4-14-09
Our Hero, Tim the Tranny soliciting the band…..
6-30-10
Good news! THe Last Drags were offered a slot on the KLCC stage at The Eugene Celebration this year! Yea! We’re psyched!
6-4-10
Some updated news…The Last Drags album Darning Socks for the Apocalypse has been Selected for Reality Films Soundtrack Placement Contest (Spring 2010) Which is cool….we will be hopefully placed into a cool Indie film! Also, we have recently been jamming with Dave Johnson from the band Against the Green as a an auxilary and sometimes player. Dave and Shipe will hopefully be coming in when they can as special guests.
We are excited about our shows upcoming in PDX and want to see all our Portland friends out to represent!!
Yeehaw!
4-20-10
Happy 4-20! A nice review for ‘Darning Socks…in the Jersey Beat THE QUIET CORNER: SPRING 2010
By Robert Barry Francos , not sure how it got there but that’s cool!
About 3/4’s of the way down the page…http://www.jerseybeat.com/quietcorner.html
From the title of PATRICK KAVANEY AND THE LAST DRAGS’ “Darning Socks for the Apocalypse” (workingstiffrecords.com), one may think we’re talking punk, but no, PK&TLD is a mix of country and Americana, with some rock’n’roll thrown in. But one thing is when they are witty, they spare no expense, with songs like “Spanish Nightmare,” “Delusion & Grandeur” (as in being on the corner of), “Looking Forward Back,” and “Ego Bandito.” Yet even with the puns, the songs are strong and tend toward the ballad, but stay pretty strong. Kavaney’s voice is well suited for this material, and what also makes this record, is its basis on strings: guitars, lap guitar, slide guitar, and bass flow through, with a real good rhythm holding it up. There’s even a bit of Tex-Mex thrown in, with “Waking Song.” They may be from Oregon, but they have that more southern sound down. Not as harsh as, say, southern rock, or as bland as modern country, they’re somewhere in-between, with a rich, full sound.-
4-15-10
After only 2 weeks of auditions, we have secured our new drummer, Joel Albrecht! Joel is going to be an awesome addition to the band. A gifted and professional player with tons and tons of experience, we are psyched Joel is onboard. Joel also happens to be a sound engineer and part time mastering engineer, so that could be an excellent addition as well. Joels first gig with us will be May 22nd at The Muse in Eugene!
Welcome aboard Joel!!
4-7-10
Nice plug from our friends at KLOO 106.3 FM http://kloo.com/pages/localbandcalendar/
Check it out!
2-23-10
On the Bridgeport Brewing Companies website for some local Oregon Flava Flav!
http://www.bridgeportbrew.com/#/music/
2-1-10
Here is a list of the excellent Radio Stations around the world that are playing Darning Socks for the Apocalypse!!
Radiowayne 365 Live-Texas
WDVS Radio- Davis, CA
WPSU Folk- Pennsylvania
Lufthansa Inflight Radio-Worldwide
KWVA-Eugene, OR
KLCC-Eugene, OR
KRVM- Eugene, OR
Stadsradio Breda http://stadsrtvbreda.nl/bluewednesday/- The Netherlands
ROOTSTIME www.rootstime.be- The Netherlands
Goodnoise Radio- The Netherlands
Radio Leystad/Radio 227 http://paulvangelder.com/playlists.htm -The Netherlands
Hans (on the move) RTV-Alkmaar/Netherlands
http://www.dutchrootsradio.com/hans_on_the_move.htm
“Country File” is the country/roots show on radiostation “Havenstad FM”
on cable FM 104.1, ether FM 105.4 and live stream on www.havenstadfm.nl-The Netherlands
Radio free FM www.freefm.de- Germany
Wholewheat Radio-Talkeetna, AK
Blast 1386- U.K.
KRCB-Santa Rosa, CA
WMHB 89.7 FM-Waterville, ME
Songs From The Ark
Radio Reverb 97.2FM
www.radioreverb.com, UK
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:8-ZwTe-JhTcJ:www.eboards4all.com/206687/messages/122490.html+patrick+kavaney+and+the+last+drags&cd=86&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
18 Stations that I know of and counting! Wooo Hoo! Thanks for all the support all you wonderful DJ’s!!
1-8-10 12-24-09 12-18-09 Article in The Register Guard and The Eugene Weekly 12-1-09 November 17, 2009 11-12-09 Playlists for the Lufthansa Inflight program “Country/Folk/Americana” 11-9-09 10-22-09 10-6-09 9-11-09 8-14-09 5-12-09 3-13-09 As this is written, Patrick is in the studio recording his follow up CD to Weather or Not…it’s coming along great and looking to be completed by june or july this year. Our good friend, Ehren Ebbage Aug 2008 Chuckbarrymanilow has gone to pasture and from the ashes has risen The Last Drags, featuring Rich Sellars, Tricky P and Jerry Abelin, (seeking a mulit-instrumentalist to round out the crew) watch for upcoming shows The Last Drags The Last Drags has been rehearsing and regrouping after the dissolution of CBM…PK has been writing new songs and framing the new CD project he wants to do with TLD PK with The Last Drags is booking a West Coast/possible AZ tour in spring of ‘09, culminating in a showcase in WHO KNOWS WHEN HE WOULD HAVE LOST HIS VIRGINITY WITHOUT HIS CHURCH YOUTH Register Guard Article
Happy New Year’s Everyone! The Working Stiff Records Roadshow is coming together for May. Another confirmed date for May 7th at Eichardt’s in Sandpoint, ID!! We’re excited!
Also, nice write up and press from The Netherlands own Goodnoise Radio, check it here…http://goodnoiseradio.blogspot.com/
First confirmed date for the Working Stiff Record's Roadshow at John's Alley, Moscow ID for May 8th 2010, we're pumped!!
New interview with me about the new album and The Last Drags…
http://www.leicesterbangs.co.uk/patrick-kavaney.html
Performer Magazine
Check out the records we got in the office today…
The Great Affairs – self-titled
Anna Madorsky – Incantation
Diego’s Umbrella – Double Panther
Patrick Kavaney and the Last Drags – Darning Socks for the Apocalypse
Camp Out – Closer
Bryan Minus – Forage
Faello Nor – Solus Affairs
Tomeka Williams – The Black Hood
Thomas’ Apartment – Tuesday Night Lights
The Alpha Centauri – Lavarocks
Lovewhip – Love Electric
Doug & Telisha Williams – Ghost of the Knoxville Girl
Hey Mama – self-titled
Julianna Barwick – Florine
JahQues – self-titled
Toro y Moi – Causers of This
Field Music – self-titled
Bums Life – Stumblin’ & Mumblin’
Annie Crane – Through the Farmland & the Cities
Jacob Jones – Bound For Glory
Derek Hoke – Goodbye Rock N Roll
Ben Sollee and Daniel Martin Moore – Dear Companion
The Album Leaf – A Chorus of Storytellers
Brown Bird – The Devil Dancing
South China – Washingtons
Honey Clouds – Fall on the Honey Clouds
I’m not excited to be played on all international inflight radio on Lufthansa, no not at all!
Here is the inflight playlist I will be included on! Pretty repubatle folks on this list geez! Nice!
sorry I just had to share!
01/02-2010 Kyle Swartzwelder: Bring me home (13:13 Records)
The Unwanted: Out on the Western Plains (Compass Records)
Greg Brown: Living in a prayer (Red House Records)
Hugo Race: Cold eye (Glitterhouse Records)
The Lovell Sisters: Distance (2DefPigs Records)
Rosanne Cash w. Bruce Springsteen: Sea of heartbreak (Columbia Records)
Willy Nelson: You are always on my mind (Columbia Records)
Kieran Kane: Anybody’s game (Compass Records)
Smokestack Lightnin’: Carter Cain (Hazelwood Records)
John Prine & Mac Wiseman: Old dogs, children and watermelon wine (OhBoy Records)
The Wailin’ Jennys: Deeper well (Red House Records)
Bruce Cockburn: World of Wonders (Rounder)
Woody Guthrie: Philadelphia lawyer (Rouder)
Woody Guthrie: This land is your land (Rounder)
Rykarda Parasol: Maggie (Rykarda Parasol)
K.C. McKanzie: Mirrors, spoons and bottles (t3 records)
Reckless Kelly: Passin’ through (YepRec Records)
Marshall Crenshaw: Live and learn (429 Records)
Among the Oak & Ash: The water is wide (Verve Forecast)
The Pines: Pray tell (Red House Records)
Red Molly: The mind of a soldier (CD Baby)
Steep Canyon Rangers: Have Mercy (Rebel)
Justin Tubb: Something called the blues (Bear Family)
John Denver: Annie’s song (BMG)
Patrick Kavaney and the Last Drags: Eliza Blue (Working Stiff Records)
John Gorka: A fond kiss (Red House Records)
John Prine: Glory of true love (OhBoy Records)
Cliff Eberhardt: 500 miles (Red House Records)
John W. Summers: Beaumont Rag (Smithsonian Folkways)
Darning Socks for the Apocalypse is available through iTunes now! Soon it will be available through Amazon as well.
So far ‘Darning…’ has received airplay in Texas, Alaska, Maine and Oregon. NPR is playing it and our local student run station as well!
Sending another 65 CD’s to Europe for review soon!
Exciting news today! I have been working with a publicist from Seattle named Rachel Harrington and her company called Emerging Artist Resources (who I highly recommend). Through her contacts she has helped me to get the new album featured on Lufthansa inflight radio for all international flights starting in January! Really quite exciting and interesting! Thanks Rachel! We’re going international!
Yeehaw!
Well the CD’s are here but you can’t have ‘em yet! hahaahaa! Now comes the build up to the CD release and I’m working with Rachel Harrington’s company Emerging Artist Resources to get it out to appropriate press and radio. We are all very pleased with the way it came out and can’t wait for everyone to hear it. The stellar artwork is by Claire Flint-Last (Three Seed Designs, http://www.claireflint.com) once again and looks amazing! Thanks Claire!
Official CD release date is Dec 18th! Watch for it everybody!
The album is finished, mixed, mastered, artwork is done, duplication copy has been sent to Discmasters and I am on the cusp of getting the first 500 copies of “…Socks” It’s a rewarding feeling to be finished with an album…now comes the real work of getting it hyped and out there and the build up towards the CD release which won’t happen until december. The CD release is going to be a dual
Welcome Back Shipe/ Last Drags CD release party, we’re psyched!!
The disc is finished and just in time! Ebbage has left the building, the Eugene building that is….Ebbage moved to Seattle and we wish him luck! “Darning…” will be out by late Sept and we are planning a combo release/Welcome Back Shipe CD release for around that time.
Some cool gigs coming up; Cozmic, Next Step Arts Fair….
We have a new face in the band, Mike Gelardi has been joining us on keyboards and it sounds great
Come out and enjoy the Drags when you can!
The recording of the new disc is coming along swimmingly as they say! Ebbage and I have been spending many long hours in Jerry Groove’s (thanks to Jerry, Lydia and Shula for letting us take over your basement) basement tinkering and it’s really sounding great!
I’m thrilled with the outcome so far….we are 10 tracks deep and it’s definitely got a cool vibe
The songs have really taken on their own personalities which has been really fun to watch…
We have solid rhythm tracks from Jerry Groove, Reeotch and Ebbage and so the groove is in good hands! Ebbage is on tour currently (please check out ehrenebbage.com for his shows in the midwest) but upon his return I think one last push and we will be done with all the tracking and can dive into mixing.
It’s been great to get to know Ebbage and bond and I hope to do some shows with him as well!
He kicks ass!
The Last Drags has said goodbye to our long time drummer Reeotch (Rich Sellars)
The shock therapy seems to be going well for him and he seems to finally be at peace that he is not the “fifth Beatle”. Although Reeotch has gone to strawberry fields, we will still definitely play with him from time to time. Jerry “Groove” Abelin is still rockin it on bass and we have been “breaking in” Reeotch’s replacement, Charlie Davis. Charlie is a great drummer and we are excited about the prospects with him…we are currently looking for a fourth member to fill out the band…currently holding auditions for guitar or keys.
is not only producing but also recording, engineering and helping to add his awesome chops on the record too! Thanks Ebbage! You Rock! More updates soon!
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