Will Johnson and Anders Parker will be playing in living rooms across the USA this spring. This will be a totally acoustic (no sound system) tour hosted by fans in their homes.
Limited to only 35-40 tickets per show. Hurry! These will sell out quickly.
The first batch of shows are confirmed and tickets are ON SALE HERE.
Tue Mar 30 : Austin, TX – BUY TICKETS
Wed Mar 31 : Houston, TX – BUY TICKETS
Thu Apr 1 : Baton Rouge, LA – BUY TICKETS
Fri Apr 2 : Birmingham, AL – BUY TICKETS
Sat Apr 3 : Athens, GA – on sale soon
Sun Apr 4 : Athens, GA – BUY TICKETS
Wed Apr 7 : Chapel Hill, NC – BUY TICKETS
Thu Apr 8 : Baltimore, MD – BUY TICKETS
Fri Apr 9 : Philadelphia, PA – BUY TICKETS
Sat Apr 10 : NYC/Brooklyn – on sale soon
Sun Apr 11 : Montpelier, VT – BUY TICKETS
Mon Apr 12 : Burlington, VT – This show is at 1/2 Lounge. Tickets at the door
Tue Apr 13 : Buffalo, NY – BUY TICKETS
Thu Apr 15 : Louisville, KY – on sale soon
Fri Apr 16 : Chicago, IL – on sale soon
Sat Apr 17 : Milwaukee, WI – on sale soon
Sun Apr 18 : Madison, WI – on sale soon
Mon Apr 19 : Minneapolis, MN – on sale soon
Wed Apr 21 : Saint Louis, MO – on sale soon
Thu Apr 22 : Springfield, MO – on sale soon
Fri Apr 23 : Denton, TX – on sale soon
Sat Apr 24 : Austin, TX – on sale soon
Sun Apr 25 : Bastrop, TX – on sale soon
OPENING NIGHT: March 11th @ 7pm
Yep. Will Johnson has a collection of baseball paintings and we will have them from March 11 through April. And guess what… you’re invited.
The subjects of the paintings range from players that you know, to players you should know, with an emphasis on Negro League legends.
They are rich with textual detail and trivia. The last Negro League player to play in the Major League? None other than the long-time home run leader Hank Aaron. The dude with a nickname a thousand times cooler than yours? Cool Papa Bell.
To complete the ballpark vibe, we are going to have hotdogs from the fine folks at frank. Unlike hot dogs at the ballpark, these are delicious.
And since Will is an unrepentant St. Louis Cardinals fan, we are going to have a Tommy Herr Look-Alike Contest. The winner will either get an all-expense paid trip to the Cardinals’ spring training, or a cup of coffee from Jo’s (prize yet to be determined). If you have to google Tommy Herr to find out how awesome his hair is, you are disqualified.
Non-Cardinal fans can participate in the First Annual Dennis Eckersley Creepy Moustache Contest. The name is self-explanatory, right?
more info coming soon…
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Will Johnson and Anders Parker will be playing in living rooms across the USA this spring. This will be a totally acoustic (no sound system) tour hosted by fans in their homes.
We need your help! We are looking for people to host shows on these dates in or near these cities.
Tue Mar 30 : Houston, TX
Wed Mar 31 : Baton Rouge, LA
Thu Apr 1 : Birmingham, AL
Fri Apr 2 : Nashville, TN
Sat Apr 3 : Atlanta, GA
Sun Apr 4 : Athens, GA
Mon Apr 5 : OFF
Tue Apr 6 : Brevard, NC
Wed Apr 7 : Chapel Hill, NC
Thu Apr 8 : Wash DC area
Fri Apr 9 : Philly, PA
Sat Apr 10 : NYC / Brooklyn
Sun Apr 11 : Boston, MA
Mon Apr 12 : OFF
Tue Apr 13 : Montpelier, VT
Wed Apr 14 : Burlington, VT
Thu Apr 15 : Buffalo, NY
Fri Apr 16 : Bloomington, IN
Sat Apr 17 : Chicago, IL
Sun Apr 18 : Madison, WI
Mon Apr 19 : OFF
Tue Apr 20 : Minneapolis
Wed Apr 21 : Saint Louis, MO
Thu Apr 22 : Springfield, MO
Fri Apr 23 : Denton, TX
Sat Apr 24 : Austin, TX
Please get in touch if you want to host a show. We’ll make this as easy as possible for the hosts. All you have to do is let us borrow your living room for a couple of hours and in return you’ll get 5 free tickets for friends and our eternal gratitude.
Here’s how it works.
1. You have a house or loft space that can comfortably and safely host 35-40 people. A place with a big living room, finished basement or other indoor residential space would be ideal. There would need to be enough parking nearby and your neighbors should be cool. It would be a huge bummer if someone called the cops because of all the extra cars and people coming to your house. You probably should not do this if you live in a small apartment with a bunch of uptight neighbors or a cranky landlord.
2. The shows will not be open to the public and no tickets will be sold at the door. We will pre-sell a set number of tickets for each show on our website before the show. Be realistic on how many people your place can hold. We need to know how many tickets we can sell in advance. Ticket prices will be $20.
3. We will provide you with a detailed list of everyone who will be coming to the show. This way the host won’t have to deal with money and will only need to check people off the list as they arrive.
4. The host can have up to 5 free tickets for the show. If you have other friends who want to come to the show you can direct them to the link to buy tickets on-line.
5. The shows usually start at around 8pm. We’ll ask people to arrive around 7:30pm. It should be over by around 9:30pm. We’ll make it clear to everyone that they should be out of your house by 10pm.
7. You don’t need to provide any sort of sound system. All you need is a couple of chairs for Will and Anders to sit on while playing.
8. Your home address will not be published on the web and only given to those people who purchase tickets.
9. The shows will not be promoted or advertised anywhere except our websites.
10. After we agree on a date and location we’ll ask you to sign a simple performance agreement.
After reading all of this and you are interested please send an e-mail to: bob@undertowmusic.com and adam@undertowmusic.com
Please include a photo of the space where you would like to have the show and put “Johnson / Parker House Show” and the city where you live in the subject line of the e-mail.
We’ll review all requests. Once we have a routing figured out we’ll be in touch with people in the towns we are able to work into the schedule.
Thank you for your interest and support.
Bob
THIS SHOW HAD TO BE CANCELLED DUE TO SNOW. VERY SORRY!
We’ll try to reschedule as soon as possible.
On Friday, February 12th Dan’s Silverleaf in Denton, Texas is hosting a celebration of Vic Chesnutt’s life and music. Performers/ celebrants to include Brent Best (The Drams/ Slobberbone), Bryan Vandivier (Tre Orsi/ South San Gabriel), Chris Flemmons (Baptist Generals), the dashingly dashing Edward Burch, Matthew Gray (Mathew and the Arrogant Sea) and the members of Centro-matic (Scott Danbom, Mark Hedman, Will Johnson and Matt Pence). If you live in the Golden Triangle, please come on out if you can, as the proceeds will go towards erasing Vic’s remaining medical debt.
http://www.danssilverleaf.com/calendar/
Also, please note the two nights coming up at the 40 Watt in Athens, GA on February 19th and 20th. A wonderful list of performers will be getting together for those nights as well, including our own Will Johnson.
http://www.40watt.com/schedule.php
NO DEPRESSION 12/22/09:
The noughties were the decade when the music community liberated itself. Suddenly any ‘musician’ with half a voice could record an album at home, create a website and sell it on-line. The downside was that there were suddenly thousands more ‘recording artists’ competing for our attention and some of the finest songwriters of the decade really didn’t get the attention they deserved. One of those is Will Johnson.
Let me tell you a little about Will. He’s a workaholic; this year alone, he has toured with his own bands, Centro- matic and South San Gabriel, performed a few solo gigs and played guitar and provided backing vocals for Drive By Trucker Patterson Hood’s solo venture ( including a fine set at No Depression’s first festival at Marymoor Park in July). More recently, he could be found on the road playing drums for indie ‘supergroup’, the Monsters Of Folk and has just released a duo album with Jason Molina ( of Magnolia Electric Co ). Did I mention that he had exhibition of his baseball art in Dallas, Texas back in August ? [ READ MORE ]
Hello friends,
South San Gabriel has added three shows in Europe. Please come out and say hello if you can.
28/11/09 : Toutpartout 15 years @ Botanique – Brussel (B)
29/11/09 : Le Guess Who? Festival – Utrecht (NL)
30/11/09 : MC Frits Philips – Eindhoven (NL)
We are very sorry to inform you that due to health issues of Jason Molina the Molina & Johnson touring has been canceled. Jason Molina is extremely disappointed but there is no way he can be on the road at the present time.
Jason Molina and Will Johnson Collaborate on New LP, Plot European Tour
Call this the Phantoms of Folk. Call this two lone wolves running together for one dark blissout of a night. Two of the finest indie-folk songwriters of the last decade come together under the Texas sky to quietly lay to tape 14 crushing, haunting tunes, leaving space enough in each to match their surroundings. In this collaboration between Jason Molina and Will Johnson, each seem to hold the other’s talents to fire and elevate both performance and creativity. In the friendly sharing of ideas, Molina and Johnson become two poet’s poets in a workshop, aimed to craft a singular, searing elegy.
Will Johnson describes this alignment of two red stars: “For ten days we wrote, co-wrote, workshopped, complimented, scrutinized, drank, invited friends to come play music, smoked, made lots of notes and drawings, drank a little more and shot the BB gun off the back porch when we just needed some time and space. In the throes of all this, our record was made in the late February sun.”
The album is also abound with contributions from other fine musicians, such as Magnolia Electric Co.’s Michael Kapinus and Texas songwriter Sarah Jaffe, whose plaintive vocals “All Gone, All Gone,” accompanied by the sound of a crying saw, will stir in your gut for days. Other accomplished contributors include Howard Draper, Bryan VanDivier and Scott Danbom.
Hear an mp3 of Molina and Johnson’s “Twenty Cycles to the Ground” HERE.
Molina and Johnson will be available on Secretly Canadian November 3 in the US, and November 2 in the UK.
