Above: Curry family beach house “Do Me Good” on Cape San Blas, Florida, after Hurricane Michael. Hundreds of other homes in the area were completely leveled by the storm. Click here to donate to Hurricane Michael relief efforts. Photo credit to Brett Thees. On October 10, a stretch of the Florida Panhandle often referred to as the Forgotten Coast was struck by the most powerful storm in its history. Hurricane Michael made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane with 155mph…Read More
Here we are, on the home stretch leading to the release of the new album! Recording is completed, mixing has begun, and plans are in motion to have the album in hand by year’s end. It’s been a long, costly, and rewarding process, and now, finally, we turn our attention to the next step: getting these new songs into your hands! Which brings us to an exciting announcement: Today marks the launch of our Kickstarter campaign for the album! To…Read More
Hi. This is me procrastinating. Procrastination is a crafty adversary, often taking the form of a seemingly productive activity. It ever so slyly suggests that you clean the dishes, or respond to emails, or call your mother, and in so doing it deflects your attention from the task of greatest importance. Contemporary folk rocker Joe Pug invites his audience to tune in to his “Working Songwriter” podcast every month with some version of the following hook: “Ultimately, you listen to…Read More
Spring has turned to summer! April and May saw us touring all around our old haunts in Florida, including stops at Rock By The Sea, a charity music festival in the Panhandle, and the Florida Folk Festival, a weekend showcasing the songwriting of Florida artists and honoring the oeuvres of Florida legends. Those two events are among our favorites for their incredible communities of musicians and music appreciators, and we’re thrilled to be included every year. With the rains of…Read More
Photo depicts Jimmy playing the board game TwixT. Courtesy of Sam Whedon. The snow has ceased, but the cold will not abate. This past weekend saw several nights of single digit temperatures, and we have largely remained cooped up in Sam’s farmhouse, frittering away at our project bit by bit. Recording has made for long work hours in these short winter days, but the stop-and-start nature of the process results in a lot of downtime for those of us who…Read More
We have been buried in winter and work for the past week. Over the last eight days we’ve gotten our feet under us in a recording sense, while also taking time for a couple gigs in NYC and Oneonta over the weekend. Right now I’m listening to the rest of the crew lay down a rhythm track for a brand new Galen tune. Seems like the perfect time for a blog update! So far, the recording process has developed it’s…Read More
Photo of the farm by Sam Whedon Editor’s note: Hello everyone! — I know it’s been a terribly long time since we’ve posted here–mea culpa, mea culpa. I have neglected to keep the website updated over the past several months as we’ve been traveling and writing. I’ll do better from now on, promise! Please stay tuned for more regular updates in the coming months. – Tommy After several long months of traveling, performing, writing and arranging, we are proud…Read More
It has been a few weeks since the events of August 12 in Charlottesville, Virginia, left us all bewildered and dismayed. I have struggled to understand the emotions I experienced that day and since. I have struggled to digest what I saw and heard, as the cacophony of voices in response grows louder, each defining this moment in their preferred terms. I have struggled to confront the nuance of an event that has been absorbed into a million different pet issues and reported from all sorts of political…Read More
Travel for the summer has commenced! We’ve started our month-and-a-half long jaunt around the country, which will see us play weddings and house shows and concerts from Florida to Michigan to New Hampshire. Many of the gigs over the month of June are private events, with public gigs sprinkled throughout. Some of the bigger shows are listed below; check out the “Shows” page for more details. Hope to see you out there! June 10 | Pickens Hall | Heuvelton, NY June…Read More
Photo above shows Jimmy reading aloud to Sebastian on a private island in Belize. That’s right–Jimmy can read. Hello, everyone! Long time, no talk! We’ve had a very busy February thus far, and I fell down on the job of keeping the blog updated. Mea culpa. Here’s a quick recap of the past few weeks: We spent the weekend before Valentine’s Day on the high seas with thirty other bands and 2,500 of the most enthusiastic music appreciators we’ve ever…Read More