June 7, 2005
The album has been shelved. We’re starting from scratch & doing everything over. Patrick Hunt has agreed to help track & mix, & Jim Tudor will be doing some documenting. The studio has been upgraded enormously since we started recording, & Patrick is quite good so we’re looking forward to the upcoming month. Drum tracking starts tomorrow.

June 1, 2005
Patrick Hunt came over Sunday & looked at the tracking we’ve done — everything expect the BGV’s I think. He’ll mix it for us. He gave us some pointers for next time, & we start recording for the next disc next week.
10 Radio Singles & a Murder Ballad’s track list might look like this:

1. I Love You But Not Me
2. So over you
3. Karaoke love
4. Headache heartbreak handshake goodbye
5. Sugarcane
6. The librarian song
7. I’m not my best friend’s best friend
8. Julia
9. Beautiful girl
10. Here with me
11. Last December

On the next disc we want to include

• The day I married her, Love song #37, Vegas to Alcatrez, I didn’t know that I know, Really what I like, Logic can’t heal this heart, The night from the day

–& some others that aren’t quite finished yet. At Lemmon’s in a couple weeks we’re hoping hoping to debut a couple of the new tunes.
The tunes on MySpace are unmixed demos, mostly without BGV’s, for 10 Radio Singles & a Murder Ballad.
One last thing: I bought a Menatone Fish Factory a couple weeks ago, thanks to Jimmy Griffin & John Clements. I think it’ll be all over this next disc.

April 16, 2005
The MySpace site I started last week has more pictures, tunes, & band info: www.myspace.com/joeeisenbraun

April 9, 2005
“I Love You but Not Me” is featured in the gallery of Catapult Magazine.

March 13, 2005
We’ve started tracking for the new record, tentatively called “10 Radio Singles & a Murder Ballad,” & I for one am … well, quite hopeful. There are a bunch of new tunes & we’re probably also going to re-record some oldies that we still play & need full band recordings of. The songs we’re considering are also the possibilities for the upcoming shows:

• Last December
• I love you but not me
• There’s no honesty here (Beautiful girl)
• Headache heartbreak handshake goodbye
• Here with me
• Julia
• The librarian song
• I’m not my best friend’s best friend
• Sugarcane
• If she asks
• Hey now honey
• I didn’t know that I know
• Logic can’t heal this heart
• Girl I am so over you
• Vegas or Alcatrez
• Karaoke love

February 4, 2005
Nice Noise Records has generously upgraded its recording studio. Expect good things.
Thanks to everyone for coming out to the last shows — new dates have been added to the calender.

November 10, 2004
It’s been a while since the last post, & much is afoot. After losing bass players to Target, Brazil, school, & children, shows are being booked for the new 3-piece: Robert Eisenbraun on drums & vocals, Gordon McKinney on bass & vocals, Joe Eisenbraun on guitars & vocals. Were going to go for an Indie/Folk/Pop/Rock sound & see if we can pick up a keyboardist or lap steel player as we go. A new album is being talked about in hushed tones, & dreams are being dreampt. Sign up for the mailing list. Check the calendar. Tell a friend.

December 2, 2003
Joe’s newest self-titled CD is available in St. Louis in-store & online at Vintage Vinyl, or at Schuler’s Books & Music in Grand Rapids.

November 19, 2003
Building a “news” section has been prompted by Eisenbraun’s first mini-tour in support of the new self-titled disc. Written from April to July of 2003, this is his first commercially packaged & stamped venture, & will feature artwork by William Suk & Ryan Seth Thompson. For the recording sessions, guest musicians Juan Guarcia (lap steel, banjo; of Saturday Looks Good To Me), Josh Ippel (keyboards, knobs; of Lapel), Perry Trolard (drums; of the Dream Machine) & Elizabeth Dieleman (vocals) were invited to add their talents to Eisenbraun’s thesis-driven pop songwriting & finger style acoustic guitar work. The tour, starting off at the dear alma mater in Grand Rapids, Michigan, will take a sidestep to see old friends & for house concerts on the east coast before returning to Michigan for shows in Detroit, Traverse City, Grand Rapids & Grand Haven. The tour will end back in St Louis on December 4 at Off-Broadway for the home-town CD release party.