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Thanks Eugenia.

It's from their upcoming album that comes out next year. But there's a live performance of it on Youtube. It was also performed at the show I was in SF too, and it really sounds great live.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBPd2TctIBE

I found it. It is "The Man Who Would Speak True". Now that we have that out of the way, anyone have any history on the song?

Hello all. I was listening to the 7/9/2009 Sacramento show and I don't know the title of the second to the last song of the night (the last was Miss Spiritual Tramp). It is E. Earley solo acoustic with harmonica and begins with the line "I had a lover her name was Grace..." Could someone from help me out so that I label the song correctly? Thanks in advance!

Loch Lomond! Did anyone see them open for BT on the summer tour? So good.

They are headed out on tour tomorrow in support of their new EP that comes out Tuesday titled Night Bats.

Dates below.

Go check them out http://www.myspace.com/lochlomondmusic

Nov 7 Sorrento Hotel Seattle, Wa
Nov 9 Pendleton Center for the Arts Pendleton, Or
Nov 10 The Woods Portland, Or
Nov 11 EMU Univ. of Oregon Eugene, Or
Nov 12 Hotel Utah San Francisco, Ca
Nov 13 Luigi's Fun Garden Sacramento, Ca
Nov 14 Historic Brookdale Lodge Santa Cruz, Ca
Nov 15 Muddy Waters Santa Barbara, Ca
Nov 16 The Loft UCSD La Jolla, Ca
Nov 17 Bootleg Theater Los Angeles, Ca

There's also this marvelous story by Robert Graves called "The Shout" ...

Thanks Marty. Good to know.

Dear Marty And BT:

Thank you for the potatoes.

Sincerely,

flyguy

Marty, I hear you. Thank you for the info!

Please let me share one of the stories my 3rd grade Greek teacher told us at school: Back in the 1820s, potatoes were still not popular in Greece (although they were started to be in the rest of Europe, after Europeans had being introduced to them by the native Americans). Because that 1820s era found Greece as a newfound country surrounded by war (after 400 years under the Ottoman Empire), the people were hungry. So that new Greek government tried to import potatoes to feed them.

Unfortunately, people at the time were not very hot in the idea of trying new foods. The government tried to convince people that potatoes were great to eat, but no one wanted to try them! So they devised a plan, playing with the psychology of [some of] the ravaged-by-war people back then: they took back all the potatoes from the market, put them in a big storage house, and put lots of guards around! And then they told the Athenians to not go there, because the potatoes are meant to be for the King and the soldiers.

When some of the Athenians heard that, they couldn't help themselves. They went out at night to STEAL them! If there was some value in guarding these so called potatoes, then there would be some value stealing them -- they thought. Of course, the guards were instructed to turn a blind eye on the thieves! It was all part of the plan. So potatoes got stolen, people cooked them, they liked them, and eventually they became widespread in the Greek cuisine.

Now, that was 1820s, but the story might -- or might not -- still have an application in your market. ;-)

The thing about garmonbozia was that none of those recordings were ever sold (with the exception of a few silk-screened cdrs at the last gmbz show in may 2003) so its not pirating if you can still wrangle those songs somehow. I had this crazy idea in those days that if we just gave away the music it would viralize and soon the whole world would know about it. But it seems that if you give away music then people assume it's worthless; chalk up another point for realism vs idealism.

Anyway we will undoubtedly release a box set of "early recordings" some day but not in the near future. So please, trade this old stuff to yr hearts content.

Pax,
Marty

Just for clarification, streaming is not pirating. Thanks.

Yeah, well, I prefer to buy rather than pirate.

Trappers, any input on this? Is there a chance that the Garmonbozia music will become available to buy, or should I just go ahead and pirate it too? It's a simple question. ;-)

Many thanks Daniel!