ANDERS PARKER

The show will be broadcast on the following dates:

• Sunday April 29th @ 6pm
• Tuesday May 1st @ 11 pm
• Thursday May 3rd @ 3 am

With encore presentations the same times the following week.
Go here for more info. If you don't have XM you can sign up for a free three day trial and listen to the show

Check out Creston in the latest issue of Harp Magazine. He made a couple of guitars for me, including the one of a kind Wormwood.

Click here for the online version of the article.

AP went by Break Thru Radio studios and recorded a bunch of tunes. He was joined by Mark Spencer on lap steel and electric guitar. Check out a full in-studio set here.

Check out Anders on the Steve Earle show. Anders went by and DJ'd for a while (it's hard to pick just five songs!) and then played 'Dear Sara' live in studio.

Go here for more details. You can also download the program for Podcast.

Hello and happy new year.

My “Wednesdays in January” residency at The Living Room in New York city begins this week. I'll be playing on the 10th, 17th, 24th and 31st at 9pm. Mark Spencer will be joining me for all of these shows on lap steel and guitar.

Gob Iron plays at Maxwell's in Hoboken on January 19th and Northsix in Brooklyn on the 20th. I'll be opening the show with a solo set followed by a Jay Farrar solo set and then the two of us, with Mark Spencer, will play as Gob Iron.

Check the tour page for more details.

Today we go online with the new site. We've got all sorts of new stuff happening.

AP Radio is now playing (that's the icon above and to the right) Hit that button to hear the whole new self-titled record play. We'll soon be posting unreleased recordings (radio performances, live shows, demos, etc) as well as songs from previous albums that will be available for download.

The new record along with the entire Varnaline catalogue is now available through Apple iTunes. The only record not available at the moment is Songs in a Northern Key, but we're working on that.

The west coast AP/JF/Gob Iron tour begins in Seattle on Saturday. Check the tour page for more details.

The new record is now available through the site. In addition I have some brand new AP tee-shirts designed by Guy Burwell. They are very cool. Limited supplies so gett'em while you can.

We've set up a little Blog page here on the site. I'll try to keep it updated as the tour goes on.

Welcome to the new site. It may look the same, but it's oh-so-different. Totally redsigned and adjusted for the technically inept (me) by web guru John Cole it promises to be much easier to deal with and update.... It's like we dropped a Porsche engine into my old Volvo.... Or something like that.... Not that I can fix a Porsche (or a Volvo for that matter) but you get the idea. Anyhow, it's a much welcomed change on my end.

Just added some new dates to the site. Gob Iron will be heading west in early December and after that we'll be making up the Brooklyn show we had to cancel due to Jay being sick. January 20 is the date. And I think we'll be adding a Maxwell's date around then, too.

I've got some solo shows coming up. Heading up to Burlington, VT for a December show and then I've got a residency set up at The Living Room on Wednesdays in January. Check the Tour page for details.

The line up for the shows will be as follows: I'll play a solo set then Jay Farrar will do a set and finally we'll wrap the night up doing songs as Gob Iron. Mark Spencer will be along for the ride playing various instruments. See you then, AP

I've got two records being released on Halloween.
The self titled AP record is my third solo release on Baryon Records. I'm calling it my "acoustic band" record. See below for details on the musicians and places.
Here's the track listing:

• 1. Circle Same
• 2. Missing
• 3. Oh, Monkeywrench
• 4. Dear Sara
• 5. Airport Road
• 6. Under Wide Unbroken Skies
• 7. False Positive
• 8. Belated
• 9. Proof
• 10. Pajarito
• 11. Winter Coat
• 12. Pink Clouds

The other record is being released under the moniker Gob Iron (on Sony/Legacy.) It's a record that I made with Jay Farrar (of Son Volt and Uncle Tupelo fame) just about two years ago in St. Louis. We spent a few days recording traditional folk songs. It's just the two of us playing all the instruments and singing. It's a ten song record and the whole thing is strung together with little acoustic guitar interludes that we improvised.
Here's the track listing:

• 1. Death's Black Train
• 2. Hard Times
• 3. Hills of Mexico
• 4. Silicosis Blues
• 5. Wayside Tavern
• 6. Nicotine Blues
• 7. Death is Only a Dream
• 8. East Virginia Blues
• 9. Little Girl and the Dreadful Snake
• 10. Buzz and Grind

Tour dates will be posted soon as well as a few of the new songs.
And check out the myspace page -- www.myspace.com/andersparker
Peace,
AP

Hello,
Much activity these days. I'm finishing up a new album which will be released in early fall in the US. It was recorded out in Los Angeles, California. Produced by Adam Lasus (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Clem Snide, Helium) and myself. I had a great group of people play on it. The band included:

• AP: Vocals, acoustic guitar, and piano
• Ken Coomer: Drums, percussion
• Kirk Swan: Electric guitar
• Jennifer Condos: Bass
• Eric Heywood: Pedal steel
with:
• Phil Hurley: Acoustic guitar and backing vocals
• Sally Timms: Vocals
• Kristin Mooney: Vocals
• Mark Spencer: Piano and Moog
• Kendall Meade: Vocals

The website will be undergoing an overhaul in the next few months. In the meantime you can check here for updates too: MYSPACE.COM/ANDERSPARKER

There's also a little folk record that I did with Jay Farrar which is slated to be released in the fall. The name of the band is Gob Iron. More news on that later.

Take care,

AP