Jonny Corndawg taking residency at Union Pool (dates), Middle Brother releasing 'Middle Brother' (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Middle Brother – Me Me Me (MP3)
Jonny Corndawg at a 2010 BV-CMJ Day Party (more by Chris Gersbeck)
Jonny Corndawg will kick off a Brooklyn residency at Union Pool tonight (1/4). Fellow Deer Tick collaborators Liz Isenberg and Bed Pigs open the show. Bed Pigs = Deer Tick’s ex-guitar player Andy T (the guitar player before Ian from Titus Andronicus took over). Corndawg will also play the venue on the next two Tuesdays, bringing Pepi Ginsberg & Alana Amram on for support on 1/11, and Buffalo Stance & The Extraordinaires (who used to be Jonny’s backing band) for Jan 18th. Each show will cost you $8 at the door (and free blue Mountain Dew to the first 10 paying customers in the door).
Jonny Corndawg celebrated the new year by posting a new track to his Bancdcamp page. The song “Down on The Bikini Line” is streaming below, but you can get a downloadable copy for the price of an email address.
Jonny Corndawg can also be found on the debut album by Middle Brother. You might remember them as MG&V...
“Middle Brother to release debut album in March.
Partisan Records is excited to announce that Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes, John McCauley of Deer Tick, and Matthew Vasquez of Delta Spirit have joined forces to make a very special record. The self-titled debut, recorded in January 2010 in Nashville, will be released on March 1, 2011.
Middle Brother played their first show at 2010’s SXSW – a tiny, late-night, unannounced event under the moniker “MG&V.” Other than recording the album and rehearsing once, they had never played the songs live. The audience (and the mob of onlookers crammed in the doorways and windows) was treated to an impossible-to-forget set by a band of musical comrades who seemed genuinely surprised by the fire that was ignited on stage. It was a rollicking and boisterous show that could have fallen apart at any moment and instead centrifuged into melodic and harmonic brilliance. What held it together was each member’s sense of song and performance – a perfect, intuitive balance of craft and feel, equal parts playful and earnest.”
Jonny Corndawg also played with MG&V aka Middle Brother at that SXSW show, or to be more specific, he performed “Middle Brother” with the band. It’s a song he helped write which now shares a name with both the full album and the band. It’s track #4 on the new album and you’ll need to wait a while to hear it, but track #8, “Me Me Me”, can be downloaded now for free above. Pre-order the album at Partisan. Check out the full tracklist below.
Middle Brother played their first show as “Middle Brother” on December 20th at The Troubadour in Hollywood. It was a holiday benefit with Cass McCombs, Mountain Man and Deer Tick also on the bill. They have no upcoming shows scheduled, but some will surely appear as the album release date gets closer.
Besides the Brooklyn shows, Corndawg will also hit York, PA before heading out to the West Coast for a string of dates. John and Ian from Deer Tick kick off their own solo tour later this month. Corndawg’s full tour schedule, song stream and stuff, below…
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The track listing for Middle Brother is:
1. Daydreaming
2. Blue Eyes
3. Thanks For Nothing
4. Middle Brother
5. Theater
6. Portland
7. Wilderness
8. Me Me Me
9. Someday
10. Blood and Guts
11. Mom and Dad
12. Million Dollar Bill
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Down on The Bikini Line by Jonny Corndawg
JONNY CORNDAWG – 2011 TOUR DATES
Jan 4, 2011 Brooklyn, NY Union Pool
Jan 11, 2011 Brooklyn, NY Union Pool
Jan 18, 2011 Brooklyn, NY Union Pool
Jan 22, 2011 York, PA Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center
Jan 26, 2011 Eugene, OR John Henry’s
Jan 27, 2011 Pullman, WA Bell tower
Jan 29, 2011 Vancouver, BC Canada Media Club
Feb 1, 2011 Sebastopol, CA Odd Fellows Hall
Feb 2, 2011 Brookdale, CA Brookdale Lodge
Feb 3, 2011 Big Sur, CA Fernwood
