Look out - there are Ditchflowers about! (A quick note from Ed Ditchflower)

Hello Diggers,

Just a quick note to alert everyone to a pair of Ditchflowers appearances this weekend. First, tomorrow night we're at Gasoline Alley in Largo with John Wesley, Geri X, and Sisemore. Our set is at 9:30, but come at 8:00 and plan to stay for a night of excellent music.

Next, we're doing a set at New World Brewery, Ybor City, Saturday night at 8:30. This should be another great night of tuneage, with scads of great local original bands promoting the release of the latest BAAMO compilation CD, which includes our own "Love, The Conqueror," a little preview of our second album (later this year, updates as they come, you'll be the first to know, etc.). Ten dollars gets you in the door AND the BAAMO CD. Check out the BAAMO site:


That's it...sorry for the late notice. How unlike me to be late! Hope to see you soon...

Luv,

Ed

Live Ditchflowers...

The Ditchflower dudes will be taking time out of their hectic recording schedule to open the proceedings at The Subdudes show at Skippers Smokehouse. Do go out and see them won't you? Oh, and don't forget to ask them when the new CD will be ready. They love that.

An Ed word in your ear...

Greetings Ditchdiggers everywhere - Just a quick note for Tampa Bay fans to please come out to Gasoline Alley this Saturday night, December 20. The Ditchflowers play an early set (8 p.m.), followed by Paul Sisemore’s (formerly of Sugarspoon) groovy new band (appropriately dubbed Sisemore), with the incomparable Wes Dearth closing out the night. This is a special night of music and marks our last local appearance of 2008, so we hope to see you there. ‘Tis the season and we’re all busy, but lately we’ve been turning our attention back to recording in an effort to complete our follow-up (release date some time in 2009) to the acclaimed Carried Away CD (release date some time back through the mists of time). In the meantime, you can get your hands on one new track, Love the Conqueror, chosen for the next BAAMO compilation CD (projected street date of March 31, 2009). We’ll keep you posted with more details. More news later -- from all of us here at the posh environs of The Ditchflowers’ corporate offices, we wish you the merriest of holiday seasons and a happy new year!
Ed

A word from the wise Woltil

It was forty years ago today (well, this Saturday), Sgt. Pepper’s had come and gone away...and The Beatles followed it up with an untitled, sprawling, raw scrapbook of musically brilliant flotsam and jetsam in a plain white wrapper which quickly became known as simply “the white album.” I was mesmerized for days, weeks...I’m still not over the magnificent wreckage of it. That was November 22, 1968, which makes this Saturday an important anniversary for pop music fans. Those of you in the Tampa Bay area are encouraged to come out to Skipper’s Smokehouse for another great WMNF community radio-sponsored concert in honor of the 40th Anniversary of the White Album’s release.

Four of the bay’s best bands, including your intrepid Ditchflowers, will each perform a side (that’s the double album in its entirety, front to back). We have the honor of kicking the night off, so please get there early (side one holds a few of my favorite-ever Beatles tunes). Side two honors go to Rebekah Pulley and the Reluctant Prophets, while Four Star Riot tackles side three, and The Vodkanauts funnel side four through their delightfully skewed lounge-surf grinder. More details can be found here .
Thanks for reading this far, thanks for everything, hope to see you soon, more news later... Peace, Ed Woltil

A frightening talent...

This past Halloween, Ditchflower Ed Woltil, he of divine voice, sublime guitar and heavenly songwriting skill, appeared on WMNF as part of Bill Dudley's Live Showcase. He was good. Scary good. Seasoned musicians and young wannabees alike were seen sobbing into their pints of pumpkin ale. I wasn't one of them (I was drinking a Winter Lager.)

For those who missed it, you can do some catching up right here.

Hankies at the ready, then...

Podcasts are all well and good, but when are the Ditchflowers playing live again? Funny you should ask...

Sunshine Drenchy Radio...

Yes, the first episode of the Sunshine Drenchy Radio Podcast has been hastily recorded, savagely edited and duly delivered to all and sundry.

Our intention is to record these sunny little episodes on a somewhat regular basis, and have them serve, not only as a way of delivering recording news, gig gossip, and other pressing issues — such as arguing and contrasting the merits of certain yeasty Belgians, malty Germans and shiny hoppy people and beverages of all persuasions, thank you very much — but also as an excuse to sloppily record songs live in the studio in a decidedly "underdub" fashion, and then inflict them upon humble, unsuspecting listeners everywhere.

In episode 1, " Bed Of Ales", Steve Robinson borrows Ditchflower Brian Merrill's shiny Taylor acoustic guitar for a live version of "Weight Of The World" — a song from his first solo effort "Away For The Day" — as well as offering an impromptu sneak preview of a song called "Bed Of Nails", which by all accounts will be recorded for his next solo album. All the while, Ditchflower Ed Woltil joins in on harmony vocals and guitar noodlings, as only he can.

There is also a sneak peek at a new Ditchflowers recording-in-progress, called "Love The Conquerer" that is slated to appear on the next Ditchflowers album. Quite lovely it is, too. The podcast is now available at iTunes. Don't forget to subscribe; it is free after all. We actually tried to make it even cheaper, but we have childeren to feed and clothe, you know.

If, for some reason, you don't have access to iTunes, you can also listen right here... Sunshine Drenchy Radio Podcast.