"Crooked Songs" press juggernaut rolls on

And, of course, along with the release of our debut disc, we're also launching our first major press campaign.
We're doing two fine radio shows this week. You can hear Mr. Eck and Cousin Clyde bantering with local legend Jimmy Barrett on his looooong-running radio show, "Kaleidoscope," on the Edge (104.9 FM), airing at 9 a.m. Saturday, December 9. Too early for ya? Especially on a weekend? Well, never fear, "Kaleidoscope" will be re-broadcast at 7 p.m. Sunday, December 10. (That's right after the Bills whup the Jets.) So you can hear us twice - and get a sneak preview of "Crooked Songs: Live at Caffe Lena" almost a full week before it's officially released.
Ramblin Jug Stompers will be in full Stompin mode at 11:20 a.m. Thursday, December 13, as we invade the studios at WAMC (90.3 FM) for a live performance on "Performance Place," which is a sub-set show of the daily "The RoundTable." Other recent "RoundTable guests include Gene Wilder, Walter Cronkite, Maya Angelou and Hillary Clinton, so I guess we're in pretty good company. I when I say that we'll be playing live, I do indeed mean "live," so hopefully Bowtie will tune up before this one.
WAMC has always been good to RJS. We've played twice at the WAMC Performing Arts Studio (aka the Linda Norris Auditorium) - once as part of their Buck Owens Tribute Night and once with one of our fave Americana singer-songwriters, Tim Easton. In fact, the Easton show (in which RJS opened the night with a show of our own and then returned during Tim's show to back him up on a handful of impromptu tunes) was broadcast on WAMC just last month.
But radio is only part of RJS' press attack. We'll also be featured in The Daily Gazette out of Schenectady on Wednesday, December 13. The fearless Gazette writer Philip Schwartz will be featuring the Jug Stompers on his "Live in the Clubs" column. I say fearless because Philip dared to sit down with all four Jug Stompers at once for an interview last week at Tess' Lark Tavern. In recent weeks Philip has featured sensational singer-songwriter-folk legend Greg Brown and guitar phenom Kaki King, so once again, RJS are in damn good company. We can't wait to see what he manages to pull out of this free-wheelin chat.