January 2005 Happy New Year!

Jan/31/05 Here's What's New . . . ~ New Bookings Shows in February Join us for our first show at Del Pollo ~ See pics from"Meet Ruthie Night" . . . ~ Our recent show at The Bad Ass Cafe . . . ~ Live video of "Uptown Blues" ~ Recording Update ~ Hear a song:For You To Break My Heart ~ Cottage Bistro Photos ~ Our songs in the Movies ~Tumblin' Down keeps on Tumblin' ~ Lucie's Original Paintings ~ Join Our Online Mailing List Hello! Welcome to the Rockin' Country Blues News! Make yourself at home! This is the page where you'll find out what we've been up to, as well as find out about upcoming gigs, see if you can spot yourself in one of the photos from our shows, and catch our latest news! ************** This past year saw us gettin' out there with a band, and we loved every minute of it! We love that people dance at our shows now that there is a rhythm section, and we love how our songs get fleshed out! We still enjoy working as a duo and sometimes trio, but honestly, the band thing is an unmatched RUSH!! We thank . . . David Bridges, Ivan Duben, Bill Buckingham, Geoff Hicks, Darrell Mayes! Not to mention the countless others with whom we shared a stage this past year. We are really happy to have had the opportunity to work with these guys, and we look forward to more, more, more! Drummer Ivan Duben Bass Player David Bridges Guitarist Bill Buckingham With Drummer Geoff Hicks On stage at the Cottage Bistro With Drummer Darrell Mayes

Upcoming Shows. . .

February is shaping up to be a busy month . . . We really look forward to playing!!
February 5th	MAIN RESTAURANT	4210 MAIN ST, Vancouver 10 pm - 1 a.m.
February 10th	COTTAGE BISTRO	4468 MAIN ST, Vancouver 8 pm - 12 a.m.
February 11th	THE PURPLE CRAB	3916 MAIN ST, Vancouver 8:30 pm - 12:30 a.m.
February 14th	*THE ROADHOUSE EATERY	1763 King George Hwy, S.Surrey 6 pm AND 8 pm
February 18th	THE PURPLE CRAB	3916 MAIN ST, Vancouver 8:30 pm - 12:30 a.m.

*Join us for Valentine's Day Dinner at THE ROADHOUSE EATERY!
Monday, February 14th, we will be playing 2 shows, 6 pm and 8 pm.
This will fill up fast, and we really want to see ~you~ there,
so please call 604-538-3177 to reserve your table now!

~ Please check the GIGS page for details of all our shows ~

We will be performing at DEL POLLO (Poy yo) on Saturday March 5th, 7 p.m. We fell in love with the place and its Tex Mex vibe the moment we walked in, and we know you will too! Join us in our VIRGIN Del Pollo performance! ~ Please call 604-857-0556 to make your dinner reservation ~ El Restaurante Del Pollo 27248 Fraser Hwy., Downtown Aldergrove, BC Featuring Great Chicken and Tex-Mex Dinners! •steaks •ribs •seafood •prime rib *click Del Pollo pics to enlarge*

What a fun time we had at "MEET RUTHIE NIGHT" at the Purple Crab! Right after the gig, Ruthie & Lucie were off to a downtown hotel for 2 nights... just hangin' out, catchin' up, talkin' trash . . . then on Sunday afternoon rode the ferry to Victoria and stayed until Friday morning at our dear, dear friend Ann's! Then it was back to Vancouver for one more night at a hotel......we went for the in-room jacuzzi suite this time..... went all out...... had so many laughs, just ended the 10 days in high style! Big thanks to ACOUSTIC ECLECTIC FOLK ROCK DUO, 'DUX'! Excellent harmonies, high-energy guitars, Dux - Mike & Gary - played everything from Lyle Lovett to Eric Clapton to dare we say... Britney Spears' "Oops..." it was the best version we've ever heard! CLICK PIC to see All the Gig pictures

We had such a GREAT EVENING at the Bad Ass Cafe! So many friends - old and new - came out to hear us. Brian Beesley took a whack of photos... wanna see 'em? *click pic*

A big warm ~ thank you ~ to all who showed up and partied with us at the Cottage Bistro on Dec. 23rd! ~ MAN! We are still high on the love!! ~ Special thanks to Brian Beesley for taking all these photos! ~ALSO~ Brian video taped our performance of "Uptown Blues"... wanna seeeeeee? *click photos to enlarge*
Singin' up a storm	The party was ON!	Yeaaaaaah!
Dancin' the night away...	Pat & Brian Beesley	Fun, fun, fun!
It was so great to see all these folks dancin'	We raffled off so many items . . . tshirts, a cd, some of Lucie's art. . .	Yeeeeehaaaa!

S anta brought us a recording microphone for Christmas and since we live with a brilliant sound engineer (Brian Campbell... did all the Powder Blues recordings back in the day) we have been having way too much fun in the livingroom! Recording! We just set up the mic and sing the songs "live" the way we would at a gig. Here's one called For You to Break My Heart, done "live off the floor." It's our intention to invite some musician friends over to record together and have a great time!! UPDATE Well we did just that on Sunday, January 6 . . . We invited bassist Ronnie Hayward over for the afternoon and had a great time recording 4 more of our songs, yeeeeehaaaaaa! What fun!! Some of you will know these by title . . . I Lose Myself, Country Mile, I Believe in Love, and Flat Broke n' Hungry . . . Ronnie tuning up Steve and Ronnie running through Country Mile Steve tuning up Stay tuned, definitely more to come!

Choreographer Michele Perron has contacted us about using our music for her new instructional DVD! Yay! Michele choreographed a country line dance to our song, Tumblin' Down

LEARN THE DANCE!

Michele has been teaching "Tumblin' Down" all over the place, and last year
we even saw it land in the U.K. compilation "Red Hot Dancing 2"

Many thanks to
Michele, and to her husband, Brian Bull,
for their continued support with our music!

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