We’re thrilled to announce the release of our new record, “The King Can Drink the Harbor Dry”, with a local CD release show scheduled for Saturday, November 14th at Mississippi Studios here in Portland and an official national release to follow. The record will feature 12 songs, each with their own ties to historic Boston, MA (hometown of our own Pierre Kaiser) -
We’ll be playing two shows at Mississippi Studios that Saturday (Nov. 14th), with a special all ages acoustic show in the evening and a full show (with some very special guest appearances) later that night – tickets for both shows are available on the Mississippi Studios site…
CD release shows are also on the books for Seattle, Eugene and Ashland as well – just click the shows link for more info. We can’t wait to get the new record out to you – in the meantime, you can find several demos and acoustic versions of songs from the upcoming record here on the site (see the new music player towards the top)…
Hope to see you all soon -
Johnny
I started working on a song based on Thoreau’s “Walden” almost a year ago – the world he describes in his writing is definitely one that appeals to me, and I’d been wanting to try my hand at a tune like this. For months I only had the first verse of lyrics down, unsure of what the song wanted to be…so the “Walden” song idea kind of hung around. Every once in a while I’d play a bit of the tune for one of the guys and they would respond with “dude…you really need to finish that”. Finally, a few months ago, I had some lyric ideas to try and took the song off the shelf. This time around, rather than writing the lyric about Thoreau himself, which just didn’t seem to fit the song, I tried writing a story of two people taking a trip together, riding through the countryside just outside Boston, on their way to Walden…and seeing some familiar faces along the way. It’s one of my favorites, and though we’re still tweaking different production bits, I thought I’d post what we’ve got so far.
Just click below to listen to or download the demo:
The Dimes – Walden and the Willow Tree
Hope you guys have a great weekend – we’ll see you soon -
Johnny
