News

Sally Van Meter has scheduled another reunion with Eric, Caleb & Keith of Open Road (and David Richey of the Billy Pilgrims!) at Oskar Blues in Lyons, 9 p.m. on Leap Year Day.

The Billy Pilgrims are traveling quite a bit this summer, visiting some old Open Road and Hit & Run friends around Colorado and the West. Check out www.billypilgrims.com for the schedule.

We hope to see you all at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival this coming Saturday! Check out www.bluegrass.com and www.billypilgrims.com for more info.

We just found out the reunion show with Brad at the Swing Station tonight is SOLD OUT! Sorry if you didn't already call for tickets for tonight's show, but we hope you can still come out to Oskar Blues in Lyons on Sunday to see Caleb, Erin & Aaron, and Dave Richey in Wagon Train (later renamed to The Billy Pilgrims!) (6 p.m show, downstairs). Hope to see you soon! Happy Holidays from Open Road!

Special Open Road reunion announcement: Happy Holidays! Keith, Eric, and Caleb will be doing a reunion Open Road show with Bradford Lee Folk at his bar, the Swing Station, in Laporte, CO, on Friday, Dec. 8. Stay tuned at www.swingstationusa.com.

Caleb is joining the new Mr. & Mrs. Youngberg project called Wagon Train (later renamed to The Billy Pilgrims). Mrs. Erin sings and plays upright bass, Mr. Aaron plays banjo and pedal steel, Caleb plays mandolin and electric guitar, and David Richey sings lead and plays acoustic guitar. Wagon Train's first performance is opening for some of Open's Road's longtime friends, Sweet Sunny South at the Rialto Theater in Loveland, CO, on Friday, Nov. 17. Check it out! Tickets and info at (970) 962-2120.
And Wagon Train has also added shows on Saturday, Nov. 18 at Planet Bluegrass Wildflower Theater in Lyons, opening for Benny Galloway and Wayword Sons, and their own show Sunday, Dec. 10, at Oskar Blues in Lyons.

Keith found another way to get people back to Colorado Springs. He gathered up some musicians to play at Colorado College where he teaches the world's future leaders how to play bluegrass. Caleb & Keith had a great time with longtime friends of Open Road Gene Libbea and Todd Livingston and recent Colorado transplant David Richey, who made the college students scream and swoon with his singing and guitar pickin. Meanwhile, Eric was touring with Drew Emmitt, and Jeff was touring with Great American Taxi, where they were bound to meet a lot of swooning fans, too.

We hope to see a lot of Colorado folks tomorrow (Saturday, Aug. 26), probably including a lot of Keith's students and friends because we're finally playing in his town of Colo Sprgs!
Rock Ledge Rendezvous Festival: Fiddles, Vittles, and Vino, Colorado Springs, CO
This day-long event at the historic Rock Ledge Ranch in Colorado Springs features gourmet food, wine, and two stages with bluegrass. Festival starts at noon; Open Road headlines at 7:30 p.m.
For more information, www.fiddlesvittlesandvino.com.

With a lot of other projects going on this summer, it takes a little bit of tricky logistics to get everyone in the same place. We're on our way to Canada for the Prince Edward Island Bluegrass and Old Time Festival. Caleb and Jefferson flew to Boston, dragging talented guest musician Todd Livingston with them, and they are picking up Eric in Maine on the way (who just flew in from Alaska where he was teaching workshops and fishing). Keith is already in Canada vacationing with his lovely wife, Sharon.

We've got a few shows in August in Colorado so locals may see us a little more.

And Amy finally posted some photos from May High Street Concert season finale/Jefferson Hamer Open Road hometown premier.

Hope you're having a great summer, and just maybe we'll see you, if not with Open Road, with one of our many other musical outlets.

Well, we just got back from the Durango Meltdown, a great festival. Thank you to all our longtime friends who came out to see Open Road, and we enjoyed meeting some new friends. It was Brad's last performance with Open Road and a very memorable event.

Nevermind all the rumors you have heard, the real truth is that Caleb, Eric and Keith don't want to hang up their hats just yet. We still love to play and sing bluegrass, and we are happy to announce two upcoming dates with Jefferson Hamer. Please come check it out. Sally Van Meter will be a special guest at these two performances: This Friday, April 14 at Cervantes' Masterpiece Ballroom in Denver for a benefit for Kirk Rundstrom of Split Lip Rayfield and on Saturday, May 6, at the final High Street Concert Series of the season in Lyons. Be sure to get tickets in advance at the Stone Cup (442 High Street, Lyons, CO, (303) 823-2345), because this concert series sells out in advance.

Happy New Year!
We want to announce a special show in Colorado next Friday: On Friday, Jan. 27, Open Road will be performing in LaPorte, CO, north of Fort Collins, at the Swing Station, a honkytonk bar and restaurant that Brad owns with our friends Kristy & Paul Burnett and Blake Humphrey. This special show will be one of a limited number of Open Road appearances in 2006 and one of Brad's last performances with Open Road, as he has devoted himself full time to this new business venture. Please come on out and join us for a memorable night in Colorado. (Details on the Tour page)

Lucky Drive was featured in a Highlight Review in the December issue of Bluegrass Unlimited: "Open Road's third Rounder release is the Colorado band's best yet, solidifying their place at the forefront of the growing ranks of young bluegrass bands..."(Read full review here.)

We're back from a fun tour in the Southeast with Mike Bub (check out the Photos page) and we're headed out to the other corner of the country with Yonder Mountain String Band this week in the Northwest. (Details on theTour page)

On satelite radio: We just learned that the performance and interview Open Road taped for Sirius Satellite radio in New York last month will air on the bluegrass channel 37 on Sept. 22 at 11:00 AM

On TV: The Open Road appearance on Denver's ABC's affiliate KGMH Channel 7 has moved to the 5 p.m. News tomorrow -- Friday, Sept. 16 -- to promote Cletus Fest in Denver at Invesco Field on Saturday.

Thanks to Marquee Magazine for naming Open Road Best Bluegrass Band in the latest issue.

Open Road is honored that Brad's original song "Lucky Drive" has debuted at number 29 on the Bluegrass Unlimited National Bluegrass Survey Song Charts for September 2005.
We also just learned that the CD Lucky Drive is number 6 on the Roots Music Report Bluegrass Airplay Charts after only two weeks on the chart, and number 60 on the Americana Roots Top 100 Chart .
We want to thank Rounder for getting our new CD out to DJs and we want to thank the DJs for choosing to play our bluegrass music.

We're leaving this morning to fly to New York City for a short tour of the Philadelphia and NYC area, including a performance on Sirius Radio. We will be performing at the Musikfest in Bethelem, PA, on Thursday and Friday at the Tin Angel in Philadelphia, PA, on Saturday, and at Satalla in New York, NY, on Sunday.

See you in Wyoming this weekend at the Beartrap Summer Festival in Casper. And then in Montana for a week in some of our favorite towns before the Oyster Ridge Music Festival in Kemmerer, WY, next weekend.
The last time we were in WY we had a real fun time: Here are some Photos from when we were in Buffalo, WY, last month.

Great news: We learned that Lucky Drive hit the Billboard bluegrass charts the first week it was released.

And here's a cool review in the New York Post: "WITH George Straight's over-orchestrated new CD yawner hitting record shacks, the time is ripe for a bluegrass band like Open Road to ask, 'What happened to country music?' With a banjo/fiddle/guitar combo, Open Road provides its own answer. The traditional American sound is alive and well on "Lucky Drive," a disc that examines wanderlust, wealth and mental wellbeing with old-time country style. The instrumental interplay is terrific, pure and simple. It's as if the band plays huddled around a single microphone. The straightforward arrangements allow singer Brad Folk's tenor to always stay in front of the music. His twanging, emotional croon is original, yet reverential. Download these: 'Wanderin' Blues,' 'I'm Lonesome.'"

Open Road's appearances July 14-16 in VA and TN have been cancelled due to circumstances beyond our control. Please see updated Tour page.

Hope to see you all this Friday July 8 in Lyons at Rogers Hall (4th and High street) for our hometown CD release party. You can get advance tickets at the Stone Cup coffee shop in Lyons. Doors open at 7 p.m. and show starts at 8 p.m.

We will also be in Wolcott on Thursday, at the Winter Park Folk Festival on Saturday and at the Mishawauka Ampitheatre with Shanti Groove on Sunday. More information is available on the Tour page.

We just learned about this great review of Lucky Drive by Jerome Clark on the Bluegrass Works web site.

It was truly an honor to play at the Ryman. Thanks to Old Crow Medicine Show for the opportunity and for everyone who came out to the show and bought an early copy of Lucky Drive. We really felt welcome. Great to see our buddies Ray and Mike again and meet a lot of new wonderful people. Thanks to Eddie Stubbs for the encouragement and for posing for several photos.
The Nashville media was also kind.
Thanks to Jon Weisberger for the pick in the Nashville Scene: "Open Road are from Colorado, home to a million jamgrass-leaning bands, but the group—lead singer and guitarist Brad Folk, mandolin player Caleb Roberts, bassist Eric Thorin and banjoist Keith Reed, plus hot young guest fiddler Josh Goforth—cut against the grain by banging out hardcore 'grass that has improved steadily through three CDs for Rounder. Their latest, Lucky Drive, hits the streets just days after their Ryman debut and easily justifies their appearance in a concert series filled with undisputed masters. Leavening a cannily selected set that's heavy on obscurities with a couple of Folk's solid, idiomatic originals, it chugs along with a commendably tight drive that bears witness to Open Road's exhausting tour schedule and makes a convincing case that they're among the best of today's neo-traditionalists."
And the Nashville City Paper wrote a short feature about our debut.
We've captured a few moments on the ol' digital camera. Check them out here.

As part of our Lucky Drive tour, we have some new dates in our home state of Colorado this month in addition to our first time playing at the historic Ryman in Nashville on June 23—with Old Crow Medicine Show. We'll be back at Avogadro's on June 12 in addition to some stops in the high country in Breckenridge and Steamboat Springs this week. And don't miss a special performance celebrating Lucky Drive at Rogers Hall in Lyons July 8.
Check out how much fun we had last time we played in Lyons.
For updates on all upcoming Lucky Drive appearances, see the Tour page.
We also have some new fliers available for download for our June and July tour dates on the Open Road Street Team page.

We are pleased to announce that Open Road's new Rounder CD, Lucky Drive, will be released June 28! The CD includes several new originals, including Brad's title track, inspired by our trips to LA in the past year or so. And we were honored that one of our living heroes, Vern Williams, sang with Brad on "I'm Lonesome," a song we learned from a Larry and Happy Smith recording on the Blueridge label.

You can preorder CDs from us now on our web site: Click here to BUY!

See all you Colorado folks this Friday at the Greeley Bluegrass Roundup! And Nevada folks, we'll be in Laughlin Saturday-Monday. More information is available on our Tour page.

We've had a great time visiting Knoxville, Nashville and Tazewell, TN, and the midwest in April. We enjoyed hanging out with our Chicago pal Ray, in TN and finally in his home state at the American Legion Hall in Evanston. Thanks to Chip and everyone who put on the show, and to Ray for spreading the word about the band. In the St. Louis area, we had fun staying up late with hard-working promoter Kate and some of the McCoury Band. More photos to come on the Photos page. Send us any if you have 'em.

Also, if you got your hands on a copy of the April 2005 issue of Bluegrass Now, turn to page 34 to read an article about Caleb. (Bluegrass Now wrote about Brad back in the December 2002 issue.)

March 24, 2005

Thanks to all who came to Lyons to the High Street concert. We had a sold out show, with a record attendance, according to concert organizers. There's nothing like playing in our home towns. Check out photos from the weekend including our shows at the Fox and the Gothic with Donna The Buffalo on the Photos page.
We also just learned that Westword named Open Road best bluegrass band in the 2005 Best of Denver issue. Thanks for the honor, and thanks for including bluegrass as a category! Check out the rest of the best at www.westword.com.

In addition to our shows with Donna The Buffalo this month, there is a special Open Road Lyons High Street Concert on Saturday, March 19. We will need Street Team help postering for this show and passing out fliers at the Donna the Buffalo shows. Boulder County area people should check out the Open Road Street Team and email Street@openroadbluegrass.com if you want to help.

• 11x17 poster (600k PDF file)
• 8.5x11 flyer (600k PDF file)
• 8.5x11 sheet of 4 handbills (600k PDF file)

It was hard to leave Paonia and return to the Front Range, but we did it. We were playing Paradise (Theatre), afterall. Thanks to everyone who helped put on the show and those who provided places for us to stay, great food and fun, including our new acupuncturist friend Rebecca and our longtime elk rancher pal Willy. Avogadro's Number in Fort Collins was a wonderful part of our weekend, too. Thanks to everyone in Fort Collins for hometown love. Photos from the weekend are appearing this week on the Photos page. Keep checking back for updates.

Good news! We've just learned we have some more Colorado shows in March: we are honored to open for Donna The Buffalo on March 17 at the Fox Theatre in Boulder and March 18 at the Gothic Theatre in Englewood/Denver! And it's likely there will be an additional Open Road show on the Front Range that weekend, so keep checking the Tour page.

We are looking forward to seeing all our longtime Colorado fans tonight at Avogadro's Number in Fort Collins. Fred & Cathay Zipp will be opening the show. Show starts at 8 p.m. Avo's is located at 605 S. Mason. (Call 970-493-5555 if you can't find it)
On Saturday we head down to Paonia for a show at the Paradise Theater. We can't wait to see our friends including Sweet Sunny South, local elk ranchers, DJs at KVNF, and all the wonderful people who live in Paonia. Doors open at 7pm and more info about tickets is available by calling 970-527-4791.

We're back home after one of our favorite trips to Montana and Utah. Thanks to everyone for coming out for bluegrass music! Some Utah friends put together a last-minute show for us and local Utah bands at the Circuit to make up for the cancelled festival at the Delta Center.
Thanks to Brandon our booking agent for a successful tour!
Paul took a lot of photos of our trip: Check out the Photos page and Photos from the Road page for updates this week.

We had great time in Missoula last night at the Other Side. Missoula music lovers are loud and appreciative, and kept calling us back for more. Thanks for coming out to everyone including our friends from the Broken Valley Road Show. We even played Mule Train (which we recorded on our upcoming CD) twice. Caleb's voice needs to recover from all the yelling "Yah!" We're headed to Craig tonight looking forward to more big sky hospitality in one of our favorite states.
We just got the news that the promoters for the Mountain Grass Bluegrass Gathering Festival in Salt Lake City have cancelled the event. There is more information at http://www.mountaingrass.net. We may learn later today whether we can get another performance in Utah lined up for Sunday. Check back on the Tour page later today to find out.

We're looking forward to our quick Montana tour next week -- Missoula, Craig, Billings and Bozeman -- before heading to Salt Lake City for a festival with our friends including Kathy Kallick, The Wilders, and Sally Van Meter who will be performing with Chris Hillman and Herb Pedersen. We're leaving Tuesday to meet up with Eric Thorin in Driggs: He's been playing and recording with Ben Winship and having a good ol' time. Hope to see you all somewhere along the way! We're happy that the folks in Missoula are already talking about our visit in the Missoulian newspaper: Click here to read all about it.

Colorado fans, Open Road is very happy to announce that we will return to Avogadro's Number in Fort Collins on Friday, Feb. 25. It's been eight months since we played in Fort Collins, and it will be great to return to the bluegrass center of Colorado. Anyone who would like to help promote the show should contact the Open Road Street Team by emailing your contact info (name, address, phone, and e-mail address) to Street@openroadbluegrass.com. Blank In The Life tour posters are available here: click to download OpenRoad_InTheLife_Poster.pdf. We are also looking forward to returning to Paonia for a show at the Paradise Theater the following night on Saturday, Feb. 26. It's been even longer since we've been to Paonia and it will be fun to catch up with our music-loving pals there. Check for updates on Tour page.

Montana fans, we are also pleased to announce that we are coming back to Montana Feb. 9-12, before the Mountain Grass Festival in Salt Lake City on Feb. 13:

• 2/9/2005, The Other Side, 1805 Regent Street, Missoula, MT
• 2/10/2005, Izaak's, 105 Bridge St, Craig, MT
• 2/11/2005, Cicel Recital Hall, Montana State University, Billings, MT
• 2/12/2005, Pilgrim Congregational United Church, Bozeman, MT

Happy New Year! We're all taking a little time off after recording. Everyone recorded last month in Denver, and Caleb and Sally are working on mixing in California this month. You will hear the latest when we know more about when the new CD will be released. We had a lot of fun recording it, Sally Van Meter did a great job producing once again, and it will be available in time for festival season, we hope -- spring or summer. You can check Rounder's web site in the next few months for information. To see some of Keith's pictures from the studio, check out the Photos from the Road page.

We won't be touring again until February. Check out new dates our Tour page, including dates in Illinois with the Del McCoury Band, in Tennessee with Ralph Stanley, and in Greeley with the Wilders.

In the meantime, Brad has been pickin honky tonk out back in the shed on Overland, Keith has been teaching banjo lessons, Eric and Caleb have been playing music with various people, including members of the Yonder Mountain String Band (see pictures of Eric on the Yonder Mountain site and of Caleb here), and Paul is working on a new solo recording.

We hope you like our new consolidated News web page. We want to thank Amy Reinholds and Eric Squire for all their hard work in getting the word out about Open Road. You can always get the latest news here, in addition to what we send out in the Open Roadie E-mail list and post on the Discussion Board. Many of you are already on the Open Roadie E-mail list, but those who want to start receiving monthly Open Road news in your In box, send your name, E-mail address and state to sign up for our Fan E-mail list. Check out the new Community page for ways to get connected with Open Road and other fans.

We just found out that High Definition TV and Budweiser's True Music Television will be featuring Open Road in a very special Extended Play session scheduled to premiere during the holiday season. The broadcast premiere will be on Sun. Dec. 19th @ 9PM ET and 6PM PT, and then re-broadcast 3 hours later on Mon. Dec 20th @ 12AM (Midnight) ET / Sun. Dec. 19th @ 9PM ET.
The show can be found on the "HDnet" channel only available where they have High Definition programming. We encourage you to seek out a friend or neighbor that might have a High Definition TV (and receives High Definition programming) or go by your local retailer (a list for the entire US is listed below) and watch the band perform simultaneously on 50 TVs at the local Best Buy or similar store. We are really honored that HDnet has chosen this performance for a special Extended Play session.
Below is the official show listing as well as links to both retailers nationwide and in Colorado that sell HDTV's. They like people coming down to the store to watch an HDTV program b/c it introduces more people to their High Definition product. So, as our manager says, don't be shy, pull up a chair and watch Open Road on HDnet this Sunday. And bring a few friends.

Sun., Dec. 19th 9:00 PM ET
6:00 PM PT
Budweiser's True Music - Premiere
Extended Play: Open Road - True Music Extended play is going bluegrass with Open Road. This Colorado based band pulls out the fiddle, the banjo and more all to deliver a seamless and private performance for HDNet.

1st Re-broadcast:
Mon., Dec. 20th 12:00 AM ET
Sun., Dec. 19th 9:00 PM PT
List of retailers selling HDTV in US - You can go there to watch the show. Might want to call first:
http://www.hd.net/retailers.html
List of retailers selling HDTV in CO - You can go there to watch the show. Might want to call first:
http://www.hd.net/listretail.html?state=CO&wheretogo=retail
Thank you all once again for another great year and for all of your heartfelt support.

Open Road has eight (8) special Hatch Show Prints from the Station Inn tour. We know that some of you couldn't come to the performances in Nashville; so we brought these limited collectors items back for you. Each Hatch Show Print lists the three concert dates at the Station Inn as well as all of the guests that played with Open Road during these shows. Two of the prints are signed by 15 of the very talented bluegrass musicians that performed with us including:

• Jason Carter
• Mike Bub
• Rob Ickes
• Andy Leftwich
• Dave Pomeroy
• Graham Sharp
• Woody Platt
• Charles Humphrey III
• Mike Guggino
• Nicky Sanders
• Bradford Lee Folk
• Caleb Roberts
• Keith Reed
• Eric Thorin
• Paul Lee

SPECIAL HOLIDAY GIFTS:
A combination or gifts, including the signed & unsigned Hatch Show Prints, along with front-row tickets to our next show at the Station Inn, will be given away as gifts to eight lucky Open Roadies who place a holiday order between now and the end of the year. All orders through the end of the year are eligible, but please note -- we must receive your order by Dec. 15 to make delivery of in-stock goods by Christmas.

Value of Order / Possible Gift:

$75 dollars or more: - Possible Gift: (4) performance tickets to see Open Road at the Station Inn this spring & (1) Nashville fully signed Hatch show collectors print.
One (1) gift will be presented

$45 dollars: - Possible Gift: (4) performance tickets to see Open Road at the Station Inn this spring.
One (1) gift will be presented

$30 dollars: - Possible Gift: (1) Nashville fully signed Hatch show collectors print
One (1) gift will be presented

$15 dollars: - Possible Gift: (1) Nashville Hatch show collector's print -- unsigned
Five (5) gifts will be presented

These amounts do not include costs paid for shipping and handling. S & H must be included on all orders. Void where prohibited by law.

Order now from our Web store, www.openroadbluegrass.com/store.html

We just returned from a month-long tour in the Southeast with lots of memorable events, stories, and good times. While in Nashville, the band was privileged to play 4 shows at the Station Inn, plus a Gibson showcase in Opryland. Over the month, we were pleased to have IBMA award winners Jason Carter, Mike Bub, Rob Ickes (of Blue Highway), and Andy Leftwich (from Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder) join the band on stage. During that run we also had The Steep Canyon Rangers, Noam Pikelny, Ferrel Stowe and various other guests join us at the Station Inn for a first-class pickin' party in Nashville. In Branson, Missouri, at Silver Dollar City, Open Road was joined by Little Roy Lewis of the Lewis Family, who tore through some jaw-dropping banjo tunes at breakneck speed. Other highlights included IBMA in Louisville, KY, where we saw a lot of our old friends, staying up until all hours of the night picking in hospitality suite showcases and catching up, the North Carolina LEAF festival (with 5000+ attendees) and some shows with NC friends The Steep Canyon Rangers. The band put together some rough versions of potential material for our next Rounder Records release at Matt Flinner's house in Nashville. Mike Bub from the Del McCoury Band acted as hospitality director and Music City tour guide, sharing bluegrass history stories and taking the band to the gravesites of John Hartford and Jimmy Martin (future site). Check out some photos from Nashville on our Photos from the Road page and some photos from Branson on our Photos page.

Our third visit to the Grand Targhee festival was once again a fabulous festival with wonderful fans and fellow musicians. Thanks so much for making us feel welcome. Brad sang with Tim O'Brien, the band joined Tim and his band, and Paul joined a special super fiddle jam with Dirk Powell and Darol Anger. We also had a great time picking with friends all night, visiting with the Reeltime Travelers, Kane's River and so many other great folks. Some of our favorite guests who sat in with Open Road were Jason Thomas from Kane's River on fiddle, and Bill Dorsey of Keith's hometown in Idaho on elk call. You can see some photos posted on our photos page and you can read about it in the Idaho State Journal.

The highlight of our trip to southern Illinois to play at the Wabash River festival was singing with one of our favorite bluegrass singers, Junior Sisk. You can see some photos on our photos page.

You all probably know we love Canada and Canadians, but we just got back from a facinating new part of Canada for us, the Yukon Territory. The sky didn't darken until well after 2 a.m., when it was dusk; in fact the sun probably never really went down completely. Everyone we met there was creative, friendly, and interesting. We were honored to be part of the Kluane Bluegrass Festival and the adjoining music festival in Haines Junction, YT. We started out the trip in Juneau, Alaska, where one of Paul Lee's pals from his Ryestraw days, Albert McDonnell, helped us put on a show in town. Thanks to Colette for the night on the boat, and thanks to Dr. Bruce, the Hayes family, and all the great bluegrass-loving Yukon festival volunteers. You can see some photos on our Alaska photos page and the Yukon photos page. Our tour ended up in the Northwest U.S. states including an Anacortes show put on by our friend and liner notes author Barry Brower, and a Tractor Tavern show in Seattle with some wild Missourians, The Wilders.

Just got back from our official In The Life tour in California, where some of our favorite audiences are! Thanks for the opportunity to play bluegrass for you in Culver City, Ojai, Santa Cruz, Chico and Folsom. We also enjoyed performing for the FolkScene show on KPFK. Thanks to new member Paul Lee for showing us around his home state.

OK, Colorado folks. We're celebrating the release of In The Life at several store performances this week: Longmont, CO, Borders Bookstore on May 4, Broomfield Borders Bookstore on May 5 and Bart's CD Cellar in Boulder on May 6. Come out and be one of the first in Colorado to get the new CD! You can also buy it from our Web store.

We had a great time in Austin at the giant South By Southwest festival, honored to be selected for an official showcase with Old Crow Medicine Show, and also enjoying our time with our record label at a Rounder private brunch event, and opportunities to see so many other great bands in all genres possible, from the Hives to BR549. Thanks to Bob and Sharon and to Ron and Krista for your hospitality. You can see some photos on our photos page.

Everyone who is wondering about the songs on the new CD can check out Rounder's web site listing:

1 Bald Knob Arkansas
2 What a Change One Day Can Make
3 Grey Eagle
4 Pick Me Up
5 Mandy Jane
6 One Is a Lonely Number
7 Suwannee River Hoedown
8 Southern Track
9 I'm Not Perfect
10 Sinkin' Man
11 Cheyenne Mountain Breakdown
12 One Teardrop and One Step Away
13 Mountain Laurel

We just found out from Rounder that Open Road's next CD, "In The Life" will be released May 4!