The Big Spring Tour - Denver Days

Sitting here in Denver on 17th Street at a place called the Denver Bicycle Cafe. It sells coffee, a little bit of food, and beer. Today - Easter Sunday 4/20 I'm enjoying some coffee and relaxing. I drove into town yesterday and my cousin Chris and I payed a show at the local coffeehouse house - now called Buna - formerly called KJ's - a place we've played in the past.
The drive was easy from Grand Junction and the show on Friday night in Fruita, CO was a good one. It was at a place called Cavalcade - a community theater space - and the people that work there are awesome. There wasn't that big of a turnout due to a bike race that was going on all day and had the streets blocked off - but the people that showed up listened which was sort of the opposite of the last shows on the road earlier this month - at that time in Albuquerque there were a lot of people but not a lot of listeners. So I was glad to have a listening room kind of thing.
The drive over the mountains was easy - not like last year when Mikaela and I did the same drive right during a snow storm - it was a little crazy and was so glad that time when we finally made it to Denver. The day before i drove from Flagstaff, AZ and cruised through the wide open land of Northern Arizona to Southern Utah and into Western Colorado. It's one of my favorite drives and I stopped at Monument Valley because it's hard to just drive by and not gaze for a bit at its beauty.
Tonight we're playing at the Lion's Lair which is on Colfax and a place I've been wanting to play for a while. We have a drummer sitting in with us and looking forward to hearing how it will all sound.
Tomorrow I head on east and to Wichita to play at Kirby's Beer Store - then Nashville on Tuesday night at The Family Wash in East Nashville - really looking forward to hanging out in that town again.
yours truly,
Jeremiah

Southwest Winter Tour - Day #2

Yesterday I left LA and headed east - down the very familiar I-40. The desert wasn't too hot and I drove along with my windows down. I listened to some music and just rolled along.
I pulled into Flagstaff just after 7pm and got cleaned up at my friend Kate's house. Last night there was a jam session at her boyfriend's place and after a much needed shower (the hot water is out at my place in Silverlake so I took off without a shower) I cruised over and joined in. There were about 7 of us and a few listeners and we played and played. It was a good time - and we went around the room and played songs. Later that night I went out for food and to look around downtown. The air was chilly - 34 degrees and I was glad that I had brought my pea coat.
Today I'm writing from Macy's Coffeehouse on Beaver Street which is a place I always stop and get my morning coffee - today i picked up a t-shirt too. So now I have to get in the car and drive to Taos, New Mexico. I'm playing at the Adobe Bar at the Taos Inn. It's a pretty amazing spot and I've been looking forward to it since I booked this show in November. I'm hoping to get another gig there in April - we'll see. Well - it's about time to start driving.
yours truly,
Jeremiah

Photos coming soon

The New Year - and the end of the last one...

Happy New Year to you! Once again I apologize for not writing here sooner - and finishing up about the October tour. I have lost my writing discipline and hope to find it once again this year. I have some trips coming up - tours around the Southwest, and possible to Austin in March for SXSW, and another I-40 cross country trek in April - and hopefully Europe in May/June but that will depend on a few things coming together.
The rest of the October trip went well. I made it to Albuquerque, New Mexico and played a couple shows and really enjoyed staying in that town - after really only passing through for so long. The weather was great - the skies mostly clear and deep blue - and after a trip up to Taos to play a gig, I almost felt like staying. I'm looking forward to heading back to New Mexico and Colorado in February - I'm hoping the weather and roads are all right.
After a gig in Flagstaff and Las Cruces - Flagstaff Brewing Co. and High Desert Brewing, respectively, I headed west towards LA and ending up spending some time in Tucson. Again the weather was perfect, and again, I almost didn't want to leave. But I had to get back to the day job and get bills paid so I climbed back onto I-10 and headed home to Los Angeles
It was a successful almost 3 weeks on the road playing shows and I'm glad that my friend and fellow singer/songwriter Mikaela Dewar was able to play a few shows with me and travel - I'm looking forward to playing shows with her in this new year. The trips that are coming up will be covering a lot of the same ground with a few new venues here and there. As much as I love California, I also love being out on the road - seeing what there is to see.

My album that I put out last year, HOME, can still be found on iTunes and CD Baby - search Jeremiah and the Red Eyes or just follow the links below:

CD Baby - HOME

iTunes - HOME

In early December the 4th Annual Original Holiday Song show took place at The Cinema Bar. I've been a part of all four of the shows and this year I was able to pull something together - which wasn't easy - just like the previous years. But I thought it went all right. You can hear it on my Soundcloud page - along with several other songs of different vintages - Just follow the link here:

Jeremiah125 Soundcloud page

I do have a bunch of photos to post - and will do that soon -
yours truly,
Jeremiah

Crossing back into New Mexico

Albuquerque street art

Set up and ready to play at the Marble Brewery in Albuquerque
Along the road to Taos

A hitchhiker moving along outside of the Taos Inn

The Adobe Bar inside the Taos Inn

Twin Arrows - just east of Flagstaff, AZ

On the road to Las Cruces, NM

Just after the last set of the October Tour - the merch case in display - t-shirts, CDs, and stickers

My view of Tucson in the morning

My hometown of Huntington Beach, CA

Los Angeles - my current home - from Griffith Park

From the Griffith Observatory

Griffith Observatory

Close to my place in Silverlake

On the corner of Echo Park Blvd. and Sunset Blvd. in Echo Park

Vineyards right off the 101 north of Santa Barbara

The stage set up at the Pour House in Paso Robles, CA

Cambria, CA

Morro Rock in Morro Bay

Barrels at the Barrelworks at the Firestone Brewery in Buellton - specializing in wild ales

pre-wine at Standing Sun Wines in Buellton, CA

Train tracks just above Santa Barbara

Playing in Atwater Village with Laura Jay at the Pop-up Store on Glendale Blvd. She writes some great songs and can be found on Soundcloud

The same day as the Atwater Village gig - but later in Echo Park at Rafa's Lounge - fun night with Sarah Stanley and Claire Holley also in the bill

and now we're caught up...

Day 14 - October Tour - Texas morning

Good morning -
Writing today from a usual road stop in Amarillo - the Starbucks on I-40 on the east side of town. The people are nice here and I almost always stop in when I'm passing through this way.
The drive out of Nashville was all right - as I continued west I saw a bald eagle flying across the road. I'm taking that as a good sign. When I got to Arkansas it started raining and carried on like that for a while.
I stopped to eat just east of Oklahoma City - and wish I hadn't have stopped - it wasn't good - and i was really looking forward to catfish - oh well. I continued until a rest stop right before the Texas border at about 2am. I put the seat back, pulled a blanket over me and crashed out for a few hours.
After a bit of a delay I kept on moving westward and now, after a few more moments, I'm going to keep moving.
Tonight I'll be playing in Albuquerque at the Zinc Wine Bar/Cellar from 8 to 11pm. Looking forward to being in the Southwest again.
yours truly,
Jeremiah

Day 13 - October Tour - heading west

Hello - So it's been a very busy week - running around Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri. We had a 22 hour day on Thursday which we barely made it through - thank god for the coffee. But today I start part 2 of the tour - I head back to the west, leaving Nashville which has been the home base for part 1. The weather at first was warm and humid, but the other night fall finally showed up and cooled everything off - and it was great. I'm a little sad to be leaving
Next up are shows in the Southwest - New Mexico for 4 nights and Flagstaff, AZ for 1. I'm looking forward to playing back over there and hoping the driving goes smoothly. It's just under 20 hours to go from Nashville to Albuquerque - where the first show is on Tuesday night at the Zinc Wine bar.
I'm already looking forward to coming back - I have to start booking things soon to get a good schedule and into some venues I wasn't able too this time due to the place already being booked. I'm hoping Mikaela can join me again - we had a good time and just like before complemented each other well - I thought.
I have quite a few pictures saved up over the past week - so I'll post them -

Saturday morning in Nashville at the Southern Festival of Books - I had a 9:30am slot - which was all right

Here's my friend from LA, Rich McCulley - playing the stage I played hours earlier. He was in town to do shows and get some songwriting done

Heath Forbes and his band playing Oktoberfest in Germantown in Nashville

Oktoberfest

I bought a vintage 3 piece suit in East Nashville that afternoon and when I got home checked inside the pockets and found the original receipt

Me posing in that 3 piece suit

One morning I took a walk downtown and took this shot from the pedestrian bridge that crosses over the Cumberland River

The famous Ryman Auditorium - the Birth of Bluegrass - is what the sign on the left says

A photo from our set at The Basement in Nashville - this was the only photo that my friend took that was in focus - I think there might be a couple out there on another friend's phone but we'll see

Our stage in Louisville, KY at Manny & Merle's downtown

Downtown Knoxville at the visitor's center where they broadcast the Blue Plate Special on WDVX - Monday through Saturday at 12 noon EST

That night we played in Johnson City, TN at the Acoustic Coffeehouse and was happy to see us in the local weekly paper

Driving up to St. Louis we got stuck in some terrible traffic - road work - 1 hour to go 5 miles

My cousin Mike Evans band The Homewreckers - he's on the left playing bass - at FUBAR in St. Louis - the Cardinals won that night just down the street at Busch Stadium - you could feel the excitement in the air

The Arch in downtown St. Louis - right on the banks of the Mississippi River - pretty impressive to see up close

This is the old hamburger stand right around the corner from my Granny and Grandad's old house in Wood River, IL - which is about 30 minutes outside of St. Louis just up the river

All right time to get moving west
yours truly,
Jeremiah

Day 6 - October Tour - (Outside Chicago)

Yesterday I made the drive from Nashville up to Chicago. The road goes from Tennessee to Kentucky through Indiana and on into Illinois and the big city of Chicago. It was an easy drive and the road was surrounded by fall colors.
The gig lat night was in Wrigleyville - right down the street from Wrigley Field - and due to it being a holiday today, a lot of people were out and about. Unfortunately, we didn't have a big crowd at the show - 3 out of towners - one from New York, one from Seattle, and me from Los Angeles but it was a good night of music and it was cool to make some new connections and it would be nice to meet up again somewhere out on the roads.
I stayed with my cousin who lives out in the west suburbs - right between Aurora and Naperville - I got a little turned around on my way over there - I was relying too much on my phone map and I think if I would have just driven in I would have found it easily - but I had to call and ask for directions. I did all right for not being here in over 2 years.
In a few minutes I head back to Nashville where Mikaela and I will be playing tomorrow night at The Basement for New Faces Night. It's a great venue and I'm looking forward to it. We did some rehearsing yesterday and thought it sounded good - so maybe with one more run through we'll be good to go.
all right, time to wrap things up and head south -
yours truly,
Jeremiah

Day 3 - October Tour

Writing from Russellville, Arkansas today - which is just west of little Rock. I still have about 7 hours to go till Nashville - and soon I'll pack things up and get back on the road. Traveling yesterday was all right - 14 hours from Flagstaff, AZ to Oklahoma City, OK and I was happy to finally find a motel and get to sleep some - the TV was broken and it was actually a good thing or else I would have been up late.
Tomorrow morning I play in Nashville at the Southern Festival of Books. I start off the performances for the day with a 9:30AM set - then on Sunday I drive up to Chicago to play at Uncommon Ground on Clark Street in Wrigleyville - looking forward to finally playing.
So all right - it's time to get moving - after I get some photos posted.

Macy's Coffeehouse in Flagstaff - where I usually start my mornings when I'm in town

A truck stop cat at the Hopi Travel Center - my friend Amanda suggested the name Lois

Lots of rainy weather yesterday during the drive

Driving across the panhandle of Texas

yours truly,
Jeremiah