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 true Chris Jagger 2006-07-26T21:53:00-07:00 2006-07-27T05:00:01Z 2006-07-27T05:00:01Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16535863.post-115397640128524768 <content mode="escaped" type="text/html" xml:base="http://www.chrisjaggeronline.com/blog/blog.htm" xml:space="preserve"><p class="MsoNormal">Some say it’s <st1:city st="on">Somerset</st1:City> but it feels more like <st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on">Texas</st1:place></st1:State> right now with the searing heat outside. In my polytunnel it’s around 50 C in the middle of the day, it’s a South American jungle.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">The band played last weekend up North in <st1:city st="on">Brampton</st1:City>, twixt <st1:city st="on">Newcastle</st1:City> and <st1:place st="on">Carlisle</st1:place> on the behest of Andy Kershaw who introduced us and the onetime John Peel favourites Half man half Biscuit. So it was a good tent we had though not the main one where I caught some of the more sedate affair of Eric Bibb. I made the classic mistake of picking up someone else’s bag at the airport and on opening it found not my leads and washboard but Judy Cook’s clothes. Whoops sorry Judy. If you read this I’ll send you a record or something as compensation.<o:p></o:p><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Next weekend we’re due out to Amsterdam where the a Rolling Stones Fan Club…. the Forty Licks variety are holding a jamboree at the Paradiso Club there on the day before the Stones gig and we are playing as well as a Stones spin off band headed by horn player Tim Rees and who can blame him as they only get to play a few riffs on the Stones show. So that should be one good evening…Will let you know. In general I am not too keen on playing in the same town as The Stones but, hey, it’s about the only way I get to meet my brother these days…It’s all one big family ain’t it???<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">PS While writing this I’m listening to a free pod cast you get from <a href="http://www.deltabluesmuseum.org/">www.deltabluesmuseum.org</a> so check it out… <o:p></o:p></p></content> <draft xmlns="http://purl.org/atom-blog/ns#">false</draft> </entry> <entry xmlns="http://purl.org/atom/ns#"> <link href="https://www.blogger.com/atom/16535863/115008746163371669" rel="service.edit" title="June 2006" type="application/atom+xml"/> <author> <name>Chris Jagger</name> </author> <issued>2006-06-11T21:40:00-07:00</issued> <modified>2006-06-12T04:44:21Z</modified> <created>2006-06-12T04:44:21Z</created> <link href="http://www.chrisjaggeronline.com/blog/2006/06/june-2006.html" rel="alternate" title="June 2006" type="text/html"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16535863.post-115008746163371669</id> <title mode="escaped" type="text/html">June 2006

It’s been a topsy-turvy time for the band and me since the record was released. We've been busy particularly across Austria and Germany and had good audiences for the recent trips. We're off again to Berlin and Vienna soon so hope that goes well too.

In ole England it's been more mixed as we didn't receive much publicity and correspondingly the attention has been less. Why I don't know?

We have also just finished a new track; called "Nahanni" it will now close the album that we are currently shipping to Japan as an import there. We also hope to make this same record available for North America and are sending the track out as a free MP3 download as we hope it might attract some attention in Canada, which is where the Nahanni River runs up in the NW Territory. There is a campaign to extend the park area and there are commercial mining interests who want to exploit the resources so this track is a reminder of the fragile environment that this unique habitat contains. In fact I shall put the track up on this website as soon as possible so as you can all hear it.

Till then, have a good summer and don't get sunburnt!!

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