Live at McCabe's Guitar Shop

Surprise! Just in time to fly over the sea today, we have our newest new CD in our hands:

Jeni & Billy: Live from McCabe's Guitar Shop.

You can get it at CDbaby (link at the bottom). Hands down, my favorite versions of Tazewell Beauty Queen and Jewell Ridge Coal are on this new McCabe's Record!

Thanks SO MUCH to Susie Glaze & the Hilonesome Band for inviting us along on November 7, 2014, to open the show for them at this storied venue! And thanks to all of the folks in the audience who got into the family reunion spirit and laughed their heads off during the show! What a super surprise that Wayne Griffith, the brilliant sound man from McCabe's, recorded the show. Thanks Wayne! And thanks to everyone at McCabe's for making us so welcome.

This week, we've also released "Live in LA with the Big Picnic Band" - a music-only CD including ten songs across ten years of our Jeni & Billy catalog recorded live with the Big Picnic Band at the Pasadena Folk Music Society. This is my favorite Jeni & Billy record since Jewell Ridge Coal!

Live at McCabe's Guitar Shop includes seven songs across our catalog, seven stories, and an introduction, all on separate tracks, so you can make a songs only version. You can actually hear the audience get more and more tickled as the concert builds!

LIVEINLACDCOVER Both CDs are available on CD Baby! And at all shows . . .

Digital version of McCabe's will be up in the next day or two.

Ok, that's it! Time to arrange our luggage!

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/jenibilly3

A little bird told me we are working on something new

Sending LOVE out to our friends and families today. Billy is in Nashville getting something sweet ready for our tour in Britain. I am here in NC with Mom & Dad working on this and that with Dad (see photo). Remembering Easter dresses with jingle bells, a little white purse with a dollar for offering, a pack of Juicy Fruit gum, and a daffodil that I would peek at during Easter service – the Lord of the Dance still in my head from Palm Sunday.

Jeni & Billy at McCabe's Guitar Shop!

Report from McCabe's Guitar Shop, California: I kept it under my hat that I had some butterflies last night. It's not normal for me. I've been performing since I was four. But McCabe's is one of the most famous venues in the USA, thus the butterflies. 

At the very beginning, I knew things were going to be alright because they laughed. God bless the laughing crowds, they give my stories wings and inspire me to create new ones on the spot. God bless the woman who nearly fell out of her chair she was so touched in the funny bone. And bless the people who came out after and said they wanted the CD with the stories.

One of those folks was one of my TV heroes, Dann Florek, who played on Law & Order for years! Oh my goodness. And it's always a terrific honor to have a fellow songwriter come to see us which the brilliant Ernest Troost did. And his beautiful wife, Louise, who looks as though she just popped out of a storybook, brought me fabric that belonged to her mother.

There aren't enough thanks for Susie Glaze & her Hilonesome Band who have adopted us as their own ever since our first trip out here to California. They could have had the whole night to themselves, but they chose very generously to insist that we open for them.

And so a very special performing dream came true for us last night and it was a barrel of fun and, best of all, the folks at McCabe's want us back. Ta-da! Woooohooo!

Photo of us from the top of the stairs by the fabulous fiddling Mark Indictor.