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As we mentioned earlier in the week, Bobby is back in the States to perform at the CMJ Fest in New York.  This will be the first show to kick off the Fall installation of his Dangerous Summer Tour. 

Monica Gleberman, the NY Pop Examiner for Examiner.com, also touches on Bobby’s return to America in her recent article:

The tour has taken in the USA, Canada, France, Germany, Spain and the UK and is now set to continue with a further 38 US shows before ending at the Mercury Lounge in NYC on the 19th December.

According to Monica’s article, the tour has been so succesful in Europe, that it has led to Bobby’s manager, Phil Taylor to schedule future European dates:

Says Taylor, “We were holding off booking a longer European tour in January, as we have been waiting for confirmation of dates in Australia, New Zealand and Japan for that period. Unfortunately these dates were not confirmed in time for our plans, so we have decided that Bobby Long will tour Europe again in January and February before heading back to America for SXSW and another major American and Canadian tour from late March to August.” “Bobby and I were really looking forward to him playing for the many Australian fans who email us, but I am sorry to say we will have to wait a little longer before getting over there.”

And what about any future albums? Are there any in the works?

Bobby has been in the studio this week with Liam Watson at Toe Rag Studios in east London. Early rough mixes are sounding very strong and Bobby has clearly gelled with his band. So far five tracks are complete and ready to be mixed.

Read the full article here.

Also, out there on the interwebs, is a fun new interview with Bobby from the gals at The Fash-Pack.  This interview covers everything from the standard ”what are you up to currently” to who is his favorite WWE wrestler and who he would kiss under the mistletoe.  My fave question/answer was this one:

FP: Who would you kiss, marry and avoid out of – Kate Moss – Kate Winslet and Katy Perry
 
BL: Oh I would Avoid Kate Moss, Marry Kate Winslet ( She has a farm right?) and kiss Katy Perry.

Read the full interview here.

Check out Bobby’s Tour Dates for this Fall here.  And make sure that you follow him on Twitter!

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These pictures are of Bobby (duh!) and his most recent show in Atlanta. They are absolutely gorgeous and I think GarnetGurl should be a professional photographer or something cause DAMN!. I have no additional words to describe them other then enjoy!

Now, WordPress has all these rules about embedding so if you’ll just click the little picture below (also from Tynie!), it’ll take you straight to the site where you can watch all 67 minutes of Bobby Long goodness! ENJOY!!

Click for the FULL Bobby Long Concert!

Merry Christmas everybody!

So what do you all think?? Aren’t these awesome??  Want to see more?? Well, send ‘em in to us! I mean, in a perfect world, Amber and I’d be rich and could tour the world stalking enjoying these guys and their music.  Alas, that is not our reality so we must depend on you guys to send us your pics so we can ogle act like we were there too.

First, let’s start with Bobby. We got a new blog up on his MySpace overnight:

Friday, September 04, 2009

leonard cohen is my uncle

just wanted to say sorry for the lack of updates. will get on it asap and fill you all in next week, especially as my myspace is my most important site.
canada is beautiful and hopefully gonna put a few new live tracks up from boston asap.
thanks for coming to the shows,
having a good time cant wait to write some more songs.
all the best,

from toronto,

bobby

Personally, we are just so happy the Canadians finally let you into their country. I thought as I was gonna have to go up there and have a talk with them about this.*cracks knuckles* Beware, I am scrappy!

Most importantly, this little update included the posting of SEVERAL new tour dates. Woo hoo!! Go see which show you are going to over on our Bobby Long Tour Dates page. And if you are going to the Dallas show, you may even meet me and LiLi. Try to meet us early in the night. Things get a little fuzzy over time…

And then there is Sam, the newest Shack of Soul fan! That little trickster went and posted an AMAZING new video with himself and Stone Jack Jones signing Lost Highway and didn’t tell anybody!

It is very moving and you all do not want to miss this!

Be sure to subscribe to Sam’s YouTube page so you never miss an update from him!

Lots of good stuff this morning. It only leaves me with one question. Marcus! Where are you?!? We miss you and need some good news from you soon!!

Throughout the evening, a shaggy-haired Long showed his love for Elliott Smith, Gram Parsons and Nick Drake, though his take on sad, twangy folk always seemed very much original, relevant and engaging. Perhaps his most stunning performance came on Two Years Old, inspired by his grandfather, a pilot in WWII.

And they offered up this new pic:

Which is the target??

The best news (for all you Florida residents) is that Dunedin’s general manager, Travis Krueger, confirmed what we posted earlier about Bobby’s worst-kept-secret-secret show this Thursday.

If you missed Long on Sunday, you have another chance to catch him this Thursday. He’ll play an impromptu, “not-so-secret, secret show” at 7 p.m. said Dunedin Brewery general manager Travis Krueger.

“He loved the venue, and us here at the venue liked him quite a bit, and we see A LOT of live music,” Kruger said. “So we are very happy there will be another opportunity not only for his fans to see him but also to try to turn more people on to his music.”

Read the full article here.

For more info on the Dunedin Brewery, including ticket info for Bobby’s Thursday show, call (727) 736-0606.

Follow Bobby on Twitter or check out his myspace page.

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from a basement on the hill

Arrived in Portland early evening and made my way to the venue where i was playing for the sound check. Being a huge elliott smith fan i went to a bar he used to hang out in. I headed back to the venue before being whisked off my feet by a local owner of a shop called VooDoo Donuts. He knew Elliott Smith and took me on a tour before dropping me off on stage for my set. The venue was great, although it being all ages there had to be a divider between over 21 and under 21. This basically meant they could not see each other and one half was intoxicated and the other half were not. It was a great show and was sold out. Walking between the two sides was like walking from Soho to the Vatican. The next day we flew to Seattle. It was really beautiful flying over and being a big fan of grunge music I was really happy to be there. I walked into a tattoo parlor to get a tattoo before being thrown out because I was English. The tattoo shop owner was English and obviously didn’t want competition. I went on stage about half ten to a full crowd and the warm up band was great. It was weird not being able to drink on stage so I would occasionally run back stage to knock down a beer, much to peoples delight. I headed out into Seattle with a few people who I met at the gig and had a great time. Seattle was one of the best crowds and were so supportive and pleased for me to be there. I couldn’t stay out too late because I had a 5:30am train to Canada. Getting up in the morning was like separating fighting dogs but I made it on the train in time and got to the border, tired but well. I’ve never been deported in such a friendly and efficient manner. Supposedly this happened to Keith Richards but I haven’t spoken to him about it yet. Going back to Canada in a couple of weeks and I’m looking forward to it. Had to cancel a sold out show but so far heard people were singing my songs outside the venue so I am looking forward to making it up to them.

Bobby x

They gave Bobby nothing but praise as you can tell from this quote:

Long’s performance was by all accounts a great one, and the bluesy vocalist put on a surprisingly heartfelt show to a crowd that felt a little bit distracted.

Did you happen to notice the bit at the end about distracted fans? I sure did. Now, I want this blog to be nothing but a positive place for fans to come and get info and perhaps check out pics and vids from these guys but I feel like taking a minute to address this issue. It seems lately that there have been several shows, and not just Bobby’s but at the other guys too, where more people were concerned about being seen at the show than actually listening to the show. Take this quote also from the AV Club article:

In fact, crowd chatter during Long’s set was so loud, his gritty voice barely registered on an otherwise regular Wednesday evening.

Hey, to each his own, but as someone who loves to attend small venue shows such as the places these guys play, I can attest to it being very distracting to the listeners and down right rude to the performers. So before I get all “mom” on you guys, just please show a little respect for both these artists and the fans that actually, I dunno, want to hear them play??

Read the entire AV article here.

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