Life in Shambles Tour Update

Posted May 22, 2010

We’re just now completing the first leg of the Life In Shambles Tour 2010 and pleased to report things are going about as well as could be expected for a tour with a such a prestigious and optimistic title. We spent the whole month of May barnstorming the Southeast with our new friends American Aquarium from Raleigh, North Carolina and we managed to keep things just shy of absolute mayhem for pretty much the whole run.

We’ve parted ways (for now) with the American Aquarium boys but both of us continue to carry the torch independently. You can check their tour schedule on their MySpace, but ours can be found right here on SonsOfBill.com. We’ll be playing close to home this week in Richmond, VA and then spending much of June in Texas, after a brief run up to New York State to rock the Mountain Jam with some pretty heavy company (Gov’t Mule, Levon Helm, Drive-By Truckers, the list goes on).

We’ll hope you can catch us at one of the aforementioned get downs but if not, here’s a little sample from the road to tide you over. We’ve posted full shows from both of these venues before, but there’s just something in the air whenever we walk into the State Theatre in Falls Chuch, VA or The Windjammer in Isle of Palms, SC. We decided we’d make this a thematic posting and give you a song about driving to Charleston – recorded outside of DC – and a song about driving home on Route 29 (which runs from DC to Cville) – recorded just outside of Charleston. Even if you don’t follow that little bit of pretzel logic, you can still enjoy the tracks below. A special mention should be made of American Aquarium’s Whit Wright (the only human under the age of 43 we’ve ever seen competently rock the the pedal steel guitar) who sits in with us on “Charleston”. Get it Whit.

As a reminder the exclusive Life In Shambles EP and t-shirt have been selling like hotcakes, but we’ve still got a box or two of them left to unload on anyone who gets to any of these upcoming shows on the second leg of the tour. Enjoy the new tracks and we’ll see you out there.

Going Home (Live at The Windjammer)
Charleston (Live at the State Theatre)