I'm back

I'm reinstating this blog effective immediately. I started blogging almost two years ago while in the recording studio with my band, Crooked Still. Next week we're heading back into the studio, which reminded me that I had retired from blogging last April. So like Michael Jordan, Lance Armstrong and Brett Favre, I'm coming out of retirement in honor of the big studio push.

Next week, I'll be heading down to Charlottesville, VA with Crooked Still and producer/engineer Gary Paczosa (Alison Krauss, Dolly Parton, Dixie Chicks) to an amazing the retreat recording studio just outside of town. Keep an eye out here for news from the studio as it develops. It should be a blast!

Since I'm getting back in the swing of things here, I'd also like to take this opportunity to tell AT&T to officially fuck off for providing shitty cell phone coverage in my neighborhood, coming up with a lame solution to the problem with their Microcell product and then not even allowing me the choice to participate in said lame solution by not offering the product here in the fine state of Vermont.

More to come, I promise.

Corey

p.s. you can also follow me on twitter. www.twitter.com/coreydimario

Crooked Still in Korea

We're building our fan base in Korea so we can tour there in about fifteen years when these kids are old enough to go to 21+ shows!

Spring Break

I just finished a great Crooked Still tour. 9 gigs. 9 days. 2500 miles pulling a trailer. No nervous breakdowns parking in NYC. It was an amazing tour. We started in Princeton, NJ where we played for Brittany Haas's senior recital. It was so much fun and her duets with Dan Trueman were magical. We also had great shows in Toronto, Ann Arbor, Brooklyn, D.C. and a sold out hometown show at the Somerville Theatre in Somerville, MA. Check it out:

I'm now in Vail, CO skiing with my siblings, who live out here. Traveling out here without a bass made me realize that people who complain about flying are full of shit. Unless they are traveling with a baby.

There was 14 inches of snow last night and today was a pretty amazing powder day. Check out my brother Paul's wind blown look after having his hat torn off in a glade. Looking good, Paul.

I'm off for a couple of weeks until Crooked Still plays a show in Rosendale, NY with our friends Mike and Ruthy on April 3rd and then on April 4th in Putney, VT with Sam Amidon. Should be a nice break.

Speaking of Sam Amidon, he has an amazing SXSW recap that was published in Time Out New York.

That's all for now.

I've gotten so caught up in my real life that I have completely lost sight of cyber life. It's time to set things straight.

What's new you ask? Well, I can ski and so can my friends in the Infamous Stringdusters. Here is some footage of us skiing in Big Sky, MT. I'm in the green jacket about 50 seconds in and am the first in the video to hurl myself off of a cliff!



I can also Twitter. Or is it Tweet? I'm still new at this.

http://twitter.com/coreydimario

Yes We Can!

Today is election day and I am posting here with the single purpose of urging you to vote for Barack Obama for President of the United States. Our country will be better for it. Here are a few videos that I find inspiring:

GumbObama!

According to the Washington Post, Gov. Sarah Palin said this at a fundraiser in Greensboro, NC:

"We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, um, very, um, pro-America areas of this great nation."

I wonder if she'd think this fine video featuring friends Dirk Powell, Christine Balfa and Linzay Young is pro-America? I certainly do!



If you've never been to Louisiana, go now. It's one of the most unique and wonderful cultural experiences you can have in this country. And the food isn't bad either.

Home

Contrary to rumors you may have heard, I did not open my own bar and I do still have a blog.


What's my excuse for such a long absence? Mostly procrastination but also a good deal of general laziness.

For the first time since April, I have a full week at home. That's right, I haven't been at my home for more than four consecutive days since April 28th. I'm now looking at eight days in a row. I'm not sure such a drastic change is healthy so I was thinking I should load my car up with all of my gear and drive around for a few hours and then unload it all just to ease into things a little. A couple of days of that and I'll be ready to jump back into domestic life!

Seriously though, I'm back in Brattleboro after a ten day tour in the south that started with a few Crooked Still gigs and ended with a week of shows with Lissa Schneckenburger and Owen Marshall. It was a great run and we got to visit with lots of old friends.

We concluded the tour with an amazing show at Pete's Candy store, our favorite Brooklyn venue. We played the late set and after the show we all crowded around the TV in the bar to see our friends, Tao Rodriguez-Seeger, Jake Silver and Ruthy Merenda perform with Pete Seeger on Letterman. It was truly amazing. Here it is:



Here are some more videos and photos to get you caught up on some things I've been up to this summer.

On Mountain Stage

The Alberta Street Pub, Portland, OR

On another note, you should all go out and buy Mark Erelli's new CD, Delivered.


I think it is his finest work to date and in the singer songwriter world, he is a beacon of light in a shit storm of mediocrity.

And you also need to hear Charlie Haden's new CD, Rambling Boy.


I've been trying to sound exactly like Charlie Haden ever since I first heard his bass playing with Ornette Coleman. His new project is a country album that features the amazing singing of his three daughters as well as Ricky Skaggs, Bruce Hornsby, Rosanne Cash, Pat Metheny and an unbelievable version of Old Joe Clark sung by Charlie's son in law, Jack Black. You heard me, the star of School of Rock, High Fidelity and founding member of Tenacious D is now singing old-time music with jazz legends. It's a strange strange world.