Band Camp - Well it's almost time for band camp again and we are looking forward to spending time together in the hills of Arkansas writing, rehearsing and recording. We are planning on releasing a CD in August of '09 and it will be recorded at Trout House Studio located in the land of no cell phones. The latest release from Trout House, "Big Round World" has been nominated for a Grammy and we hope to see Trout Fishing In America accepting the award for Best Children's Music Album. Immediately after 'Band Camp', we will hit the road for a short tour beginning in Fayetteville, Arkansas and ending in Austin, Texas. We look forward to playing our new (and old) tunes and we hope to see you at one of the venues. 

What's new - Band camp was great and so were the gigs. Wheatfield has never sounded tighter. The new

CD is coming together and we now have 8 tracks recorded in varying degrees of completion. Keith says it's

not going to be finished in August but I haven't given up hope. Regardless, the songs are sounding great and

we are all excited to be releasing a CD of all new material. Ezra and Keith did not win the Grammy for 'Big

Round World' but we are really proud of them for being nominated for the 4th time. The fifth time will be the

charm. Connie just got back from Nashville where she played for publishers during a showcase at the

Bluebird and I am playing three to five times a week. We just booked a date at the Mucky Duck In Houston

for Tuesday, June 2nd. We hope to see you there. cc

The Mucky Duck gig in Houston was sold out and we played a longer show than usual. Toward the end of the night, members of the audience began yelling out the names of tunes they wanted us to play. Ordinarily, we don't encourage that kind of behavior but the mood was right and Wheatfield just kept on playing. I forgot to bring CD's to sell that night so a few people left disappointed that they were unable to take some music home with them. Speaking of CD's we are still working on a new CD that will have many of our new tunes as well as a couple of older ones. I was optimistic that we would have it completed by August of '09 but it looks like August of '10 is a little more realistic. Ezra and Keith continue to be road warriors and Connie and I are playing together a lot more often. We are in the process of planning Band Camp 2010 and will post the live dates on the Tour Schedule page. Stay cool. cc

The Mucky Duck gig in Houston is coming up on June 8th and Wheatfield is playing a backyard party in Austin on June 9th. We are still working on the new CD and since getting snowed out of our last recording session, I have purchased Protools and an iMac and speakers and all the other accouterments necessary to record and email my parts to Ezra. Talk about a learning curve! It didn't help that I acquired a very nasty virus on my PC and subsequently lost a week trying to rid myself of the #*%+ing thing. Got the bug on Facebook so watch out all you social networkers. I'm looking forward to seeing Connie and Keith and Ezra and hope to see you at the gigs. cc

The Mucky Duck gig in Houston was wonderful and so was the Zimmerman's backyard party in Austin. We thought we were going to be rained out in Austin but the skies cleared and we played for about 100 appreciative people. We debuted out new song called "All This Snow" which was written in January while we were snowed in at the Idlet house. We also debuted "Home", a song that Keith wrote after one of our late nights at 'band camp'. I am sending my mandolin, guitar and vocal parts for the upcoming Wheatfield album through the ether to Ezra so he can lay the parts in to the mix. Our friend Bonard said, "You're all supposed to be in the same room when you make a record!" He's right of course, but when the band is spread out over 3 states as it is now, getting everyone into the same room is challenging to say the least. We will get it done! cc