Greg Brown Old News

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       Salbasgeon Suites
       1730 NW 9th St.
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       $72 1 king bed room

       Continental breakfast included


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       541-758-8088

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       Continental breakfast included.

[February 10, 2000; updated April 3, 2000]









March Tour with Ani DiFranco and Gillian Welch
Greg will be playing a series of shows with Ani DiFranco and Gillian Welch.  
It will run from March 7 through March 20.  Cities mentioned include
Grand Forks, Duluth, Ann Arbor, Kent or 
Cleveland, Peoria, New York City (Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center),
Minneapolis, Winnepeg, and probably a few more.  



The following itinerary comes from an Ani DiFranco mailing list:

Tue., Mar. 7: Peoria, IL [Illinois Wesleyan Univ., Madison Theater, 
(309)676-8722; tickets on sale 1/22]
Wed., Mar. 8: Madison, WI [venue info tba]
Fri., Mar. 10: Duluth, MN [Duluth Entertainment Convention Center, 
(218)727-4344; on sale 1/29]
Sat., Mar. 11: Grand Forks, ND [Chester Fritz Auditorium, (701)777-4094; on 
sale 1/3]
Sun., Mar. 12: Winnipeg, Manitoba [Walker Theatre, (204)780-3333; on sale 
1/25]
Tue., Mar. 14: Minneapolis, MN [University of Minnesota, Northrop Auditorium, 
(612)989-5151; on sale 1/28]
Wed., Mar. 15: Green Bay, WI [Weidner Center, (920)465-2217; on sale 1/21]
Thur., Mar. 16: Ann Arbor, MI [University of Michigan, Hill Auditorium, 
(734)763-8587; on sale 2/5]
Sat., Mar. 18: Toronto, ONT [Massey Hall, (416)872-4255; on sale 1/28]
Sun., Mar. 19: Harrisburg, PA [Scottish Rite Auditorium, (570)693-4100; on 
sale 1/21]
Mon., Mar. 20: New York, NY [Avery Fisher Hall/Lincoln Center, (212)721-6500; 
on sale 1/24]




The following information has been
provided by fans.  Please note: This information comes from
others and is provided here for those who want to follow up on leads.
You need to check on details if you're looking for tickets!

 
"I work at a convention center/arena/auditorium in Duluth, MN and I never 
expected to see it, but the man is coming!  With Ani DiFranco and 
Gillian Welch. 
Friday, March 10 at the D.E.C.C. (Duluth Entertainment and Convention 
Center).
They are sending out advance ticket coupons. 
$25.00 per ticket - it says that mail order tickets are randomly 
arranged on the main floor on a first come, first served..."

"I received an ad in the mail yesterday for their Green Bay appearance,
March 15, at the Weidner Center, at UW-Green Bay, 800-328-8587 (no price
given on flyer).  'An evening of solo acoustic acts: 3 songwriters, 3
stools, 1 stage.'"

New York City "(Avery Fisher hall at Lincoln Center).
i just got off the phone with the poeple at lincoln center and i was told the 
following info:  the performance will be on march 20 at 8pm and tickets go on 
sale this friday jan. 14"


"Here it is for anyone that would prefer to order tickets by phone. I heard 
that there are still some great seats available! #212-721-6500 -- I believe 
it is called Center Charge! The people were very nice and informative."

[...] The advertisement I got for the Green
Bay show says there will be three stools, implying they'll be onstage
together.  It should be a fantastic show."


"The tickets in the Twin Cities are being sold through Ticket Master.
The tickets were not available as of mid-day today [Jan. 19]. The customer
service rep suggested I call back each day to learn when the tickets
will be available. This same person told me that their website is
updated 'about the same time' the tickets are actually available for
sale over the phone."


"Greg (along with Ani DiFranco & Gillian Welch) will be in Harrisburg
March 19, 2000 at the Scottish Rite Auditorium.  Advance ticket sales
are being handled by            
                                New Park Entertainment
                                520 N. Columbus Blvd.
                                Suite #201
                                Philadelphia, PA  19123
                                Information only:    (215) 923-7300
                                
Tickets via mail (including processing fee) are $32 each.  "Ticketron"
is also selling tickets, according to New Park Ent. but I have no
contact for them; probably an 800 number.  Come out PA fans, lets give
him a warm welcome!  He was incredible in State College last May."


"For those interested in the Greg/Ani/Gillian Toronto show, I just got this
info from the Massey Hall site....
I tried to place an order -- even though I'm only a non-fee-paying "Friend"
of Massey Hall and not entitled to a shot at tickets 'til tomorrow. [...]
Ani DiFranco, Greg Brown, Gillian Welch

Massey Hall, Toronto Mar 18, 2000 8:00 PM

Ticket Prices:
39.50 | 32.50

"FRIENDS" TICKET SALES BEGIN
Jan 26, 2000

(REGULAR) TICKET SALES BEGIN
Jan 28, 2000




[January 15, 2000; updated February 7, 2000]










"Solid Heart II" Concerts and More (Jan. 2000)




"Solid Heart II," shows and other events in support of In Harmony's plans 
to build an intergenerational community for children who await adoption,
will take place January 29 and 30, 2000, at the
Unitarian Fellowship, 2945 Circle St., Corvallis, Oregon.
(See below for information on the CD from the first Solid Heart.)


Here is a summary of the events:

  

  

  

  
  SATURDAY, January 29
  
  
  
  

  

  

  
Two shows, at 4:00 and 7:30 p.m.
  
Tickets are $15 each in advance ($20 at the door, but there may not be any tickets left then)
  
Private reception after 7:30 show: $20
  
Reception plus ticket to one show: $30
  
Reception plus ticket to both shows: $40
  
Preferred seating: add $10 to each ticket
  
Special deal: $50 per person for preferred seating at both Saturday concerts and the reception
  
  
  
  

  

  
  SUNDAY, January 30
  
  
  
  

  

  

  
Family show at 3:00 p.m.
  
Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for children ($20 for a family)
  
  
  
  

  

  
  Scrabble Tournament, January 29 and 30
  
  
  
  

  

  

  
$30 entrance fee (50 spots available--they will sell out fast)
  
Games played Saturday 10:30 a.m. till 2:00 p.m. and on Sunday before the afternoon concert
  
All entrants will play two 45-minute games.  The four players with 
the highest cumulative scores will play one final game for winner-takes-all.  
The tournament champ gets to play one game with Greg on Sunday afternoon before 
his 3 p.m. show.  

  
  
  
  
  

  

  
  Auction
  
  
  
  

  

  

  
Auction will feature a one-day fishing trip with Greg in Oregon sometime in April 2000
  
Transportation to Portland, Oregon, will be at the winning bidder's expense
  
  
  
  












Ordering Tickets

Send a check and self-addressed envelope to: In Harmony Benefit, 500 SW Madison, Suite 2, Corvallis Oregon 97330 
Tickets are available locally in Corvallis at the Grassroots bookstore
Order on the 'net at www.unisun.org; just bring your 
on-line receipt to the event(s) to pick up your tickets



Lodging in the Area
Two local Motels have lowered their rates for fans of Greg Brown
that wish to stay over in Corvallis.  The rates are good for Friday,
January 28th through Monday, January 31st:

Salbasgeon Suites  $72 per room (2 person rate)

Continental Breakfast included

1-800-965-8808

Note: Mention you are attending the Greg Brown concert to get the lower
room rate.

Shanico Inn   $47 single, $49 double (one bed), $54 2 beds/2 guests

Continental Breakfast included

1-800-965-8808

Note: Mention you are attending the Greg Brown concert to get the lower
room rate.



Both hotels are said to be nice and include many amenities, and they are conveniently
located on 9th Street in Corvallis.


More Information
For more information on Solid Heart II, call 541-753-3960.


[November 23, 1999; updated January 27, 2000]












Hacklebarney Tunes Showing in Middlebury, Vermont, in November 1999





For those of you that haven't seen the video in the New England area, 
next November 6th [1999], the director/author of Hacklebarney Tunes, Jeff 
Ruoff, will be showing it at Middlebury College, VT, the day before Greg 
performs in our series.  It will be a free showing.  Jeff will join the 
Middlebury College faculty next fall.  If you want information on this 
showing of the video, you can contact us in late August or early 
September.  Greg won't be there, as he is performing out of state on 
November 6th.  It will be a nice evening to see the video and meet Jeff.

Carol Green 

After Dark Music Series 




[July 29, 1999]







Ben Weaver CD

Greg sings on one track on Ben Weaver's CD, El Camino Blues.  The
song is Jimmie Rodgers' "Peach Picking Time Down in Georgia."
Other contributors to the album include Peter Ostroushko and Tony Glover.
The album may be ordered from Unit Three Records.

[July 26, 1999; updated July 29, 1999]









Acoustic Guitar Article

Greg is reportedly included in an article in
the May 1999 issue of Acoustic Guitar.  The
article is about the Prairie Home Companion show.

[April 5, 1999]










Greg to Play at Kate Wolf Memorial Music Festival
In 1999 Greg will again play at the Kate Wolf Memorial Music Festival
in Sebastopol, California.  Greg will play on
Sunday, June 27th. 

See the Kate Wolf Memorial Music Festival web site for more information.

[January 28, 1999]







Grammy Nomination
Greg was nominated for a Grammy for
"Best Traditional Folk Album" of 1998, his second consecutive nomination.  
The complete list of nominees in this category:

     Chattanooga Sugar Babe 
     Norman Blake 
     [Shanachie Records] 
     
     Slant 6 Mind 
     Greg Brown 
     [Red House Records] 
     
     Long Journey Home 
     The Chieftains With Various Artists 
     [Wicklow Records] 
     
     Friends Of Mine 
     Ramblin' Jack Elliott 
     [Hightone Records] 
     
     Southern Banjo Sounds 
     Mike Seeger 
     [Smithsonian Folkways Recordings] 

The Chieftains won the award.
Red House's announcement:




Date:    Tue, 5 Jan 1999 13:21:44 -0600
From:    Publicity <publicity (AT) redhouserecords.com>
Subject: Greg Brown a GRAMMY finalist!

Congratulations to Greg Brown for the nomination of Slant 6 Mind in the
Best Traditional Folk category for the National Academy of Recording Arts &
Sciences 41st Annual GRAMMY Awards. Brown is one five finalists in the
category.

Slant 6 Mind is Greg's thirteenth album on Red House Records. It's got a
swampy, funky, lowdown sound that ranges from driving rhythms to sensuous
folk and back again. The musicians are great and the combination of guitar
players--Greg, Kelly Joe Phelps, and Bo Ramsey--is superb. The feel of
Slant 6 Mind, especially its sense of place, reaches back to Greg's
earlier albums. It evokes the landscape and people that created him--a
world he sketches with the artistry of writers like William Faulkner, Bruce
Springsteen or Robert Frost. He makes it seem familiar yet also strange; a
place we all know, but may never really find.

Since the early Eighties, Greg has produced one great album after another.
The past few years have seen his reputation grow as more critics discover
his work and more people spread the word. His music also garnered a wider
audience when he was nominated for a GRAMMY for Friend of Mine (his
collaboration with Bill Morrissey) and
when Shawn Colvin and Mary Chapin
Carpenter had a hit with his song "One Cool Remove."

Greg's most recent studio albums, The Poet Game and Further In, were
exceptional releases that simply amazed critics and fans. They earned rave
reviews (including a four-star review in "Rolling Stone" for Further In)
and landed on a bevy of top ten lists. They earned Brown his most
significant radio airplay to date, leaping to the top of Gavin's Americana
chart and charting on AAA in FMQB, CMJ, and The Gavin Report. The Poet
Game also won a NAIRD (National Association of Independent Record
Distributors) Indie Award and Further In was a finalist.

Greg puts words together like no one else, concentrating not only on their
meaning, but the way they sound in his rich growl of a voice. Slant 6
Mind shows Greg as a brilliant observer, imbuing little things with
significance and taking down icons with a few penetrating words. He
pinpoints the worst in our world and the most laughable, but through it
all, he always finds the grace.

The 41st Annual GRAMMY Awards will take place at the Los Angeles Shrine
Auditorium on Wednesday, February 24, 1999.


==============================

Emilie Liepa

Publicity/Promotions

Red House Records

501 West Lynnhurst Ave.

St. Paul, MN 55104

(651)644-4161 (phone)

(651)644-4248 (fax)

publicity (AT) redhouserecords.com






[January 5, 1999; updated April 5, 1999]







Three Songs on House Musicians 1998
We're fortunate to have another House Musicians CD.
HM '98, featuring Greg Brown, Susan Shore, Bo Ramsey, the Black Sheep, and
Lazy Boy and the Recliners is now available from the Emergency Housing
Project. The disk was recorded at historic Old Brick in Iowa City, and
features three songs from each act. Greg's contributions to HM '98 are "One Cool
Remove," "Two Little Feet," and "Slant 6 Mind" ["Whatever It Was"].
HM '98 is available in Iowa City at Prairie
Lights Books and Design Ranch Store for $12.  It may be
ordered directly from the Emergency Housing Project by sending a check for
$15 (including postage and handling) to:
Emergency Housing Project, Attn: Crissy
P.O. Box 3146
Iowa City, Iowa 52244


For a limited time, both HM '97 (also with
three Greg tracks) and HM '98 may be ordered together for only $25 (including postage and handling).

All proceeds benefit the Emergency Housing Project, the only general-use homeless shelter in Iowa City.

For more information, or if you have questions, please write to 
ehp (AT) aol.com.

[December 17, 1998]








Smithsonian River of Song Project

Greg is included on the
Smithsonian's River
of Song project for public radio and television
that "explores the richness and vitality of American music
at the close of the twentieth century."  There
will be seven one-hour radio programs released in January of 1999; Greg is part of the second program.
The four television
programs are scheduled for four consecutive Wednesdays in January.  There will also
be a two-CD set, due out November 17, and a companion book.

Here is the schedule of radio programs on WORT (89.9 FM)
in Madison, Wisconsin.  WORT is airing the series on Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to noon January 5th
to March 2nd, 1999, during the Pastures of Plenty folk program:
        January 5       Land of Lakes and Immigrant Songs
        January 12      Midwestern Crossroads
        January 19      Sounds around St. Louis
        January 26      Pledge drive edition: all music from the CD set
        February 2      Pledge drive edition: all music from the CD set
        February 9      Memphis Rhythm and Delta Blues
        February 16     Raisin' the Roof Down South
        February 23     Where Music Is King
        March 2         The Beat of New Orleans

Note: The days and times will be different on other stations!
Check with your local station.

Greg sings "Flat Stuff" (recorded 7/29/97) during the second program.

WHA-TV (Madison PBS television station) is carrying it Monday Jan 11, 1999, at 11 p.m., and the
next 3 Mondays.  Greg will appear in the TV version as well, in the first
episode, which covers Northern Minnesota to Iowa.  Again, check the schedule of your local
PBS television station for its broadcast times.

[November 10, 1998; updated December 15, 1998]









Re-issue of One Night... on CD

In response to many requests, Red House is about to re-issue on CD the
long-unavailable LP One Night....
From Bob Feldman:

Here are the final new tracks on One Night.  These tapes have been missing
for years so we were very thrilled to find them.  These songs did not make
the original album due to lp time constraints.  I still have the ticket stub
to this concert in 1982.  I was completely blown away.  It was the first or
second time that I ever saw Greg play.  One Night will finally come out in
May [1999].
We added:
  Ships
  Heart of My Country
  Banjo Moon
  All the Little Places around the Town
  Butane Lighter blues

Only two of the sixteen songs have appeared on Gregs other units.  Greg drew the cover.

From Greg's liner notes for One Night...:




One night there was a little Gibson guitar, chewed up by fifty years of
travels.  A Nick Lucas model.

No tulips around though.  Fallen leaves on the West Bank streets.  A hack
actor in the White House.  A woman called my name from a dark doorway.  I
could smell the Mississippi.  I just drove in from South Dakota.  A few days
later an early blizzard would bring down branches all over the midwest.  My
pack was full of notebooks--poems & songs.  I went over to the doorway.  It led
up to a room above the street.  Up there I unpacked the Gibson & someone
brought me a cup of irish coffee.  I sang some songs.  Later there was a wild
dance--Willie Murphy at the 400 Bar.  The night leaned this way & that &
finally fell all the way over.  We crawled out of the bathtub.  I had a decent
car for a change, & next day I drove back fast to South Dakota.





[December 2, 1998; updated April 15, 1999]







Greg on the NPR Program Anthem

Greg was on National Public Radio's new show
Anthem on Saturday, February 6, 1999.  Greg performed these songs, with Bo Ramsey:
   First Hour:
   Slow Food
   Mose Allison Played Here
   Just by Myself
   Second Hour:
   Small Dark Movie
   Speaking in Tongues
   Two Little Feet

  
See 
http://www.npr.org/programs/anthem/thisweek/1999/990206.html
for more information about the show, including audio files.

[October 26, 1998; updated February 17, 1999]












Slant Six Mind (New Album)

Greg latest album, Slant Six Mind, 
was released by Red House Records on October 21, 1997.
It is in stores and may be ordered by phone from Red House Records.


Greg (right) and guitarist Bo Ramsey --> 

Song List:

Whatever It Was
Loneliness House
Mose Allison Played Here
Spring and What Left
Vivid
Dusty Woods
Billy from the Hills
Speaking in Tongues
Enough
Hurts So Nice
Wild Like a Sonny Boy
Down at the Mill
Why Don't You Just Go Home?


Soundclips from a few songs are available on this web site.

Slant Six Mind was Greg's original working title for this album.  
For a while, the planned title changed to Speaking in Tongues; 
then it was switched back.


Here is Red House's promotional announcement:




Date:          Wed, 22 Oct 1997 14:22:01 -0400 (EDT)
From:          RHRPUB (AT) aol.com
Subject:       Red House Release/Greg Brown

It's time for Red House Records' last release of 1997. It's the one
everybody's been waiting for:

Greg Brown

"Slant 6 Mind"

available on CD only

Release Date: October 21, 1997


Greg Brown is at it again. He never really stops. He rolls out songs at a
breathtaking pace--songs that grow out of the music he loves: old country,
blues, folk, gospel; songs that draw from the spirit of his parents,
grandparents and children, the craziness and beauty around him, and the souls
that weave in and out of his life.

"Slant 6 Mind" is Greg's thirteenth album on Red House Records. It's got a
swampy, funky, lowdown sound that ranges from driving rhythms to sensuous
folk and back again. The musicians are great and the combination of guitar
players--Greg, Kelly Joe Phelps, and Bo Ramsey--is superb. The feel of "Slant
6 Mind," especially its sense of place, reaches back to Greg's earlier
albums, like "Down in There." It evokes the landscape and people that created
him--a world he sketches with the artistry of writers like William Faulkner,
Bruce Springsteen or Robert Frost. He makes it seem familiar yet also
strange; a place we all know, but may never really find.

Since the early Eighties, Greg has produced one great album after another.
The past few years have seen his reputation grow as more critics discover his
work and more people spread the word. His music also garnered a wider
audience when he was nominated for a Grammy for "Friend of Mine" (his
collaboration with Bill Morrissey) and when Shawn Colvin and Mary Chapin
Carpenter had a hit with his song "One Cool Remove." Last summer, his song
"Sadness" was featured on the soundtrack for the indie film "Dream with the
Fishes" and the music video had major rotation on M2. This week his song "Our
Little Town" was featured on "Touched By An Angel."

Greg's most recent studio albums, "The Poet Game" and "Further In," were
exceptional releases that simply amazed critics and fans. They earned rave
reviews (including a four-star review in "Rolling Stone" for "Further In")
and landed on a bevy of top ten lists. They earned Brown his most significant
radio airplay to date, leaping to the top of Gavin's Americana chart and
charting on AAA in FMQB, CMJ, and The Gavin Report. "The Poet Game" also won
a NAIRD (National Association of Independent Record Distributors) Indie Award
and "Further In" was a finalist.

As "Slant 6 Mind" demonstrates, Greg puts words together like no one else,
concentrating not only on their meaning, but the way they sound in his rich
growl of a voice. And it's a growl that reaches into every part of you and
won't let go. "Slant 6 Mind" is also an astonishingly sexy album, which
should hardly surprise any of his fans. As Keith Goetzman wrote in the "Twin
Cities Reader," Greg's music "is sensuous and silken, made between the sheets
like we all were." Most of all, "Slant 6 Mind" shows Greg as a brilliant
observer, imbuing little things with significance and taking down icons with
a few penetrating words. He pinpoints the worst in our world and the most
laughable, but through it all, he always finds the grace.
"Four Stars. A wickedly sharp observer of the human condition."
--Rolling Stone 
 
"A wise old bullfrog philosophizing in a fogbank... Brown's lyrics can be
witty as John Hiatt's and as political as a Rock the Vote promo."
--People

"Memo to the folks at the MacArthur Foundation: Give Greg Brown a genius
grant!"
--The Utne Reader


For more information contact:

800-695-4687

Red House Records

P.O. Box 4044

St. Paul, MN 55104

651-644-4161

651-644-4248

rhrpub (AT) aol.com







Here is some additional information, from Red House president Bob Feldman:


[Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 22:20:45 -0400 (EDT)]

The new unit is now scheduled for an October 21 release date.

It will be available sometime in September through Red House (800-695-4687)
and a few of Greg's shows.  It is now being called "Slant Six Mind", which
was Greg's original working title.  We've been working our butts off trying
to meet release dates for the fall units.  

See ya, Bob Feldman 


[Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 09:08:42 -0500 (EST)]

I just drove up from the Greg recording sessions.  He simply amazes me.
Like Bo says"Buckle up your seat belts for this one".  We recorded about
11 tunes in three days.  Listening to the tapes on the 50 mile drive
home I didn't want to stop the car.   Everyone has had a blast.  Kelly
just stayed one day and killed a couple tunes.  He is in Santa Cruz
recording with Martin Simpson for a new instrumental album we are doing
with Martin.  (Martin is simply the best guitarist on the planet.  Check
out his new "Live album".).  Greg is totally on and into it.  He's got a
new tune called "Speaking in Tongues".  He wrote it in the car driving
out in Oregon last week.  When he got done singing in the studio we all
just stood up clapping in awe.  The Mose Allison tune turned out great
(Bo laughed so hard he was crying) and he did the definitive  "Billy
from the Hills.

Lots of great songs and a real out in the deep woods vibe. It was great
having Dave Moore play on a few songs it has been along time since he played
on a Greg unit.  I hope we talked him into getting in the studio soon.  Al
Murphy (a fiddle player from Iowa who played on Iowa Waltz and Down In There)
is coming up with Bob Black to record two more tunes and finish up the unit.
Ya'll are going to like this one.

                   See ya,    Bob Feldman


[Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 18:52:45 -0500 (EST)]

We are going into the studio on Monday.  I'm very excited about this
batch of songs.  Kelly Joe Phelps and Bo Ramsey will be there along with
Gordy Johnson and a guy from Nashville they call the anti-drummer, and
The Black brothers from Iowa.  Dave Moore is also going to play on a
couple tunes.   Tom Tucker will engineer.  Greg said he'd like to really tour after this one
comes out.  He is calling it "Slant Six Mind".  By the way, Kelly Joe
Phelps is working on a new album.  See ya,    bob Feldman








Three Songs on House Musicians 1997
Greg Brown is a featured performer on a new compilation CD. 
Recorded at an April 4, 1997, concert to
benefit Iowa City's homeless shelter, House Musicians 1997 includes three Greg
Brown tracks: "Speaking in Tongues," "Down at the Mill," and "If I Had Known."  The CD also includes three
songs from each of these artists from the Iowa City area: Dave Moore, Too Much Yang,
Big Wooden Radio, and Lazy Boy & the Recliners. 

The CD is available by mail for $15 (which includes $3
shipping and handling) from:
Emergency Housing Project, Attn: Julia Rembert
P.O. Box 3146
Iowa City, Iowa 52244

The CD is also available in Iowa City for $12 at Prairie Lights Books at 15 S.
Dubuque Street. 

Almost $10 from each disc goes to benefit the Emergency Housing Project (ehp (AT) aol.com), 
a homeless shelter. 








New Greg Brown Song on Trailer Records Compilation
The Trailer Records Compilation, Doublewide (released September 2, 1997),
includes Greg Brown peforming his previously-unreleased "Tell You a Story" 
with the Trailer Records All-Stars.  

For more information, see the Trailer Records web site at
www.trailer-records.com/profiles/previews/11_pre.html.








WERU Benefit CD

WERU in East Orland, Maine, has issued a CD that includes a concert track by Greg Brown.
The CD is simply called WERU'S First CD.

To order copies send $15.00 plus $1.00 for shipping to:
WERU-FM
P.O. Box 170
East Orland, ME 04431-8961
phone 207-469-6600
weru (AT) weru.org


The CD features contributions from mostly Maine performers, from Live from
Studio A programs, with a few exceptions.  Greg's "Slow Food" was recorded
live at a benefit concert he played for the station in April 1997.









Further In

[Greg went] into the studio In early May [1996] to record
his new unit.  Randy Sabien will play mandolin &
violin, Kelly Jo Phelps is on slide guitar and Gordy Johnson on bass.
The songs are sweet and it will include "[Where Is] Maria", "China" and
[ten] others.  Tom Tucker will engineer at Pachyderm studios in
Mankato, MN.  It's a nice studio out in the woods and all the
musicians will stay out there during the recording.  The working title
is "Further In".

Greg's new album "Further In" will be released in September [the 24th] and on
October 28 we will have an album release concert here in Mpls. at the
Guthrie theater with all the musicians.  Kelly Joe Phelps will open
and then join Greg.  The Guthrie seats about 1400 people but is
extremely intimate.  Hope you can make it.  It should be a good time.

[Update, June 1996:]


We just got done mixing Greg's new CD _Further In_ last night.  I
spent most of the day today sequencing the songs for the album.  What
a joy!  It's a very warm romantic album.  I think everyone is going to
be knocked out by this one.

The CD will include these songs:
Small Dark Movie
Think about You
Two Little Feet
Hey, Baby, Hey
China
Where Is Maria?
If You Don't Get It at Home
You Can Always Come to Me
Someday When We're Both Alone
Not High
Further In
If I Ever Do See You Again

We are aiming for a national release in September.  The National
release will be in late September [the 24th].  For those who are interested in
mail order we have been taking orders for a month already.  We will
have the CD's and cassettes on August 15th for Europe and mail order
@1-800-695-4687.  Sorry if this sounds like a commercial but I knew
that ya'll would be interested.  I can't stop listening to it.  I'll
be curious to hear what you all think.  See ya,


Bob Feldman\Red House


[Update, August 1996:]

The musicians, beside Greg, are Kelly Joe Phelps on slide guitar, Dean
Magraw on acoustic guitar, Bo Ramsey on electric guitar, Gordy Johnson
on acoustic bass, Randy Sabine on fiddle and mandolin, and Kate
MacKenzie on vocals.









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