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3/2/2010
Hardchargers,
Stag Records will be releasing the new Mike Stinson record "Jukebox In Your Heart" next week. Stinson and I came about working together through Houston Press writer William Smith, who turned me onto Mike's early recordings. Eventually Mike and I played a show together in Los Angeles. It was there that night, Mike asked me to produce his new record after hearing the duets record I did with Brennen Leigh, "Holdin' Our Own." Mike and I brought an amazing batch of songs and musicians out to Willie Nelson's Pednernales Studios outside of Austin and recorded (at least what I think is) the best sounding country songwriter record I've ever worked on. Songs like "Square with the World" and "Walk Away" are just simply amazing and rank right up there with the new Hayes Carll or Ryan Bingham stuff. We also recorded a stellar version of "Late Great Golden State" w/ Tony Gylkson on guitar (this song was recorded by Dwight Yoakum and Billy Bob Thornton and earned Stinson his rightful place as a real working songwriter) and many more of what his LA/Houston crowd would describe as "Stinson Classics." Anyway, you can download it soon, and order it soon online at mikestinson.net or jessedayton.com or stagrecords.com Or, by the end of the month it will be at certain record store locations for all of you California/Texas folks. OR even better, pick one up at Mikes next show!
The new Capt. Clegg and the Night Creatures DVD will be out soon. It's FREE with the purchase of a Clegg CD or Clegg T-Shirt. Yes, if you're a fan, you're gonna want to see this for sure. It's a real, all access, backstage pass to Clegg on the Hellbilly Deluxe 2 Tour, with great cameos and killer performance clips. Get it at jessedayton.com OR captainclegg.com.
This week we trudge onward troops....THURS. NIGHT we play THE BROKEN SPOKE from 9:30-12 in S. AUSTIN where the Solid Chorme Dancers take honky tonk floor work to a whole other level.
FRI. NIGHT we play probably the coolest club I've seen in Texas since the Continental Clubs (Houston or Austin) called THE PHOENIX SALOON, in NEW BRAUNFELS TX from 9:30-12. This place is a REAL Texas Saloon from the 1800's and has such a great vibe to it (the stories about it are endless, ask around). We go on right after Ray Price lets out down the street at Gruene Hall. So all you San Antonio AND Austin folks need to brang it cuz this place'll blow your mind!
SAT. NIGHT I play one of my favorite gigs EVER. It's an acoustic show on the Gulf Coast on GALVESTON ISLAND @ THE OL' QUARTER starting @ 9:00! MIKE STINSON will open the show, so get there early!
Obviously, there's alot goin on with the whole movie thing, and workin on a new record. But I have a good team of hardchargers around me that help me knock all this stuff out and keep my calendar buzzing like a 40 watt bulb. All the best mi amigos.
brang it!!
"PHANTOM JAMMERS ON THE HELLBILLY DELUXE TOUR" DOCUMENTARY TRAILER
1/12/2010
Sure, I know half of y'all don't even watch scary movies. hell, more than half of ya are looking at your watches & waiting for this whole "Clegg" thing to be done. Well there's good news & more good news, but only depending on how ya feel (ha-ha). The good news is, after 8 weeks in theaters everywhere, Tues. Jan. 12th the "HALLOWEEN 2" DIRECTORS CUT DVD will be out on viideo for rent or sale. It has extra footage of us as Capt. Clegg & the Night Creatures w/ videos of the band (all the original Phantom Jammers/extras at the concert make it in and it looks KILLER!!!) directed by Rob Zombie that we did on set during the filming of the movie. So go to the "SPECIAL FEATURES" section. I have quite a few tunes in the movie, including the end title song "Honky Tonk Halloween." Sure, we look like freaks in it, and it's insanely violent, but Jesus Palomino folks, it's a "scary" movie. And, b/t/w, Rob Zombie sells ALOT of DVDs so this will get some of my music to ALOT of people...umm, like millions of people.
Also this month we release our Clegg documentary film, "Phantom Jammers on the Hellbilly Deluxe Tour," which will give you all-access backstage, as well as show us playing live on some of the coolest stages in North America in front of huge crowds. I just saw the final cut and I gotta say, between us playing our first show ever as Clegg & the NC's at The Palms in Vegas, and Roky Erickson sitting in with us at the Austin Music Hall...well, it's 1 hr. of purty kewl S*** mahn! It comes out in February, but look for the trailer this week!
The even better news? The Mike Stinson record "Jukebox in your Heart" will be coming out in February. This is the record I produced for Mike at Willie Nelsons Pedernales Studios, and at my Casa Studios. I'm more proud of this thing than any record I've produced. I'd put the batch of songs Mike brought to these sessions up against anything out there right now. We also got a killer version of "Late Great Golden State," that Mike wrote, that was recorded by Dwight Yoakum and Billy Bob Thornton. There's so many great musicians on this thing it's re-donkulous. Word is, Mike played a killer show w/ our friend Hayes Carll down in Houston and the crowd reeeeally loved Mikes' songs. (cool bill w/ those two) Mikes' CD will be out soon and look for me sitting in at some in-stores and record release parties with his cracker-jack band.
Anywanker, this week we go back to the studio and continue work on the new JD solo record. Yes, it's kick-ass and no I can't wait to go out do some JD band shows on the road and play these new songs!!!
This week we play our legendary Solid Chrome Dance Party THURS. NIGHT @ the BROKEN SPOKE in SOUTH AUSTIN, (we got 5 new songs for ya this week...boom!) from 9:30-12.
FRI. NIGHT for all of you SAN ANTONIO people who ALWAYS have to drive to see us @ Gruene Hall...well, we're playing SAM'S BURGER JOINT and we go on @ 9:00 pm. This place kicks ass and they have a great new mgr. booking it as well. Listen for us on the radio in San Antonio before the gig and on Sat. night be ready to braaaaaang it!
onward,
p.s. thanks for all the well wishes last week. Dare I say, JD fans got soul to spare.
1/5/2010
After battling a long bout with alzheimers, the Original Hardcharger, my Dad, has passed on. Even though it's a hard way for the family to start the year, it's somehow a sad-relief after all we've been through with this uncontrollable disease. The thing I'm most blessed with is I wasn't on tour or working somewhere a millions miles away. I was right there in my ol' hometown with him and my Mom and we got to say our goodbyes. Words fail me when it comes to describing what a great daddy I had. Always there for me, always encouraging me to "do your art and be honest about it boy." He has left me with more than I could ever give back, but all i can do is try. He told me not long ago, before he started succumbing to his disease, "I've seen you accomplish more than you could dream....you done good for an ol' Beaumont boy son" and then he kissed me on the cheek. Pretty amazing moment for a military hardcharger who took very little shit from my rowdy brother and me. Funeral services will be held for the hardcharger this week in Beaumont, Texas.
In the meantime, I've got to dive back into work because it's incredibly therapeutic for me. I've already started writing a song from all this and I'm sure I'll be singing like the world could end at any second until I emotionally wrap my arms around all this (which will probably take a life-time) Anyway...
This THURS. NIGHT in AUSTIN we return to the BROKEN SPOKE from 9:30-12 for our 1st show of the year....
This SAT. NIGHT, on the 9th, I'll be doing a split show of my band, CAPTAIN CLEGG AND THE NIGHT CREATURES, and of course playing some JD standards @ the CONTINENTAL CLUB in AUSTIN TX. For all you people who say things like, "we love your Spoke show but why don't you play a weekend show at the Continental where you can let loose on your guitar and we don't have to work the next day?!?" Well, here you go.
And for all you folks who didn't catch me as Capt. Clegg in Rob Zombie's movie (it was in theaters for 8 weeks!) it'll be coming out world-wide on video Jan. 12th. It will have alot of extra JD/Clegg footage as well as six unreleased videos of us, filmed when we were on set doing the movie.
There will also be a new one hour Capt. Clegg & the Night Creatures documentary coming out this month as well, with killer footage of us on tour with Zombie playing in front of thousands of people a night in big arenas and theaters with hilarious backstage stuff. There's also footage of us backing up the legendary Roky Erickson at the Austin Music Hall in the documentary.
Anywanker, lifes hard but luckily I had the best daddy you could ask for, so i'll get through it. What's next? There's alot that's gonna happen this year to me that's already in progress and that we'll tell ya about soon enough, but right now all that matters is family.
12/17/09
It's been a hell of a year....being in a major motion picture, then writing, recording & producing a soundtrack record for it (not to mention the new Mike Stinson CD I produced which we'll be out in Jan./Feb.) Then after ALL the JD shows we did on the road and at home, ending up on one of the biggest rock tours of the year w/ Rob Zombie....wow, what were the best audiences? It's never places like NYC or LA, even though every single show kicked ass, I'd say Des Moines, Salt Lake City, Louisville and Boston had more sweaty, crazed, boob-flashing, hellified fans than any place on earth. Most of them had never seen a pedal steel guitar or heard our kind of music before and they LOVED it! The universal JD plan?...bring people together...one genre at a time!
What's 1st on the list for the new year? We'll be releasing 4 brand new singles online ONLY, at the 1st of the year. Two from my new JD solo record and 2 from the new Mike Stinson record I produced. All 4 tunes are about as kick-ass as you'd want and will be followed by full length CD's. Not to worry, Capt. Clegg has not made me forget the real JD music and these from my next solo record are the best ever and I couldn't be more excited about the new Mike Stinson record which has a killer version we did of Mikes' "Late Great Golden State" that Dwight Yoakum and Billy Bob Thorton both recorded.
Also, there's a full-length documentary DVD of Capt. Clegg and the Night Creatures on tour w/ Rob Zombie that we're editing right now that will be out soon too. It's unbelievable. Showing us playing in front of thousands of rapid rock fans everynight and turning them onto our music. (b/t/w...Rob Zombie has treated me like a KING this year and I'm humbled to work with the man. He's an amazing talent and a total inspiration).
Anyhooch, we have ONE MORE SHOW this year.....this THURS. NIGHT we play our last show of the year @ the BROKEN SPOKE in SOUTH AUSTIN from 9:30-12. Expect some suprises, and as always, NEW songs.
As far as next year, I'll be doin' two more movies that are gonna be a big deal when they come out. With mainstream music becoming more and more watered down and, let's face it, just soul-less...well...like Jerry Reed, Glen Campbell and few other hero-geetar pickers of mine, I'm glad to have this new career in the movies. Look for me on tour again soon and remember I LOVE EVERY DAMN ONE OF Y'ALL for supporting me thru the ups and downs. We're gonna braaang it in 2010!
onward amigos,
08/13/09
My new alter-ego, Capt. Clegg, has been pretty much all consuming cause the movies almost out. We've been debuting "Cleggisodes" on Fangoria.com and a new one debuts again this Fri. (see poster below) Also doin' press galore and I'm goin to the premiere for "Halloween 2" in LA in a couple of weeks. I've spent enough time in Hollywood to know I could NEVER live out there full time, but there is something deeply rewarding about my country-ass getting all I can from 'em out there and brangin' it back to the reservation here in Gods Country/Tejas.
I recently hired a 23 yr. old super talent who graduated from film school named John Bradley to help me w/ Clegg. The kid's on fire and he's totally immersed in the Austin Film scene. We're making plans to do more film projects together so check out his site cannibalcheerleader.com AND, keep an eye out for a seperate email from Zombie A Go-Go/Stag Records about a google/twitter blast that y'all can help out with later this week. Also you can PRE-ORDER my new CD "Rob Zombie presents Capt. Clegg and the Night Creatures...Music from H2" at captainclegg.com Don't be scared cause this is some horror-movie trip, there's some low-down honky-tonk music that's right up any Hardchargers alley.
As Clegg offers pour in (I'll never have another Halloween night off for the rest of my life) to do "Phantom Jams" around the world, don't think we've lost site of the next JD solo record. I've got some songs I'm producing myself but to change things up on it this time I'm using a couple of different producers as well. I told y'all back 2 months ago that we had "Camden Town" (a high-energy song that we've started all our shows off with forever, but have never released) in the can ready to go. So next week you can preview "Camden Town" on myspace.com/jessedayton and purchase for download soon after.
This week we play a place that was so damn packed last week I couldn't believe it...THE BROKEN SPOKE in SOUTH AUSTIN from 9:30-12. And I'll be returning to one of my favorite honey-holes on the planet in Galveston Island @ the OLD QUARTER @ 9:00. This gig is nuts...the crowd usually picks the set list and dammit, they deserve it. Hope to get me some G-Town brown tanker-wave longboarding in while I'm down there....brang it!
Love to all,
JD
p.s. for a Sun. show, Gruene Hall was on FIRE. Last song of the night was so rowdy and packed we couldn't believe it. I've played every kind of show you could do there. In the front, in the middle, opening on the stage, playing outside on festivals and even headlining on the weekend. Now...some gigs just feel right and that's one of 'em.