I got this email from one of our friends in Idaho. Her name is Amy Lapp, and fortuitously, it was her camera-phone recording of "Oh Ellen"  that originally caught the attention of The Ellen Show. Amy and her friend Kris won the award for Driving Farthest to Attend the CD Release Show, (Pocatello, ID to Tucson, AZ), and I appreciate not only her enthusiasm about our DVD and live show, but her generally positive outlook on music and friendship. Here's what she had to say after getting the official DVD video document of that incredibly fun night: ---------------------- Cameron, I just wanted to tell you that I just received and watched the new DVD and loved it! I started reminiscing about the roadtrip to Arizona that Kris and I took to see that show. It was a lot of fun, we saw some cool things, enjoyed the warmth and sunshine, and then concluded...

Realizing that Ryan and I have been flying under the radar as of late, we thought it was high time we let you know how our recording is going, what the songs are sounding like, and what we think of it. So without further ado: - We began recording in late summer, and we worked on and off up through Christmas. We're roughly 70% of the way finished. (Slow and steady wins the race, right Mr. Tortoise?) - We have completed bass and drums and main guitars for 11 of the 12 songs we're planning to include. - We've sung what are called "scratch" vocals for all of them, in order to find out which harmonies work, where different melodies are needed, etc. - We're currently back home in Tucson rehearsing our acoustic butts off, making sure that we know exactly what we want to sing when we get back to LA to begin...

I’m currently airborne on a flight to New Mexico: “The Land of Enchantment”. Cameron and I drove through these parts earlier in the tour, and we had a lot of laughs at the attitude of the state. All of the freeway warning signs sounded like they were written by the creator of the X-Files…our favorite was: “Dust Storms May Exist”!!! Tonight, we play our third show with Jason Mraz. While our dreams of becoming lifelong friends with Mraz haven’t come true yet, it is fun to get a “sup Ryanhood” when we pass each other backstage. And I heard he likes us (apparently our roadies aren’t as big of fraidy-cats as we are, and had a couple of conversations with Jason, including one where roadie Sergio failed to warn Mraz of the effects of a preshow jalapeño popper in Tucson). During a radio interview, Jason spoke about being friends and neighbors...