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5 Goodbye Charlie

To all our friends and family, fans and supporters, it is with a heavy heart that we share the news that our friend, bandmate, and partner-in-crime – Charles “Big Charlie” Skinner – will be hanging up his ringmaster’s jacket and bowler hat and departing from the Dirty Bourbon River Show.

I’m sure this is quite a shock to many of y’all, but this is Charlie’s decision, and – being friends first – we support him in his desire to pursue other paths and passions. As many of you know, Charlie is an exceptional singer and performer, and we have the highest hopes for him and wish him the best in this next chapter of his life.

Charlie’s final performance with the band will be on April 4th in New Orleans for our “Important Things Humans Should Know” album release party, where we hope you’ll help us give him a proper send off. Moving forward, it is our our goal to fill the section of the stage that was Charlie’s with another trombonist. It won’t be the same, folks, but change in life is inevitable, and the show must go on. Ad Astera per Aspera!

Thank you Charlie, it was an honor to share the stage and the road with you.

1 RIP Breaking Bad

Just caught the season finale of Breaking Bad on our drive back home – wow! That’s quite a lot that just happened! I mean, damn…

Thx Chris for setting us up in Knoxville – Now to knock out the rest of this drive – be back home in New Orleans before morning…

Ad Astera per Aspera

0 RIP Doc Watson

Loosing a lot of good ones this year. A few hours ago Doc Watson died. RIP you good man. We flatpick the way we do because of you.

Gig tonight in Staunton, VA – Baja Bean – 10pm

0 RIP Coco Robicheaux

RIP Coco Robincheaux October 25, 1947 – November 25, 2011

1 An Update On Our Doings

An update on the October 2010 doings of New Orleans vaudeville rock band the Dirty Bourbon River Show

Hello everybody – new month, new weather – time to get the ball rolling again. Couple of things we’re working on:

1) Our 3rd album – Volume Two. Just finished mapping out another song for this beast, titled “Mad” (check it here). Have about 8 out of 10 songs started. Tracking a few of them down at the Music Shed on the 23rd (thanks Elizabeth!). This album is really shaping out – and I’m really happy with how our individual sound is developing.

2) October Tour. Slipping out of NOLA for a minute at the end of the month to play a few shows & festivals in the Carolinas and Virginia with our dear friends Holy Ghost Tent Revival. Got insurance seats in the van now (just need seatbelts). Can’t express how f’in excited I am for this run. Yargh.

3) Causes. Playing a clinic for the children of the Big Top on the 8th, then a gulf spill aid festival called WarehouseFest 2010, then closing out the month with Take the Lake festival on the 30th in Wilmington, NC.

4) My uncle – Bryan Adams – died last Thursday. He was a great man and supporter of the Dirty Bourbon River Show – if you remember back to our Kickstarter project last may – he was the largest of our donors – donating $667. Don’t ask how he came to that number; he was a wild, and incalculable man. A great American. Everything all rolled into one. Check the obit here.

RIP Uncle B.

~ Noah Adams