1. What’s your favorite color? 2. What was the last movie you watched? Monsters vs Aliens. I’m normally a fan of animated features, but I don’t recommend it. The plot is thin at best, and the only humor comes in the form of Seth Rogan’s contrived dialog. 3. What was the first gig you ever [...]
Don’t Say [Audio clip: view full post to listen] At first listen, this may seem like just another “break up” song, but it’s really about a lot more than that. The main message of this song describes a love and commitment so intense that, no matter how bad the relationship gets, or how hopeless it [...]
Last week I (Luke) had the pleasure of playing guitar at the Dove Awards in Nashville, with an incredibly talented artist. J.R. He was up for 2 Dove awards, 1 as a producer and 1 as an artist. Over the past year J.R. has become a great friend to F.E. and we are sure to [...]
This week as we head to our shows in Oklahoma, we will be thinking of our good friend and co-producer, Jorge Casas. As you probably know, FE was blessed to be able to work with not 1, but 2 of the best producers around on our recent album. Stephen Leiweke ( stephenleiweke.com ) and Jorge [...]
Dishwater Blonde-The Lifting-NYE 2008 Well ladies and gents, get ready!!! After a good 3 weeks of down time for us, we’re itching to get back out there with full force. And this weekend, we are going to do JUST THAT!!! If you live anywhere within 5,000 miles of any of these 3 towns, Columbia [...]
Once upon a time there was a band in St. Louis called the Fundamentals. They traveled far and wide sharing their unique flavor of blue-eyed soul with the masses. Then, one night after a show at the Red Sea Club in St. Louis, they were met by police officers who informed them that they were [...]
For those of you who weren’t at the Cherry Street Artisan in Columbia, MO last night, you officially missed the weirdest set-list in FE history. Like I said in my last post, each band member got to choose one of their favorite songs that we all had to learn, no questions asked. Here’s how it [...]
While Russ is still relaxing in Little Rock with family, the rest of us have been working hard on learning some (not so) new tunes for our show in Columbia, MO on Friday night. We often get asked what musicians have influenced each of us in the band, so we just decided to cover some [...]
This weekend, while everyone else was heading north to escape the wrath of Ike we decided to go sleep on his floor. Of course I’m referring to Ike Mohr (Russ’ dad). The weekend started with a stop at the ineffable Blue Monkey in Memphis, TN. We always look forward to seeing the Blue Monkey on [...]
I thought I would kick off a series of blogs to share a little more insite on where we come from. We were discussing this on the road this week, and are working on some live show “treats” to let you all in on the music we’ve grown up with and been influenced by. So [...]
