Upland Breakdown 8

sat/aug/25 3-9pm

beartree tavern, centennial, wyoming
SOULED AMERICAN
MICHAEL HURLEY
MICHAEL HURWITZ
RALPH WHITE
STOP & LISTEN BOYS

sun/aug/26 3-9pm

swing station, la porte, colorado
SOULED AMERICAN
MICHAEL HURLEY
STOP & LISTEN BOYS
SPOT
THE PLACES

we just had a foot of snow but we expect to have about a month long hole in the wyoming winter come august, what with global warming and all. the state's rolling in money and union pacific is rolling out coal trains in all directions. unfortunately its cleaner than appalachian coal, both for the warming effect and musical ambiance, but it'll have to do. we're doing a two day wyo-colo breakdown weekend this year:

Souled American, who have been recording since the 80s and their classic run of Rough Trade releases (Fe/Flubber/Around the Horn/Sonny; reissued by tumult). they followed those with two albums on catamount and have been working on a new album in their home studio near charleston, illinois.

Ralph White spent the nineties with the austin, tx. legends, the bad livers, and has been playing his solo blend of traditional and original blues and contemporary african influences thru his claw hammered banjo since then.

also from austin, Spot will set down at the end of his annual summer tour promoting another new album,"spot/albert", with albert alfonso.

and The Places have been cooling out in Austin as well lately. their most recent album, "Songs for Creeps", got great notices since Amy's appearance last year; when one plays centennial, wyoming, the ny and la media take notice.

your breakdown presence will be understood to constitute prior consent and synchronization license approval across all media extant and any that may be invented heretofore thereafter by someelectro-geek what hates music, for any docu/narrative/psycho-cloud-cuckoo-land movie thing michael hurley may be taping. fugitives travelling under false identities are forwarned. michael has a new album coming this summer on the gnomonsong label called "ancestral swamp". they say it'll be out on vinyl too so think of that, a new 12x12 hurley artwork on its way, plus the tunes.

The Stop & Listen Boys commenced studio work at the world famous Blasting Room after last years Breakdown and continued in various living rooms around Wyoming and New York - the so-called "stumblebum sessions". No release date has yet revealed itself.

Michael Hurwitz debuted his second album, "Blue Coyote" (or third if you count the charming Alta School Cowboy Choir "Wyoming Mountain Home" album) at last year's breakdown and his one original, "Get Your Business Straight", stands up to the classic blues and rural tunes he gives his prairie blues treatment.

both shows will be outdoors, weather permitting. kids admitted to both shows unless in centennial weather forces us into the bar, then 21+ there. there is 100 miles of winding two lane roads, mostly paved between centennial and la porte. the scenery is fine but keep your eyes on the road, watching for the larger critters like elk, pronghorn deer, and hotrodding students.

here's the view today in centennial