Hard to believe, but today marks one full year since Old Fashioned was released on January 24th, 2012! To celebrate, Yer Bird Records is running a sale for the next week featuring digital download copies for only $4 and CD copies for $5. Get ’em for a reduced price while you can!
Rolling Along I-80 / Shows with Mark Erelli
Coming up in February, three shows with Mark Erelli in Nebraska, plus one bonus show beforehand in Laramie, Wyoming! Check the calendar page for details…
Europe!
Tour starts Wednesday in Paris, check the calendar page for details!
Europe Tour and Colorado Opening Spots!
The above picture is from a show in Antwerp, Belgium on John’s last tour in Europe, back in January of 2010. Pleased to announce his return to the Old World with shows in Paris, Ghent, Baarn, Amsterdam, Berlin, Prague, Budapest, and Vienna! Check the calendar page for all of the details. More shows to be announced shortly…
Also, a few great shows John will be opening around Colorado in the next month:
*September 20th – Steve’s Guitars, Carbondale, CO
*September 22nd – River’s Edge, Salida, CO
+October 4th – Avogadro’s Number, Fort Collins, CO
+October 6th – The Soiled Dove, Denver, CO
* opening for Jeffrey Foucault
+ opening for Kelly Joe Phelps
Archived Live Songs Posted!
Have you ever wanted to hear what John sounded like when he was 19? Or hear a live recording featuring Colorado’s own fiddler-extraordinaire Katie Glassman? A six-song set of archived live and demo recordings has been posted to the John Statz Soundcloud page, and the highlight is John’s first ever public appearance way back in 2004 (at age 19!) on Wisconsin Public Radio’s “Higher Ground” show. Other recordings come from the Walnut Room in Denver (2011 and 2012), the Bremen Cafe in Milwaukee (2006) and a demo of an earlier version of “Distance”. Enjoy!
Oh yea, and check out this photo taken by a fan at July’s show at The Brick in Kansas City, Missouri. Yaniv Salzberg is playing the upright bass in the photo, and also does on the Soundcloud version of “The Wichita Waltz”.
Stay tuned for a full Europe Tour announcement, some dates can already be found at the calendar page.