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June 2008 The
pedal is on the floor and the hands are at 10 and
2. We're wearing out the tread on the tires and the strings on
the
instruments! June's tour is compact in time and
extensive in
reach. In about 2 weeks, the band will have traveled 5268
miles from
the hills of Carolina to the Rocky Mtn State of CO, back east to
Virginia (in
ASHLAND on THURS), up to NY (FRI), on to Ontario, back south to PA, and
then
home! And you know what, we're loving every minute, every mile,
every
note, and every cup of coffee! On
Thursday (June 12) the band will be picking at Ashland
Coffee and Tea, a great listening room in We
added some new pictures to our myspace page so hop on
over there and check them out. Thanks for your
support. We couldn't do this with ya! The month of May has the band jotting up and down the
east coast from VA to MA, and then down to GA and over TN. We
recently added a stop at Creation Station in East Hampton, MA, and we
hope to add a few more to the tour, so stay tuned. On May 28, The
Biscuit Burners will perform live on the Blueplate Special on WDVX in
Knoxville, TN at Noon, EST. You can tune in online at www.wdvx.com. Later that evening,
the band will be performing at the legendary Station Inn in Nashville.
~~~~~~~ We hope your new year is off to a joyful start. We are so pleased to announce that our new full length album, Take Me Home, is complete! Like our other albums, there is no one way to sum this one up. We are inspired by music from near and far, including Bluegrass, Americana and Country as well as Indian Ragas, Reggae, and Jazz. With an Appalachian voice, we translate these inspirations into our Fiery Mountain Music. And we feel that Take Me Home is the finest representation to date of that Fiery Mountain sound. We are very excited about how the project came together and can't wait to share the songs with you! .
For a sneak preview, check out our myspace
page: www.myspace.com/thebiscuitburners.
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The record will officially be released on March 13th and
you can pre-order the record now on-line, in order to have it in your
hand by that date. Our first show will be at the Grey Eagle Music Hall, at our hometown of
Asheville,NC. Also, that weekend we are happy to be trecking over
the mountain to play in Johnson City at The Down
Home and dropping into Chattanoogafor a show at the wonderful Barking Legs Theater. The end of the month will
have us playing around the southeast, including a spot at Woodsongs Radio Hour in Lexington, KY on March
31. April and May will have us out to the midwest and up
through the northeast as well as some more shows in the south, so check
our website for updates
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We are really so honored to have such an amazing group
of friends and fans like yourselves that help keep us on the road. We
are proud to be an independent label, Indidog Records. Without the
connections and funding of major labels, we depend on folks like
yourselves even more. If you like the record, you can help us out a
ton. Please call your local radio stations and let them know you want
to hear Take Me Home over
the radio waves! Let your friends and family know about the music and
that it is most readily available on the web.
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Hope to see you out this year! Also, check out our
tourdates and let folks know when we are heading through a venue near
them.
.
A lot of folks have been asking us for live music and
footage. If you have any video footage from last year or recordings,
please email them to promo@thebiscuitburners.com and we will make them available for everybody.
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We will also be posting photos from fans on our site. So
if you have any you would like us to get up there with props to you as
the photographer, send them along as well!
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Check out our dates below, and stay tuned to our website
for more news.
~~~~~~ December 2007 Happy Holidays. We wish you happiness and good health in this joyous time. The band is hunkering down for the winter and putting the final touches on the new album. We are expecting to release it in the first quarter of 2008, and support it's release with lots of touring, so get ready. We are extremely excited to present you with the new material. Everyone has worked really hard on this one, and it is sure to be the best yet. Still looking for that last holiday gift? Well, we can help. We now have new T-shirts available on our webstore for sale. We have Men's Ringer style T-shirts, Men's Long Sleeve T-shirts, and Women's V Neck Style Shirts. Visit this link to check out the new t-shirts. Lately, we have been getting requests to share some live material. So here you go. We have uploaded a couple of Live songs on our music player. We recorded these tunes at Silver Dollar City a few months ago. You check these out on our website, on our reverbnation page, and on our myspace page. We also uploaded some new pictures in our gallery on the website, so be sure to check them out as well. There are even some new pics of the newest Cardine. Happy Holidays friends. Thanks for your support, and we wish you the absolute best. ~~~~~~ New TBB photo gallery at www.flickr.com/thebiscuitburners !!! ~~~~~~ Howdy
Friends, In November we hit the road with a much more normal touring schedule, with shows in NC, VA, TN and FL. We are really excited to be kicking the month off with a hometown show at one of our favorite venues, The Grey Eagle in Asheville, NC. Later that month, we play what seems like a home town gig, just a stone's throw away in Johnson City, TN at the Down Home. We can't wait! Check out our tourdates below for all of our show info. If you are interested in helping us spread the word for this upcoming tour as a street team member, please drop me an emai. We'd be most appreciative! Billy has a few special side project releases that are out and available at our webstore that you should definitely check out. I think we have mentioned to you the duet release with Billy and Ivan Rosenberg. Billy and Ivan are both considered by many across the country to be leading the charge of the next generation resophonic players.
Both
of these albums are on sale right now at www.thebiscuitburners.com.
Hop on over and get your copy today! ~~~~~~~~~~~ Last week at Bristol Rhythm and Roots, the band was joined by the Governor of Virginia, Tim Kaine. With Kaine on harmonica, the band played one "You're The One I Want." ~~~~~~~~~~~ This past cross country / international tour has been going great. Running up the CA coast was so refershing with great shows in Berkeley, Bishop, and at Mtn Sage. Great time in Seattle with Uncle Earl, and British Columbia has been great to us. We took part in some wonderful workshops in Sorrento and Chilliwack was an exceptional time. We are back in the states for Sisters Folk Fest in Sisters, OR, and then we hightail it back to our home region for Bristol Rhythm and Roots fest in Bristol, TN. ~~~~~~~~~~~ Billy Cardine and Ivan Rosenberg release The Donkeys. This albums features two of today's cutting edge resophonic players, with a side cast of players that include Darrell Muller of Old School Freight Train, Dan Bletz, Mary Lucey, Shannon Whitworth, and Jon Stickley. You can purchase this new release in our webstore. ~~~~~~~~~~~ Mary Lucey is featured in the August edition of Bluegrass Now! The article titled "Biology, Biscuits, and Bear, Oh My!" highlights Mary as one of the prominient female bass players touring today. ~~~~~~~~~~~ The Biscuit Burners featured on The History Channel's, Our Generation, which is airing on Friday, August 24 at 6:30pm est. The History Channel crew was in attendance at Bonnaroo, and interviewed the band, as well as filmed aprt of their set. ~~~~~~~~~~~ The Band was featured in a Bonnaroo Review on USAToday.com by writer, Ken Barnes... "so we started to head that way, and in the Troo Music Lounge, caught part of a set from a very cool band called The Biscuit Burners – definitely need to grab their CDs this week and give a more careful listen. Typically a band with a banjo, a guitar, a cello, a violin and a dobro wouldn’t catch my attention, but these guys were really good. Not to mention that the two young ladies in the band, Odessa Jorgensen and Mary Lucey, provide the beauty to match the music." ~~~~~~~~~~~ Hey Everybody, Wes just celebrated his 21st birthday up in
Boston and is enjoying his new access! Billy, Dan, Odessa, and I
are
watching the green creep up the mountains here in weaverville, and I
thought I would drop a line to wish to you all that your spring is
unfolding beautifully, too. Our days have been filled with
recording, working on our bus (odessa and I are in charge of building a
shower-yikes), and writing new tunes. oh yes, and then of course all
the lovely work that fills the day to the brim that allows us to stay
on the road. We had a blast at our favorite way to thaw out from
the winter down at Suwanee springfest and last weekend was great
playing to a sold out crowd at the station inn and then heading to
pituresque dahlonega, ga for the bear on the square festival. We
have been lucky to have our good friend, Jeffery Knorr coming out to
some of our shows to run the sound and to have hired a tour manager and
driver, Dave Keister. The dogs are loving the bus-maybe a little
too much, since we have to fight for couch space sometimes.
Odessa has adopted a beautiful border collie, which she named Birch
after our fun night at the Birchmere. We are excited to be
playing some of our favorite festivals this summer and sharing a lot of
our new music with old friends and fans across the country. hope to run
into you somewhere down the road! - Mary
We are so thrilled to announce that we've been added to Bonnaroo, one of the largest festivals in the U.S. With a line-up that contains such acts as The Police, Widespread Panic, Ben Harper, Gillian Welch, and 80 more acts, this should be one heck of a weekend. We look forward to seeing some familiar faces as well as meeting some new ones in Manchester, TN. ~~~~~~~~~~~ We are absolutely thrilled to be featured in the new Bluegrass Unlimited magazine, April 07 issue. The article features each member and highlights the band's career this far. Jerry Douglas is quoted in the article as saying "Billy is fluent in everything I (J. Douglas) do, and Josh Graves, and everybody that has come before." The magazine is on the news stands now, so get a copy today! The band is also featured in the new WNC Magazine, with a picture of Ms. Odessa Jorgensen on the cover. Interviews and photo were taken from their performance at the Down Home, back in January. This summer is shaping up with some great festivals with Rockygrass, Grey Fox Festival, Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival, and the Sister's Folk Festival. Look for this list to have additions so stay tuned. The band is also teaching at some great camps this summer so if possible join us there as well. The Biscuit Burners are proud to announce the addition of Odessa Jorgensen (fiddle and vocals) and Wes Corbett (banjo) to the band, joining Mary Lucey (bass and vocals), Billy Cardine (dobro and vocals), and Dan Bletz (guitar). Both highly skilled musicians, Odessa and Wes bring immense talent and a fresh perspective to a band that is already known for their innovative instrumentation, resplendent harmonies, and captivating original material. Odessa Jorgensen (vocals/fiddle) hails from Northern California and now hangs her hat in Nashville, TN. Odessa began playing violin at age 4 and has been heavily involved in the classical music community. She has played with the Santa Rosa symphony and made her debut at Carnegie Hall at the age of 13 with the Young Peoples Chamber Orchestra. Over the last few years, Odessa has shifted her focus to bluegrass and old-time fiddle. Since having moved to Nashville she has been welcomed by the local music community not only for her amazing ear for harmony and melody on her instrument, but also for her heart warming vocals and unique but familiar songwriting style. Though
only 21 years old, Wes Corbett has already performed with
ground-breaking bands such as Crooked Still and The David Grisman
Quintet, and in 2006 he toured with Tristan and Tashina Clarridge, Old
School Freight Train's Nate Leath, and hammered dulcimer virtuoso Simon
Crisman in the band New Old Stock. Wes is fast becoming known as one of
the most innovative banjo players and composers in bluegrass and new
acoustic music, and we can't wait to see what he comes up with for The
Biscuit Burners. We wanted to let ya'll know Shannon
and
John are both doing well. They are exploring some new
endeavors. We wish them the best of luck and happiness in all
their pursuits! Keep up with them on MySpace at: www.MySpace.com/ShannonWhitworth ~~~~~~~~~~ The Biscuit Burners present Pandit Debashish Bhattacharya (10/06) On THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12 at LIPINKSY HALL at UNCA CAMPUS in ASHEVILLE, NC, The Biscuit Burners are proud to present THE HARMONY OF SPHERES featuring Indian Slide Guitar Master, Pandit Debashish Bhattacharya with Ms. Sutapa Bhattacharya (Vocal & Tambura) and Sri Subhasis Bhattacharya (Tabla). The Harmony of Spheres is on a 26 stop North American / Canadian tour including stops at the Royal Museum Hall Edmonton in Edmonton, Alberta, The Kennedy Center in Washington DC, Symphony Space in New York City, and the Dorris Duke Theatre in Honolulu. \ Pandit
Debashish Bhattacharya's charisma as a Musician, Composer,
Innovator, Revolutionary, Guru, and the Director of international slide
Guitar Parivar (family) has attracted devotees of music from all the
nooks and corners of the world. At twenty, Debashish received the
President of India Award for winning National
Music competition of All India Radio. He is perhaps the only
phenomenon in the History of The World Music and Indian Classical Music
who created a TRINITY OF SLIDE GUITARS. Christened as CHATURANGUI
GANDHARVI, and ANANDI, these, according to Bob Brozman
are "the new arms and ammunitions to fight against ignorance". Exclusive
Podcast Interview with Jon Stickley on www.theflypod.com(08/06) ~~~~~~~~~~ The
Biscuit
Burners on PBS' Roadtrip Nation (7/06) Roadtrip Nation was started when some recent college grads, who had no idea what they wanted to do with their lives, decided to take a roadtrip to figure it out. They bought an old run-down 31-foot RV, painted it neon green, and hit the road for 3 months and 17,000 miles to explore how other individuals found their roads in life. Along the way, they interviewed over 80 people, including: a Lobsterman in Maine, the scientist who decoded the Human Genome, the Director of Saturday Night Live, the stylist for Madonna, and Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz. All of the leaders shared where they were in their twenties, and how they resisted pressures of conformity to find their roads in life. Today Roadtrip Nation has ignited a movement on campuses across the country, where students hit the road in several RTN green RVs to interview their own list of leaders from across the country. These roadtrip experiences are shared through an annual public television series, publications, and online at www.roadtripnation.com ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ Visit us
on
Myspace. ~~~~~~~~~~ The
Biscuit
Burners on iTunes!! (5/06) Indie
Acoustic
Project selects A Mountain Apart as the Best Roots Album of 2005
(5/06) ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ NPR's
Mountain
Stage (3/06) ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ Chicago
Tribune
selects The Biscuit Burners' Debut Release chosen in the Top 10
Bluegrass Albums of 2004 (12/04) ~~~~~~~~~~ Chicago
Tribune
selects Come On Darlin as the IPOD Hotpick song of the Year
(12/04) ~~~~~~~~~~ The
Biscuit
Burners perform with Vassar Clements at the Historic Ryman(Fall
2004) ~~~~~~~~~~ Official
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Last week, banjo wiz, Ryan Cavanaugh also released his
new album, Songs for the New Frontier. This incredible
disc features Cardine on dobro, Danny Knicely on mandolin, John Garris
on guitar, Rex McGee on fiddle, and Darrell Muller on bass. Ryan
is an incredible banjo player, and he has been recognized world wide
for his 5 string prowess. He toured internationally alongside
Bill Evans'(Miles Davis,John
McLaughlin) band, Soulgrass. 
