Dirty Bourbon River Show

0 Ashed Out: Onwards & Upwards

What a wonderful Mardi Gras. What a wonderful fucking Mardi Gras. My god. Still mulling over everything that happened; some of it blurry, most good… where to begin?..

After playing Tipitina’s everything just kind of blends together… We win the Superbowl on Sunday… Mon. hurts the head… Slipped out of Gooslby’s class early and went downtown with a keg and my pirate friends midweek for the Super Bowl parade… then Friday, opened up for Rebirth Brass Band at Cafe Prytania (amazing show, thanks to all that came out), then Sat. blends into Sunday, saw Bootsy on a Thoth float, got pelted, then Lundi Gras took us all by storm… savagely drunk, stumbling around downtown, woke up on somebody’s lawn, delirious, made it to Zulu just in time…

zulu — Me & Bootsy sleeping on the ground just before Zulu...

Then I slept a long, long time, and now here I am, Ash Wednesday, full of sins, shedding them slowly, one by one… It’s been a long, wild Mardi Gras… thank you everyone who was a part of it…

Many great new things to come… new songs… going to SXSW… Album’s up on iTunes:

Check it out, please continue to spread the word…

Well, I’m beat, going back to sleep for a minute…

Until then.

– Noah Adams

0 Reconciling Two Homes

On Tuesday night, I found myself on the corner of Barrone and Howard with the rest of New Orleans celebrating the Saints victory in the Super Bowl. However, I had a problem. I am born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Not only that I am a Vikings fan. I have lived in New Orleans for the better part of a year and a half. While I love my first home with all my heart, so much has happened to me. I’ve had to run from a hurricane after only being here a week only to end up running towards the worst part of it in Baton Rouge. I’ve had the distinct pleasure of being accommodated in Orleans Parish Prison for a night. I’ve fallen in love and lost it. Not to mention my first Mardi Gras and all the other standard New Orleans bucket list experiences. So with this victory I found myself in the first conflict of interest since coming down here last fall.

See, I supported both teams in the regular season, knowing in my gut that they were destined to face each other in the playoffs. When they did, ultimately I sided with my home team. To do otherwise I felt would be treasonous. However, I knew that if New Orleans won, the city would have its hopes so high that it would seem impossible for them to not go on to win the Super Bowl. Since this is what happened, I could see in locals an excitement and hope that didn’t quite seem to be there before. So when time came for kickoff last Sunday, I wanted the Saints to win. Not for me, but for my second home. They needed it more than me.

While my first home has seen its share of let-downs on the football field, my second had been let down by so many of the things in which they had placed faith. It was in seeing this I realized how to reconcile my two homes. Just place my heart behind whichever one needs it the most and the rest should manage to work itself out.

-Clay

0 A Spectacular & Magnificent CD Release Party

This past Friday at Tipitina’s was by far my favorite show to date. Utterly fucking amazing. Thank you everybody who came out and shared these fine times.Look for live recordings, more photos, video and much more to come. Anyone with pics please please hit them up on the facebook here:

Word.

0 View through the Lens

So, heres the breakdown. DBRS is sending out a call to ANYONE with a camera to take lots of pictures on February 5th at our CD release show at Tipitina’s. But here’s the rub, we don’t just want pictures of ourselves (we’re not that vain) we want to see what yall see on Friday. You see the ghost of Old Dirty Bastard eating french fries, we wanna see it. Yall see a man on a horse evade capture by the constables via hot air balloon, damn straight we want to see that too. SO when you wake up the next day and have a minute, roll on over to our Facebook and post up whatever pictures you end up with. We will love you even more forever more.

Yo, what happened to peace?

Peace,

Clay

0 Bourblogin’ 4 Yo Noggin II – The Next Episode

0 Great folk/bluegrass show tonight at Cafe Prytania!

This Friday (1.29.10) I will be going to see my dear friends New Grass Country Club and Bywater stringheads the Tanglers at Cafe Prytania (3400 Prytania, across from Tauro). It will be a good god damn time, and I invite you to come drink whiskey with me there. New Grass has been growing immensely, and is starting to sound pretty nasty.

Yes sir indeed. Hope to see you there. Here’s a little preview of their music:

http://www.myspace.com/newgrasscountryclub

http://www.myspace.com/thetanglers

0 Whats it gonna look like?

We’re serious, we made an album! It is aptly named Volume I. This is what it looks like on the front cover. Wanna know what tracks are on it? Lucky for you, we made a list. In list form.

Anything Goes Tonight
Ain’t No Place (Like New Orleans)
Ruffian Since Birth
Yelping Song
A Spectacular & Magnificent Day
Up We Go Now!
Nelly Bly
One Way or Another (I’ll Be Free)
St. James Infirmary
Chromatic Circus Fantasy

0 The Album is Mixed! Saints are killin’ it!

After many long, long nights, the mixing on Dirty Bourbon’s debut LP Volume One is now finished! It is huge! Now mastering/manufacturing… Looking forward to releasing this beast at Tipitina’s on February 5th… and then, 2 days later… Saints at the mutherfluckin’ SuperBowl! This February is gonna be amazing! Can’t wait!!!

0 Good Evening America

Hey all, I’m Clay, resident Midwesterner and I’ll be keeping yall posted on goings on with DBRS and random things that I feel the need to share. Stay with us its gonna get bonkers!!

0 Welcome

Hello everybody, my name is Noah Adams, bandleader of the Dirty Bourbon River Show. I started this blog as a mulit-media production class project. Let us now grow it together.