| News: 9/12/05 Greetings emith
fans! We got a bundle o’ stuff to report… So, next Thursday we’ll be appearing in a benefit at the River in Rancho Mirage with a number of other artists. CDs from the entire concert will be available, with proceeds going to benefit the hurricane victims. The lineup for this concert is still being finalized, but what we have so far will be posted on our webpage (www.emith.com/gigs) and on our myspace page (www.myspace.com/emith). So far it includes: The Jeff Eaton Band from San Francisco, House of Broken Promises (San Berdoo), The Barflys, Matt Lowell, Don Teschner (of Rod Stewart fame), Courtney Chambers, Daisy Connor/Paul Badel, Jar of Tadpoles, VJ Hume (Harp), Marty Steel, Michael Anthony Perna (former musical director for the academy awards), and John Stanley King. Also, along with thousands of other artists, we are donating the proceeds of CD’s purchased on CD Baby (www.cdbaby.com) to the hurricane victims. If you wanted to pick up an emith CD and haven’t had the opportunity to do so, consider doing so now. You can go straight to the emith page at www.cdbaby.com/emith, or read all about on the front page at CDbaby. If you need more ideas on how to help: -Airlines such as American and United are offering incentive miles in addition to your cash donation, so if that’s what gets you going, dig in. American even lets you do it retroactively: Click this link for more info: http://www.aa.com/content/images/eSummary/Partner_Offer_Pages/AAdvantage/Images/HurricaneButtonSept05.htm -Go on craigslist (www.craigslist.org) and learn how to help individuals directly – you can send prepaid cell phones, basic toiletries & clothes, donate plane tickets, provide a room for someone, anything you can think of. -KPFK (www.kpfk.org) is organizing a Caravan of Hope which will depart the LA area on Sep. 15th, and drive all donated items directly to New Orleans. You can donate water, toiletries, food, diapers, baby formula, whatever, at two locations in the LA area, and be assured that it will be personally delivered by the station manager of KPFK, who will be accompanying the caravan.
Tour wrap-up It’s tough to write about this in the wake of Katrina. But, we had a lovely tour of the West in the past few weeks, during which we played 9 cities in 11 days and drove over 3,267 miles. That’s pretty much the length of the whole country, although we went in a big circle. Okay, so maybe more like a triangle. You get the picture. And then we got back to find gas at $3.25 a gallon. Mmmm, that will put a dent in the touring style. We met many new friends, took many pictures, had some great experiences, and can’t wait to get back. We also got some great press write-ups – check it out on our website. We will also have a LIVE recording of the set we did as openers for the Steve Kimock Band, available only to you, our mailing list folks! So let us know if you want more info about that. Have any pictures you’d like to share with us? Let us know and we’ll put them up! Our final itinerary was: Las Vegas (only 85 degrees! ???) – Moab (where we ran into my friend from DC’s father who we also knew in San Francisco (???) because he had to go to the bathroom – go figure) – Denver (where Stevie dropped off his guitar body to get refinished by one of the nation’s finest) – Arvada (where we crashed a 20th high school reunion after our show, mu ha ha ha) – State Bridge (a location that exists only to support jam bands in the summer, and hunters in the winter, and is a mighty beautiful and fun destination) – Paonia (how many towns do you know whose economy is based on both coal mining and organic fruit farming and has four fully disparate climates within 20 miles in each direction?) – Vail (we blew a week’s worth of money on one four-star meal…yeesh) – Salt Lake City (our hosts got married dressed up as Vampires) – Elko (a town that’s grown from population 3 to population 80,000, in gold mining) – Reno (where we got in a huge fight with the hotel over someone being too lazy to deal with required paperwork, and then played a great gig because we were so pissed off). You can see photos here: www.emith.com/photos.html. Upcoming local dates (see the gig
page for the updated list of dates) Sep. 26th is with Mark Goldenberg, “the Shaquille O’Neal
of popular guitar” according to Don Was, who will be playing
songs from his solo fingerstyle guitar album. Mark’s been
helping us with some of our recordings and is really a stunning
player. It will be a double-header starting at 8pm. We might squeeze a few local Borders gigs in as well, to be determined. Upcoming tour dates Next tour plans: We’ve gotten emails from many people: When are you going to play here? When are you going to play there? Timbuktu to Tadjikistan, we’ve got you’ve covered. Okay, maybe some other places closer to home. We plan to hit Salt Lake again and hopefully Park City just before Halloween. Still making arrangements. Then we plan to head up the West Coast for the first week in November. SF, Mendo/Ft. Bragg again, coastal Oregon/Washington, and back down a little inland. In the winter, we are going back to the mountains. Yummy. Park City, Vail, Mammoth, Tahoe. Mmmmmmm fresh pow-pow. In the late winter-spring, we’ll be looking at the East Coast again, particularly Florida and the southeast. Yeah, we’re California weather wimps, we can’t stand the cold unless it’s #3 above (fresh pow-pow).
Photos We have pixsctures! Not just of us (and anyone we could rope into getting photographed with us), but also some absurdly gorgeous visions of landscapes. If you would like high-resolutions versions of any of the pictures for your viewing pleasure, let us know and that can be arranged. Here’s one of my favorites:
If you have pictures you’d like to see on the site, send ‘em our way & we’ll post ‘em. If you want copies of our pictures, let us know & we’ll send ‘em. T-shirts Check out Zach sporting one here: And that’s it for now! Whew! Stevie & Carol www.emith.com "rootsy, mysterioso and darkly atmospheric" EP "Connecting" available on Itunes, CDBaby, Tower, Artistlaunch, MSN and other fine sites! |
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This
is all totally subject to change. Why are we telling you now?
Because now is your chance to lobby for a venue if there is
somewhere you would like to see us play! We need lead time on
planning.
Dude, we got, like, rock and roll T-shirts. Our tour friends
were the first to see them! Would you like to purchase one?
We currently have S-M-L-XL, but quantities of each size are
definitely limited. $12 for the shirt, and (such a deal!) $15
for a shirt and a CD. ...they may be purchased