Thanks to everyone who came out to support FE at the Celebrate St. Louis Concert Series. If you missed it, FE opened the show for Slightly Stoopid with an hour set for several thousand in attendance. We had a beautiful night weather-wise and the show was great! Here are some pics we have to share, compliments of our friend, local film-maker Mike Rohlfing. We’ll have some video to share soon as well….
Many of you ask me about my many hats I wear on and off stage… well, my boy Josh designs most of the hats in my collection. He’s a designer for Paramount Apparel, Inc. and designs hats and a few other products for designer brands like True Religion and Ben Sherman USA. He was representing at the show, so I have to give him a big shout out…
Happy Official-Album-Release day! Starting today, you can download FE’s new EP, This Moment for only $5. Visit our MUSIC/STORE page or click the image below to sample and/or purchase the album!
Hey, FE Friends & Fans! We just gave our site a new face lift to go along w/ our new music. We hope you dig it as much as we do. Be sure to check out our new music page where you’ll be able to purchase and download FE tunes, like the new EP, This Moment, which will be available on Tuesday, May 18 for only $5. We’ll also be adding some bonus tracks and free downloads soon! There are also some other new things to check out, so click around and check it all out, and be sure to come back as we’ll regularly be adding new blog entries, videos, tour dates and more!
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Thanks for stopping by. Hope we’ll see you on the road soon…
P.S. Special thanks to our amazing “tech nerd,” Mr. Johnny-Johnny Matthews for helping us build the new site. Looks great, Johnny!
In case you haven’t seen this yet, here is a look at some fun moments from the studio during the recording of FE’s upcoming release, “This Moment.” The video features Sometimes, the first single from the album. Enjoy!
Sorry we’ve not had a ton of great blogs lately. We’ve got a lot going on with the new release, and there will be much more on that over the next couple weeks, but this last weekend was enough to motivate us to get you caught up on FE’s everyday life. Wow.
I’ll start from the top. On our way to Nashville we had got a flat tire in the middle of the night in the middle of nowhere, Kentucky. This was our second blowout in as many weeks. The last one sent us flying into the median, almost rolling the van until being nudged back on all 4 wheels by the steel cable fence we mowed down. This time was a little calmer, but in the dark of night out in the country. Minutes after we called a couple towing companies given to us by the KY highway hotline, a Lincoln Continental pulled up. A hilarious older gentleman got out of the car, introducing himself as “Rev Rap,” also noting his CB handle was “the Life Saver.” He popped his trunk, pulled out all kinds of gear, tools and a reflector vest and started to get to work. Minutes later a local cop pulled over and offered to call one of his buddies in the small town about 20 minutes away to tow us. While we waited for the tow, Rev Rap (turns out he’s a Methodist preacher on his way home from Bible study) informed us he was the first ever Christian rapper. He promptly pulled out his CD, “Rappin’ 4 Jesus,” a handful of Sharpies and signed one to us. Then he pulled a harmonica off his belt (he always carries one… never know when you’re gonna need to bust it out) and gave us a little live jam session there on the side of the highway. It was way too dark to get quality video, but here’s just a taste of him teaching us one of his songs….
Once the tow truck came it was off to Hazzard County. You don’t even know. It was quite an experience. From being warned about keeping an eye out for a girl who rides her horses late at night near the main road (look out for her, b/c she’s usually texting and not paying attention), and not running over her horse’s manure, to being told it’s a good thing we got back on the road because there’s no way we’d be able to get a hotel room w/ the Quilt Fair in town this weekend, it was purely amazing. You’d think being broken down in backwoods KY in the middle of the night would be tiring and inconvenient at best, but it was nothing short of an hilarious adventure. Not to mention I got to ride in the back of a cop car for the first time.
The rest of the weekend was spent in the southeast, tooling around with our great buddies Dishwater Blonde from Knoxville, TN. We can’t tell you how much fun those guys are and how much we love hanging with them, jamming, shopping at Wal-Mart, shooting hoops, you name it. Here’s one of my highlights of our time together: a 2-band, 11-member jam session broke out Friday night at Barley’s Taproom and it all started with this:
I’ll keep the rest brief. On the way home we had an amazing lunch in Nashville with our manager and our producer, Luke got in a fight with a gas station clerk because she hates the very idea of Mocha Club, and we drove through two gigantic storms (think horizontal rain and the DeJaynes bros quoting “Twister” the whole van ride back) loaded with tornadoes. Pretty adventuresome weekend.
*More to come this week about the new album and more…. stay tuned and stop by regularly to see what’s up. We’ll also be giving the website a little face lift in the coming days. Stay tuned……
