Blog #2

Hello Music Lovers,

Welcome to the debut of the new TRK website. We have lots of cool features here including this very blog, where I will be checking in and giving updates on the latest news from the road and the studio. 

The new record, Poor Man's Paradise, will be coming out on November 25 in Europe and on February 10 in the U.S. with distribution through Dualtone Records and Proper in the UK.

We will kick off the release with a 3 week tour of Europe this November and December with stop in Spain, France, England, Sweden and Norway. We will be joining Gary Louris and Mark Olson of the Jayhawks for several shows in Paris and Spain, and Sweden's own Little Green through Scandinavia. In early '09, we will hit the road in States too, so be sure to check back here on the website's tour page or the myspace - www.myspace.com/tedrussellkamp - for all the dates, venues, and details.

And don't forget to check out the new Radio TRK on the home page of tedrussellkamp.com where you can tune in to some of the some featured songs including a new acoustic version of a song from the forthcoming record. It is called 'Let Love Do The Rest'. I wrote this one with a great L.A. singer songwriter David Serby. It is a little soul, a little country, and very moody. The song relates to how I feel - so often it gets hard to make good choices when we are surrounded by stress and bills and not wanting to have our heart broken (again!), but at the end of the day, the best way to find a little peace and happiness is often to just stop over-thinking things and just get out of the way, letting love do the rest...

We will also be adding more songs from the new record every so often to the site and we will keep updating you here. And please don't forget to sign up for the mailing list so we can keep you posted on new tour dates and when and where the new record will be available. We will start selling advance copies and taking pre-orders in the next few weeks.

Here is a huge thank you and a shout out to Franco and Al at pixxar.com for designing and putting this site together.

And thank you for supporting the cause of independent music in America. Hope to see you or hear from you soon.

TRK