The RPM Challenge - The Sidewalk Boys

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January 10, 2007

Well, fresh and recovered from the "Grundles and Trinkets" Summer '07 Gazebo Tour, the Boys are ready to hunker down with the "bare light bulb" and get some new "Grunge Folk" down on disk.

Dylan said once in an interview that, "You know that's really the way to do a recording, in a peaceful, relaxed setting, in somebody's basement. With the windows open... and a dog on the floor."

more info, tunes and gig dates @: www.chunkabillymusic.com

Group Members:

Sidewalk Tom Richter

Chunkabilly Brian Goetz

Dumpster Diving Dave Lemieux

Buster and Rosie

2008 RPM Album Info

Date mailed or hand-delivered:	02/28/2008
Date Received:	02/29/2008
Genre:	Americana / Roots
Album Name:	Under the Bare Lightbulb
Album Description:	Congress convened in the basement during February while the Sidewalk Boys threw color at the walls, trinkets at the barren rocks of rhythm. Chunk played the cracked concrete floor along with every other heavenly object in the room. The Old 12 spoke aloud in a jingle jangle voice blurring the edges of distinction while Old Sidewalk’s voice was cracked and broken from too many freeze thaw cycles. The Mandolin’s voice, pure and unspoken, was urged to sing out by the muzzle load. The Little Boat tacked back and forth across the great sump searching for a shorter route to Ontario. Then it was time for the Boys to sing like birds. The Muse arrived to help carry the gear and the dogs out the back bulkhead. The songs were then trudged unceremoniously up the rickety stairs with little fanfare. The myth was just that. In the end the songs become ballads with the Boys becoming balladeers; better for the beer and richer for the rubble.
Tracks (w/numbers):	1) Gonna Get Away (Goetz) 2) Goin' Green (Richter) 3) Diggin' Out (Lemieux) 4) Wonderland (Goetz) 5) My Little Boat (Richter) 6) Four Course Meal (Lemieux) 7) Emerald Isle (Richter) 8) I'll be you, You'll be me (Goetz) 9) Old 55 (Richter) 10) Border Patrol (Lemieux) 11) Desolation Blues (Richter) 12) Bare Lightbulb Blues (Goetz/Richter) 13) Newshit (Lemieux) 14) Basement Bl...ap! (Richter)
Preferred Track:	4) Wonderland
Band Members & Instruments Played:	Sidewalk Tom Richter - Vocals, Guitar, the Tierneycaster "tone 45", Banjo, Harmonica and the bl...ap "Chunkman" Brian Goetz - Vocals, Guitar, percussion, engineering and the concrete floor Dumpster Diving Dave Lemieux - Mandolin, guitar and Bessy the upright bass Buster and Rosie - Bones
Band Location (city, state or province, and country):	Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA

music, etc

RPM 2008 demos, works-in-progress, or tracks-finished-early... a musical sketchbook. This is just a sampler -- complete and finished albums will be uploaded into the real jukebox in March!

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Last 10 Blog Entries

Date	Title
Sunday, 24 February 2008	Richer For the Rubble
Saturday, 23 February 2008	Crack By Crack
Friday, 22 February 2008	Bottle of Bread
Monday, 18 February 2008	Trouble Light
Saturday, 16 February 2008	The Old Wooden Chair
Monday, 11 February 2008	Five Pound Sledge
Sunday, 10 February 2008	Dull Day
Saturday, 09 February 2008	Forward Full Speed
Thursday, 07 February 2008	The Old 12
Saturday, 02 February 2008	plethora of plenty

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Location

City:	Portsmouth
State or Country:	NH
Zip:	03801

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