August at the nest...

Greetings Mud-misers,

What's going on at Mud Dauber Records? So glad you asked!

To start, The Gilded Bats will be playing at the majestic, historic, and super-amazing Englert Theatre in Iowa City, IA on Saturday, August 9th. Yup, this Saturday. Presented by the Iowa Friends of Old-Time Music, this ***FREE*** show will also feature Stones in the Field, the Escape the Floodwater Jug Band, and The Awful Purdies. Holy frickin' cow. It's at 7 pm. The only reason to not be there is because you hate cute puppies.

On top of reaching #14 on the Euro Americana chart and #10 on the Roots Music Report chart, Patrick Bloom has started to receive another round of national and international airplay for his current release, Moses. As a matter of fact, Carrie Delzoppo, lovely host of the radio show "The Cowboy's Sweetheart" in Byron Bay, Australia, will be featuring the album on her program this week. The show airs at 10:00 am Saturday, August 9th on Bay FM in Byron Bay, Australia. What's that? You're not planning to be Down Under this weekend? Then you can hear the show online at 7:00 pm central standard time in the states. To listen in, just go to BayFM's website at www.bayfm.org.

--Wait... that means that The Gilded Bats will be playing live, this Saturday August 9th at 7:00 pm, at the VERY SAME TIME that Patrick Bloom's album will be getting featured online? Uh... yes. Smack us with a wooden chair and call us Sally, but it's true.--

Meanwhile, Bloom's album Moses has been given great reviews (quick ones) by both Taproot Radio and Absolute Powerpop, and was recommended as a current best pick by Rootsy.nu.

And lastly, The Mayflies have been chosen as the Band of the Month on the Iowa Jam Band Society website. Be careful y'all... they may technically qualify as a "jam band", but they're a true roots phenom. They just happen to play their butts off. AND they'll be starting tracking for their NEW ALBUM this week! (Oooooh... look at all of those capitol letters). Songs to be recorded include those penned by band members Stacy Webster, Dave Lumberg, and Jon Eric, and five additional songs by Patrick Bloom will be included in there as well. Yessiree.