Just a quick note to say thanks to the kind folks at The Big Takeover magazine who put our new album, The King Can Drink the Harbour Dry, in their top 5 for their latest issue – the very cool music magazine is available at most major bookstores…
Thanks to Jack Rabid and co. at The Big Takeover and we very much hope to make it out to the east coast this summer – hope you all are having a great week and see you soon,
Johnny
ps – If you don’t already have the new album and would like a copy, just CLICK HERE to go to our online store…
It’s hard to believe this year…and this decade…are almost over. For me, this was the decade of my 20s. I was 21 years old when I played a New Year’s Eve show with my college band in 1999. We closed with a cover of REM’s “End of the World As We Know It”. Funny, looking back on it, that was true in so many ways, at least for me. It was a decade full of music, and this year was certainly no different. Most of 2009 was consumed with finishing and releasing our new record, The King Can Drink the Harbour Dry, and it’s companion EP William Dawes and Other Forgotten Gems. But there were certainly plenty of other big changes and events this year – new friends, new bandmates, back to schools, back to jobs, marriages and even a couple of babies on the way. It’s been an incredible year, one I’ll never forget, and I’m looking forward to what the new year…and the new decade…will bring. We’ll be celebrating the New Year this Thursday night, playing a special New Year’s Eve show with our friends Weinland at the Mission Theater here in Portland. The show starts at 9pm and we kick things off, so come early and say hi! (Click here for ticket info)
Have a great rest of the week – and if you don’t already have the new record, it’s now available on iTunes and on our website! See you soon and here’s to a safe and happy New Year -
We’re excited to say that this month our new record, “The King Can Drink the Harbour Dry“, was officially released nationally. This month also marks the anniversary of the infamous “Boston Tea Party“, an event which rattled Boston and inspired a (soon to be) nation, and it’s captivated our imaginations ever since. It was in the spirit of the Sons of Liberty, the group of Bostonian rebels who led the Boston Tea Party, that the song “The King Can Drink the Harbor Dry” came about. The chorus of the song eventually lent it’s lyrics to the title of the new record. I wrote the majority of the song over a year ago, but it wasn’t until a few months ago that we finished recording it with the band – while the song was finished a bit late to make the new album, we’ve included it, along with several other favorites from the “King” sessions, on a bonus EP of sorts that’s available free with the purchase of our new record from our online store. You can find the store by clicking here or the picture below…the EP is called “William Dawes and Other Forgotten Gems“…
To celebrate the release of the new album…and the Boston Tea Party…we’re posting the song “The King Can Drink the Harbor Dry” as a free download. To listen to it, check out the player on the upper right corner of the site. The new song is the second one in the player. To download it, use the Free Song widget below or click the link below to download the mp3…
Most of us, at least here in the States, grew up hearing about the famous “midnight ride of Paul Revere” in grade school, about the blacksmith turned Patriot who rode north from Boston to Lexington to warn that the “British were coming”. But I’m guessing few have heard of the midnight ride of William Dawes. That’s probably because most of us got our history lesson from the famous Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem “Paul Revere’s Ride”. In it, Longfellow takes some artistic liberties and makes Revere the only character in one of early American history’s most notorious tales. While Revere deserves much of the credit, there was another rider that night in April of 1775 who rode to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that the British were on their way to arrest them. William Dawes actually set out first and took the longer westward route, leaving Boston just before the British regulars sealed off the town. Both Dawes and Paul Revere arrived in Lexington within minutes of each other and helped Adams and Hancock escape arrest. So why has history forgotten poor William Dawes? We may never know…but it seemed only fitting, since we have a song about Paul Revere, to have one about William Dawes as well – here’s the short demo…(just click to listen or right click/cntrl click to download)
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone and don’t forget, the new record is out and available via our online store – http://www.thedimes.com/store.html – it includes a bonus EP which accompanies the new album and includes the song “Paul Revere”, among others…
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