Last night I ventured over to the splendid little dive-ish bar, British Rose Pub to meet up with Alex Kanakis, Kate Mackley and the Red Monroe boys. It was during this interview in which I got a second wind in this whole music thang.

Then I got in my car, popped in their new self-titled CD, (Red Monroe) and got about 5 more winds. I freakin’ LOVE IT!

I’m most certainly not a critic, nor am I particularly articulate in describing an album, or a performance or how to use a corkscrew. I’ll leave that to the more critical, intellectual, knowers of music like Sam and J.R. and Jonanna.

This morning I popped it back into my car stereo whilst shuttling the boy-child to his schoolin’. I still freakin’ LOVED IT!

As I sit here editing last night’s interview, I’m listening to it over and over and I freakin’ LOVE IT!

I’ll leave you here with a couple of my particularly favorite tracks. You darlings outta go to Good Records and getcherselves a copy, then make plans to hit Hailey’s on Saturday night, October 28th, for one helluva fun and FREE show with Red Monroe and another big-time Fine Line fave, Pilotdrift.

In other news, Chance informs me that:

Random, cool news friends! We just found out that our new album is one of 48 albums on the 2007 Grammy nomination ballot (we are #40). We are excited / completely confused by this due to its randomness.. (take a look at that list.. haha). We will find out over the next couple of months if a miracle happens and we are actually nominated. Fingers crossed!

Thank you all so much for your continued support. For those of you who haven’t grabbed the album yet, please do so here.

We also learned last night that another baby Red Monroe bun-in-the-oven is on its way.

I really really like those guys…as people and as musicians.

The audio (and video) interview will be up on QuickDFW.com by Friday…and PS: The moment “Blue Mountain Air” began to play, the word “dreamy” actually left my mouth…Kate was dead-on…so there.

“Blue Mountain Air” by Red Monroe

“Fingertips” by Red Monroe