Thank you to everyone who came out to see my sell-out (!) show at Boston City Winery. Now you understand why I carefully configure each night of music to include a number of egregious errors, usually right up top. It helps to humanize me so that I can better connect with the audience. See?
My tiny juggernaut rolls on, buckety-buck. I’ve added a second Boston show October 2 for those of you who didn’t get tix before the sell out, and I’ll also be playing NYC City Winery on October 26. Oh and Birchmere is this Wednesday, are you even ready? This is what the schedule looks like now:
Alexandria, VA – Birchmere
September 13
With Paul and Storm
Tickets
Amherst, MA – The Drake
September 29
Me just me
Tickets
Portsmouth, NH – 3S Artspace
October 1
Me just me
Tickets
Boston, MA – City Winery
October 2
Me just me
Tickets
New York, NY – City Winery
October 26
Me just me
Tickets
You know what they say about the schedule of Jonathan Coulton shows in New England: if you don’t like the schedule of Jonathan Coulton shows in New England, wait a minute. Mark Twain.
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This is one of those situations where I go to a place with a guitar and stand on the stage and play it and sing, and then other people hopefully buy tickets so they can sit in the audience and watch. Trying it out!
Boston, MA – City Winery
September 9
An evening with me just me
Tickets
Alexandria, VA – Birchmere
September 13
With Paul and Storm
Tickets
Amherst, MA – The Drake
September 29
Me just me
Tickets
Portsmouth, NH – 3S Artspace
October 1
Me just me
Tickets…
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I’m not even sure this thing still works. WHAT YEAR IS IT. I have some shows to announce, but first I have to say a thing (scroll down if you get bored).
I’ve been very quiet lately, and it’s been nice. Somewhere in the middle of one of the various dumpster fires we’ve been living through these last few years, I started to become uncomfortable with my compulsive behavior around social media use. It started with me deciding to post less, because I was aware of how much I craved likes and replies, and I didn’t like being controlled by some algorithm that was an expert at making me feel that way. But I was still reading, reading EVERYTHING, like it was my job. I followed a lot of reporters and politicians, which I maybe thought was going to help me solve all the world’s problems? Or at least guarantee that when a problem was solved, I would hear about it right away. This only resulted in me hearing every bit of bad news very quickly, multiple times per day, flavored with all of the arguments and bad feelings everyone else in the world was having. On top of all that, some family health issues cropped up that made it feel important to shrink my horizon down, in order to focus on a much smaller bubble of time and space that surrounds me and the people I love. (Everyone is OK now, don’t worry.) So I stopped using the sosh meeds entirely. Sorry I didn’t tell you!
It……
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“You mean Some Guys ARE Charting.” No, I do not!
The week of April 6, 2019, Some Guys is #1 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart, #6 on Independent Albums, #9 on Digital Albums, #19 on Americana/Folk, and #29 on Top Album Sales. This is more than a little surprising to me! I expect I will drop off all the charts completely next week, as is my custom. Also, I’m not sure why my oldest, most nerd-pander-y photo is the one they’re using all over Billboard, but I wish I had gotten that T-shirt one size larger.
The Kickstarter was an amazing success, topping out at just over $150,000. At the time of this writing, I think that most if not all orders have been sent out including digital copies as well as the top tier Super Powered Mystery Boxes. It’s been officially released on all the digital music stores, and physical copies are still available through BackerKit for a limited time. Eventually this will transition to a physical merch store on my site, which I am busy setting up just as soon as I start doing it WHICH IS SOON. The vinyl LP edition is on Amazon as well, and the CD will be ALSO SOON. More links:
iTunes, Google Play, Amazon, Spotify, and right here on this site
I really can’t thank everyone enough for the overwhelming number of positive comments about this album. I’m very proud of it, and…
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I’m very excited to make this secret project public today: I have a new album called Some Guys and it is covers of 70s soft rock songs that sound exactly like the originals. This is maybe not what anyone would have guessed was my next thing, especially me. But I really love it.
You can pre-order on Kickstarter RIGHT NOW!
In the 70s, I was sensitive kid who liked soft rock (both of those things are still true). These were some of the first songs that I remember really connecting to. I was always pretty sure that this was not a thing that made me cool, but now that I’m in my late 40s, I feel like it’s safe to come out as a soft rock lover. (Hello, I’m Jonathan, and I like Dan Fogelberg.) Lately, I’ve been listening to this kind of music a lot, rediscovering all my old friends, and I couldn’t shake the idea that it would be a lot of fun to just kind of make them again. I didn’t want to do new versions, I wanted to just rebuild the originals from the ground up. I wanted to live inside these songs for a while. I can tell you it felt very warm and cozy in there.
The album was produced by Solid State producer Christian Cassan, and I have to say, it sounds amazing. Most of the instruments are played by him and me, but we brought a few friends in for the stuff that was too hard. The rules: same keys, same tempos, same arrangements (as…
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