In the shameless self promotion column...

New websites.....
http://ericambel.com/



www.yayhoos.com


www.cowboytechnical.com

and.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................The Del-Lords got one too including Scott "Top Ten" Kempner's blog. www.del-lords.com

check 'em out.

Yayhoos gigs...Chip's record & a food shot

Hey Friends,

the Yayhoos are coming out of our dormant state next weekend for a couple gigs.
One in NYC at the Mercury Lounge Sept 5 at 11pm and another at the big the next day Sept 6th Bloodshot
Records Blowout in Philly at World Cafe Live with the Bottle Rockets, Ha Ha Tonka, Robbie Fulks,
Waco Brothers and more.

I've written a few times here about playing and recording with Chip Robinson. Most of the recording
for his new record "Mylow" was done right here in the living room studio "Lily's Terrace" over coffee and sandwiches. The record
was mixed at the Cowboy Technical by Tim Hatfield and myself. Chip
has signed a deal with Kasey Anderson's label Red River Records.
Chip has a few special advance copies available if you act quickly. I'm excited about people getting to hear Chip's first solo record.
Kasey is going to put it out on vinyl also.



The other day I was out on the bike and stopped at Neighburrito for some lunch and veered away from my usual
pork jag discovering this thing called the Steak Fajiat-rito.
It was good. And that is all I have to say about that.

Bottle Rockets -Aug 11 Lean Forward

I'm pretty damned excited that today is August 11 and that marks the release of the new
Bottle Rockets record "Lean Forward". The Bottle Rockets are one of the best Band's I've
ever had the pleasure of working with as a producer. I've done 3 LP's and an EP with them over the
years. (Lean Forward makes it 4)
First was Brooklyn Side, recorded at the fondly remembered Coyote Studios on N 6th
Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Coyote is gone now due to the former meat market street turning
into a different type of Meat Market resulting in many bars and an American Apparel store.

Next was 24 Hours A Day which we tracked at the 'Coug's guitar player Mike Wanchic's joint in Bloomington,
Indiana. We all got our own rooms at the Motel 6 and we were greeted every morning by a young
girl who wanted badly to leave Bloomington for more hipster digs like NYC who we affectionately
refered to as "Eyebrows". We did some overdubs in NYC and mixed with the fabulously English Mr
Richard "Dick" Dodd in the Berry Hill section of Nashville.

We had some leftover tracks from 24 Hours A Day that became known, oddly enough, as "Leftovers"
Then we went to Lou's The Studio in Springfield, MO to record "Brand New Year" in 1999.

It had been quite a while since we worked together but we had always stayed in touch. I was
never as excited as I was the morning I opened up my e-mail to find that the Bottle Rockets
wanted to make a record with me again.

The record we made with Tim Hatfield engineering last summer at the old Cowboy Technical Services
basement location on Hope Street in Williamsburg is released today on Bloodshot Records.
You can get it through iTunes or from the Band's Webstore or Bloodshot's Webstore or your local record shop.
The record is available on CD and Limited Edition Vinyl.

I hope you'll dig it as much as I do.

E/Roscoe

TdF isn't the only thing going on in July/New Studio-New Website

The Tour de France isn't the only thing going on in July but it has been a good
one and it is getting better. Today's stage in the Alps was pretty darn exciting.
Watched this morning live then watched the daily 5pm Race Replay again at the Lakeside
with 40 cycling fans who all got a kick out of watching Lance (yeah, we can
refer to him with one name) play 'team player' helping race leader/teamate
Alberto Contador.

Lance leads Astana teammate and current TdF leader Contador through an Alpine snow tunnel at over 55 mph

Also this month I've been working on a new website for the new location of Cowboy Technical Services.
Check it out. I used iWeb and tried to keep it clean so you could read it on your phone if that happens
to be how you roll. We have a CTS Recording Blog on that site too. I've just started it but I'm gonna sorta rate
the our new favorite lunch spots.

Busier than a cranberry merchant

"Busier than a cranberry merchant" is an expression my Grandmother used to use. It always baffled
my sister and I. Far as I can tell cranberries don't have a due date on 'em?

Anyway, been very busy at the new Cowboy Technical Services with a lot of mixing. We finished mixing Ted Morris's debut record from Stockholm and headed over to the historic Pencil Factory Building in Greenpoint to master the stuff with Paul Gold at Salt Mastering.



After we got Ted's master all tweaked out we did the final sequencing on the upcoming New Heathens record titled "Hello Disaster" then as we were quite hungry from all this tweaking we headed back to Williamsburg for dinner.

It has been raining every few hours here for the last 7 weeks but riding in the pouring rain is no problem
when you have Peter Lugers as your destination


The Rocky Track locked up out front of Lugers.

Paul, Tim Hatfield and I proceeded with the Lugers experience.
Rolls with Luger sauce


followed by the Lugers version of a salad


I'd never had the Lugers bacon before. I think it may have been oven cooked. Fantastic.


Steak for 3
I didn't get a picture of the Lugers hash browns because knives and forks were flying at that point

And some streudel


I've said it before but Lugers aging process of their Porterhouse really brings out the difference in taste between the rib and tenderloin sides of the steak.

Back to more mixing this week with a great band from Cleveland called Robbing Mary and a fun gig with Chip Robinson and the Roscoe Trio the other night at the Lakeside.

Busier than a cranberry merchant.