January 17, 2010

I hope your week went well. It looks like we got a little break from the sub-cold temperatures. Yesterday my thermometer read 51. Can't beat that the second week of January. So let's get right to it.

Band News: The new album "Full Circle" is in the middle of being mixed down and compressed. We all eagerly await this new piece of music. I listen to the demo copy in my car almost daily and it is quite good.

There are a dozen cuts that cover about 55 minutes of running time as our songs these days are getting more lengthy by the album, and that's good. As I stated in the past there are about 15 different guests on this CD - everything from Cello's to horns to accordions - it's all in there.

And, A Short Change Album would not be complete without at least 5 genres of music types. There's Southern Rock, Blues, Instrumentals, Love songs, and even some truck driving music - it's all there! It's some of our best work to date not to mention the ever changing mode of fantastic song writing by Mr. KW Winters himself. The boy is "coming out" for sure - you go brother!

We have become a three-piece completion machine. KW writes and we all create the new masters that evolve. It's an awesome process my friends. And, while we are on that subject, Album number four is complete. For our fifth album we spoke of releasing a greatest hits CD, as well as adding 3 or 4 new songs to that. The song writing for KW has been so productive that we have another album's worth of material on it's own - so the greatest hits CD will have to wait another year. Enough on the music business at hand
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Show Review: Gordy's Gordy's Gordy's- Saturday night was truly a dinner and a show for us. We got to sample some of those fantastic wings I told you folks about, and yes they still are very good!

The show began exactly at 8pm as promised. The crowd was a bit light in the beginning but by 9pm there wasn't a seat left to be had. We also had a number of guests including past a past member of the Short Change Band (dating back to the late 70's maybe - let's say early 80's - it makes me feel better). Great Drumming Jim and the night would not have been complete without Bob the "Barber" doing "Wooly Bully" Ahh, what a great night! (Great show boys)

If you missed it, like I've said before you missed a good one. We were due.

Upcoming Shows:
This Friday Night- Davy's in Chenango Fork's - 9pm
Saturday Night - We're back to The Hitchin'Post in Belden - 8pm
Two great nights of music- Try to come out and catch us.

Finally in Rock And Roll History - this week it's all about us. Three years ago this week the Short Change Band played it's last show as a four-piece band. The band converted over to three-piece ever since. This week in R&R history.

Everybody have a great week,hope to see you all soon!

-Mikee^^ Dee