The band will usher in "Madison" with our Slightly Belated CD Release Show on Saturday, May 26 at P&H Cafe in Memphis. Our old friends, Crash Into June, will do us the honor of playing at the show as well. It'll be Mea Culpa's first gig in nearly two years, so we're pretty excited about it. Expect a power-pop free-for-all by night's end.
On Friday, July 22, we played a wild, three-hour show at Patrick's in Memphis, running through much of our new, as-yet-unreleased material, and incorporating everything from Jerry Reed's "Westbound and Down" to an unplanned, late-night Prince medley ("Purple Rain," "Let's Go Crazy") with J.T. on lead vocals. A big highlight was having our old bass player, Danny Davidson, stop by and tear it up on four songs (his fret wizardry on "One Thing Wrong" was stupendous, as usual). Gaff and Adam did a great job switching off on guitar and bass, which has recently become a bit of a band trademark.
The new CD will be called Madison, named after both the avenue where most of the songs were recorded and Adam's beloved dog (and, if we really want to stretch its meanings, the arena where Ali and Frazier fought twice, and the center of American advertising and image creation). It has 10 songs and there's definitely an emotional arc to it, in that it begins with an ending and ends with a kind of beginning. Is that vague enough?
We're in the final stages of mixing, etc. and tentatively plan to get the album out in November. We'll keep you posted.
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