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1. <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6792039</id><updated>2024-10-24T21:12:25.046-04:00</updated><category term="dulcimer"/><category term="New CD"/><category term="Nouns"/><category term="chattanooga"/><category term="songwriting"/><category term="Christmas"/><category term="recording"/><category term="1964"/><category term="Greg Brown"/><category term="JFK"/><category term="Neil Young"/><category term="antifolk"/><category term="beer"/><category term="cast"/><category term="folk music"/><category term="free"/><category term="games"/><category term="live recording"/><category term="looping"/><category term="music"/><category term="new music"/><category term="pole"/><category term="position"/><category term="video"/><category term="web"/><title type='text'>a blog about Butch.</title><subtitle type='html'>A music blog of odd covers, show announcements, random thoughts and other musical things that I might be thinking about on any given day.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://jerpoint.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6792039/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://jerpoint.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6792039/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25'/><author><name>Butch Ross</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08015294745794017407</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='18' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin2vDykEiSpZyeqOB1MqGjIKAczZlw2S0W0SiCunIJe5_zUHZC6woe6N--BuGNBC0ksELlT0nyOZbCyCTh2TRU7Wzh-1TRUetNtNgN0wal0qq7p5Tv55tRzWnJgHgEqQ/s220/DSC07979_4web.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>104</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6792039.post-6870345671253271909</id><published>2020-02-21T11:01:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2020-02-21T11:01:32.547-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Hill City Sessions Tonight.</title><content type='html'>Tonight! from 7 to 9:30&lt;br /&gt;
2. Chattanooga Brewery and Tap Room<br />
3. 1804 Chestnut Street<br />Chattanooga, TN, 37408<a href="https://www.chattabrew.com/" target="_blank">https://www.chattabrew.com/</a><br />
4. <br />
5. Part of their Hill City Sessions.<br />
6. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
7. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs0e2yjNTMH25haBp6dSFsPuEuvT7Mx-YK2kzi-uGZBmSvmFya8-fvUUb4if4GltpZAuAcUhVz4KVjLY-9PXJfaXGocS4gzfqDjmDjy0kVkOqag5_q4GC9RVNGi_I3xM9Lfy5Gjw/s1600/HCS.ig.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1088" data-original-width="1108" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs0e2yjNTMH25haBp6dSFsPuEuvT7Mx-YK2kzi-uGZBmSvmFya8-fvUUb4if4GltpZAuAcUhVz4KVjLY-9PXJfaXGocS4gzfqDjmDjy0kVkOqag5_q4GC9RVNGi_I3xM9Lfy5Gjw/s320/HCS.ig.png" width="320" /></a></div>
8. &lt;br /&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://jerpoint.blogspot.com/feeds/6870345671253271909/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/6792039/6870345671253271909' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6792039/posts/default/6870345671253271909'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6792039/posts/default/6870345671253271909'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://jerpoint.blogspot.com/2020/02/hill-city-sessions-tonight.html' title='Hill City Sessions Tonight.'/><author><name>Butch Ross</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08015294745794017407</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='18' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin2vDykEiSpZyeqOB1MqGjIKAczZlw2S0W0SiCunIJe5_zUHZC6woe6N--BuGNBC0ksELlT0nyOZbCyCTh2TRU7Wzh-1TRUetNtNgN0wal0qq7p5Tv55tRzWnJgHgEqQ/s220/DSC07979_4web.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs0e2yjNTMH25haBp6dSFsPuEuvT7Mx-YK2kzi-uGZBmSvmFya8-fvUUb4if4GltpZAuAcUhVz4KVjLY-9PXJfaXGocS4gzfqDjmDjy0kVkOqag5_q4GC9RVNGi_I3xM9Lfy5Gjw/s72-c/HCS.ig.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6792039.post-6034623214876225275</id><published>2019-07-13T09:56:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2019-07-13T09:56:32.518-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Upcoming Shows: MI, VA, PA and two new books </title><content type='html'>Hey Y&#39;all...&lt;br /&gt;
9. Well it would appear that I've taken my usual summer-long workshop/touring
10. schedule and crammed it into two weeks.
11. But I'm doing a lot of my favorite things at my favorite places, so it's
12. gonna be a LOT of fun.<br />
13. <br />
14. July 13th - Well above LaFayette, GA<br />
15. <b>Adam's Bluff Bash</b> - Private party<br />
16. <br />
17. July 15-17
18. 3-day<b> Intensive Ukulele Workshop</b> - $160<br />
19. Osceola Fairgrounds<br />
20. Evart, MI<br />
21. Everything you need to know about Ukulele: Chords, Strumming, Tunes and
22. Theory (well just a little bit).
23. Sign up online butchross.com/uke/<br />
24. <br />
25. July 18-20
26. <b>OPDC FunFest</b><br />
27. Osceola Fairgrounds<br />
28. Evart, MI<br />
29. Quite possibly the biggest dulcimer festival in the States, even if it
30. isn't, it still rocks. $15 gets you in.<br />
31. <br />
32. July 22-26 - $150 for adults $25 for kids under 18<br />
33. <b>Mountain Music School </b><br />
34. Mountain Empire Community College<br />
35. Big Stone Gap, VA<br />
36. Day-long workshops in a variety of folk and Bluegrass instruments from 9
37. a.m. to 4 p.m.
38. Here's what's cool about Mountain Music School, your adult tuition
39. partially funds the youth admissions. What they're doing at MMS is straight
40. up economic empowerment in an impoverished region. It's hard to give to any
41. charity and know that what you're doing is doing any good. But here you can
42. see it happen in real time. Plus, $150 for a week of dulcimer lessons (or
43. autoharp, fiddle, string bass, guitar, and banjo) is kind of a good deal.<br />
44. <br />
45.  July 26-27 - $10 registration plus $15 per class (paid directly to
46. instructors)<br />
47. <b>5th Annual Dutchland Dulcimer Gathering </b><br />
48. St. Thomas Episcopal Church,<br />
49. 301 St. Thomas Rd.<br />
50. Lancaster, PA <br />
51. The sharp eyed among will note that I can't possibly be in two places at
52. once. And it's true, I'll only be teaching on Saturday. But the other
53. instructors are Nina Zanetti, Bill Collins, Wendy Songe, Dave Haas, Judy
54. and Kirk House. So there'll be plenty to do. Seriously, this is a great
55. little festival. If you can make it, GO!<br />
56. <br />
57. Also, I've been so busy doing stuff, I've seriously neglected telling you
58. guys abut the stuff I've been doing (which is not at all how that's
59. supposed to work). So let me tell you now, that earlier this year I've
60. released two new books...<br />
61. <br />
62. <b>The Big Little Book of Ukulele Songs</b><br />
63. Over 60 songs for Ukulele with most two
64. chords! Everything from Gospel to Pop to Kids Songs and everything in
65. between.
66. Complete with strum patterns and starting notes. Plus bonus songs and a
67. Chord Chart. $15 - *http://butchross.com/stuff.html
68. <http: butchross.com="" stuff.html="">* </http:><br />
69. <br />
70. <http: butchross.com="" stuff.html=""><b>The BeatleTudes for Bass</b> </http:><br />
71. <http: butchross.com="" stuff.html="">A companion book for both the Beatletudes and the Ukulele Beatletudes, it
72. features Beatles tune bass lines arranged for Uke Bass, Dulcimer bass and
73. regular bass guitar.
74. Comes with downloads to the Beatles tunes transcribed. $20 -
75. http://butchross.com/stuff.html#beatlebass </http:><br />
76. <br />
77. <http: butchross.com="" stuff.html="">So that's the news for now. More projects are on the way, but we'll have to
78. talk about that later. </http:><br />
79. <br />
80. <http: butchross.com="" stuff.html="">C-ya out there.</http:><br />
81. </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://jerpoint.blogspot.com/feeds/6034623214876225275/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/6792039/6034623214876225275' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6792039/posts/default/6034623214876225275'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6792039/posts/default/6034623214876225275'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://jerpoint.blogspot.com/2019/07/upcoming-shows-mi-va-pa-and-two-new.html' title='Upcoming Shows: MI, VA, PA and two new books '/><author><name>Butch Ross</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08015294745794017407</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='18' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin2vDykEiSpZyeqOB1MqGjIKAczZlw2S0W0SiCunIJe5_zUHZC6woe6N--BuGNBC0ksELlT0nyOZbCyCTh2TRU7Wzh-1TRUetNtNgN0wal0qq7p5Tv55tRzWnJgHgEqQ/s220/DSC07979_4web.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6792039.post-2279188556582203469</id><published>2019-04-03T17:51:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2019-04-03T17:51:04.968-04:00</updated><title type='text'>On the radio tonight, talking about a play I am music director for</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;
82. Tonight! 7pm<br />
83. Live on WUTC 88.1fm or listen online <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://wutc.org&source=gmail&ust=1554403041716000&usg=AFQjCNHzYVgVu8IG7QCu2oXyF6eL8jRkVw" href="http://wutc.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">wutc.org</a><br />
84. Live on <i>the Richard Winham Show</i><br />
85. With poet <b>Peggy Douglas</b>, songwriter <b>Jefferson Hyll</b> and the <b>9th Street<br />
86. Stompers.</b><br />
87. <br />
88. Peggy and I will be talking about…<br />
89. <br />
90. Friday April, 6 and Saturday April 7 – 7pm<br />
91. <b>Deeper Roots</b><br />
92. <i>Voices and Music Inspired by Emma Bell Miles</i><br />
93. Bachman Community Center<br />
94. 2815 Anderson Pike, Signal Mountain, TN 37377<br />
95. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Chttp://www.chattanoogapulse.com/locations/bachman-community-center/%3E" target="_blank">View Map</a><br /><br />
96. <br />
97. In this new digital age...so I’ve been told...it's important to keep your fans engaged. To keep them up to date almost daily with what you’re working on in the studio etc. You’re supposed to be giving everyone the play by play of your everyday.<br />
98. <br />
99. And I have friends who are exceptionally good at this, but it’s not how I’m wired. So, while you haven’t heard from me in a minute, I’ve actually been pretty busy. As a result, I got a lot to tell you about, so here we go…<br />
100. <br />
101. When I got married, I moved from downtown Chattanooga just up the mountain to Signal Mountain. This year (and starting this month) the town is celebrating its 100th anniversary. Peggy Douglas, a local poet and playwright, was commissioned to create a play —structured as a series of<br />
102. monologues— based on the writings of Signal Mountain’s most famous resident: Emma Bell Miles.<br />
103. <br />
104. Trish is directing the play and I am it’s musical director. I, along with fiddler Emerald Butler, will be adding traditional Appalachian music both during and between the monologues.<br />
105. <br />
106. In other words, I’m getting paid to play traditional music on a mountain dulcimer. (I know, right?)<br />
107. <br />
108. The play takes place this Friday and Saturday at the Bachman Community Center (a repurposed elementary school just outside the Signal Mountain city limits), and again on Friday and Saturday of next week.<br />
109. <br />
110. The play’s inspiration, Emma Bell Miles, was a writer, a poet, artist and naturalist whose life was as interesting as it was tragic. She also played the mountain dulcimer. Her writings are considered one of the best chronicles of mountain living in the late 19th and early 20th century, and while she is barely known in the United States, her work is studied in universities across Europe.<br />
111. <br />
112. There’s a TON of stuff that I could tell you about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Bell_Miles" target="_blank">Emma Bell</a> and about the <a href="http://www.chattanoogapulse.com/events/deeper-roots_1/" target="_blank">play</a> but the best way to<br />
113. learn more about the play is to listen to WUTC 88.1FM (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://wutc.org&source=gmail&ust=1554403041716000&usg=AFQjCNHzYVgVu8IG7QCu2oXyF6eL8jRkVw" href="http://wutc.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">wutc.org</a>) tonight at 7pm. Peggy will talking about the play and reading excerpts and I’ll be doing my thing. Also along with us will be a local singer-songwriter as well as two members of the 9th Street Stompers, who play retro swing and<br />
114. gypsy jazz and are one of my favorite Chattanooga bands<br />
115. <br />
116. So that’s it for now. The next email will talk about the two new books that I’ve released. But that’ll have to wait; this email is getting pretty long…<br />
117. <br />
118. And I have a Face book video to make. :-)<br />
119. <br />
120. C-ya out there,<br />
121. <br />
122. --Br<br />
123. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.butchross.com&source=gmail&ust=1554403041716000&usg=AFQjCNG0p_YvEfFoNoZOU9ia0Z7DH2BSTQ" href="http://www.butchross.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">www.butchross.com</a><br />
124. <br />
125. &quot;Now I know what a dulcimer is supposed to sound like&quot; —Jake Shimabukuro</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://jerpoint.blogspot.com/feeds/2279188556582203469/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/6792039/2279188556582203469' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6792039/posts/default/2279188556582203469'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6792039/posts/default/2279188556582203469'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://jerpoint.blogspot.com/2019/04/on-radio-tonight-talking-about-play-i.html' title='On the radio tonight, talking about a play I am music director for'/><author><name>Butch Ross</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08015294745794017407</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='18' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin2vDykEiSpZyeqOB1MqGjIKAczZlw2S0W0SiCunIJe5_zUHZC6woe6N--BuGNBC0ksELlT0nyOZbCyCTh2TRU7Wzh-1TRUetNtNgN0wal0qq7p5Tv55tRzWnJgHgEqQ/s220/DSC07979_4web.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6792039.post-5034236289865397548</id><published>2018-10-03T12:38:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2018-10-03T12:38:10.823-04:00</updated><title type='text'>What a Wonderful World.</title><content type='html'>Surprisingly, one of the first songs I developed on the Ukulele. It&#39;s like it was there the whole time.&lt;br /&gt;
126. &lt;a href=&quot;http://butchross.com/pdf/wonderful_world.pdf&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Download the tab here.&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://jerpoint.blogspot.com/feeds/5034236289865397548/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/6792039/5034236289865397548' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6792039/posts/default/5034236289865397548'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6792039/posts/default/5034236289865397548'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://jerpoint.blogspot.com/2018/10/what-wonderful-world.html' title='What a Wonderful World.'/><author><name>Butch Ross</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08015294745794017407</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='18' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin2vDykEiSpZyeqOB1MqGjIKAczZlw2S0W0SiCunIJe5_zUHZC6woe6N--BuGNBC0ksELlT0nyOZbCyCTh2TRU7Wzh-1TRUetNtNgN0wal0qq7p5Tv55tRzWnJgHgEqQ/s220/DSC07979_4web.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6792039.post-1570425071271241647</id><published>2018-08-28T13:51:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2018-08-28T13:51:48.297-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Birdwatching</title><content type='html'>Download the tab &lt;a href=&quot;http://butchross.com/pdf/birdwatching.pdf&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://jerpoint.blogspot.com/feeds/1570425071271241647/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/6792039/1570425071271241647' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6792039/posts/default/1570425071271241647'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6792039/posts/default/1570425071271241647'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://jerpoint.blogspot.com/2018/08/birdwatching.html' title='Birdwatching'/><author><name>Butch Ross</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08015294745794017407</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='18' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin2vDykEiSpZyeqOB1MqGjIKAczZlw2S0W0SiCunIJe5_zUHZC6woe6N--BuGNBC0ksELlT0nyOZbCyCTh2TRU7Wzh-1TRUetNtNgN0wal0qq7p5Tv55tRzWnJgHgEqQ/s220/DSC07979_4web.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6792039.post-8697595821402036888</id><published>2018-08-23T09:38:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2019-10-04T09:40:45.121-04:00</updated><title type='text'>God save the Queen</title><content type='html'>Natural Woman as done by the Queen of Soul. &lt;br /&gt;Download the tab &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.butchross.com/pdf/natural_woman.pdf&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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149. <b></b><br />
150. <i>Found Objects</i> comes out May 13th. Here's a track by track breakdown of the new CD<b>.</b><br />
151. <br />
152. Click <a href="https://butchross.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">here</a> to pre-order "Found Objects"<br />
153. <br />
154. <b>Manifesto</b><br />
155. The way I see it, hip-hop IS folk music. Using two turntables and some old records to create a new form of music is, to me, about as hand-made and folky as it gets. So when I found this recording of Utah Phillips talking about the egalitarian ownership of folk music, I thought it would be funny to pair it with the world’s most sampled drumbeat; James Brown’s The Funky Drummer. Then I thought it would be funny to sample a dulcimer club (‘cuz dulcimer club records rarely show up in DJ sets!). The end result however, came out more profound than I had envisioned.<br />
156. <b><br />Camp Meeting on the 4th of July</b><br />
157. I used to busk (street perform) in front of the Chattanooga Aquarium. It was a great experience where I developed most of the loop-based stuff I do. This is one of those tunes. Kamanjah is the Arabic word for fiddle, with it’s own set of playing techniques. It turns out, it’s easier to learn to do them than it is to get a fiddle player to return you calls.<br />
158. <br />
159. <b>Cluck Ol' Hen (parts 1 and 2)</b><br />
160. This is another busking song I developed at the Aquarium. If I recall correctly, I came up with part 1 on one day and part two on the next. The next week I decided to put them together.<br />
161. <b><br />While My Dulcimer Gently Weeps</b><br />
162. I feel like I have been playing this tune forever, but seems to have finally caught people’s attention. Inspired by seeing Jake Shimabukuro's version on ukulele and thinking “If he can play it on his weird instrument…”<br />
163. <b><br />Hunting The Buffalo</b><br />
164. When someone asks you to go somewhere, you say “yes”. My buddy Tim Cofield once asked me--on four days notice--if I wanted to go on tour with him to northern Ontario, Canada. Despite having to spend 3 hours(?!?!?!) in customs, it was an amazing time. On the way back we played a house concert in Minneapolis where this song was recorded. And I’m glad we recorded it: it’s my favorite version of what is hands down my favorite fiddle tune. <br />
165. <br />
166. <b>idioteque</b><br />
167. Originally conceived as part of a project to pair Radiohead’s murky, divisive and, some would say, best record Kid A with the silent film Nosferatu. While that project never came to fruition. I did get this song out of it. <br />
168. <br />
169. Someone once asked Radiohead’s lead singer Thom Yorke what he thought of newer bands (like Coldplay) appropriating Radiohead’s earlier sound. Thom replied “Good luck with Kid A.” Challenge accepted. <br />
170. <b><br />Fragile</b><br />
171. Originally recorded for the Key West Dulcimer Festival compilation CD. Another idea gleaned from Jake Shimabukuro (his version is on his 2003 album Crosscurrent) and also inspired by the fact that, generally speaking, I don’t actually like island music.<b><br /><br />The Drop</b><br />
172. In 2013 conceptual artist Tim Hinck was commissioned to create a multimedia art piece for the opening of “The Block” a Chattanooga parking garage-public art project-and climbing wall. For it, he repurposed my song <i>Someday This Will All Be Underwater</i> for the grand opening, I played electric dulcimer to my own karaoke song while people climbed and video of outdoor sports projected above me. Oh and ten minutes before all that, I had played Take Me to the River with the one and only Booker T.<br />
173. <br />
174. It was a very good day.<br />
175. <br />
176. <b>Chiaroscuro</b><br />
177. In 2010, when the Haiti earthquake hit, my friend Charles Alison was in the process recording a song a week for a year. I wanted to do something for the victims of the earthquake, so I approached Charles about making this one of his songs of the week. We then sold it as a digital download and gave the proceeds to ADRA (the Adventist Development and Relief Association) and Doctors Without Borders. We raised nearly $250. I played dulcimer and left the rest to Charles and cohorts. This is one of the first songs I ever wrote on mountain dulcimer.<br />
178. <br />
179. <b>Red Dress</b><br />
180. The Steps was a noir web series filmed in Chattanooga. Dylan Kussman (who is best known as one of the kids in the Dead Poet’s Society) starts as an ex-cop and recovering alcoholic turned private detective. As part of the promotion of the series the had a remix contest. This was my entry. I was pretending that this was the theme song to the character’s show while he was still a cop. It’s chock full of musical references to 70’s and 80’s shows like Miami Vice and The Rockford Files. If I had to pick the favorite piece of music I’ve ever recorded. This is it.<br />
181. <br />
182. <b>Brand New 1964 Dodge</b><br />
183. After Amazing Grace, this is my pick for the best song ever written. I love that the story of the song is not actually what the song is about. Walter Cronkite underscores that here.<br />
184. <br />
185. <b>Shady Grove</b><br />
186. Another song from the A Long Way From Shady Grove CD,I remixed this with Jean Ritchie samples for Dulcimer Players News magazine after Jean passed away. Jean brought the dulcimer out of the mountains and likely saved it from extinction. Every single one of us owe her a debt of gratitude for that. I know I do. While I consider this song and what I do to be an extension of what she did, I’m pretty sure she would hate it. But that’s okay too. Like she says, “I guess this is a fragment of an old ballad, but it’s just a love song now.”<br />
187. <br />
188. Click <a href="https://butchross.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">here</a> to pre-order "Found Objects"<br />
189. <br />
190. &lt;br /&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://jerpoint.blogspot.com/feeds/8678556943782771673/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/6792039/8678556943782771673' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6792039/posts/default/8678556943782771673'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6792039/posts/default/8678556943782771673'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://jerpoint.blogspot.com/2017/05/track-by-track-thoughts-on-new-album.html' title='Track by Track thoughts on the new album'/><author><name>Butch Ross</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08015294745794017407</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='18' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin2vDykEiSpZyeqOB1MqGjIKAczZlw2S0W0SiCunIJe5_zUHZC6woe6N--BuGNBC0ksELlT0nyOZbCyCTh2TRU7Wzh-1TRUetNtNgN0wal0qq7p5Tv55tRzWnJgHgEqQ/s220/DSC07979_4web.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6792039.post-5419291494458845080</id><published>2017-01-31T10:10:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2017-05-26T11:05:35.929-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Update on the album and a live Facebook broadcast tomorrow.</title><content type='html'>&lt;pre&gt;Wednesday at Noon on Facebook. Free!
191. Music Wednesdays at the Times Free Press.
192. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/timesfreepress/">https://www.facebook.com/timesfreepress/</a>
193.  
194. The record is sooooo painfully close to done. Close enough that I've begun
195. to think that this whole ordeal was a huge waste of time. As depressing as
196. that last statement sounds, it's really just insight to the neurotic-ness
197. that is being an artist. Of course, there's a great deal of pretentiousness
198. to being an artist as well, so maybe you should just ignore the previous
199. four sentences. :-)
200.  
201. I work on these things until they feel done, that's why they take so long.
202. It's also why they seem (to me) like they'll be done sooner. But on the way
203. to getting them "right" some cool things have happened. One: I went down to
204. my buddy Charles Allison's to record a solo dulcimer take of "While My
205. Guitar Gently Weeps." I've been playing this song for literally years, but
206. it seems like it's finally beginning to appear on peoples radar for some
207. reason. One of the reasons why my dulcimer CDs have lots of other
208. instruments on it is because it's devilishly hard to get a good recording
209. of a solo mountain dulcimer (just ask Aaron, Siefert, Eulberg or even Dan
210. Landrum). And it requires microphones I frankly can't afford. So I headed
211. over to Spanner Sound to get some good noises on tape.*
212.  
213. Secondly: the album in it's current form had a lot of drum loops, I have a
214. huge collection of them and this time around I just let myself go. It
215. solved whole lot of problems, but created a ton of other (procuring sample
216. clearances, mixed sound quality etc). But I discovered a local drummer
217. who's recording and uploading a "sample pack" of drum grooves, fills
218. individual hits etc. one a day for a year. So I partnered with him to
219. create new beats to replace the sampled ones. It's added a lot more work at
220. the last minute, but it's so worth it to have real, bespoke and local
221. drums.
222.  
223. I've been posting youtube videos of little snippets from the album coupled
224. with strange/cool images. I'm calling them "objects" and they will post
225. every Tuedsay between now (well two weeks ago) through March 7 in front of
226. the CD release March 11th. The best way to catch them is to subscribe to my
227. Youtube page (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/c/ButchRoss">http://www.youtube.com/c/ButchRoss</a>) or my facebook page.
228. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/butchrossmusic">https://www.facebook.com/butchrossmusic</a>
229.  
230. Finally tomorrow I will be on our local newspaper's "Wednesday Music
231. Series" on facebook. Just tune in at noon (EST) and go to
232. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/timesfreepress">https://www.facebook.com/timesfreepress</a> I'll be talking about and playing
233. some stuff from the new CD.
234.  
235. C-ya out there.
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238. $10 suggested donation.
239. Baton Rouge, LA
240. House Concert at the home of Hellen Bankston
241. Contact Helen to RSVP: <a href="https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/butchross">hmbakston at cox.net</a>
242. <javascript:_e a="" cvml="" href="https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/butchross">hmbakston at cox.net</javascript:_e></pre>
243. ');>
244.  
245. Saturday, Nov. 12th, 7pm - Free
246. Texas Loopfest
247. J&O's Cantina
248. 1014 S. Presa
249. San Antonio, TX 78210
250. Texasloopfest.com
251. one of many acts that night, I play first.
252.  
253. Sunday, Nov 12, 8pm - free (tips)
254. Loopfest part 2
255. notsuoH
256. 314 N Main St Houston, TX 77002
257. with The Winkler and the Hare
258. and Xandra Wong
259.  
260. Monday, Nov 14th - 1:30pm
261. $20 per person
262. Dulcimer Workshop and Concert
263. Farmers Branch Senior Center
264. 14055 Dennis Ln
265. Farmers Branch, TX 75234
266. Contact Donna Shelton to RSVP: <a href="https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/butchross">dshel59 at sbcglobal.net</a>
267.  
268. It only occurs to me as I write this that this is my first proper Texas
269. tour and my first musical visit to the Lone Star state since I taught at
270. the Winter Festival of Acoustic Music in 2008. I did once drive across
271. Texas but I didn't see much, we did it in one day.
272.  
273. Looping is that thing I do where I record one piece of music and then play
274. and record other pieces on top of it (think of how I play "sweet spotted
275. pony" live). But there are other people who are really good at it, and
276. they'll be at the Texas Loopfest this weekend. Some of these guys are
277. old-school, building loops and working with tape delays like Robbert Fripp
278. did in the 70's and 80's with his whole "frippertonics" thing. It's a cool
279. bunch to be associated with, and I'm thankful to have been asked. That
280. said, I'mm the only guy playing traditional music and one of the very few
281. using a traditional instrument. I'm really digging the fact that in the
282. midst of all these ambient freakout bands that are playing my stuff is
283. gonna sound like it came from the moon...and yet has a catchy beat you can
284. dance to.
285.  
286. Then we continue the party one more day over in Houston where I'll be
287. playing with fellow Loopers The Winkler and Xandra Wong. Not sure exactly
288. how this is gonna go down, but the show starts at 8.
289.  
290. Something else that came to light over the last tour I did (or as I call it
291. "October"), it's only on tour that I have to set an alarm and get up early.
292. Not at all what I thought my grown-up rock-n-roll dreams would look like.
293.  
294. I'll be getting up early because I'll be doing workshops in addition to the
295. gigs. Saturday in San Antonio, Sunday in Houston and Monday in Dallas. I'll
296. send out details about those in a separate email later today or tomorrow.
297.  
298. One last thing.
299.  
300. Today is election day. VOTE. Politicians of any stripe hate high voter
301. turnout, they don't want you to be engaged. Go find the candidate you hate
302. the least and vote, it really does matter.
303.  
304. Okay, that's all. See you out there.
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306. <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Labor day Weekend</span></div>
307. <div>
308. <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Eatonic Music Festival</b></span></div>
309. <div>
310. <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eaton, Ohio</span></div>
311. <div>
312. <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many bands over three days of music</span></div>
313. <div>
314. <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Friday: Blues</span></div>
315. <div>
316. <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Saturday: RAAWK!</span></div>
317. <div>
318. <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sunday: Bluegrass (I'm on Sunday)</span></div>
319. <div>
320. <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tickets are $80 to $150 for the whole weekend, one day tickets are also available.</span></div>
321. <div>
322. <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://<a href="http://www.eatonicmusicfestival.com/">www.eatonicmusicfestival.com</a></span></div>
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324. <br /></div>
325. <div>
326. <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A couple of years ago I was playing, as I've done for many years, the Central Ohio Folk Festival. It brings in many folks to teach and perform, with additional "headline" concerts in the evening. I got to be a part of the headlining set one year, but understandably, that portion of the show isn't the kind of thing that they can have me do every year.</span></div>
327. <div>
328. <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
329. <div>
330. <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As a teacher/performer I also get access to the evening concerts and have had the opportunity to see and meet GREAT performers like Tom Rush, David Massengill and James Keelaghan (one of my all time faves). But still, as a professional musician, it drives me a little batty to have an open night while on tour, especially a Saturday.</span></div>
331. <div>
332. <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
333. <div>
334. <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, a few years ago I resolved to find a gig within 90 minutes of Columbus, close enough to get there in time for soundcheck and back before it got too awful late for my hosts; the ever-fantastic Doug and Deena Snapp. </span></div>
335. <div>
336. <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
337. <div>
338. <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So while searching for a near(ish) venues in places like Dayton, Youngstown and Cleveland, I came across a venue called Taffy's of Eaton. Eaton, Ohio is just west of Dayton, near the Indiana line, and is very small (8400 people, but it seems smaller).</span></div>
339. <div>
340. <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
341. <div>
342. <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Taffy's billed itself as "the music mecca of the universe" and I thought, anyone who talks that much smack I gotta check out. So, I went to their website, and saw that despite the size of the place, they've had some pretty serious talent come through. John Hammond Jr., Laurence Juber, Johnny A and a whole host of regional and nationally touring talent have graced the stage. So I called to get a booking and I was told they were booked until the end of the year.</span></div>
343. <div>
344. <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
345. <div>
346. <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was February.</span></div>
347. <div>
348. <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
349. <div>
350. <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A long (and not that interesting) story later, I finally got myself into the club and met the Force Majeure that is Taffy's owner, Manfried. Manfried works the crowd and the bar and the social media. He makes every show exciting and makes every artist, regardless of who they are, feel like a bonafide rock star. This is a man who gets things done.</span></div>
351. <div>
352. <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
353. <div>
354. <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So it is a great honor and privilege to be asked to be a part of the inaugural Eatonic Music Festival. Three days of great music divided into three categories; blues, rock and bluegrass. It'll feature everyone from talented area cats, to guys like me, to the legendary Buddy Guy! Tickets are $80 to $150 for the weekend (tho' many of the VIP packages have sold out already) and day tickets can be had for $30 to $40 dollars.</span></div>
355. <div>
356. <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
357. <div>
358. <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's gonna be a great event, put on by a great guy. And hey! You get to see me too! So I hope you can make it if you can.</span></div>
359. <div>
360. <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
361. <div>
362. <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">again...</span></div>
363. <div>
364. <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
365. <div>
366. <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Labor day Weekend</span></div>
367. <div>
368. <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Eatonic Music Festival</b></span></div>
369. <div>
370. <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eaton, Ohio</span></div>
371. <div>
372. <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many bands over three days of music</span></div>
373. <div>
374. <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Friday: Blues</span></div>
375. <div>
376. <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Saturday: RAAWK!</span></div>
377. <div>
378. <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sunday: Bluegrass (I'm on Sunday)</span></div>
379. <div>
380. <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tickets are $80 to $150 for the whole weekend, one day tickets are also available.</span></div>
381. <div>
382. <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://<a href="http://www.eatonicmusicfestival.com/">www.eatonicmusicfestival.com</a></span></div>
383. <div>
384. <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
385. <div>
386. <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">c-ya out there.</span></div>
387. <div>
388. <br /></div>
389. </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://jerpoint.blogspot.com/feeds/8432984798020896090/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/6792039/8432984798020896090' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6792039/posts/default/8432984798020896090'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6792039/posts/default/8432984798020896090'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://jerpoint.blogspot.com/2015/09/eatonic-festival-in-eaton-ohio-this.html' title='Eatonic Festival in Eaton, Ohio this week. GO!'/><author><name>Butch Ross</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08015294745794017407</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='18' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin2vDykEiSpZyeqOB1MqGjIKAczZlw2S0W0SiCunIJe5_zUHZC6woe6N--BuGNBC0ksELlT0nyOZbCyCTh2TRU7Wzh-1TRUetNtNgN0wal0qq7p5Tv55tRzWnJgHgEqQ/s220/DSC07979_4web.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6792039.post-5317478283370269581</id><published>2015-08-19T07:20:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2015-08-21T11:20:35.159-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Chattanooga: Opening for Kishi Bashi at Nightfall and playing for the first time with a band.</title><content type='html'>&lt;pre&gt;Friday Night, Aug., 21 - 7pm
390. <a href="http://www.nightfallchattanooga.com/" target="_blank">Nightfall Concert Series</a>
391. 850 Market Street
392. Chattanooga, TN 37402
393. Opening for <a href="http://www.kishibashi.com/" target="_blank">Kishi Bashi</a> </pre>
394. <pre> </pre>
395. <pre>Same night - 10pm
396. Echoes of Nightfall Series
397. <a href="http://granfallooncha.com/" target="_blank">Granfalloon</a>
398. 400 E Main St
399. Ste 120
400. Chattanooga, TN 37408
401.  
402. Playing with a full band.
403.  
404. Both of these shows are free.
405.  
406. Upcoming: Labor day Weekend
407.  
408. <a href="http://www.eatonicmusicfestival.com/" target="_blank">Eatonic Music Festival</a>
409. Eaton, Ohio
410. Many bands over three days of music</pre>
411. <pre><ul>
412. <li>Friday: Blues </li>
413. <li>Saturday: RAAWK! </li>
414. <li>Sunday: Bluegrass (I'm on Sunday)
415.  
416. </li>
417. </ul>
418. </pre>
419. <pre>Tickets are $80 to $150 for the whole weekend, one day tickets are also
420. available.
421.  
422. I think my favorite band, <a href="http://www.radiohead.com/" target="_blank">Radiohead</a>, is working on a new album, I think so
423. because they've "gone quiet." Few instagram posts, nothing new on their web
424. page's blog, etc. which usually means that they're locked in a studio
425. creating and recording music.
426.  
427. or maybe they've just retired.
428.  
429. I say all that to say that I realize that I've "gone quiet" too. Although
430. you  haven't heard from me since my tour with my old roommate, I've been
431. insanely busy with all sorts of things. Last week my band and I opened the
432. Nightfall Music Series and debuted 6 new songs (which is insane, if you
433. think about it). And this week I’ll be performing at the same concert
434. series as a solo act. I’ll be opening for an artist named Kishi Bashi, and
435. he does a lot of stuff with loops, so will I. Of course, he won’t be
436. playing any Classic Rock or old time tunes, and even if he does, he won’t
437. be doing them at the same time, like me.
438.  
439. After that tho’ I’ll head across town to Granfalloon—a new, spacious coffee
440. shop on the southside of Chattanooga—to play a bunch of songs with a full
441. band. I’ll be joined by Hunter White on drums; Ron Eller on bass; and
442. Stephen Brehm on Acoustic and Electric guitars. I’ve played with all these
443. guys before in one capacity or another, and I’m excited for what they bring
444. to the music. Moreover, having a band with a full rhythm section for the
445. first time will let me finally reproduce tunes from my previous projects
446. properly. So you can expect hear deep cuts and rarities, as well as the
447. hits, and at least one Radiohead song.
448.  
449. C-ya out there.
450. </pre>
451. </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://jerpoint.blogspot.com/feeds/5317478283370269581/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/6792039/5317478283370269581' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6792039/posts/default/5317478283370269581'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6792039/posts/default/5317478283370269581'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://jerpoint.blogspot.com/2015/08/chattanooga-opening-for-kishi-bashi-at.html' title='Chattanooga: Opening for Kishi Bashi at Nightfall and playing for the first time with a band.'/><author><name>Butch Ross</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08015294745794017407</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='18' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin2vDykEiSpZyeqOB1MqGjIKAczZlw2S0W0SiCunIJe5_zUHZC6woe6N--BuGNBC0ksELlT0nyOZbCyCTh2TRU7Wzh-1TRUetNtNgN0wal0qq7p5Tv55tRzWnJgHgEqQ/s220/DSC07979_4web.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6792039.post-605383681963123607</id><published>2015-07-07T02:00:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2015-08-21T11:14:02.018-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Chatt shows this weekend then the &quot;Peter and Paul&quot; tour with Adam Brodsky</title><content type='html'>&lt;pre&gt;Friday, July 10th, 2015
452. 10pm Chattanooga, TN
453. Tremont Tavern
454. Ryan Oyer Nightfall After Party
455. (Ryan Oyer's attendance neither anticipated nor expected)
456.  
457. Saturday, July 11th, 2015
458. 12pm, Chatsworth, GA
459. Chatsworth Depot
460. Dulcimer Workshop: Civil War Tunes
461.  
462. Saturday, July 11th, 2015
463. 2pm, Chatsworth, GA
464. Chatsworth Depot
465. Dulcimer Concert
466.  
467. Saturday, July 11th, 2015
468. 7pm, Chattanooga, TN
469. Art of the Singer/Songwriter Alumni Showcase
470. Graduates of our workshop series show their stuff.
471.  
472. Sunday, Jul 12, 2015
473. 8:00 PM Worthington, OH
474. Natalie's Coal Fired Pizza
475. co-bill with Heather Pierson
476.  
477. The Peter and Paul Tour
478. ----------------------------------------------------
479.  
480. Monday, Jul 13, 2015
481. 8:00 PM Bloomington, IN
482. The Players Pub
483. Songwriter Showcase w/Adam Brodsky and others.
484.  
485. Tuesday, Jul 14, 2015
486. 8:00 PM Louisvile, KY
487. Clifton's Pizza Company
488. with Danny Flanigan and Adam Brodsky
489.  
490. Wednesday, Jul 15, 2015
491. 8:00 PM Eaton, OH
492. Taffy's of Eaton
493. w/Adam Brodsky
494.  
495. Friday, July 17th, 2015
496. Rose Bowl Tavern
497. Champaign, Il
498. w/Adam Brodsky
499.  
500. *Tremont After Party*
501. Not actually an after-party, but since Ryan is headlining Nightfall (he won
502. the road to nightfall competition) and I produced his most recent album,
503. I'm totally glomming onto his much-deserved success.
504.  
505. *Art of the Singer/Songwriter Alumni Showcase*
506. Over the last year or so, Trish Wileman and I have been shaping fledgling
507. songwriters in our "Art of the Singer/Songwriter" workshops. These have
508. ranged from true professionals who just need a little brushing up to people
509. who have never written a song before. It is our great privilege to show off
510. the sometimes hidden talent that this  town has.
511.  
512. In the late 90's to the mid-2000's I lived in Philadelphia with another
513. folk singer named Adam Brodsky. While not necessarily soul mates we were
514. kindred spirits who learned the art of the Singer/Songwriter together. Yet,
515. despite working the same circuit for nearly a decade we never toured
516. together. Well, now we are. Not in the Northeast dive bars, coffee shops
517. and listening rooms where we cut our teeth, learned our craft, and
518. eventually built a following. But in the midwest, where none of those
519. things happened ever.
520.  
521. Adam is a true iconoclast; fearless and one of a kind, and anything I
522. learned about holding an audience I learned from him. He's brash, fearless
523. and irreverent to anything you (or he) holds sacred. But he's also
524. charming, thoughtful, wise, and funny as hell. Adam Brodsky is one of the
525. most natural entertainers I've ever met. Period. He writes amazing songs
526. and holds a Guinness World Record (50 shows, 50 states in 50 days).
527.  
528. It's weird we never toured together before, but considering we spent 8
529. years in a crappy South Philly apartment trying to make each other laugh,
530. these are gonna be shows you don't want to miss.
531.  
532. P.S. That dark Thursday makes my OCD go off the charts, so if there's
533. anyone out there who wants to put together a house concert in Indiana,
534. Southeastern Illinois or Ohio, please get in touch with us.
535.  
536. Those shows again…
537.  
538.  
539. Friday, July 10th, 2015
540. 10pm Chattanooga, TN
541. Tremont Tavern
542. Ryan Oyer Nightfall After Party
543. (Ryan Oyer's attendance neither anticipated nor expected)
544.  
545. Saturday, July 11th, 2015
546. 12pm, Chatsworth, GA
547. Chatsworth Depot
548. Dulcimer Workshop: Civil War Tunes
549.  
550. Saturday, July 11th, 2015
551. 2pm, Chatsworth, GA
552. Chatsworth Depot
553. Dulcimer Concert
554.  
555. Saturday, July 11th, 2015
556. 7pm, Chattanooga, TN
557. Art of the Singer/Songwriter Alumni Showcase
558. Graduates of our workshop series show their stuff.
559.  
560. Sunday, Jul 12, 2015
561. 8:00 PM Worthington, OH
562. Natalie's Coal Fired Pizza
563. co-bill with Heather Pierson
564.  
565. The Peter and Paul Tour
566. ----------------------------------------------------
567.  
568. Monday, Jul 13, 2015
569. 8:00 PM Bloomington, IN
570. The Players Pub
571. Songwriter Showcase w/Adam Brodsky and others.
572.  
573. Tuesday, Jul 14, 2015
574. 8:00 PM Louisvile, KY
575. Clifton's Pizza Company
576. with Danny Flanigan and Adam Brodsky
577.  
578. Wednesday, Jul 15, 2015
579. 8:00 PM Eaton, OH
580. Taffy's of Eaton
581. w/Adam Brodsky
582.  
583. Friday, July 17th, 2015
584. Rose Bowl Tavern
585. Champaign, Il
586. w/Adam Brodsky
587.  
588. C-ya Out There
589.  
590. --Br
591. www.butchross.com
592. </pre>
593. </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://jerpoint.blogspot.com/feeds/605383681963123607/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/6792039/605383681963123607' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6792039/posts/default/605383681963123607'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6792039/posts/default/605383681963123607'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://jerpoint.blogspot.com/2015/07/chatt-shows-this-weekend-then-peter-and.html' title='Chatt shows this weekend then the &quot;Peter and Paul&quot; tour with Adam Brodsky'/><author><name>Butch Ross</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08015294745794017407</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='18' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin2vDykEiSpZyeqOB1MqGjIKAczZlw2S0W0SiCunIJe5_zUHZC6woe6N--BuGNBC0ksELlT0nyOZbCyCTh2TRU7Wzh-1TRUetNtNgN0wal0qq7p5Tv55tRzWnJgHgEqQ/s220/DSC07979_4web.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6792039.post-7618859699992635922</id><published>2015-06-17T11:11:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2015-08-21T11:12:41.042-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The Moonshiner&#39;s Atlas turns ten</title><content type='html'>&lt;pre&gt;Hard to believe, but it’s been ten years since those cartons of CDs showed
594. up at my door in Bowling Green, KY. “The Moonshiner’s Atlas”, my first
595. all-dulcimer CD. Recorded literally across the globe in New Jersey,
596. Killarney, Ireland and Port Townsend, Washington and produced by the great
597. Robert Force.
598.  
599. I wanted to call the CD “Jerpoint Epiphany.” I don’t why, but that phrase
600. had come to me out of nowhere and had stuck with me for days. I couldn’t
601. tell you then what it meant, but one of few things I’ve actually learned in
602. this life is to trust my instincts.
603.  
604. Robert wanted to call the CD “I Like Singing Folk Songs” after the country
605. music marketing technique of naming the album after the first single, and
606. making that song the first song on the album. He was right of course, but I
607. thought of an album then, as I do now, as a set of ideas, like a novel or a
608. collection of short stories, if you will. Plus, I was then hung up on the
609. idea of my album tiles being vaguely literary in nature (for example, my
610. singer/songwriter record was called “Selected Works of Friction.”) So,
611. armed with that idea, and the thought that the songs called “Moonshiner”
612. and “Atlas” were the two likely to get any airplay (in so much as any
613. folkie gets any airplay anywhere) “The Moonshiner’s Atlas” was born.
614.  
615. And “Jerpoint Epiphany” became the title of an instrumental (my first by
616. the way) on “The Moonshiner’s Atlas.” Written in the Newark airport and so
617. named after my friends Jimmy and Maggie told me that the original title
618. “The People Mover Is Not a Ride” was dumb. They, too, were right.
619.  
620. I was never sure what the phrase “Jerpoint Epiphany” actually meant, and
621. I’m still not. However,  working on touching up this record for its reissue
622. brought up an old memory, one I’d completely forgotten about until now…
623.  
624. I was playing and staying at a Camphill Community called Jerpoint. Camphill
625. Communities are organic farms basically run by mentally disabled people.
626. It’s too long to go into what they do here, but it’s worth researching.
627. Camphill International is an awesome organization. They occasionally have
628. musicians perform in their communities and I’ve been lucky enough to be
629. among those who are invited to play.
630.  
631. Camphill Communities are based in part on the philosophies of Rudolf
632. Steiner, who is probably best known for his influence on the Waldorf
633. Education System. This influence can also be found in the architecture -
634. with its emphasis on natural elements and buildings made of wood, tile,
635. glass and stone. It was here that I found this tile-lined sun porch, maybe
636. 6x10, just off of the main house. It was a beautiful room with a resonance
637. that suited my instrument and my voice perfectly. Enamored with the space,
638. I propped myself up in a chair and sang my heart out. I sang every song I
639. could think of that I could play on dulcimer for what seemed like hours.
640.  
641. But unbenounced to me, Robert had been out for walk in the countryside. As
642. he was returning to the house, he heard me singing, and sat himself behind
643. a bush to listen. Now, Bob is an absolute genius when it comes to seizing
644. the moment; seriously, i’ve never met anyone better. I wasn’t auditioning
645. for the guy, and he probably wasn’t thinking seriously about working with
646. me at that point either. But here was an opportunity to hear someone
647. singing for themselves, unfettered and just for the sheer joy of it. We all
648. know it happens but how often do we ever see or hear it? Rarely, if ever,
649. would be my guess. He must’ve liked what he heard, ‘cuz later that night at
650. the pub (this is Ireland after all) he told me that if I wanted to record
651. an all-dulcimer record, he’d produce it and put it out on his Blaine Street
652. record label. And the rest--as they say--is history. History that you can
653. hear.
654.  
655. So in honor of its tenth anniversary, I’ve made a limited run release of
656. the “The Moonshiner’s Atlas”. The album is remastered and features the
657. original artwork from back when I was going to call it “Jerpoint Epiphany.”
658. There will also be links to downloads of the lyrics, demo versions and
659. alternate takes. There’s only 100 of these being made (in digipacks) and
660. once they’re gone I’ll go back to the original brown artwork in sleeves.
661. There’s also a tab and a songbook for it as well. We’ll see if my printer
662. can have them up in time for KMW. But if not, they’ll be on the website
663. soon and I’ll let you know here as well.
664.  
665. KMW starts next week and it’s gonna be a great one. Not only is this one of
666. my favorite festivals to play, the lineup (as usual) includes some of my
667. absolute favorite people on the planet, and some new faves as well. There’s
668. still time to sign up if you haven’t, but one way or the other I hope to
669. see somewhere soon.
670.  
671. C-ya out there.
672.  
673. --Br
674. www.butchross.com</pre>
675. </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://jerpoint.blogspot.com/feeds/7618859699992635922/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/6792039/7618859699992635922' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6792039/posts/default/7618859699992635922'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6792039/posts/default/7618859699992635922'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://jerpoint.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-moonshiners-atlas-turns-ten.html' title='The Moonshiner&#39;s Atlas turns ten'/><author><name>Butch Ross</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08015294745794017407</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='18' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin2vDykEiSpZyeqOB1MqGjIKAczZlw2S0W0SiCunIJe5_zUHZC6woe6N--BuGNBC0ksELlT0nyOZbCyCTh2TRU7Wzh-1TRUetNtNgN0wal0qq7p5Tv55tRzWnJgHgEqQ/s220/DSC07979_4web.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6792039.post-8531867828641187165</id><published>2015-05-25T23:01:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2015-05-25T23:03:33.424-04:00</updated><title type='text'>California Here I Come! Plus Beatle Uke Book News</title><content type='html'>Friday, May 29, 2015 - 7:00 PM&lt;br /&gt;
676. <b>Berkeley Dulcimer Gathering -- Dulcimer Concert</b><br />
677. Freight and Salvage<br />
678. 2020 Addison Street<br />
679. Berkeley, California<br />
680. Phone 510-644-2020<br />
681. <a href="http://www.thefreight.org/berkeley-dulcimer-gathering-dj-hamouris">http://www.thefreight.org/berkeley-dulcimer-gathering-dj-hamouris</a><br />
682. <br />
683. May 30, 2015 - 9:00 AM<br />
684. <b>Berkeley Dulcimer Gathering -- Workshops</b><br />
685. Freight and Salvage<br />
686. 2020 Addison Street<br />
687. Berkeley, California<br />
688. <a href="http://www.thefreight.org/berkeley-dulcimer-gathering-dj-hamouris">http://www.thefreight.org/berkeley-dulcimer-gathering-dj-hamouris</a><br />
689. <br />
690. May 31, 2015 - 4:00 PM<br />
691. <b>Workshop and Ukulele Concert</b><br />
692. <b>The Strum Shop</b><br />
693. 408 Roseville Square<br />
694. Roseville (Sacramento), CA<br />
695. $20 per person admission to concert is free (if you attend workshop)<br />
696. <a href="http://thestrumshop.com/calendar">http://thestrumshop.com/calendar </a><br />
697. <br />
698. Yeah,
699. I'm sure I'm the 50,000th dude to title a blog with that
700. phrase. Thing is, everyone who's ever said that thinks that they're
701. being clever.<br />
702. <br />
703. Anyway, this week I'm off for the first time to the Berkeley Dulcimer Gathering in über-liberal<br />
704. (And über inventing) Berkeley, California (no word yet on whether or not I'll need a passport to get into it).<br />
705. <br />
706. All
707. joking aside, I'm super looking forward to seeing old friends whom I
708. haven't seen in forever, as well as making of new ones. The last time I
709. was in the Bay area, I wasn't yet a dulcimer player. I played a terrible
710. gig at a place called "brainwash"  'cuz it was a Monday and free
711. laundry was part of the contract. (It really was/is a great place, just
712. not on the night I was there). This time I'll be at the Freight and
713. Salvage, a venerable venue and a bucket list destination for any
714. erstwhile folkie. No kidding, this one goes on the resume. <br />
715. <br />
716. Then
717. on Sunday, I'll be in Sacramento (or very close to it) teaching a Uke
718. Workshop and playing some tunes afterwards. Which brings me to my next
719. thing…<br />
720. <br />
721. <br />
722. BEATLES UKE BOOK INFO<br />
723. <br />
724. For those of you who have
725. been patiently waiting (some since OVG) for the CD that comes with the
726. Beatles Uke book, I have good news. It's DONE! If you've ordered it and
727. gave me your address, it's in an envelope and on it's way to you. It
728. won't be on my website 'til I get back from Cali, but it should be
729. available online at prussiavalley.com or Folkcraft.com the next week or
730. so.<br />
731. <br />
732. Some of you have written thinking that the CD is actually a
733. DVD. I'm sorry if I wasn't clear about that. BUT all those videos of me
734. playing the songs will be available on YouTube, for free, in the next
735. few days. The easiest way to get on board with that is to go to my
736. Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ButchRoss and subscribe. If
737. you don't want to that (Hey, I get it, I’m on more lists than I want to
738. be too), you can always just remember the URL and check back in a few
739. days.<br />
740. <br />
741. Anyway, that's the news for now. Amazing things have been
742. happening both in front of and behind the scenes and will continue to.
743. Hope you can be a part of it.<br />
744. <br />
745. C-ya out there.<br />
746. <br />
747. -Br<br />
748. www.butchross.com<br />
749. <br />
750. Those shows again…<br />
751. Friday, May 29, 2015 - 7:00 PM<br />
752. <b>Berkeley Dulcimer Gathering -- Dulcimer Concert</b><br />
753. Freight and Salvage<br />
754. 2020 Addison Street<br />
755. Berkeley, California<br />
756. Phone 510-644-2020<br />
757. <a href="http://www.thefreight.org/berkeley-dulcimer-gathering-dj-hamouris">http://www.thefreight.org/berkeley-dulcimer-gathering-dj-hamouris</a><br />
758. <br />
759. May 30, 2015 - 9:00 AM<br />
760. <b>Berkeley Dulcimer Gathering -- Workshops</b><br />
761. Freight and Salvage<br />
762. 2020 Addison Street<br />
763. Berkeley, California<br />
764. <a href="http://www.thefreight.org/berkeley-dulcimer-gathering-dj-hamouris">http://www.thefreight.org/berkeley-dulcimer-gathering-dj-hamouris</a><br />
765. <br />
766. May 31, 2015 - 4:00 PM<br />
767. <b>Workshop and Ukulele Concert</b><br />
768. <b>The Strum Shop</b><br />
769. 408 Roseville Square<br />
770. Roseville (Sacramento), CA<br />
771. $20 per person admission to concert is free (if you attend workshop)<br />
772. &lt;a href=&quot;http://thestrumshop.com/calendar&quot;&gt;http://thestrumshop.com/calendar &lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://jerpoint.blogspot.com/feeds/8531867828641187165/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/6792039/8531867828641187165' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6792039/posts/default/8531867828641187165'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6792039/posts/default/8531867828641187165'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://jerpoint.blogspot.com/2015/05/california-here-i-come-plus-beatle-uke.html' title='California Here I Come! Plus Beatle Uke Book News'/><author><name>Butch Ross</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08015294745794017407</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='18' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin2vDykEiSpZyeqOB1MqGjIKAczZlw2S0W0SiCunIJe5_zUHZC6woe6N--BuGNBC0ksELlT0nyOZbCyCTh2TRU7Wzh-1TRUetNtNgN0wal0qq7p5Tv55tRzWnJgHgEqQ/s220/DSC07979_4web.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6792039.post-4041924743809978569</id><published>2015-05-21T22:12:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2015-05-25T22:13:03.227-04:00</updated><title type='text'>New Videos! Shows all over Chatt&#39; this weekend plus BERKLEY DULCIMER GATHERING! in California</title><content type='html'>&lt;pre&gt;Upcoming Shows:
773.  
774. May 23, 2015
775. 8:00 PM
776. Charles & Myrtle's Coffeehouse,
777. 105 McBrien Rd
778. Chattanooga, TN
779. $10 suggested donation
780. <a href="http://www.christunity.org/events.05.15.html">http://www.christunity.org/events.05.15.html</a>
781.  
782. Sunday, May 24, 2015
783. 1:30 PM
784. Brunch at The Flying Squirrel
785. The Flying Squirrel
786. 55 Johnson St.
787. Chattanooga, TN
788. Free (eat something)
789. www.flyingsquirrelbar.com/
790.  
791. Sunday, May 24, 2015 -- 5pm
792. Amber Fults and the Ambivalent Lovers
793. @ Roots Fest
794. Cherokee Farms,
795. Old Mineral Springs Road, Lafayette, GA
796. 3 Day Ticket - $50.00 2 Day Ticket - $40.00 1 Day Ticket - $25.00
797. <a href="http://www.roots-fest.com/">http://www.roots-fest.com/</a>
798.  
799. Friday, May 29, 2015 - 7:00 PM
800. Berkeley Dulcimer Gathering -- Dulcimer Concert
801. Freight and Salvage
802. 2020 Addison Street
803. Berkeley, California
804. Phone 510-644-2020
805. <a href="http://www.thefreight.org/berkeley-dulcimer-gathering-dj-hamouris">http://www.thefreight.org/berkeley-dulcimer-gathering-dj-hamouris</a>
806.  
807. May 30, 2015 - 9:00 AM
808. Berkeley Dulcimer Gathering -- Workshops
809. Freight and Salvage
810. 2020 Addison Street
811. Berkeley, California
812. <a href="http://www.thefreight.org/berkeley-dulcimer-gathering-dj-hamouris">http://www.thefreight.org/berkeley-dulcimer-gathering-dj-hamouris</a>
813.  
814. May 31, 2015 - 4:00 PM
815. Workshop and Ukulele Concert
816. The Strum Shop
817. 408 Roseville Square
818. Roseville (Sacramento), CA
819. $20 per person admission to concert is free (if you attend workshop)
820. <a href="http://thestrumshop.com/calendar">http://thestrumshop.com/calendar</a>
821.  
822. This weekend finds me all over Chattanooga…
823.  
824. Tomorrow night I’ll be a Charles and Myrtles, a great but almost completely
825. unknown venue here in town. Three weeks ago, John McCutcheon played to
826. about 12 people here. It’s that kind of intimate. It draws that kind of
827. talent.
828.  
829. I knew about Charles and Myrtles before I knew about Rock City. Needless to
830. say, I’m pretty psyched to play here. Being such an intimate venue, I’m
831. considering doing something special here. Whether it’s a set of my favorite
832. songwriters or maybe my first (non-dulcimer) album in it’s entirety, I’m
833. not sure. But something...
834.  
835. Then I’ll be making ambient brunch-y sounds at the Flying Squirrel. Which
836. despite being way too trendy for my tastes, has great food and makes the
837. second-best Bloody Mary in town. Then I will get immediately in the car and
838. drive down to Cherokee Farms in Lafayette, GA to play roots fest with Amber
839. Fults and the Ambivalent Lovers. Looking forward to this one, we have 3
840. maybe 4 new songs in the set, including one we just worked up this week.
841.  
842. Then next week, I’m on a plane and one my way to California for the
843. Berkeley Dulcimer Gathering. I'll talk more about it early next week, but i
844. wanted you to know that today is the last day for the early-bird discount.
845. It’s been a long, long time since I’ve been to that part of the world and
846. I’m really looking forward to being back there again.
847.  
848. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
849.  
850. So, a couple of weeks ago I get a phone call from my songwriter and
851. videographer friend Tim. “I’m going on tour in Canada, wanna come with?” he
852. says.
853.  
854. “Sure!” I said.
855.  
856. “Great!” He replied. “Pick me up in the Minneapolis Airport in four days.”
857.  
858. Okay, that’s the abbreviated version of that story. But it IS true that I
859. found myself preparing for a tour of the midwest with about five days
860. notice.
861.  
862. Why? Because I’ve learned you say “Yes” to everything.
863.  
864. We were detained at the Canadian border for nearly three hours, and later I
865. learned during the LAST sale I made that Canadians are used to paying $20
866. for a CD, and I’d been selling them for ten. But other than that, I had an
867. amazing time. Met wonderful people, including Winnipeg music Rick Martin,
868. one of the sweetest and most truly humble people I’ve ever met. Tim called
869. him his mentor, and I can see why. I also met 16-year-old singer Gabriel
870. Fiddler (who needs to get to Toronto so someone can make him a star).
871.  
872. Here’s a little video Tim made of our trip:
873. www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8DEeI0wC5A
874.  
875. After that we drove to Minneapolis where we did two house concerts and a
876. workshop. Tim’s girlfriend and musical partner Faye Petree joined us and we
877. jammed on a nice version of “Hunting the Buffalo.” You can watch that here:
878. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M49zrvo6MeE
879.  
880. It’s now my favorite version of my favorite old-time tune.
881.  
882. C-ya out there.
883.  
884. --Br
885. www.butchross.com
886.  
887. "Now I know what a dulcimer is supposed to sound like" —Jake Shimabukuro
888.  
889. Those shows again...
890.  
891. May 23, 2015
892. 8:00 PM
893. Charles & Myrtle's Coffeehouse,
894. 105 McBrien Rd
895. Chattanooga, TN
896. $10 suggested donation
897. <a href="http://www.christunity.org/events.05.15.html">http://www.christunity.org/events.05.15.html</a>
898.  
899. Sunday, May 24, 2015
900. 1:30 PM
901. Brunch at The Flying Squirrel
902. The Flying Squirrel
903. 55 Johnson St.
904. Chattanooga, TN
905. Free (eat something)
906. www.flyingsquirrelbar.com/
907.  
908. Sunday, May 24, 2015 -- 5pm
909. Amber Fults and the Ambivalent Lovers
910. @ Roots Fest
911. Cherokee Farms,
912. Old Mineral Springs Road, Lafayette, GA
913. 3 Day Ticket - $50.00 2 Day Ticket - $40.00 1 Day Ticket - $25.00
914. <a href="http://www.roots-fest.com/">http://www.roots-fest.com/</a>
915.  
916. Friday, May 29, 2015 - 7:00 PM
917. Berkeley Dulcimer Gathering -- Dulcimer Concert
918. Freight and Salvage
919. 2020 Addison Street
920. Berkeley, California
921. Phone 510-644-2020
922. <a href="http://www.thefreight.org/berkeley-dulcimer-gathering-dj-hamouris">http://www.thefreight.org/berkeley-dulcimer-gathering-dj-hamouris</a>
923.  
924. May 30, 2015 - 9:00 AM
925. Berkeley Dulcimer Gathering -- Workshops
926. Freight and Salvage
927. 2020 Addison Street
928. Berkeley, California
929. <a href="http://www.thefreight.org/berkeley-dulcimer-gathering-dj-hamouris">http://www.thefreight.org/berkeley-dulcimer-gathering-dj-hamouris</a>
930.  
931. May 31, 2015 - 4:00 PM
932. Workshop and Ukulele Concert
933. The Strum Shop
934. 408 Roseville Square
935. Roseville (Sacramento), CA
936. $20 per person admission to concert is free (if you attend workshop)
937. <a href="http://thestrumshop.com/calendar">http://thestrumshop.com/calendar</a>
938. </pre>
939. </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://jerpoint.blogspot.com/feeds/4041924743809978569/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/6792039/4041924743809978569' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6792039/posts/default/4041924743809978569'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6792039/posts/default/4041924743809978569'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://jerpoint.blogspot.com/2015/05/new-videos-shows-all-over-chatt-this.html' title='New Videos! Shows all over Chatt&#39; this weekend plus BERKLEY DULCIMER GATHERING! in California'/><author><name>Butch Ross</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08015294745794017407</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='18' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin2vDykEiSpZyeqOB1MqGjIKAczZlw2S0W0SiCunIJe5_zUHZC6woe6N--BuGNBC0ksELlT0nyOZbCyCTh2TRU7Wzh-1TRUetNtNgN0wal0qq7p5Tv55tRzWnJgHgEqQ/s220/DSC07979_4web.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6792039.post-7857172782186516812</id><published>2015-03-18T22:10:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2015-05-25T22:11:03.536-04:00</updated><title type='text'> This Weekend in VA and Chatt! Plus Chattanooga Dulcimer Festival and a new Beatles for Uke book.</title><content type='html'>&lt;pre&gt;This weekend! Saturday, March 21st -- all day
940. Gathering of Sweet Folk Instruments
941. Mountain Empire Community College
942. Phillips-Taylor Hall
943. 3441 Mountain Empire Road
944. Big Stone Gap, Virginia, 24219
945. Phone 276-523-2400
946. 9am - 9pm
947. $25 per workshop plus $10 for lunch.
948. <a href="http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=dqjx5dkab&oeidk=a07eafs3ocsde3e50fe">http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=dqjx5dkab&oeidk=a07eafs3ocsde3e50fe</a>
949.  
950. Sunday, March 22nd
951. Days of Wine and Ukulele Club
952. Song Workshop: Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World"
953. $5 suggested donation.
954. Contact Trish to RSVP: (941) 330-5547
955. <a href="https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/butchross">tfwileman at gmail.com</a>
956.  
957. Friday, March 27 - Saturday March 28th
958. Chattanooga Dulcimer Fest
959. Featuring: Dan Landrum, Lisa Ferguson, Katie Moritz, Steve Seifert, Aaron
960. O'Rourke and myself.
961. Sign up soon, REGISTRATION IS ALMOST FULL!
962. Signal Mountain Arts Center.
963. 809 Kentucky Ave, Signal Mountain, TN 37377
964. Price: $50 - $100 depending
965.  
966. I had a great time at the Ohio Valley Gathering last week. And if you were
967. there, I hope you had a great time too.
968.  
969. To me the Ohio Valley Gathering is the official kickoff of the Festival
970. Season*, and this year more than ever. I'm already jumping into two great
971. festivals before the month is even out.
972.  
973. The Mountain Empire Community College has been a regular Johnny Appleseed
974. for the dulcimer, and this year they're adding intermediate and advanced
975. dulcimers to their "Gathering of Sweet Folk" event on Saturday. I'll be
976. teaching there this summer as part of a week-long event as well.
977.  
978. Then next weekend the Chattanooga Dulcimer Festival is back! Dan and Angie
979. have designed this year's festival to be a small and focused affair, with a
980. limited registration that is nearly sold out. But still, despite the small
981. class sizes, the festival features Steve Seifert, Aaron O'Rourke and
982. myself. Even if I wasn't on the bill, I'd have to think about going!
983.  
984. I also always use OVG as an excuse to get off my butt and make some new
985. product. I've debuted pretty much all my books, as well as my last 2 CDs
986. there. This year was no exception; I released a new book of Beatles songs
987. for the Ukulele. This two sections: A simple strum and sing version of the
988. songs, as well as comprehensive finger style arrangements for the Ukulele.
989. That makes this book perfect for Uke players of any level. I'll have it
990. available for sale on my web site soon, so what this space!
991.  
992. Okay that's all for now, more stuff coming. Hope you all have survived the
993. winter and I hope to see you soon.
994.  
995. C-ya out there.
996.  
997. -Br
998.  
999. This weekend! Saturday, March 21st -- all day
1000. Gathering of Sweet Folk Instruments
1001. Mountain Empire Community College
1002. Phillips-Taylor Hall
1003. 3441 Mountain Empire Road
1004. Big Stone Gap, Virginia, 24219
1005. Phone 276-523-2400
1006. 9am - 9pm
1007. $25 per workshop plus $10 for lunch.
1008. <a href="http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=dqjx5dkab&oeidk=a07eafs3ocsde3e50fe">http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=dqjx5dkab&oeidk=a07eafs3ocsde3e50fe</a>
1009.  
1010. Sunday, March 22nd
1011. Days of Wine and Ukulele Club
1012. Song Workshop: Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World"
1013. $5 suggested donation.
1014. Contact Trish to RSVP: (941) 330-5547
1015. <a href="https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/butchross">tfwileman at gmail.com</a>
1016.  
1017. Friday, March 27 - Saturday March 28th
1018. Chattanooga Dulcimer Fest
1019. Featuring: Dan Landrum, Lisa Ferguson, Katie Moritz, Steve Seifert, Aaron
1020. O'Rourke and myself.
1021. Sign up soon, REGISTRATION IS ALMOST FULL!
1022. Signal Mountain Arts Center.
1023. 809 Kentucky Ave, Signal Mountain, TN 37377
1024. Price: $50 - $100 depending
1025.  
1026. *I just learned yesterday that for Ohioans, it's the Buckeye Festival that
1027. starts the season.</pre>
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1029. Woodsongs Dalton Concert Series
1030. 2015 kick-off show
1031. Becky Buller with Butch Ross
1032. Stage 123
1033. 123 W Gordon St, Dalton, Georgia 30720
1034. <a href="http://woodsongsdalton.com/">http://woodsongsdalton.com/</a>
1035. I don't know if her name is pronounced "Bull-er" or "Beuller" but I
1036. think you can guess which one I'm gonna default to. Proceeds from this
1037. show benefit Providence House Ministries.
1038.  
1039. February 27-28
1040. Chattanooga UKE weekend
1041. Mountain Arts Community Center (MACC)
1042. 809 Kentucky Ave, Signal Mountain, Tennessee 37377
1043. Friday Night Jam. Saturday Lessons with me and Jamming
1044. Saturday Evening a House Concert featuring me and Ken Hicks
1045. $60 for the day plus $5 for lunch
1046.  
1047. I'm a little early, but "Happy February"
1048.  
1049. First off, THANK YOU to everyone who came out all the shows and
1050. workshops down in Florida. I had a great time, and by looks of it, you
1051. did too. I'll be back in April, let me now if you want me to come to
1052. your club!
1053.  
1054. Just a couple of shows in this the longest/shortest month while I
1055. continue to lay the groundwork for world domination. But the events
1056. great ones. The Woodsongs Concert series is one I've been hoping to
1057. get into since before I got into the nationally televised Woodsongs,
1058. and Becky Buller looks to be fantastic.
1059.  
1060. And, I'm doing--for the first time--a Ukulele Weekend here in
1061. Chattanooga. It'll be a two day affair with lots of jamming and
1062. classes, and ending up with a house concert starring your truly. We're
1063. structuring it so you can come for the day or the weekend, whatever
1064. you wish. If you'd like to know more please contact Trish Wileman  at
1065. 941-330-5547 or by email at <a href="https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/butchross">tfwileman at gmail.com.</a>
1066.  
1067. That's all for now. I was reading over some older emails to you all,
1068. and I realized that I used to write a lot more. Stories, tales from
1069. the road. Some of it was complete jibberish, but some of it not so
1070. bad. Grad school, I think pretty much stomped the love of writing out
1071. of me, and Facebook allows me to tell tiny stories with out having to
1072. be clear or indeed any good at it. But I think my New Year's
1073. resolution (insomuch as I ever bother to have those) is to make this
1074. email list something more than dates and times, if only a little bit
1075. more. Of course I'll keep those dates and time right up from, so you
1076. can skip the later blather if you're in a hurry.
1077.  
1078. That's all for now, hope to see you at one of these gigs.
1079.  
1080. Those shows again...
1081.  
1082. Saturday, Jan. 31st - 7pm $15
1083. Woodsongs Dalton Concert Series
1084. 2015 kick-off show
1085. Becky Buller with Butch Ross
1086. Stage 123
1087. 123 W Gordon St, Dalton, Georgia 30720
1088. <a href="http://woodsongsdalton.com/">http://woodsongsdalton.com/</a>
1089. I don't know if her name is pronounced "Bull-er" or "Beuller" but I
1090. think you can guess which one I'm gonna default to. Proceeds from this
1091. show benefit Providence House Ministries.
1092.  
1093. February 27-28
1094. Chattanooga UKE weekend
1095. Mountain Arts Community Center (MACC)
1096. 809 Kentucky Ave, Signal Mountain, Tennessee 37377
1097. Friday Night Jam. Saturday Lessons with me and Jamming
1098. Saturday Evening a House Concert featuring me and Ken Hicks
1099. $60 for the day plus $5 for lunch
1100.  
1101. C-ya out there.
1102.  
1103. --Br</pre>
1104. </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://jerpoint.blogspot.com/feeds/6058109310035726656/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/6792039/6058109310035726656' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6792039/posts/default/6058109310035726656'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6792039/posts/default/6058109310035726656'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://jerpoint.blogspot.com/2015/01/in-dalton-georgia-this-weekend-and.html' title=' In Dalton, Georgia this weekend and the Chattanooga Uke Weekend next month.'/><author><name>Butch Ross</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08015294745794017407</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='18' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin2vDykEiSpZyeqOB1MqGjIKAczZlw2S0W0SiCunIJe5_zUHZC6woe6N--BuGNBC0ksELlT0nyOZbCyCTh2TRU7Wzh-1TRUetNtNgN0wal0qq7p5Tv55tRzWnJgHgEqQ/s220/DSC07979_4web.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6792039.post-5733865990416945136</id><published>2015-01-07T10:08:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2015-05-25T22:10:07.230-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Florida Tour Starts Staurday!</title><content type='html'>&lt;pre&gt;Saturday, Jan. 10 - 10am
1105. 10am – Lakeland Farmer’s Curb Market
1106. N. Kentucky Ave at E. Pine St. & Bay St. in Downtown Lakeland.
1107. 863.687.8910
1108.  
1109. Sat., Jan. 10 - 8pm
1110. Tony B’s Wine Bar
1111. 213 East Bay Street
1112. Lakeland, FL
1113. 863. 688.3469
1114. <a href="http://www.tonystudiob.com/">http://www.tonystudiob.com</a>
1115.  
1116. Sun., Jan. 11 - 10am-12pm
1117. Uke Brunch and Workshop
1118. at the home of Becky Abel
1119. Contact: Becky 863.640.1763
1120.  
1121. Monday, January 12 - 7:30
1122. Cabin Hill House Concerts
1123. Tallahassee, FL
1124. Contact: Linda Collins to RSVP
1125. 850.671.3674
1126.  
1127. Thurs, Jan. 15
1128. The Hideaway Café
1129. 1756 Central Ave
1130. St. Petersburg, FL
1131. 727-644-7895 <727 .="">
1132. www.hideawaycafe.biz/
1133.  
1134. Sat, Jan 17 - Sun. Jan 18
1135. South Florida Folk Festival
1136. Hugh Taylor Birch State Park, Fort Lauderdale
1137. with Brother Sun, David Roth, Harpeth Rising and many, many more.
1138.  
1139. Tuesday, January 20 - 12pm
1140. Dulcimer Workshop
1141. Whitfield Epicurean Church
1142. 7045 Tamiami Trl.
1143. Sarasota, FL
1144. Contact: Carolyn to register  941.807.3673
1145.  
1146.  
1147. Hello all:
1148.  
1149. The Florida Tour starts this weekend, and looking at the weather forecast
1150. not a moment too soon!
1151.  
1152. Before I went to Florida for the first time, I never really felt the need
1153. to go to Florida. As a nearly lifelong Yankee, I felt toughing it out all
1154. winter was my duty. Then Bing Futch invited me to the first Key West
1155. Dulcimer Fest. and 5 inches of snow fell in Chattanooga. I know 5 inches
1156. isn't much if you live in say Chicago, but here in Chatt' it's a thing.
1157.  
1158. So now I try to get myself down there once a year, to soak up the sun and
1159. get my feet in the sand. Never thought I was that kinda person. But it
1160. turns out I am. :-)
1161.  
1162. So anyway, teaching a few Uke and Dulcimer workshops, but mostly playing
1163. gigs, seeing old friends and staying warm. If you, or someone you know, is
1164. in the area and wants to come check out one of the shows, by all means do.
1165.  
1166. There may some other things happening down there during this tour. Last
1167. minute stuff that is still in the works. If so, I'll let you know. Watch
1168. this space.
1169.  
1170. Here's hoping you all had a great holiday season, and that your 2015 is
1171. filled with success, love and happiness
1172. And come out to a show!
1173.  
1174. Those shows again...
1175.  
1176. Saturday, Jan. 10 - 10am
1177. 10am – Lakeland Farmer’s Curb Market
1178. N. Kentucky Ave at E. Pine St. & Bay St. in Downtown Lakeland.
1179. 863.687.8910
1180.  
1181. Sat., Jan. 10 - 8pm
1182. Tony B’s Wine Bar
1183. 213 East Bay Street
1184. Lakeland, FL
1185. 863. 688.3469
1186. <a href="http://www.tonystudiob.com/">http://www.tonystudiob.com</a>
1187.  
1188. Sun., Jan. 11 - 10am-12pm
1189. Uke Brunch and Workshop
1190. at the home of Becky Abel
1191. Contact: Becky 863.640.1763
1192.  
1193. Monday, January 12 - 7:30
1194. Cabin Hill House Concerts
1195. Tallahassee, FL
1196. Contact: Linda Collins to RSVP
1197. 850.671.3674
1198.  
1199. Thurs, Jan. 15
1200. The Hideaway Café
1201. 1756 Central Ave
1202. St. Petersburg, FL
1203. 727-644-7895 <727 .="">
1204. www.hideawaycafe.biz/
1205.  
1206. Sat, Jan 17 - Sun. Jan 18
1207. South Florida Folk Festival
1208. Hugh Taylor Birch State Park, Fort Lauderdale
1209. with Brother Sun, David Roth, Harpeth Rising and many, many more.
1210.  
1211. Tuesday, January 20 - 12pm
1212. Dulcimer Workshop
1213. Whitfield Epicurean Church
1214. 7045 Tamiami Trl.
1215. Sarasota, FL
1216. Contact: Carolyn to register  941.807.3673
1217.  
1218. C-ya out there.
1219.  
1220. --Br
1221. www.butchross.com
1222.  
1223. "Now I know what a dulcimer is supposed to sound like" —Jake Shimabukuro
1224. </727></727></pre>
1225. <hr />
1226. </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://jerpoint.blogspot.com/feeds/5733865990416945136/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/6792039/5733865990416945136' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6792039/posts/default/5733865990416945136'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6792039/posts/default/5733865990416945136'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://jerpoint.blogspot.com/2015/01/florida-tour-starts-staurday.html' title='Florida Tour Starts Staurday!'/><author><name>Butch Ross</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08015294745794017407</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='18' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin2vDykEiSpZyeqOB1MqGjIKAczZlw2S0W0SiCunIJe5_zUHZC6woe6N--BuGNBC0ksELlT0nyOZbCyCTh2TRU7Wzh-1TRUetNtNgN0wal0qq7p5Tv55tRzWnJgHgEqQ/s220/DSC07979_4web.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6792039.post-8998195511959709846</id><published>2014-11-10T16:33:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2014-12-10T17:44:06.146-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Classical dulcimer music webcast TONIGHT!</title><content type='html'>&lt;pre style=&quot;white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;I&#39;ll keep this short and sweet.
1227.  
1228. I've been working on some classical music for a show I'm doing tonight here
1229. in Chattanooga at 7:30est. I'll have some friends joining me on flute, guitar, viola and violin. Plus some singing. I figure you'd like to see it too, and since
1230. I can't afford to put the show on the road, I put it here.
1231. <a href="http://static.viewer.dacast.com/b/45188/c/55921">http://static.viewer.dacast.com/b/45188/c/55921</a>
1232.  
1233. Also, you can just go to butchross.com and watch it there as well.
1234.  
1235. --Br</pre>
1236. </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://jerpoint.blogspot.com/feeds/8998195511959709846/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/6792039/8998195511959709846' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6792039/posts/default/8998195511959709846'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6792039/posts/default/8998195511959709846'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://jerpoint.blogspot.com/2014/11/classical-dulcimer-music-webcast-tonight.html' title='Classical dulcimer music webcast TONIGHT!'/><author><name>Butch Ross</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08015294745794017407</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='18' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin2vDykEiSpZyeqOB1MqGjIKAczZlw2S0W0SiCunIJe5_zUHZC6woe6N--BuGNBC0ksELlT0nyOZbCyCTh2TRU7Wzh-1TRUetNtNgN0wal0qq7p5Tv55tRzWnJgHgEqQ/s220/DSC07979_4web.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6792039.post-8205033627881284464</id><published>2014-10-08T16:39:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2014-12-10T17:38:30.648-05:00</updated><title type='text'>October Tour: Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan</title><content type='html'>&lt;pre style=&quot;white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;Upcoming Shows:
1237.  
1238. Oct 11, 2014 10:00 AM – 6PM $10 - $75 depending
1239. Museum of Appalachia Fall Homecoming
1240. Clinton, TN
1241. 865-494-7680
1242. museumofappalachia.org
1243.  
1244. Oct 12, 2014 2:00 PM –  $20- $120 depending
1245. Fly Free Free Fest with Amber Fults and the Ambivalent Lovers
1246. Cherokee Farms - Lafayette, GA
1247. www.flyfreefest.com
1248.  
1249. Oct 13, 2014 8:00 PM – Free
1250. Bloomington Songwriters Showcase
1251. the Player's Pub
1252. 424 South Walnut Street
1253. Bloomington, IN
1254. 812 334-2080
1255. <a href="http://www.theplayerspub.com/">http://www.theplayerspub.com/</a>
1256.  
1257. Oct 15, 2014 7:00 PM – Free
1258. J.K. O'Donnell's
1259. 121 W. Wayne St.
1260. Fort Wayne, IN
1261. www.jkodonnells.com
1262.  
1263. Oct 18, 2014 12:00 PM - $20
1264. Workshops at the Rock Mill
1265. 6:30 PM - $15
1266. Doug Berch and Butch Ross in concert at the Rock Mill
1267. 1429 Rock Mill Place NW, Lancaster, OH 23936
1268.  
1269. October 22, 2014 7pm - $20
1270. Workshop: Subject TBD
1271. Robin Run Village,
1272. 5354 West 62nd Street, Indianapolis IN
1273.  
1274.  
1275. Oct 24, 2014 8:00 PM - $15
1276. Ten Pound Fiddle
1277. Unitarian Universalist Church of Greater Lansing
1278. 855 Grove St, East Lansing, MI
1279. East Lansing, MI
1280. With Doug Berch
1281. <a href="http://www.tenpoundfiddle.org/">http://www.tenpoundfiddle.org</a>
1282.  
1283.  
1284. Oct 24, 2014 2:00 PM -$20
1285. Workshop at Elderly Instruments
1286. 1100 N. Washington
1287. Lansing, Michigan
1288. Teaching a Dulcimer workshop at 2 and a Ukulele Workshop at 3:30
1289.  
1290. This tour has quite a few more days off than my tours usually do. But I
1291. like to stay busy when I’m on the road. So, if you’d like to have me come
1292. visit your club to teach or perform, or perhaps put on a house concert, I’d
1293. love to hear from you. It doesn’t need to be a big production, as I’m going
1294. to be in the area anyway. 4-5 people could make a great workshop and 7 to
1295. 10 could be a wonderful intimate house concert. If you live within two to
1296. four of hours of the places I’m playing, and would love to have me come
1297. visit you, please contact me at <a href="https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/butchross">butch at butchross.com</a> and put “October Tour”
1298. as the subject line.
1299.  
1300. As for the rest of these shows and workshops, they’re gonna be great. I
1301. can’t tell you how excited I am to be performing and teaching with Doug
1302. Berch again (twice!). Hope you can make it to one.
1303.  
1304. C-ya out there.
1305.  
1306. --Br</pre>
1307. </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://jerpoint.blogspot.com/feeds/8205033627881284464/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/6792039/8205033627881284464' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6792039/posts/default/8205033627881284464'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6792039/posts/default/8205033627881284464'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://jerpoint.blogspot.com/2014/10/october-tour-ohio-indiana-and-michigan.html' title='October Tour: Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan'/><author><name>Butch Ross</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08015294745794017407</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='18' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin2vDykEiSpZyeqOB1MqGjIKAczZlw2S0W0SiCunIJe5_zUHZC6woe6N--BuGNBC0ksELlT0nyOZbCyCTh2TRU7Wzh-1TRUetNtNgN0wal0qq7p5Tv55tRzWnJgHgEqQ/s220/DSC07979_4web.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6792039.post-173454766886962429</id><published>2014-07-30T19:11:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2014-07-30T19:11:21.935-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The August Tour starts now (well Friday)</title><content type='html'>As always, first the dates.&lt;br /&gt;
1308. <div class="MsoNormal">
1309. <o:p></o:p></div>
1310. <div class="MsoNormal">
1311. <br /></div>
1312. <div class="MsoNormal">
1313. Friday, Aug 1-3, all day and all night (no really)<br />
1314. Falcon Ridge Folk Festival<br />
1315. Dodd's Farm, Hillsdale, NY<o:p></o:p></div>
1316. <div class="MsoNormal">
1317. <br /></div>
1318. <div class="MsoNormal">
1319. Sunday, Aug 3, 7:00 PM<br />
1320. House concert @ G's Spot<br />
1321. Ridgefield Park, NJ<br />
1322. Suggested Donation $15<o:p></o:p></div>
1323. <div class="MsoNormal">
1324. <br /></div>
1325. <div class="MsoNormal">
1326. Aug 4, 7:30 PM<br />
1327. Grace United Church of Christ in Lancaster, Pa<br />
1328. Donations suggested - Workshop at 5pm<o:p></o:p></div>
1329. <div class="MsoNormal">
1330. <br /></div>
1331. <div class="MsoNormal">
1332. Aug 5, 5:30 PM<br />
1333. Rock n Roll Dulcimer Workshop with Buckeye Strings Dulcimer Club<br />
1334. Mt. Carmel Baptist Church - Kenwood, OH<br />
1335. Two workshops: Rock-n-roll chord progressions and Rhythms of Rock with a mini
1336. concert in between. Plus we'll learn a Sam Cooke song!<br />
1337. $20 for one or $35 for both<br />
1338. Contact Vickey Sasser - <a href="mailto:vjsuc79@fuse.net"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">vjsuc79@fuse.net</span></a> if
1339. you'd like to attend<o:p></o:p></div>
1340. <div class="MsoNormal">
1341. <br /></div>
1342. <div class="MsoNormal">
1343. Aug 7, 2014 7pm<br />
1344. Workshop and concert at the Corydon Dulcimer Club<br />
1345. Harrison County Community Foundation Bldg.<br />
1346. 1523 Foundation Way<br />
1347. Corydon, Indiana (United States) 47112<br />
1348. $25 for all.<o:p></o:p></div>
1349. <div class="MsoNormal">
1350. <br /></div>
1351. <div class="MsoNormal">
1352. Aug 8, 2014 6:00 PM<br />
1353. House Concert at Toya and Gary's place<br />
1354. Hagerstown, MD<br />
1355. Suggested donation $10<o:p></o:p></div>
1356. <div class="MsoNormal">
1357. <br /></div>
1358. <div class="MsoNormal">
1359. Aug 9, 2014 8:00 PM<br />
1360. Taffy's of Eaton<br />
1361. 123 main st.<br />
1362. Eaton, OH<br />
1363. Pass the hat, jam session afterwards!<o:p></o:p></div>
1364. <div class="MsoNormal">
1365. <br /></div>
1366. <div class="MsoNormal">
1367. Aug 10, 2014 - 5:30<br />
1368. House Concert<br />
1369. Wellington Reservation<br />
1370. 535 Jones Road<br />
1371. Wellington, OH<br />
1372. Pass the hat<br />
1373. Light dinner served<o:p></o:p></div>
1374. <div class="MsoNormal">
1375. <br /></div>
1376. <div class="MsoNormal">
1377. Well it’s August again and that means it’s time for me to
1378. head north. Chattanooga is amazing 10 months out of the year, but one of the
1379. months it ain’t is this one.<o:p></o:p></div>
1380. <div class="MsoNormal">
1381. <br /></div>
1382. <div class="MsoNormal">
1383. But I’m also getting to get back to some of my favorite
1384. places, as well as a few new one. Hope to see you a one of them.<o:p></o:p></div>
1385. <div class="MsoNormal">
1386. <br /></div>
1387. <div class="MsoNormal">
1388. Falcon Ridge Folk Festival.<br />
1389. This is not a gig per se, but a chance to catch up with old friends, relax a
1390. bit and hear a ton of great music (and most of it won’t be on the main stage)
1391. It’s been ten years since I last went up there, and I’m really looking forward
1392. to it (after the initial 15 hour [!] drive that is)<o:p></o:p></div>
1393. <div class="MsoNormal">
1394. <br /></div>
1395. <div class="MsoNormal">
1396. G-Spot House Concert<br />
1397. Gandharva Earl Sauls is a Jazz bassist in Teaneck New Jersey who host’s
1398. concerts out of his home. He also has a grand piano in his living room, come
1399. watch me discover I’m not as good at something as I think I am!<o:p></o:p></div>
1400. <div class="MsoNormal">
1401. <br /></div>
1402. <div class="MsoNormal">
1403. Concert at Grace United Church of Christ in Lancaster, Pa<br />
1404. I get to Pennsylvania very rarely, and to Amish country even more infrequently.
1405. It’s a Monday, but it’s an early show, I promise you won’t be too tried at work
1406. on Tuesday.<br />
1407. Also teaching a workshop (form tune to arrangement) beforehand at 5pm<o:p></o:p></div>
1408. <div class="MsoNormal">
1409. <br /></div>
1410. <div class="MsoNormal">
1411. Rock n Roll Dulcimer Workshop with Buckeye Strings Dulcimer
1412. Club<br />
1413. Teaching the Roots of Rock AND a Sam Cooke song, this’ll be a blast!<br />
1414. <br />
1415. Workshop and concert at the Corydon Dulcimer Club<br />
1416. Back to in Indiana, teaching a workshop and then playing afterwards. Contact
1417. Russ Emery if you just want to attend the show.<o:p></o:p></div>
1418. <div class="MsoNormal">
1419. <br /></div>
1420. <div class="MsoNormal">
1421. House Concert at Toya and Gary's place<br />
1422. It’s always so kind of Toya and Gary to invite me into their home, and it’s
1423. always a good time. And if this is a little far away for you, remember that
1424. this is a very early show!<br />
1425. <br />
1426. Taffy's of Eaton.<br />
1427. It’s Taffy’s, and until you’ve been it’s hard to describe, but once you have
1428. there’s no need to explain. <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span> I always look forward to the
1429. amazing venue.<o:p></o:p></div>
1430. <div class="MsoNormal">
1431. <br /></div>
1432. <div class="MsoNormal">
1433. House Concert at the Gwinn’s<o:p></o:p></div>
1434. <div class="MsoNormal">
1435. Steve and Linda are far better to me than I deserve, and
1436. they love to cook! There’s far more than one good reason to make it to this
1437. show.<o:p></o:p></div>
1438. <div class="MsoNormal">
1439. <br /></div>
1440. <div class="MsoNormal">
1441. Not a whole lot of announce-able news this time, but that
1442. doesn’t mean there’s not lots going on! Watch this space for some cool stuff
1443. coming this fall.<o:p></o:p></div>
1444. <div class="MsoNormal">
1445. <br /></div>
1446. <div class="MsoNormal">
1447. C-ya out there.<o:p></o:p></div>
1448. <div class="MsoNormal">
1449. <br /></div>
1450. <div class="MsoNormal">
1451. <!--[if !supportEmptyParas]-->--Br <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></div>
1452. <!--EndFragment--><br />
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1455. </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://jerpoint.blogspot.com/feeds/173454766886962429/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/6792039/173454766886962429' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6792039/posts/default/173454766886962429'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6792039/posts/default/173454766886962429'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://jerpoint.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-august-tour-starts-now-well-friday.html' title='The August Tour starts now (well Friday)'/><author><name>Butch Ross</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08015294745794017407</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='18' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin2vDykEiSpZyeqOB1MqGjIKAczZlw2S0W0SiCunIJe5_zUHZC6woe6N--BuGNBC0ksELlT0nyOZbCyCTh2TRU7Wzh-1TRUetNtNgN0wal0qq7p5Tv55tRzWnJgHgEqQ/s220/DSC07979_4web.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6792039.post-8384154002952539806</id><published>2014-04-26T15:56:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2014-04-26T15:56:15.094-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Big News Coming Tuesday!</title><content type='html'>watch &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.butchross.com/&quot;&gt;this space&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://jerpoint.blogspot.com/feeds/8384154002952539806/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/6792039/8384154002952539806' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6792039/posts/default/8384154002952539806'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6792039/posts/default/8384154002952539806'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://jerpoint.blogspot.com/2014/04/big-news-coming-tuesday.html' title='Big News Coming Tuesday!'/><author><name>Butch Ross</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08015294745794017407</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='18' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin2vDykEiSpZyeqOB1MqGjIKAczZlw2S0W0SiCunIJe5_zUHZC6woe6N--BuGNBC0ksELlT0nyOZbCyCTh2TRU7Wzh-1TRUetNtNgN0wal0qq7p5Tv55tRzWnJgHgEqQ/s220/DSC07979_4web.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6792039.post-8013693475323927147</id><published>2013-09-20T20:54:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2013-10-10T13:19:42.931-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Kickstarter Campaign to launched to fund the new record.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;Yes, it&#39;s true. I&#39;m working on a new record. I&#39;ve been working on one for a&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
1456. <span style="background-color: white;">good long while now. So long, that some of you didn't believe it existed. </span><br />
1457. <br />
1458. <span style="background-color: white;">:</span><i>-) </i><br />
1459. <br />
1460. <br />
1461. <span style="background-color: white;">But it's actually two records, or more accurately, one record, one EP*, and </span><br />
1462. <span style="background-color: white;">a 7" single. </span><br />
1463. <br />
1464. <span style="background-color: white;">Recording this record has been quite a challenge for me. Time and money </span><br />
1465. <span style="background-color: white;">have been constant and pernicious issues. And I've also had serious issues </span><br />
1466. <span style="background-color: white;">with my voice over the last few years, and have been working with a vocal </span><br />
1467. <span style="background-color: white;">coach to fix that. Finally, this is the first record in a LONG time that is </span><br />
1468. <span style="background-color: white;">mostly songs that I've written. And while I feel strongly about these songs </span><br />
1469. <span style="background-color: white;">and am proud of them, there is always that nagging sense of "but what if </span><br />
1470. <span style="background-color: white;">they don't like it?". But like I say on 'Longway From Settling Down', "I'm </span><br />
1471. <span style="background-color: white;">here 'cuz I got a song to sing." </span><br />
1472. <br />
1473. <span style="background-color: white;">Here's how Kickstarter works: </span><br />
1474. <br />
1475. <span style="background-color: white;">Kickstarter is a “crowdfunding” site. That’s a hipster way of saying “I’ll </span><br />
1476. <span style="background-color: white;">gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.” You pledge money to me that </span><br />
1477. <span style="background-color: white;">will go to funding the record, and in turn I will send you downloads, CDs, </span><br />
1478. <span style="background-color: white;">t-shirts, vinyl records or whatever, once our goal is reached. You can give </span><br />
1479. <span style="background-color: white;">as little as one dollar and there’s no limit to how much you can </span><br />
1480. <span style="background-color: white;">contribute. However, there are specific rewards are given for specific </span><br />
1481. <span style="background-color: white;">levels of giving. Remember how I pre-sold “A Long Way From Shady Grove” </span><br />
1482. <span style="background-color: white;">before it was released? Well, this works like that, except that Kickstarter </span><br />
1483. <span style="background-color: white;">handles the payments through Amazon and that makes it safe and secure to </span><br />
1484. <span style="background-color: white;">pledge online. </span><br />
1485. <br />
1486. <span style="background-color: white;">But here’s the catch: </span><br />
1487. <br />
1488. <span style="background-color: white;">Kickstarter is all-or-nothing. If I don’t make my goal of $4600, NO ONE is </span><br />
1489. <span style="background-color: white;">charged. So it becomes a bit of a race, and if I don’t make my goal in 30 </span><br />
1490. <span style="background-color: white;">days (well, 29 now) I’m going to have to find some way to get this album to </span><br />
1491. <span style="background-color: white;">you…and “Gone” will be, well, gone. </span><br />
1492. <br />
1493. <span style="background-color: white;">I really like Kickstarter’s all-or-nothing policy. It forces me to rely on </span><br />
1494. <span style="background-color: white;">you guys to make it happen, and it means that we are literally in this </span><br />
1495. <span style="background-color: white;">together. Of course, this is true EVERY DAY, it’s just that a Kickstarter </span><br />
1496. <span style="background-color: white;">campaign puts it into high relief. </span><br />
1497. <br />
1498. <span style="background-color: white;">The good news is that as of this writing, I’m over 25% there! </span><br />
1499. <br />
1500. <span style="background-color: white;">Here's what I'm hoping to create: </span><br />
1501. <br />
1502. <span style="background-color: white;">PEOPLE, PLACES, THINGS: This is a CD of 11 songs, most of which I've </span><br />
1503. <span style="background-color: white;">written, that tell a story. Sometimes the story is personal, sometimes it's </span><br />
1504. <span style="background-color: white;">not (and which is which is not as obvious as you might think) but all tell </span><br />
1505. <span style="background-color: white;">the story of people or places or things, hence the title. I've treated this </span><br />
1506. <span style="background-color: white;">album very much as a collection of short stories. (here's one of them: </span><br />
1507. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KtdmHs_x8ck">http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KtdmHs_x8ck</a><span style="background-color: white;">). I call </span><br />
1508. <span style="background-color: white;">it an album because it is one; a collection of songs that sonically and </span><br />
1509. <span style="background-color: white;">thematically relate. </span><br />
1510. <br />
1511. <span style="background-color: white;">GONE: This was originally my "808 and Heartbreak," meaning an album that </span><br />
1512. <span style="background-color: white;">was related to two specific concepts. In this case, loops and loss. These </span><br />
1513. <span style="background-color: white;">songs were all contenders for the record when I did the webcast back in </span><br />
1514. <span style="background-color: white;">February of 2012 (which, if you missed it, you can still see here: </span><br />
1515. <a href="http://vimeo.com/37430256">http://vimeo.com/37430256</a><span style="background-color: white;">). The eight or nine songs I played here, got </span><br />
1516. <span style="background-color: white;">whittled down to the five or six that will end up on the album. Still, </span><br />
1517. <span style="background-color: white;">they're all based around loops, vaguely revolve around the idea of being </span><br />
1518. <span style="background-color: white;">"gone," and most importantly, hang together sonically. </span><br />
1519. <br />
1520. <span style="background-color: white;">“Gone” is only available as part of this Kickstarter campaign. You will not </span><br />
1521. <span style="background-color: white;">be able to get it at shows or anywhere else. </span><br />
1522. <br />
1523. <span style="background-color: white;">THE 7" SINGLE: This is an elegant solution to a very inelegant problem. I </span><br />
1524. <span style="background-color: white;">have, for years, REALLY wanted to make a vinyl record. But vinyl is VERY </span><br />
1525. <span style="background-color: white;">expensive, and the demand potentially very small. But it felt important to </span><br />
1526. <span style="background-color: white;">me to have it. I'm not that old, or that old school, but after all these </span><br />
1527. <span style="background-color: white;">years vinyl still feels more real than a CD, or worse, a download. At the </span><br />
1528. <span style="background-color: white;">same time I had been grappling with a tune that I really liked (“All I Need </span><br />
1529. <span style="background-color: white;">Is You”) that didn't really fit the overall vibe of "People, Places, </span><br />
1530. <span style="background-color: white;">Things." So when someone suggested to me that I could release a 7" single </span><br />
1531. <span style="background-color: white;">that came with a download of the whole album, an elegant solution was </span><br />
1532. <span style="background-color: white;">formed. That's how the single will be sold at shows, but through the </span><br />
1533. <span style="background-color: white;">Kickstarter campaign you will also get physical copies of "PPT" and "Gone," </span><br />
1534. <span style="background-color: white;">a t-shirt, and a bunch of other stuff. (check it out here: </span><br />
1535. <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/503728969/help-me-fund-my-new-cd-people-places-things">http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/503728969/help-me-fund-my-new-cd-people-places-things</a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><br />
1536. <span style="background-color: white;">) </span><br />
1537. <br />
1538. <span style="background-color: white;">Okay, this is getting a little long-winded, so I’ll stop here. Please go </span><br />
1539. <span style="background-color: white;">check out the video at the above link. It’s about 5 minutes long and will </span><br />
1540. <span style="background-color: white;">explain all the perks of pledging as well as a good look at the album art </span><br />
1541. <span style="background-color: white;">and the music that will be on the CD, the EP, and the 7”. </span><br />
1542. <br />
1543. <span style="background-color: white;">As the campaign progresses I’ll be sending you updates. You’ll be hearing </span><br />
1544. <span style="background-color: white;">from me a little more than usual, but I promise to keep it brief, </span><br />
1545. <span style="background-color: white;">interesting, and relevant to you. </span><br />
1546. <br />
1547. <span style="background-color: white;">Thank you for reading this far. </span><br />
1548. <br />
1549. <span style="background-color: white;">C-ya out there. </span><br />
1550. <br />
1551. <span style="background-color: white;">--Br </span><br />
1552. <br />
1553. <span style="background-color: white;">www.butchross.com </span><br />
1554. <br />
1555. <span style="background-color: white;">*I don't know how this happened, but no one seems to remember what an "EP" </span><br />
1556. <span style="background-color: white;">is, it's stands for "extended play" record, and was a reference to ten inch </span><br />
1557. <span style="background-color: white;">vinyl records that were sometimes released. An EP is usually 4 to 6 songs, </span><br />
1558. <span style="background-color: white;">but sometimes as many as 8. It's way too much music to fit on a 7" single, </span><br />
1559. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;but if you tried to sell it as an LP you&#39;d make a bunch of people mad.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://jerpoint.blogspot.com/feeds/8013693475323927147/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/6792039/8013693475323927147' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6792039/posts/default/8013693475323927147'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6792039/posts/default/8013693475323927147'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://jerpoint.blogspot.com/2013/09/kickstarter-campaign-to-launched-to.html' title='Kickstarter Campaign to launched to fund the new record.'/><author><name>Butch Ross</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08015294745794017407</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='18' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin2vDykEiSpZyeqOB1MqGjIKAczZlw2S0W0SiCunIJe5_zUHZC6woe6N--BuGNBC0ksELlT0nyOZbCyCTh2TRU7Wzh-1TRUetNtNgN0wal0qq7p5Tv55tRzWnJgHgEqQ/s220/DSC07979_4web.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6792039.post-5973530205279092847</id><published>2013-09-18T13:48:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2013-09-18T13:48:15.338-04:00</updated><title type='text'>RINGTONES!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;I took a break from finishing up the Album and putting together the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;Kickstarter Campaign to make a few ringtones from some of my earlier albums.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;They are in two formats .m4r for iPhone users, and .mp3 for Android phone&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;users (Droid, Samsung etc.)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;You can find them here:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://butchross.com/ringtones.html&quot;&gt;http://butchross.com/ringtones.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;They&#39;re free and available to everyone, tell your friends!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://jerpoint.blogspot.com/feeds/5973530205279092847/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/6792039/5973530205279092847' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6792039/posts/default/5973530205279092847'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/6792039/posts/default/5973530205279092847'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://jerpoint.blogspot.com/2013/09/ringtones.html' title='RINGTONES!!!'/><author><name>Butch Ross</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08015294745794017407</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='18' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin2vDykEiSpZyeqOB1MqGjIKAczZlw2S0W0SiCunIJe5_zUHZC6woe6N--BuGNBC0ksELlT0nyOZbCyCTh2TRU7Wzh-1TRUetNtNgN0wal0qq7p5Tv55tRzWnJgHgEqQ/s220/DSC07979_4web.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>

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