I hope you all had a great holiday and nye/ny celebration. This was an email/blog I was planning on writing a little earlier in 2009 and now I'm already 12 days in...so my 2009 'to-do' list isn't looking good so far.

I was just thinking about how, 10 years ago, we were all starting to run around buying up bottled water and canned goods in preparation for the Y2K scare. Which looking back now it seems so clear that it was just a scam the bottled water/canned good industries used to trick us into buying tons of bottled water and canned goods! We were so naive!

I was also just thinking about how the "Salute to 2009 Tour" is almost upon us (yes I meant to salute 2009). I put together a little video blog (Vlog) for you guys about the tour so check it out! I hope you enjoy it cause I was burning up in that flannel/sweater combo while we were shooting it.

Here are the cities we're coming to ....

Jan 16 2009 8:15P Harding University- Searcy, Arkansas
Jan 17 2009 10:15P The Parish @ House Of Blues- New Orleans, Louisiana
Jan 19 2009 10:00P The Parish - Austin, Texas
Jan 20 2009 9:00P Warehouse Live - Houston, Texas
Jan 22 2009 8:00P Vinyl- Atlanta, Georgia
Jan 23 2009 10:30P Jack Rabbits- Jacksonville, Florida
Jan 24 2009 9:30P City Limits- Delray Beach, Florida
Jan 25 2009 9:30P The Social- Orlando, Florida
Jan 27 2009 10:00P Cat's Cradle- Carrboro, North Carolina
Jan 28 2009 8:45P Birchmere- Alexandria,Virginia
Jan 29 2009 8:00P World Cafe Live- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Jan 30 2009 10:00P Paradise Rock Club- Boston, Massachusetts
Jan 31 2009 10:15P Blender Theatre @ Gramercy- New York City, New York
Feb 2 2009 10:00P Revolution Hall- Troy, New York
Feb 3 2009 8:45P Rex Theatre- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Feb 4 2009 8:50P Tralfamadore Music Hall- Buffalo, New York
Feb 13 2009 10:30P Blind Pig- Ann Arbor, Michigan
Feb 16 2009 9:00P Majestic Theatre- Madison, Wisconsin
Feb 17 2009 8:15P Luther College- Decorah, Iowa
Feb 20 2009 7:30P House of Blues- Chicago, Illinois
Feb 26 2009 8:00P Hard Rock Cafe Hollywood - March On Stage- Universal City, CA
Mar 1 2009 8:00P Hard Rock Cafe - March On Stage- Sacramento, California
Mar 7 2009 8:30P Benson Great Hall- St.Paul, Minnesota

So, again, Happy New Year - and we'll see you on the road!

-j-