Here’s what has been going on for us since our interview with Southern Fried Magazine last year.
We finally got band t-shirts and a short (6 song) CD and a live bootleg CD out as well. The live CD is me and a couple musicians who put together at the last minute. So it’s not actually a “Texas Holdem” CD, which makes it more amazing since I didn’t even know these guys till we took the stage at JJ’s world famous blues club in Santa Clara CA. I’m going to put the whole story on how that night came to be on the album sleeve. The recording is just a live bootleg. The club regularly records performances and they gave me a CD at the end of the night. When I listened to it the next day I thought, WOW, some of those tracks are pretty good. The challenge was the recording quality, so I kinda agonized over releasing this one, but in the end I decided to do it (after having it professionally mastered at a recording studio) and I hope everybody likes it. There’s ,I think, 10 tracks on it and we’ve started selling them for $10 at shows, soon I hope to put them for sale on the web site as well.
There’s a number of new venues for us around the Bay area and Sacramento area that are now regular stops (see the website for gig info) and were hoping to play a lot more casinos and festivals in 08.
I got a chance to be a guest DJ on “The Bone” 107.7FM and hang with Steven Seaweed. That was awesome and it gave me a real publicity boost. A local TV show “Makin’ Music” did a show on me featuring a live television performance and the newspaper here where I live (Campbell) has expressed interest in doing a story on me.
Our website is up and running. You can see all our gig listings there, leave a comment, join the mailing list and buy merchandise.
Thanks and keep ROCKIN!!!
“Wailin” Michael Weldon Osborn
http://www.michaelosbornmusic.com/texasholdemband.html
http://www.myspace.com/wailinweldonosborn