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I've been listening to this for two days now and I love it...

What happens when we go on tour? This happens. With love to Dee and Becky. We'll get a studio version of this song done at some point, maybe soon, but meanwhile, here's the live, unfiltered iPhone mic recording from beside the Rock River at the Blackhawk Trail Lodge. http://youtu.be/rUBnC5TBR5Q. 

For you lyric freaks (MJEB what wrote'em)

Sliding down Rock River

A feather past a log

Somewhere they wont find me

Find me a place to get me gone

And Rock River keeps on Rockin on

High Above Rock River

Hunter spies his prey

in the hush of the waters

hear the spirit of the river say

i will still be here when you are gone

Rock River keeps on rockin on

Down by the Rock River

Feel my seasons change

Fill my eyes with water

Different

each time

yet the same

The only constancy I know

is change

and when you are gone

I will remain

Let the river take you where you goin'

Rock River keeps on Rockin on.

FTR its Bill on Mandolin  (far out man) , Mr Wizard on Slide, Rosie on Guitar, Jo and me singing and Theo on bongos. The atmos sound is the Rock River itself.

Did I mention we wrote a Soul song too? Wait til ya hear it. Jo's gonna sing it.

Been a productive few days.

Inidiana here w comes!

Well...maybe not quite 'rampaging'...hmmm....then again, we are at full complement + Rosco'es on Deck.

Blame Mac. We're coming back.

Tonight we're at The Phoenix in Fort Wayne, tomorrow night atThe Wagon Wheel in Terre Haute with Ken Tucker, Saturday Night at Birdy's in Indy with Dickey James & The Blue Flames (love it) and Sunday at the festival of the stinking rose in Bloomington.

Howdy Folks, from the Byron Public Library in (SHH!!!) sorry...illinois

I gotta type quietly, the librarian's lookin at me..

Ahem.

So much happening, I'll keep it to the headlines.

Old Town Pub goes off.

Happy Birthday Carla and Tall Paul.Thanks Tina.

The Rhtyhm Roosters featuring last years Stormcellar Tour bassist Paul E-Recht (don't ask thats what they call him now) were great. Alex got up to jam with us during our set. A strong night.

Mo is an angel

And knows where good pickles can be obtained.

Cesar Spoils Angus

But SIR are the best equipment provider bar none. Now sit Angus. Down boy. Down!

Crossroads Festival Awesome

The rain came bucketing down, the crowd was drenched, Theo was almost washed away. It dried out. Van bogged down. Pushed by volunteers. Music all day and night.

The acts were spectacular. Bravo to Mr Jones for curation

There are Two South Bend Roads

GPS problems almost created a disaster before our set. We got there just in time.

Rosie, Master of Bees

Rosie fought off a bee during a solo and nailed the solo. Boss move.

MJEB Gets Schooled

I was lucky enough to join the Joe Filisko harp workshop at the festival and picked up three new techniques. Wow.

Soul Food Is Good Food

Love to Gary and Gayle at the Authentic Smokehouse in Rockford. Mindblowing ribs and pulled pork.

Ms Jo Sparkles

Watching as Jo soaks in the culture and the adventure is a joy. All the crowds want her to sing more.

Songwriting produces Bumper Crop

After all the effort, planning etc to get here, the sudden release of tension brings out five new songs in two days, including a song we hope Jo will sing for us.

Rock River Keeps On Rocking On.

Dee and Bill provided the basis for one of the new songs, cut beside the river. It's good.

Our Mojo Is Strong

The storms have been in abatement until we arrived. Winds, rain, weather, all happening. It has even followed ua from Byron up to Wisconsin, the storm travellin ahead of the stormcellar. I'm not saying we're causal, but it's certainly a good circumstantial case...

Bill and I watch a pre tornado

Twist, twirl and...evarporate...spooky

Cheeseheads have big hearts

Thanks to Dave Potter for having us up at the Monday night session at Sara's Pub. Wisconsin-ites are the most polite and enthusiastic applauders, not to mention buyers of CD's Of course, if Jo smiles at you you'll just hand over the money.. Go packers!

I could tell you more but there's so much to go absorb. We're heading for Indiana, via Chicago, and we best be making a move. Hopefully I'll have data reception when we head towards town and might get some pics up online. I have some footage of some of the great players we've seen so far.

Stay tuned folks, this tour is just getting started!

MJEB

Greetings from the windy city. I'm on the free wireless service here so as per usual, my blogs will be light on the pics and vids until I get a chance to process them, but, here's todays Tour Headlines:

QANTAS Got Better

Yep the flying kangaroo as improved out of sight. well done.

Macquarie Bank must own LAX

otherwise why would a sandwich and an apple cost $18 usd. FFS

The Van Blew Up

Yep, five minutes after picking it up, kerplooie. Thank heavens we weren't on the freeway. This will take some sorting out...

Media Interviews starting to pile up

Just who the (BLEEP) are Stormcellar and why are they on my show? Looks like we'll be doing a few interviews. Stay tuned.

Breakfast in America remains great!

Would you believe the folks at the AWESOME route 66 diner in Joliet read our blog? Far out! Cheers to Helena. The Corned Beef Hash is facebookable. one of us is bound to take a picture.

Fresh White Illinois Corn

Some places on Earth are gifted for produce. Tasmanian apples, par example. I now add fresh, seasonal illinois corn. Far out.

Mid Westerners remain the nicest folk.

Bless their hearts. Mo, I am talking about you. And you too Mercedes...and Steve, Mark, Dan..jeez....i am gonna be writing a looong thank you list.

Ms Jo is amazed

Only her second trip on a plane. The boys just took her to the big guitar store here. She rode the Rock Island Line. what an adventure.

Th adventure continues and I'm gonnna get back to it. I'll post some random stuff over the next few days. We have a Jam to go to!

More soon!

MJEB

Howdy Folks, we're on a plane tomorrow, heading for the Il of Nois in The States of United.

Maybe things will be better, in Chicago.