Last week we spent 5 days with Patrick Hunt in the studio, Robert’s room with the walls & floor covered in blankets. We tracked 12 tracks that we’ll keep, 9 tunes with 3 alternate versions. Some unexpected things happened. Songs take on a life of their own. Usually that’s a blessing. The tunes are

• I’d Like to See You Again
• Didn’t Know that I Know
• The Day I Married Her
• Soft Rock Radio
• History
• The Cold of Winter
• Clear As a Bell
• More to Say
• Two Things

We’re not going to mix & master for a couple months so we’ve got some time to maybe add a few more tunes, plus add some guest musicians & a couple solos to the equation.

We’re looking forward to playing Columbia tomorrow & Lemmon’s on Friday. Please come out & say hi.
-Joe

Greetings kind folks of the internet,

A brief public service announcement — call your mothers; it’s mother’s day.

Our new record “10 Radio Singles & a Murder Ballad” is available at Vintage Vinyl in St Louis and at all shows. We’re really pleased with how it looks and sounds — thanks especially to Greg MacNair (artwork, violins), Mark Taylor (cover art, back art) & Kathleen Thro (BGVs, accordian) & Patrick Hunt who mixed & helped track things & made sure we had the right microphones.

Thanks to everyone who came to the Kirksville shows & The Red Sea last night. We made some friends at Squirrelfest (www.MySpace.com/TheAquaticRecord.com) & played an impromptu show with them at The Info Shop in Kirksville. And they played with us at The Red Sea last night & we met some more fine folks (www.MySpace.com/Ottomen) & played yet more new tunes & the rock n roll was heard by all.

Tonight at practice I *think* we finished a new tune called History & it’s gonna be a radio single, I swear. With History on the list we’re looking at 12-17 tunes the new record. Its working title is Album #3. We’re tracking June 10-15, maybe 10 or 12 hour days, hoping to do at least drums & bass, maybe guitars & keys too. Drop me a line if you want to bring us lunch one of those days.
-Joe

Thanks to everyone for coming out to Cafe Mattino last weekend … the show was really well-attended & some great pieces were sold, & the quality of the work was encouraging.

It was also the release of our new CD Essays In Pop. Skip over to the multimedia page to hear some of the new songs. For the cover art, I went over to Kathleen Wyllie’s house & looked at a bunch of her pieces & picked out some favorites. It was a treat to see more than 3 decades of diverse & engaging work. Kathleen’s been a mentor to me for a decade & I’m grateful to her for use of the artwork & proud to have it on our CD. Some of her work is at Cafe Mattino if you want to see more. (www.CafeMattino.com)

I just got confirmation that our new disc 10 Radio Singles & a Murder Ballad is in the mail, so we’ll have it at Truman State’s Squirrelfest this weekend & at Vintage Vinyl next week.

We’ve also been scheduling recording sessions for this summer to track songs for the next record. We may re-record some out-of-print tunes from Cd-Rs, but the new tunes include:

• Soft Rock Radio
• Clear As a Bell
• In a Time of Halogen
• To Be My Love
• Two Things
• The Picture My Father Carries
• Born That Day
• The Cold of Winter

We’re pleased with the new tunes & we’ll be playing some of them at all our upcoming shows.
-Joe

We’re looking forward to playing Squirrelfest in a couple weeks because there’ll be tons of people, snow cones, T-Shirts, & music all day.

The weekend of the 21st our new CD will be playing at an art opening for a group showing of Le Pouce & L’Orteille at Cafe Mattino in St Louis. See www.CafeMattino.com for info. The show opening will be Friday April 21st pm & Saturday April 22nd afternoon, but it will be up for a month. Lots of St louis artists I admire will also be showing work, including Greg MacNair, Mark Taylor, Aubrey Hawkes, & Kathleen Wyllie.

10 Radio Singles & a Murder Ballad will also be for sale if we have it by then … we’re expecting it next week or the week after, so we’ll have it for sure by Squirrelfest.

Cheers, -Joe

We haven’t posted much on the web, but much is afoot. We’ve made press kits, bumper stickers & postcards (if you want a press kit, just drop me a line). Robert did a complete overhaul on the www.JoeEisenbraun.com website & it includes new photos & 6 unreleased tracks from the 1st two records. We’ve also got 4 new tunes we’ve been writing & practicing for the 3rd record:

• Clear as a bell
• Two things
• In a time of halogen
• Soft rock radio

We want to call this record The Mix Tape, recording & arranging each song in a different style & doing some low-fi stuff; & maybe including a solo track without the band & a traditional tune too.

Thanks for listening.
-Joe

December 30, 2005

• release the 2 records we finished
• finish & release a 3rd record
• play more shows out of town
• post live show recordings & interviews for download
• work on music video
• get more folks to record in the Nice Noise Studio — maybe work on area compilation

November 13, 2005
Last night we got the rough mix from Patrick. It sounds great. You’ll all buy one, right?

Anyone know a good place to get a CD mastered? I got 18 different quotes on getting it stamped, but it needs a little mastering first. We’re working on the artwork & at this point I’m hopeful that we’ll have everything finished by Christmas.

We also finished the untitled 10-track disc of all new material this week–except for guitar solos & BGV’s. We might call it “Confessions & Nursery Rhymes” or “The Enthusiastic Confessions of a Bored 20-Something.” I think we’re going to burn CD-R’s of it instead of getting it replicated ’cause it’s kinda lo-fi & we’re going to mix it ourselves (mostly Robert I hope). Maybe we’ll release both CD’s at once. At the show Thursday we’ll play two sets including all the songs on both CD’s.
-Joe

October 5, 2005
We’ve been recording for the next record, perhaps to be titled “Modest attempts at stadium rock anthems” or “Live from my parents’ living room,” & it will almost certainly include at least the following tracks:

• The day I married her
• Even the stars
• Vegas to Alcatrez
• Really what I like
• Jesus beams
• The night from the day
• If she asks
• Logic can’t heal this heart
• I didn’t know that I know

Patrick is still mixing 10 Radio Singles … & we should hear some of it later this month. We’re still looking for a bass player but a second guitarist or keyboardist would also be a welcome addition, so likeminded musicians please say hi.
Best, Joe

August 25, 2005
Joe Eisenbraun is now on PureVolume; www.purevolume.com/joeeisenbraun.

August 11, 2005
Ok, tonight I drop off the new tunes to Patrick to be mixed. Re-recording the same record was a real drag sometimes, but other times it was exactly what we needed; the record is better for it because we were able to get a much higher level of fidelity & because the parts developed & changed as we went. We caught some good moments & I’m pleased with the results.