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This just in from one of my favorite bands, Railroad Earth:

Hey all,

Happy New Year! RAILROAD EARTH is looking forward to seeing you all again in 2007. We would also like to officially announce our return to the WEST COAST this spring!

Newly Grammy-nomimated artists, THE DUHKS, will be supporting RRE for the entire first leg of the Western run, (from BOULDER, CO through SAN FRANCISCO) and we are excited to have them aboard.

TICKETS are already selling extremely quickly for all dates, so please get your tickets soon. Specifically, if you are hoping to make it to the two-night run at the GREAT AMERICAN MUSIC HALL in San Francisco, April 20th-21st, we strongly recommend you get your tickets asap, as these have been our fastest pre-sales ever!

We look forward to seeing you. TOUR DATES:

APRIL
6 – FOX THEATRE – Boulder, CO
7 – GOTHIC THEATER – Denver, CO
9 – THE DEPOT – Salt Lake City, UT
10 – BIG EASY CONCERT HOUSE – Boise, ID
12 – THE SHOWBOX – Seattle, WA
13 – CRYSTAL BALLROOM – Portland, OR
14 – McDONALD THEATRE – Eugene, OR
17 – ASHLAND ARMORY – Ashland, OR
18 – SENATOR THEATER – Chico, CA
19 – McNEAR’S MYSTIC THEATRE – Petaluma, CA
20 – GREAT AMERICAN MUSIC HALL – San Francisco, CA
21 – GREAT AMERICAN MUSIC HALL – San Francisco, CA
24 – ARUBA HOTEL – Las Vegas, NV
25 – KNITTING FACTORY – Los Angeles, CA
26 – BELLY UP TAVERN – Solana Beach, CA
28 – McDOWELL MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVAL – Scottsdale, AZ
29 – EL REY THEATER – Albuquerque, NM

For TICKETS and INFO on these, and all other RRE shows, visit our TOUR DATES page

peace,
RRE Family

“First they mutilate you; then they poison you; then they burn you. I have been on blind dates better than that.”

— Molly Ivins, on breast cancer

Molly Ivins has lost her long struggle with cancer. She was 62. A great writer, a sharp journalist, a witty and opinionated progressive with a finely tuned shit detector. She had the goods on that worthless fuckhead George Dubya way early in the game.

The Texas Observer has a collection of tributes. Go and read, please.

Update: Washington Post’s obit: Columnist Molly Ivins, 62; Poked Fun at the Powerful

Update: The NewsHour replays a classic Ivins piece on Texas “Oort.”

From Paul Liberatore at the Marin Independent Journal.

Weir helps make magic in a music bus

Excerpt:

When it was my turn to talk to Weir, I was ushered into the claustrophobic little recording studio in the back of the bus, where he was ensconced, finishing up an interview with a radio reporter.

A longtime supporter of music in the schools, the 59-year-old Rock Hall of Famer had come down from Mill Valley for a couple of days, donating his time to mentor a half-dozen high school students, three of them – Sam Toizer, Cody Zeger and Ten Mowrey – from Redwood High in Larkspur.

“We wrote, recorded and filmed a music video in here yesterday and this morning,” he explained. “It was a great deal of fun. And it sounds pretty damn good.”

The overarching point of the project, Weir went on, is that “it gives these kids a little taste of what it is to make reasonably professional-grade music. And it helps galvanize their writing abilities and their collective abilities. They have to work with each other. Everybody has to make room for everybody else. Everybody has to listen to everybody else.”

Read the whole thing here.