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So, I have been away for a while in Australia researching my Masters thesis. It has been taking a bit more time and effort than I originally planned and thus I have had to take a bit of a break from promoting my record. Which is both good and bad. The promotion side of things is not really my favourite bit.
But now I am back. I still have a fair bit of work to do on my thesis, but it will hopefully be easier from Sweden to combine the twin pleasures of science and music.
I just found out that another fine review for ‘Another Way To Say Goodbye’ has turned up on an American music site called Record Dept. Music Reviews. They call the album ‘honest and heartfelt, authentic and rich’. Read the review here.
I will be fixing some gigs in Sweden sometime in the near future. It is often tricky during the summer, but we’ll see what turns up.
In other news, the record has recently been made available on Spotify. Yay!
Take it easy,
Lucas
Hi!
Good things happening in the Netherlands. There is a Lucas Dawson radio storm gathering on the horizon. Hopefully.
Great radio programs like From Austin to Everywhere, Goodnoi(s)e, and Americana Music Club are all playing tracks from my new album.
Goodnoi(s)e even wrote a great review of the record on their homepage and call it a ‘pearl of an album’. Which is very nice indeed.
French fans might be interested to keep an eye open for the coming edition of Le Cri du Coyote magazine, which I believe will be carrying a review of the record as well.
Here’s hoping the good word keeps spreading.
Lucas
Thanks to those fine Stockholmers who came down to to the gig at Obaren on Tuesday, despite the lateness of the hour. It was fun to play in a different part of town actually. All of a sudden there were tourists and backslicks and all kinds of different folks we don’t often see at our gigs. I am also glad that the cold I was coming down with prior to the gig was held at bay until the day after, when I was sick as a dog.
In other news. cdbaby.com have received a new shipment of my new album – Another Way To Say Goodbye – and have managed to meet those back orders that accumulated, so hopefully everyone has received the copies that they have ordered. And I have also heard from cdbaby that they will monitoring things a little more closely so that hopefully stocks won’t suddenly sell out again. You can also order direct from this website, using the music page…
More and more people are saying very nice things about the new record. And this is very pleasing. callitfolk.com call it, amongst other things, ‘compelling’, ’stark’ and ‘gorgeous’. I like!
Lucas
Hi!
Both myself and cdbaby.com have been caught napping by the sudden rush to buy my new album – Another Way To Say Goodbye. cdbaby sold out of their stocks in one day. Which is both good and bad I guess. Anyway, I have sent some new stock to them today, but it will take a week or so for it to get to them in the US, in the meantime you can always buy the cd directly from my website here (which is a little cheaper for you and also means that I get paid a little more).
In other news a number of radio stations have been emailing me asking for copies of the cd to play on the air, so expect to be hearing some of the record on your nearest quality radio program soon! If you have a radio program and you think that you might want to play some of my tunes, drop me an email with some details.
take it easy
Lucas
Hey everyone!
I got a bit suspicious this morning when I started to see several orders for my new record suddenly coming through from the Netherlands. Don’t get me wrong, I was happy. Hell, I was ecstatic, but a little puzzled. I tried to ignore it and get on with what I was doing at the time, but it kept nagging at the back of my mind. ‘Why all of this interest all of sudden from the Netherlands…?’ So I did a little internet snooping.
It turns out my new record – Another Way To Say Goodbye – has just been reviewed at www.altcountry.nl (god bless google translate!) and they have given the record a full 5 stars, calling it, amongst other very nice things, a ‘truly impressive record’.
It made me mighty glad, I can tell you.
But don’t let them tell you what to think. Make up your own mind. Buy the record now from the music page here on the website.
And if you are in Stockholm on Tuesday 9th February, come down to Obaren, Stureplan where I’ll be playing live with the band from 10pm. Free entry! Hope to see you there.
Lucas
Thanks to everyone who came down to the release gig for the new album – Another Way To Say Goodbye – on thursday. I had a great night, everyone in the band had a great night, and judging from the reactions from the crowd both during the gig and afterwards it seemed everyone else did as well.
We also got the chance to play a few new songs for the first time live and that felt great.
So, now the record is out there. Go and buy a copy right now! It’s great. Or come down to coming gigs and grab a copy. We are playing at Obaren on the 9th february.
Lucas
Hej!
Howdy!
Been a while between blogs. My apologies. Lots going on and all that.
The first review of my new album ‘Another Way To Say Goodbye’ has turned up in a German music zine called Waste of Mind. It is pretty neat. They gave the record 8/10, which is not too shabby. German-speakers can read the review at wasteofmind.de everybody else can either guess what they have written about, or use Google translate to get a garbled sense of how much they dig the record.
Alternately, you can go to cdbaby and get your own copy and make up your own mind.
The album is officially released on 7th January, and Stockholmers – and everybody else for that matter – are very welcome to come down to Underbara Bar on the 7th for our Album Release Party. We will be playing live and there will be copies of the record available at severely discounted prices. Yay!
In other news, we are busy sending out copies for review all over the place, and generally gearing up for the release. Hoping and working for a busy 2010!
You can also listen to my music at lots of other places all over the internet. If you want to check out some other places, go to bandcamp.com and surf to my page there or the 61 or last.fm and probably some other places too, that I am not even aware of yet.
anyway, hope you are listening and liking.
love
Lucas
Hey!
While we have been waiting for the record to get pressed and come back to us I have been working on a bunch of new songs and yesterday I went into the studio and presented them to the band. We had a great time and I can tell you already, these new songs are gonna be amazing by the time we are finished with them. There are also a few more up-tempo numbers than have previously been the case, giving Nicke an excuse to make all kinds of peculiar noises on his guitar as is his wont.
I don’t know when we will get around to recording them yet. Much depends on how it goes with the release of the coming record – scheduled for the beginning of January. But keep your eyes peeled for coming gigs because we are already looking forward to slotting some of the new numbers into the repertoire.
In other news: according to the pressing company we should receive shipment of the debut record, ‘Another Way To Say Goodbye’, by the 5th November, which means that advanced copies and review copies will be available shortly after that date.
love
Lucas
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