Jake Newton: Blog

Hello friends,

       What an incredible next couple of weeks. I’m going to throw that out there in advance. I have the enormous privilege and pleasure to play with three people I respect and admire, and quite frankly, I think they’re all kind of cute.

Joey Ryan, Lelia Broussard and I were sitting in a hot tub eating bbq and being cool cats a couple of months ago, we said to ourselves, “selves, we should play shows together.” I’m so glad we decided to act on it. So we’re gonna do a couple of shows together up the coast of California. I’ve thought of names for the brief tour, but any and all ideas I have make me sound way too excited.

“the totes awesome-possum tour”

“the ridiculously good looking tour”

“Why there’s hope for music tour”

“Knock knock, who’s there? Your face is melted…tour”

 

You can weigh in on your favorite and submit some of your own ideas. I’m going to have key chains made, or better yet, commemorative plates, Franklin mint style. I’ve invited Jamie Drake to play with us on some southern California dates as well. If you haven’t heard her do pop over to her myspace, she’s got a song called, “plumbline” that will wreck you.

 

So here are the dates and specifics. I can’t wait to see old faces and make new friends, and as always if you have friends near where we’re playing and think that we’d be their jam do let them know about us.

 

July 22nd Hotel Cafe Los Angeles, CA

http://www.hotelcafe.com/

July 23rd Union Room San Francisco, CA

http://www.theunionroom.com/

July 24th House Concert, Monterey CA (email booking@leliasmusic.com to reserve a seat)

July 29th The Brickwall at JA Studios, Fresno, CA.

www.facebook.com/brickwallmusic

July 30th Viento y Agua Long Beach CA*with Jamie Drake

http://www.vientoyaguacoffeehouse.com/

July 31st Lestats in San Diego CA*with Jamie Drake

http://www.lestats.com/

August 1st Zoey's in Ventura CA*with Jamie Drake

http://www.zoeyscafe.com/

I’ve been watching the Olympics non-stop. Now I’m not a sports fan by any stretch of the imagination, I watch the superbowl for the commercials and the Half-time show, I thought that Fantasy football meant that mythological creatures were involved, but there’s something about the Olympics that sucks me in like a black hole for the two glorious weeks they grace our televisions. The Closing ceremony always gives me the feeling of the last day of camp, You know that you’ll see these people again, but it will be a long and boring season of Baseball scandals and football player arrests before you can watch your beloved curling/biathaloning/speedskating buffet of human interest stories. You see, with the typical professional sports, for me at least, feel like they’re trying to stab my eyes with product placements. It overshadows the spirit of competition, the driving, striving urge to break world records for the sake of humanity’s betterment.
The Olympics have that in spades, [...]

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