The Story So Far

It has somehow been just over a week since I packed up my car and left Seattle. After a seemingly endless stream of setbacks and false starts, The Jackie Whelan DoE Solo Tour is officially underway, and I couldn’t be happier.

Ashland was the usual good time it always is: I played my first solo show of the tour at The Creek and woke up the next morning hog-tied and covered in permanent red ink. I will end my story there, but know that there is more.

On Friday, a quick 12 hour drive got me to Claremont just in time to catch the free rock show, followed by a very compressed series of aborted afterparties with We Are Scientists and The Bish, then 3 x 3 x 4 (36?) heartfelt vanside goodbyes before I caught a cheap flight to Denver and bedded down in a dormitory full of Mexican day-laborers.

And now I’m here, gasping for air in the Sangre de Cristo mountains and wishing I’d packed some Chapstick. Sure is nice out here.

Happy day before Valentine’s Day. Here’s a song from the new album. Be good to each other.

This week’s big news:

• The website is now orange.
• Our new EP is on its way home from the factory and officially on pre-sale at Awarestore.
• You can download a whole song from it by clicking here.
• We’ve put Matt Harrison’s sexy new logo on some sexy new t-shirts that should also be up at the store in a matter of hours.
• There is a growing handful of new dates on the tour page, and they’re all coming up in the next month or so.
• In an attempt to become better communicators, we now each have our own news pages, or “blogs,” as we refuse to call them. This effectively quadruples your chances of finding new content when you come here.

But we mainly just wanted to say Happy Valentine’s Day. And we really like what you’ve done with your hair.

Love,

The Band