Blind Willies Alexei Wajchman Max Miller-Loran Misha Khalikulov Daniel Riera Alex Nash gigs news

1/17/2012

New York music blog BuzzChips posted a
review of our 9/20 Cafe du Nord show.

Join us tonight at The THING Quarterly
with Dave Eggers. Free reading of his
new short story & music.

We'll be at The Mint in LA on Thursday
1/19.
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12/30/2011

Happy and healthy new year to all of you.
Thanks to everyone who bought CDs,
hosted, reviewed, played, and listened to
us. We hope we'll see you again soon.

Patti Smith!
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10/18/11
"Absolutely Isabel" was selected for a
free download card that PBS series
Roadtrip Nation has been distributing at
college campuses.

We're in the SF Chronicle's Bandwidth
this week. The interview was cut. Here's
the original.
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9/14/11
See a list of stations that have added and
played the new album.

Randy Clark's excellent new album,
Junebugs and Journeymen, is out. Listen
to a couple songs.
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8/10/11
New review in Aiding & Abetting.

We're featured again on UK podcast Suffolk 'n'
Cool. And in a few recent blogs, The Rebel Agenda,
Berkeley Place, CrayonBeats, Bee Hive Candy.

Under a Big Red Sun is released today. Jezebel is
on it and all proceeds go to Oxfam International.

We're wandering between shows in Washington.
Here's a video of Steal Away in Seattle.
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7/30/11

A new German review was posted this
week at Wasser-Prawda. We've had a few
translations. It's all good.
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7/15/11

We have another new review in Heaven, a
Netherlands print magazine. See the magazine here.

We're mentioned in a new blog, American Gothic
#5. It's an interesting column.

Tonight at Miners Foundry in Nevada City. We're bringing a
trombone Siren.
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7/9/11

New review in Pennsylvania's McKeesport Daily
News' "In Tune" Section today. See it here.

"Lord Thought He'd Make a Man" is on UK's Suffolk
'N' Cool podcast #279.
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6/14/11

See new reviews on the Press page.

Hear us live on Derk Richardson's KPFA Hear and
Now 6/16. Then at Amnesia with Danny Cohen 7pm
Friday, 6/17.

Owl Mag interview.

"Lord Thought He'd Make a Man" is on Bill Frater's
Freight Train Boogie podcast #122.

Best New Bands interview with Laurel Kathleen
was posted 6/3.

"Absolutely Isabel" and "Trampin'" are featured on
6/2/11 Elbows music blog.

The Mad Mackerel UK blog recommends Blind
Willies on 5/28/11

"Jezebel" was chosen for the Oxfam International
compilation CD, Under a Big Red Sun, due for
release August 1st.
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5/18/2011
The new album has gotten early radioplay in the
Netherlands on Arjen Dekker's Blue Wednesday, Dutch
Roots Radio's Landslide, Gerrit Casper's Goodnoise,
Thomas Kaldijk's Blueprint, and Rootsrevival; in Italy on
Massimo Ferro's Highway 61; in France on Michel Penard's
ISA Radio American Roots Music; in Germany on Radio
Marabu, Friedrich Hog's Radio Free FM, Juergen Kramer's
Radio Zusa; in the US on KPFA, KALW, KCSB, KAFM, WPSU,
WFDU, KRCB, KDVS, KBGA, KZSC, KZSU, KPIG, KKUP.
"One Dime Down" is #1 on Boston's UnRegular Radio
National Top 5 list for week of 5/12.

"Sisters of Perpetual Curiosity" was chosen for Tranquilizer
Records Compilation CD.

Thanks to all the radio DJs who've hosted us in-studio
recently: Oy-Dog on KZSC's Musical Jews, Alan Joyce at
KZSU's Everyday Commotion, Bill Wagman's KDVS
Saturday Morning Folk Show, Mindy's Mix at KRCB, John
Sandidge at KPIG's Please Stand By, and Kevin Vance's
KALW Patchwork Quilt.
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5/8/11
We'll play in-studio at KZSC 5/12 on DJ Oy-Dog's Musical
Jews. The show has been bringing Jewish music to Santa
Cruz for 3 years.

You can hear the show we did at KDVS 5/7. Our half-hour
set begins at 2:00 on the itunes timeline.
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4/2/11
Needle, Feather, and a Rope is now available at CD
Baby, Bandcamp, and in our store(where we benefit
most, where the special deals are special, and where you
feel best knowing your money is going straight to the band).
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3/29/11
Thanks to everyone who came to the shows this past
week, to Emile for hawking CDs so ably, to Isaac & Alrik &
Perry for video coverage. It was all fun.

Emile Klein is about to begin an epic 5 year bicycle journey
that will cross 50 states, record stories, depict individual
personalities and faces that contribute nuance and
character to what we are as a nation. Help him.

We played various Muni routes last week. Everyone packs
a camera now and they've sent us videos. Check them out:
Good and Faithful Servant, Last Drop of Midnight, Red
Dream
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3/24/11
PLEASE don't let rain, sleet, flood, Furies stop you from
coming to the mysterious Blue Macaw tonight.

See Isaac & Alric's Making of Needle,
Feather, and a Rope video.
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3/20/11
We have the CDs, the package is beautiful, band photos
and complete lyrics on included insert foldout, AND the
music will sound best when played using the actual HDCD
disc.
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2/17/11
See video featuring our T-shirt. Max Spiegel is a
Pennsylvania DJ and founder of The Mudcat Cafe.
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1/30/11
If you missed our live performance on KALW you can hear
Kevin Vance's A Patchwork Quilt here for one week. We're
the first half hour.
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1/11/11
Our Cafe Du Nord show, with The Ferocious Few, DIA, and
Kallisto, was wild and memorable. Chukwudi Hodge sat in
with us and brutally dominated the drums. Adam arrived in
time to play the encore with us. Thanks to everyone who
came and to Brian and Jim of SF Melting Pot for their vision
of soul food, bingo, and music. Watch for more Soul Bingo
in the coming months.

Alex Akamine's photos of our Vagabond Ballroom show
with Vespertine Circus are posted at SF Station.

Isacc just directed a video for SF Chronicle reporter Peter
Hartlaub.
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12/10/10
Isaac Pingree & Alrik Bursell filmed us at the Tiny
Telephone recording sessions in June. The new video
posted is Reprobate Mind.
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11/9/10
Mixing is done and P aul Stubblebine will do the mastering.

Isaac's film has been picked up for On Demand distribution
in Turkey, so tune-in when you're in Istanbul. AND he's
working temp as a gaffer's ass't. on Coppola's new film
starring Bruce Dern & Val Kilmer.
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9/1/10
We're going to mix the new album at Hyde Street Studios
mid-September. Justin Phelps is coming down from
Portland to work with us. He's recorded and mixed Dresden
Dolls, Amanda Palmer, Dead Kennedys, Cake, The Neville
Brothers, Chuck Prophet, Jolie Holland, etc. Looking
forward to it is understatement.
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7/20/10
We finished overdubbing tracks at Radical House last night
with Charles Gonzalez, Rebecca Pingree, Rachel Woods-
Robinson, Nicolette Yarbrough, and Ken Rosen. Beautiful
and talented every one.
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6/15/10
Shows soon at Bollyhood (with special guest Seth
Augustus)& Ashkenaz (with Brooklyn Afro-Beat band Zongo
Junction). Come, bring friends. Misha's about to leave on
tour with Rupa so we're going to send him off properly. And
we're celebrating birthdays at Ashkenaz.

We had productive 4 long days that passed in a flash at Tiny
Telephone. The 10 songs we planned became 14. Guest
musicians included Randy Clark, Isabel Douglass, Andrew
Walker, Adam Nash.

Isaac's film is released today. The Alameda Sun published
a feature.
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5/18/10
Please come to the Bollyhood show if you can on
Wednesday, May 26th. We're going to record the new album
a few days later at John Vanderslice's all analog studio,
Tiny Telephone, and we'd appreciate having an audience.
We always appreciate having an audience.

Jonah is playing the Hemlock Tavern this Thursday, May
20th. It's going to be an AMAZING show. Powell St. John's
songs have been covered by Janis Joplin, Boz Scaggs,
Doug Sahm and Roky Erikson & 13th Floor Elevators. He's
in the Texas Music Hall of Fame and he's currently playing
with The Aliens, Roky's legendary band. Danny Cohen
released 3 albums on Anti and has been praised by
Tom Waits among many others. He's a unique writer and
performer. Don't miss this show if you have any interest in
raw, elemental American music.

My cousin, Michael Zegen, is the lead in a play, "Oliver
Parker!" by Elizabeth Meriwether, that opened in NY last
night to rave reviews. Also, the new season of Rescue Me
starts June 29 on FX. He's a rookie fireman in the series
written and produced by and starring Dennis Leary.

Isaac Pingree's film, Day of Vengeance(aka Blood
Loss) has a US distribution deal and is being released
on DVD across the country. You can order it on Amazon.
Isaac has made an excellent short about the making of the
film that's included as a bonus feature on the new DVD.
There are 3 Blind Willies songs, in various bites, on the
soundtrack.
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3/23/10
We're playing 2 sets at Revolution Cafe on Friday night.
Randy Clark is also going to play a set of his great original
songs.
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12/10/09
I'm playing new songs at CMC on Sunday 12/13 with
Ken Rosen's Teen Jazz Big Band and a set with Daniel
Riera, Max Miller-Loran, Misha Khalikulov, Jacob Clinton,
and Jimmy Stack.
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7/2/09
Blind Willies will be featured on Hélène Engel's Les Faces
Cachées de la Musique Juive on Radio Shalom in
Montreal. The program airs worldwide 7/28/09 8pm EST
and then will be available in the station's online archive.
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6/5/09
I spent the last few weeks rehearsing for a set at Jerry
Pannone's 6/3 surprise retirement concert in SOTA's Main
Stage Theatre with some great School of the Arts
musicians. Adam Nash/electric guitar, Savannah
Harris/drums, Anabel Hirano/bass, Nicolette
Yarbrough/fiddle. I loved performing my songs with them.

See a list of Blind Willies radioplay

Jonah was a perfect opener for Graham Parker on Sunday
night at Freight & Salvage.
Sold out, excellent show.
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5/20/09
Mom Says No was played on 10 shows in the US, Canada,
and Australia around Mother's Day, and Kevin Vance played
it in SF on KALW's Patchwork Quilt 5/16.

KlezmerShack posted a Sinners Medley video on its
homepage.
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4/28/09
Everybody’s Looking for a Meal is on Don Campau’s No
Pigeonholes Best of 2008 albums.

Blind Willies is on the Top Artists December 2008 list,
compiled by Richard Gilman(KBCS) from 142 folk format
specific DJs. We were in good company down the list.

Our performance of If You Was a Good Pimp is on
Princeton's Cafe Improv Best of 2008 compilation.