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----------------------------------------------- THE NEW FOLK SOUNDS OF ARTS & CRAFTS Thanks to everyone who made THE NEW FOLK SOUNDS OF ARTS & CRAFTS TOUR so much fun! We had a great time during our trip. We were fortunate enough to have the opportunity to engage in several fun acitivites. Examples include: playing music with lots of great people in lots of neat places! visiting old friends & making new ones! riding & sleeping on numerous buses moving in various directions! watching movies on a bus in Nebraska! eating vegetarian chili in Burlington, Vermont! eating sweet potato latkes and various other delicious items at a vegetarian potluck in Providence, Rhode Island! eating pizza for every meal in Little Rock, Arkansas! eating more pizza in Olympia, Washington! eating spaghetti and drinking Sparks in Seattle, Washington! eating delicious sandwiches and drinking wonderful Rooibus tea in Chicago, Illinois! getting kicked out of an open mic at a piano bar in our nations's capital! witnessing people try to set fire to a homemade voting machine and then participating in an attempt to sled down a hill on the same voting machine in Moscow, Idaho! sustaining injuries to the forehead and nose while breakdancing in Olympia, Washington! playing on top of a dumpster during our set at a sci fi pajama party in Little Rock, Arkansas! watching the ten minutes of whatever film happened to be playing on Country Music Television in Jonesboro, Arkansas on December 11, 2004 in which a character -played by Jeremy London is riding a wheat thresher and reaches out to try and grab his cowboy hat from a nearby tree branch on which it is stuck and falls and gets shredded by the thresher and then found by his mother and then his sister, who runs back to the house to tell her father (who is played by Sam Waterson) that her brother has been threshed, and their father responds by driving his truck through the fence which borders the family's property! seeing the stars in Salt Lake City! performing with our finger puppet friends Giog, Herman The Ice Cream Cone, and Giog's Friend in various geographical locations! Again, thanks to all the people in the cities listed below who made this tour totally awesome! ***MP3: Patrick Elkins My Baby Is a Canyon
Wed 12/1 Ann Arbor, MI @ Natural Canvas Gallery and Studios (613 N. Main - four blocks north of downtown. 8PM -This show will also feature a hair auction in which locks of Pat's hair will be cut off, bagged and sold to the highest bidder to raise funds for the tour.
BACKGROUND On October 19, 2004 We're Twins Records released "The New Folk Sounds of Patrick Elkins" by Patrick Elkins (WRT036) and "Arts and Crafts and other compositions for singer-songwriter" by Jason Voss (WRT035). While both of these highly enjoyable records are significant in that they are instant folk classics, they are also notable in that they mark each artist's respective solo debut for We're Twins Records. Both albums are being released in limited editions of 750 copies and are available through mailorder from We're Twins Records. PATRICK ELKINS Patrick Elkins has been described as "the brightest star of the current US midwest noise-folk scene." He is a published poet and playwright as well as a seasoned folk musician who has been involved with numerous projects ranging from guerilla performance art troupe Petroleum Bloodfang to the Sonshine Band, a country/western/folk outift led by Patrick's grandmother, Dotty Mae Elkins, who performed in various nursing and retirement homes throughout Michigan and Florida. He has also participated in the Posh Boys (with Kanda's Arland Nicewander), Ypsilanti-based free-folk band Hot Meat for Young Lovers, Meatstand, L.M., Dyslexic Bob, Ever Will You Get There and numerous other projects. Patrick has released two previous solo records (Chew Your Own Neck" and "Maximum Volume" on his own Chew Your Own Records). "The New Folk Sounds of Patrick Elkins" features 20 new songs about green tacos and the unicorns who love them. Patrick's music has been steadily gaining notice across the United States for the last two years, thanks to his relentless DIY touring, support from progressive college radio stations and an extensive word-of-mouth buzz. JASON VOSS Jason Voss has been involved with numerous musical projects including playing bass for We're Twins favorites And Spiders (with Kelly Caldwell, Ben Tausig and Fred Thomas), performing injured CD improvisation in duo Slovak (with Stop-Eject Records head Randall Davis), dancing for noise-rock band Heat Lightning (with future members of Meatslicer and Actual Birds) and being involved with severeal one-time We're Twins projects (State & William, Cannibal Kitten, etc). He is also one of the founding members of all-inclusive art/music collective Ever Will You Get There, which organizes outdoor traveling musical happenings and other communal arts projects. In addition to performing as a solo singer-songwriter, he performs experimental music as JAV, under which he has begun two trilogies of three inch CDs on Burning Tongue Records and Stop-Eject Records. He is also currently a member of the Ypsilanti-based free-folk collective Hot Meat for Young Lovers, feminist dance/folk band Melting Moments with Ann Arbor poet Anna Vitale. He has been involved with WCBN 88.3 FM in Ann Arbor since 2000, serving as General Manager, Program Director and Music Director, and currently organizes the Local Music Show, which presents independent artists from Michigan performing live in-studio each week and serves as the station's Jazz/Experimental Music Director. There can be little doubt that "Arts & Crafts and other compositions for singer-songwriter" will one day be regarded as the one of the most influential hobo-centric post-folk albums of its time. Jason Voss' solo debut for We're Twins Records is an engaging album from one of southeast Michigan's most eclectic singer-songwriters. |