No Funny/ The heat situation’s not really all that amusing anymore. Seems like the romance that comes along with those first few weeks of sweltering temps is long, long gone. Been spending a lot of time on the banks of the Colorado in Bastrop, Texas of late, harvesting inspirado from some of the folks I run into down at the river every now and again. I see smalltown progressives and conservatives, too. There’s cliff jumpers and nice families and some high school crusties and time-killing trashers. There’s a pink-haired girl that carries her acoustic around caseless, and I think even a couple of ex-cons. I’m not sure but I do think that was a couple of ex-cons sharing (liquor?) out of a 44oz. Sonic cup last Monday. Anyway, writing a good bit. Settling in.
“Late Blooms/Quality Startsâ€/ Matt Pence and I are having an art show at Good Records in Dallas on the evening of Sunday, August 16th. A more formal announcement will be made, but the general idea is that it’s a joint exhibition that will include his photography and my little baseball paintings. We’re both pretty enthused about venturing into some new creative territory these days, and we figured why not sail some of those waters together. There may well be some music involved with the whole thing, too. Stop on down. It’s free.
See more Matt Pence photos
See more Will Johnson paintings
New Texas Solo Shows/ All with my golden-voiced Georgia friend, Liz Durrett.
Sept. 10/Dallas – Doublewide
Sept. 11/Denton – Dan’s Silverleaf
Sept. 12/Austin – Space 12 Gallery
Recordings, Releases/ Lotsa you friends have asked, and the Centro-matic Live DVD is in its latter stages of production. We’ll have a formal release date announced soon. Centro-matic also returns to camp in the latter half of August to start work on our next full length release. Looks like a 2010 release will be in the cards. Lastly, the record I made with Jason Molina will be released later this fall courtesy of Secretly Canadian. We are assembling a band, and full European and US touring will follow. I’m really looking forward to all that. For now, good summer salute to you, and we’ll talk to you soon.
-Will J.