in search of some interesting and fun surprises or even get a look at the virtual facility from in the sky onboard a hot air-balloon."
--------------- Robert Lindquist, Singer and Musician Magazine

Hope to see you somewhere this weekend.
Steve

Tonight Homecoming Show at The Casbah!

We are battered bruised, and tired but tonight we play The Casbah. We are home to San Diego for a very special Tuesday night show. It's been a blur through New Mexico and Arizona and I will write about that tomorrow. Today we are like stable ponies sprinting back to the barn to be fed. There's no place like home. There's no place like home. We shall sprint across I-10 as fast as our dusty white van will go and pull up to 94/9 for a 5 o'clock radio interview with Mike Halloran. Then rush to The Casbah for quick sound check and dinner and then we get to rock. I hope to see you there.

Thanks for coming out to all the shows Los Angeles tomorrow night .

Must pack my clothes and get in the van.
SJJP

SXSW

This year's SXSW music festival was my favorite. Probably because I had no free time. The whole thing went by in the wink of an eye and now I am a spent piece of used nuclear recycled rocket waste. I'm sitting in a hotel room somewhere in the middle of Colorado trying to make sense of it all. Some folks hate this festival but I still like it a whole lot. In the picture above, I am grinning because I just finished a show for KGSR in the lobby of The Four Seasons. Lyle Lovett was the radio guest host and asked for a copy of the new cds. Pretty freaking cool that he asked me to sign it to him. I wonder if he knows how much I love him. I tried to act calm and collected but my right eye was twitching. Our show that morning had a ton of energy.

This pic is after my show at Mother Egan's and I'm standing with the great James Mcmurtry. When he speaks he grits his teeth and he rarely smiles so this an award winning shot taken by my radio promo queen Jenni Finlay after our show together that Cary Baker threw. Thanks to Cary for inviting me to play. I love James' writing and his new cd is aces. I think it is due out in on April 15th and it's called Just Us Kids. I listened to it all day yesterday on the drive from Dallas to Colorado. Buy 10 copies for all your friends.

Here's Mojo Nixon. He's insane and he is saving the world. Listen to his show on Sirius Radio. The Loon in the Afternoon on Outlaw Country (channel 63). I've known him for years and he never ceases to leave my eyes wide open like saucers for the shit he says. I played his Jalapeno Pancake Party at The Continental Club and that show rocked to the nines. I crowd surfed and almost got my head taken off by a ceiling fan.

Here's Jon Dee Graham in a post show glow. He played the most amazing set and had the audience singing along and gave me goose bumps. He handed a box of cds out to the crowd and told them to put in money if they took one out. The box came back empty of cds and full of cash. It was awesome to see. People say music is dead but I say it ain't.

My favorite gig was at a gay bar called The Cock Pit. I can't make this stuff up! We rocked like there was no tomorrow and we met a very cool band from Sweden named Kristoffer Ragnstam. This guy is so fun to watch on stage and his band mates were stellar. I saw them play the next night somewhere else and they rocked again. I like Swedish rock stars. They seem so awkward and geeky. It makes for a great show full of attitude and energy.
I also got to hang out and eat BBQ with the XYZ Affair. We played a show with these guys in Minneapolis and they are my new favorite band. They got up on stage with us at my showcase at the Hilton garden Inn 18th floor and they sand in beautiful falsettos on License Plate Eyes.

More later-- we have to drive to Aspen for a show tomorrow night.
Steve

Where are we? Alabama?

Click Here to see Q and A I did with a guy who axed me sum questions the other day

We just poured out of the van like root beer at 3 am ish after playing a show in Atlanta. We shared the bill with Michelle Malone. She's way cool and it was great meeting her band as well. We shared drums and bass amps which helped the load in that is up a couple flights of stairs outside the club in the back. The sound at Smiths Olde Bar was crazy good last night. I haven't played there in years so it was nice reconnect with the Atlanta peeps.

The letter in the picture above is one I wrote to Lou and Rain the other morning before we left their fine house. I guess it is a thank you letter of sorts. I forgot that Chris Modl took a picture of it and I thought you might like to see it. See what a good speller I am? Catholic school paid off. Thanks Ma n Pa.

I think we're in the middle of Alabama headed for Austin Texas and SXSW. We all just peed outside the van before we checked into the room and did our best to get arrested by Alabama's finest. Didn't The Stones get busted for that years ago? Patrick tells me they did but he ain't sure either. He now tells me it was East London where it happened. I once got a speeding ticket in Tuscaloosa but that's another story.

Come to one of my many shows in Austin this week. The madness all starts on Wednesday. Check my tour dates for the full scoop. I will be scuttling with my fine band of Cynics back and forth on go karts for the whole festival. We'll be handing out bottles of root beer and free money to anyone who wants it. We're also giving away shoes to everyone. Really expensive Italian shoes and bars of gold. And dentures. And lemonade flavored car fresheners. Plus The Green Bay Packers are going to be doing a dance routine at most of our performances so we got that going for us. You probably shouldn't even bother seeing any of the other "acts."

Yours in lice,
Steev Plotz

Holy Smokes (these living room shows are fun)

I don't even know where the last few days went. I know I was in Virginia at Bill and Dana's 7th annual living room show. Bill got a new hip and this was a party in honor of his new hip. He was so spry that it made me want to get a new hip and i don't even need one. He did a gymnastics routine that brought the house down. A floor show and a horse show and a donkey show. He was amazing I tell you. AMAZING. Dana , his lovely wife and cohort was a gracious hostess and made homemade donuts with her new donut making machine. This thing is crazy and it takes up half of the kitchen. But I'll be damned if these weren't the best tasting donuts I've ever had. It got kind of crazy when one of the donkeys tipped over the burning hot oil on Bill's new hip. He couldn't feel a thing because the hip is titanium so he was just in the middle of his horse routine literally on fire. I know there are going to be lawsuits but it was all worth it.

We played a full rock show in their living room and the fact that the cops never came makes me wonder if there is any authority at all in the city of Suffolk. I think it is a lawless village where anything goes. We played one of the weirdest songs I've ever made up on stage. Christopher Hoffee kept on playing classic rock riffs from hugely popular songs and then combined that with intermittent reggae strums. Patrick followed suit on the drums while I sang every lyric to Police songs and Billy Joel songs and Foreigner songs I've ever known. This went on for a good 25 minutes. I surprised someone didn't throw a beer bottle at my head.

We didn't go to sleep until 4 in the morning and had to be up and moving at 6 am. How come whenever we have a nice hotel like we did at The Hilton in Suffolk, we always have to leave at a Godless hour?

We drove 11 hours to Chattanooga for another living room show at Kim's house for her birthday. Another great hostess and this time we had belly dancers open up for us. I can safely say I've never had belly dancers open up for any of my shows. It was simply amazing to watch these dancers and we even had one of them come up and dance on "Rains." Their percussionist also joined us and it was one of the longest craziest versions yet. I hope someone filmed it. There were heaps of little kids in the audience for the early set so we did a bunch of stuff off of The Barn cd.

Everyone sang happy birthday to the birthday folks. Ryan, Kim and Darryl. Then someone blew up their car out in front of the house. Blew it to smithereens and I put out the fire and saved everyone. All of my other band members were scared except for me. I am a hero and I even climbed a tree and rescued a cat. I am so awesome. Then I found a cure for measles and small pox. I think the Mayor of Chattanooga is going to step down and let me run the place. I am going to impose a curfew and force people to listen to my cds only. When I walk down the streets of Chattanooga people will have to bow or they'll be whipped 150 times in public. I can't wait to straighten things out around here.

Tonight however, I must go to Atlanta. Smiths Olde Bar awaits. Buy your tickets now. This is an order. Go do it!

Keeping America safe,
Steven JJ Poltz

Notes from an Econolodge somewhere in Virginia

Ted Berberian fotog acion grande

I think we last left off at World Café Live In Philadelphia. It was the first time I played that venue and it was cool to reconnect with the soundman Turk. He used to tour and do sound for Rusted Root when I was on tour with those guys a few years back. A lot of years back I guess. Anyways, Turk is now living the stationary life and staying off the road. He seemed content and serene and restless all at the same time. Kind of like me I guess except I am more restless to the nth degree.

Rain and Lou housed us and fed us like we were royalty. It was so nice to be able to get water for our horses and much needed sleep.. It was like going to the hospital for one great night except there weren’t any needles or catheters. Patrick and Christopher and myself all went to see There Will Be Blood at a theater around the corner from Rain and Lou’s house. I can’t quit thinking of that movie and it has haunted me for the last couple of days. I love it when films make you think about them for hours after they've ended, and I still haven’t quite made sense of the whole thing. It’s sort of a Biblical battle of epic proportion. It could almost be seen as a the story of our country and the greed and lust for oil under the guise of family values.. Religion and business intertwining for as long as it is profitable and also convenient for both. But when egos and greed take precedence over all, it becomes clear that there isn’t room for both to coexist. Daniel Day Lewis is extraordinary and riveting in his drive for power at all costs. His bitter hatred of the human race and lack of trust for anyone is a study in greed and power that I’ll never forget. I need to go see this movie again next time I get a chance. I really think it is a parable of our world today and there are lessons to be learned. But what the hell do I know?

Last night we played at Ashland Coffee and tea in Ashland, Virginia. Pretty good turnout considering I’ve never played that venue before. We got play for a long time and there were Germans in the audience. Real live Germans visiting this here country. I even had one of them get up on stage and translate a song I made up about me taking over the city of Ashland and it sounded way cooler in German than in English. The staff a this joint is stellar and so was the food. There is a train that cruises right by the stage and whistles away which makes it even cooler. It’s neat to look outside and see a big steaming train with passengers looking in and me looking out for that beautiful moment caught in time for a brief second or two.

Today we are off to Suffolk, Virginia and Bill and Dana’s house concert series. I have done this concert series many times before. I think this is the 100th time I will have played their house. Maybe just the 6th. Bill even has a new hip this time so it will be fun to kick him in the side really hard just as I would a new tire on a car. He’s going to love it!

Tomorrow Cahttanooga, Tennessee!
Onward and upward,
Steverino

Philadelphia Tonight

Thanks to al the Brooklyn folks that came out to the show last night. I had a crazy spark of energy that couldn't be contained. The Truckees rocked both sets like champs. If you ever get a chance to make it out to Union Hall, it's worth the trip. Great room and fine people and really good sound.

I am looking forward to Philly tonight at The World Cafe Live. Tell all your Philly area friends to make the trip over yonder. I like wandering down south street and going to Jim's Steaks to watch the cooks sweating over the grill and yelling orders to each other like some freaky Saturday Night Live skit. I think we go on around 9 ish. There's a Barack Obama rally down below before we play and then we get to rock for a spell.

Last night after the show we stayed at Lou and Rain's palace and Rain had food waiting for us in the kitchen when we arrived at 3:30 in the morning. Homeadey cookies and meatball sandwiches and lots of water. We were starved and it was so good to be in a house. With a piano and a mandolin and tons of music mags.

The video shoot went well and we'll see how it all turns out. We shot in front of a green screen all day in Manhattan. I can't wait to see the final result.

Thanks to David and Suzanne for letting us crash with them and feeding us English breakfast.

See ya tonight
SJJP

Boston you say?

Chris Modl fotog

My feet are cold in the van. I no longer have a tan. Of Randy Newman I am a fan. I eat soup out of a can. Mr. Musial's first name is Stan. Out of the Brady Bunch I loved Jan. The guy who gets shot in my Johnny Cash song is a tran.

Some of you have emailed some great video ideas. We are shooting on Monday morning. The song is 'Rains" and it will involve hamsters.

Last night The Living Room in NYC was packed to the rafters with a great audience of old and new friends. Thanks for showing up and singing in your beautiful falsettos.

Tonight we hit Boston like a wild gang of feral cats. We are hungry and in need of baths. But don't let that deter you from coming out to The Paradise lounge. I have a new found energy that I located under a discarded sofa on the sidewalk in the lower east side. My eyes are all aglow with crazy enlarged pupils like a speed addled trucker on a mission to deliver frozen bacon to all the Bob Evans restaurants across the US of A. Hopefully the state troopers are busy today at the apartments of their paramours. Sorting out laundered drug money from illegal informants that none of their superiors know about. While we skulk in the darkness to another sound check and sing into dirty microphones that smell like stale beer. Yes, that is my job and I am up for the many challenges and rewards that go hand in hand with the vows I've taken.

I like Boston and perhaps while I'm there I'll run into those guys from Goodwill Hunting in a late night diner. They can help me with my math homework. How do you like them apples?

Keep the video concepts coming.
Steve

New York City Tonight

frag foto op inc.

We go on at 11 pm sharp. Hope to see you at The Living Room in NYC.
We played in Piermont last night for over 2 and a half hours at The Turning Point. John (the owner) recorded the show. We think he's the cat's pajamas. He fed us and did our sound and let us play for hours.

We play Boston tomorrow night (Sunday) at The Paradise Lounge. Then we shoot back to NYC early the next day to make a video for the song "Rains." We want it to involve hamsters. Do you have any ideas? I think we want the hamster to eat me up and poo me out while the whole time I am singing the song. I also want it to be raining hamsters. Kind of like in the movie Magnolia. Except in that instance it was frogs raining.

We want the hamsters to be in love though and trying to ind each other. Listen to the song "Rains" and give me some of your strangest ideas. But you must act now as we shoot on Monday. We will have full access to green screen and a cool editor and full crew. Then we are off to play a show in Brooklyn that night at Union Hall.

Help us quick, Help us to help you. Let's help each other and fix stuff so it works.
See you tonight at The Living Room at 11pm.
Stevey Jo

It's Leap Year!

photo of steve getting ready for spring training

Listen to Steve speak really important information about leap year. This is breaking news. More breaking than Fox or CNN. This is better than Cats or even The Indian In the Cupboard.

Click here for important news!!!!

Here is the transcript we received from Oprah Poprah Gin freeze.

Leap Year------------------------------*******^^^^^^*********-----------------

Lets leap like frogs on a mossy fallen tree trunk
Let’s act like we’re drunk
Drunk on love
Drunk on life
Let’s act like a nova scotia fish wife
Let’s march in the band
Let’s take back our land
Let’s change leaders
Run down the freeway naked screaming
Like jay Hawkins
Howl like coyotes
Drink from the stream
Spit into the wind
Set our clothes on fire and
Leap like lizards
Leap like fleas
It’s leap year for Chrissake
Let’s really leap
For we are only the sum of our parts
We are Chrysler engines
Revving on the drugstore strip
We are queers
We are frozen monkeys
Hot dog water cascades around us all
Hot dog flavored snow cones
Are the new black
Black is the new brown
Please press one for English
Leap year is spelled l-e-a-p
Not l-e-e-e-e-e-p.
Thank you for your consideration

Piermont New York tonight.
The Turning Point
Goodness abounds.
Stay true,
S.P.

Diary of a Man Going Slowly Insane

Wino Krainz photography

I think I had about 31 shows in 21 days. It all started in Dallas, good
Doctor. By the time I got to Oklahoma for the storytelling festival I was doing 3 to 4 shows a day. Is it any wonder that last night in Dayton, Ohio I lost my mind? Left it somewhere but can't for the life of me remember where. Maybe it's under the seat in the van by the bag with all the cough medicine and cold remedies. Maybe I left it in a truck stop off of the I-80 or something. Maybe the lady with the Australian accent inside the GPS device device took it. Yeah, that's the ticket! It's a conspiracy between her and other evil doers. They took my mind and are playing hide and seek with it and tucked it in a box of See's candies by a chocolate nugget crunch thing.

Thank you to Mick and everyone at Canal Street Tavern. I've played that room since the early Rugburns days and for some reason he still keeps booking me. Probably because we're both getting older and he feels sorry for me. It's his idea of "community outreach."

Here is a little piece written by a guy named Frank Goodman who came to a show of mine in Nashville recently. I think he interviewed me when I was at an airport somewhere in Australia. I remember a cell phone and security and airport announcements in Australian accents.

Click Here to see article and interview!!!

Every once in awhile I get and email that makes me call the police. Last night in Dayton I before the show I received a Fred Van Vactorish type email. At first I thought it might be Fred playing a trick on me but no. This girl really exists and turned out to the show and sat in the front row wearing a shirt that said "Mrs, Poltz!"

Here is the email:
Subject: I fucking love you!

name: colleen

message: I am sooo excited about Dayton tonight! I made a special shirt to wear "Mrs Poltz" I hope you dont mind being forced into marriage with me. Im a good cook,so hopfully that makes up for the lack of... well, knowing me at all. My friend Jason (lives in CA) asked me to get a signed CD for him (from you) as well as any copies of police charges that may be filed by you for me forcing myself upon you :) If you lay still it will all be over soon.
Love you (fucking love you!)
See you tonight!
Colleen
Submit: Send my Email!

I can't make this shit up! There she was in the front row and I even read her letter on stage. The cops never showed up so I just played the show and got weirder than I've ever been and ended up scaring her away. She thought she wanted to be Mrs. Poltz until she realized
my mind had melted like a clock in a Salvador Dali painting. Now she probably likes someone else who's more stable like Tom Cruise or something. Is he more stable than me, I (the guy typing this)? We need to go on Barbara Walters together and see who out koo koos who?

Hey guess what?
We don't have a show tonight. For the first time in a long time. No show to play. Just a 10 hour drive from Dayton to New York City.
We play tomorrow night in Piermont, New York.

Must go crawl in van now and check around for my mind. I know it's in there somewhere.

Peace be with you---- and also with you
Steven Joseph Joshua Poltz

Uncensored Interview

photo taken by Milan backstage at The Vanguard in Sydney Australia (the signature was from 2 years earlier and I never remembered signing the wall)

Hi Citizens of Planet Earth,
We played a very long show in Indianapolis last night. I thought the show was over but then after 25 or so minutes we got back up and played for another hour. Dave and Michelle are stellar hosts and I'm always happy to play at their club. They're even going to make the drive to see us in Dayton Ohio.

Dean and Kristi Lee from The Bob and Tom Show came out to the gig. Kudos to them as they have to wake up at 4 in the morning to be on the air. I love it when they show up at gigs because i want to impress them and usually end up doing something weird that probably doesn't impress them. I think it makes them fear for my sanity.

I did an extended interview in New York City and they posted it online for all to see. I remember that day well. We were running ragged all over the city trying to get to Sirius satellite radio then to an in store performance and i was taping the Hugh Thompson Show. Next thing you know these two great interviewers and camera people showed up for a fun interview. They let me go off on several tangents and just captured it all on their little cameras and technological doo doo dads. (i said "doo doo")

Hopefully the link works now when I paste it below:-------------------

Click Here to see interviews

I think if you view it and leave comments then they'll have me back because they'll think people want to see more. Together we can fool the world.

We are off to Cleveland and it's snowing cats and antelopes. We shall drive slowly as we are all from California and this white stuff on the ground confuses us.
Yours Truly,
Steve

You guys are going to have to carry me

Dear Friends,
We played Madison, Wisconsin last night at Cafe Montmarte. Great venue and great people. We like Madison very much. The only problem is we had to drive all night to make it to Indianapolis for The Bob and Tom show. We arrived 10 minutes early at 6:50 am just in time to go on the air to over 200 stations. I can't believe we made it on time. There was snow everywhere along the highway and our road manager Chris drove like a champ.

Bob and Tom were awesome and let me be on the air with them for ages. I must have received 100 emails from the performance so hopefully more folks get turned on to the new cds.

Tonight we are playing Indy at Locals Only and we get to to sleep in for once. At least until 10 am. Then we are off to snowy Cleveland and The Beachland Ballroom. I wish my lungs would clear up and the hacking would stop. I feel like a cat choking on a fur ball. Maybe I need something to dry me out to go along with the antibiotics. I can't wait until i am back to normal.

You guys are going to have to carry me the rest of the way.
Love,
Steve
P.S. we just added The Casbah in San Diego on March 25th!

SXSW is going to be hectic

rob hanning photog pic taken at Sleep Creek Vineyards great night!

Tonight Madison Wisconsin. We hope to see you there at Café Montmartre.

Check it oot eh? Here is my schedule for those of you coming to South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin Tx.
SXSW schedule:

Wednesday, March 12 _____________________________________________________

11-Noon ME Television
2130 S. Congress (corner of Live Oak and South Congress)

12:40-1:05pm Conqueroo/Guitartown party at Mother Egans
715 W. 6th St.
Austin, TX 78701
Stage is at the back of Mother Egan’s parking lot.

3-4pm CDTex/KFAN party at Opal Divine’s
One hour performance with band
700 w 6th street
(512) 477- 3308
Austin, TX 78701 (across the street from Mother Egans)

5-6pm Performing Songwriter/Organic
Entertainment/SeptemberGurl PR party
Threadgills 301 W. Riverside Dr.
301 W. Riverside Dr. w/band

Thursday, March 13_____________________________________________________

8am KGSR interview at the Four Seasons
Two songs and an interview
live on air come watch in the lobby at the four seasons!
98 San Jacinto Blvd.
Austin, TX 78701

Tent 9-10pm ATXtreme party performance
The Cock Pit
113 San Jacinto
FYI, it’s a benefit for One.org (not looking for monetary
donations, just signatures)

Friday, March 14__________________________________________________________

4pm Industry of Music Showcase
Full band
Ginger Man
304 W. 4th St.

6:40-7pm Sin City showcase
Maria’s Taco Xpress
2529 S. Lamar (south of Oltorf)
Austin, TX 78704

10pm Hilton Garden Inn, 18th floor
(500 N IH 35)
Official SXSW showcase!!!! 10 pm sharp
(8pm David Fonesca, 9pm Tom Brosseau, 11pm Tony Scherr
12pm Abra Moore, 1am Shawn Mullins

Saturday, March 15________________________________________________________

morning
time still to be
determined Mojo Nixon’s Jalapeno Breakfast !
Continental Club

Noon -12:30pm Twangfest
30 minute solo set
_____________________________________________________

2 pm drive to Dallas for show at Bend Yoga
bye bye SXSW Get some sleep Steve

The 2 Cds fit together

This is Bill Bowker in the middle. He's a disc jockey at KRSH in Santa Rosa California and he's been playing tracks off of both of my new releases. The dude next to him Patrick Dennis form The Truckee Brothers. Patrick plays drums in my band The Cynics and sings like a beautiful bird on a wire.

The reason I am showing you this picture is because I want you to see how the 2 cds are different in size. That's so that "Unraveling" can fit into the taller "Traveling." Patrick designed the artwork for the cds and it really works out like the 2 cds are best friends. "Traveling" carries the the other cd around in its pouch like a marsupial. After you buy them them they even hop around like kangaroos, mate. (not like kangaroos mate) I'm not interested in the mating habits of kangaroos. I mean, like kangaroos---- mate! They hop all over your desk when you're at work and when someone casually strolls by from another office shoving a hot pocket into their mouth, you look like a much cooler person because you have companion cds. And because you're not shoving a hot pocket into your pie hole.

The only way to get "Unraveling" is at the live shows. This is angering some people who live far away. My heart is starting melt when i get emails from people who can't possibly make it out to the shows due to distance and the cost of gas and hot pockets and Chuck Norris fitness dvds.

What should I do? Do i stick with my earlier convictions and keep it available at live shows only? Or do I acquiesce to the demand of the proletariat? It would give a boost to the fiscal year fourth quarter reports of sales of pockets that are hot in correlation to hopping cds. My sales go up while hot pockets take a hit and people get more fit.

I was originally planning on finishing this tour and then in April or May making the other cd available by order through this very website you are tippy tapping on right now.

Please give me some advice. Or as they say in Germany "adwice."

Until then I remain,
Your friend,
Steven JJ

P.S. Shank Hall is a great venue to play in Milwaukee. Thanks Peter!
P.S.S. Sue from my management is the coolest person ever. Thank Sue for coming out to the Milwaukee show and bringing all your fine peeps. Wisconsin is more than just cheese and The Packers. It's a rock n roll cornucopia of snow and music mixed with cheese and friendly fine people that would go out of their way to help you change a tire in the middle of a blizzard.
P.S.S. Chicago here we come! This is an early show tonight and starts at 7 pm sharp. I get 90 minutes so get there on time. Attendance is compulsory and we will give fines for tardiness.