New video (Tom Waits cover), prepping for BK, NY and Boston

Well we’ve finally made a YouTube channel. You’ll see a favorited live version of “Tell Me” in there, filmed at Columbia City Theater last year and featuring James Apollo.

But you’ll also see a new puppy, adopted from Mercury Lounge on March 20. It’s a cover of Tom Waits’ “Chocolate Jesus,” and featuring the Tin Pan Boys:

North Carolina was fantastic and just the kind of sorta-solo tour I needed. Thanks for the level pool table, Asheville, and the BBQ, Charlotte, and the burrito, Johnson City, and the good company Black Mountain, and the impressive beer lists, Greensboro, and…

Numbers And Letters plays a small acoustic show in Brooklyn on May 27 at the Way Station, then at the Cake Shop in Manhattan on June 3. Our first Boston show is on June 6 and will feature guest bassist Kendall Eddy! We are borrowing him from Racing Heart, thanks boys.

Carolina In My Mind, and Body…

Checking in from North Carolina, showing off N&L songs down here for the first time.

One fun fact is my little cousin Ryan Hasty is joining me for each night, playing a little guitar. Ladies: he’s a Death Cab fan (so sensitive!) and is rather tall and is single, single, single.

Tonight (May 16) is Johnston City, Tenn., tomorrow (Tuesday) is Black Mountain, NC and Thursday is Greensboro.

All dates and locales and other information can be found here:
http://www.numbersandlettersmusic.com/shows.html

If anybody in Asheville knows a fun open music night on Wednesday, we’re flexible: because we’re staying here.

Save the date, New York: June 3 at the Cake Shop

Super excited to announce that N&L will be hitting the Cake Shop for the very first time on June 3, courtesy of J. Edward Keyes’ most-excellent Universal Melody band and DJ night. Joe’s the sh*t. Details to come.

Good Friday (2011 demo)

I wrote this song back in 2007, but never made a full fleshy demo of it until now.

Happy Holy Week, this one’s for Friday and the weekend.

Thanks to Justin Keller and Joe Lops for making me sound good.

Katie and Justin are starting a country covers band

Numbers And Leters are safe and sound on a schedule completing the full-length… and as if we can’t fill our hours up any more, Katie and Justin have decided to start a country covers band besides.

The first show is on May 1 at Pete’s Candy Store at either 9:30 or 10:30.

And no, we don’t have a name of the band yet. If you have any suggestions, you should shoot them to us in an email, then we’ll put up and obnoxious poll or something and then shake our heads and ultimately go with our original band name idea, Sexy Khadafi.

Thanks, and Boston!

Friends, Thanks so much for helping make Mercury Lounge on 3/20/11 such a success. You are so great for coming out on a schoolnight.

N&L is not only setting up fun tour stuff for the summer, but we have an outta-town announcement:

We’ll be performing in Boston/Cambridge for the first time on Monday, June 6, at ZuZu! More details later, but mark it, dude.

Mercury Lounge show featuring Ward Williams

We were already peeing our pants very excited about Tin Pan and Zachary Eichenhorn joining the lineup for the Numbers And Letters show on March 20; but now we’re really pooping pumped.

Ward Williams (Jump, Little Children) will be joining us on stage for a new(er) song. He said he’s been doing a lot of push-ups this week in anticipation, we don’t know why.

Get ready for hand-painted posters, a light-up merch suitcase, a Tom Waits cover and inappropriate pronunciations of our song titles.