When I was 19, I was working at a coffee shop in Ottawa spending my time writing songs and playing shows. In the following few years those songs evolved into my first album, Failer. Songs formed from my love for songwriting, falling in love with Americana and roots music, finding a place in my local music scene, and living a pretty wild first few years out on my own. 19 years since it’s release, the vinyl pressing of Failer has finally been printed. Pre-order at the link up top. It seems strangely fitting that the boxes of freshly pressed vinyl were shipped to my coffee shop in Ottawa, Jim Bryson took the first copy home the day it arrived. It wasn’t an easy thing to put together. We had to source the music from John Whynot, who originally mixed the record because we couldn’t find the original files. We had to have it re-mastered for vinyl by Greg Calbi. We didn’t have any of the artwork saved from the original pressings, lost long ago into the abyss of a record company’s restructuring. Colin Cripps approved the new mastered version, and I even found a few boxes of the original CD pressing of Failer from 2002, with different artwork and a different recorded version of 6 O’clock News. It’s been a trip down memory lane (some memories clearer than others), messy and unkempt, but somehow wonderfully true and real. My manager Holly Lowman was instrumental in finding all these pieces and putting them together so this could happen. It’s pretty insane to think of who I was back then, all the doors it opened for me. Playing my US television debut on the Letterman show the week Failer was released. It still seems surreal that this record took me where it did, and that you all loved it so much. So many people have asked when this album would be available on vinyl, so here it is. As I’ve come to learn, failure is the stuff that makes success so much sweeter.
When I was 19, I was working at a coffee shop in Ottawa spending my time writing songs and playing shows. In the following few years those songs evolved into my first album, Failer. Songs formed from my love for songwriting, falling in love with Americana and roots music, finding a place in my local music scene, and living a pretty wild first few years out on my own. 19 years since it’s release, the vinyl pressing of Failer has finally been printed. Pre-order at the link up top. It seems strangely fitting that the boxes of freshly pressed vinyl were shipped to my coffee shop in Ottawa, Jim Bryson took the first copy home the day it arrived. It wasn’t an easy thing to put together. We had to source the music from John Whynot, who originally mixed the record because we couldn’t find the original files. We had to have it re-mastered for vinyl by Greg Calbi. We didn’t have any of the artwork saved from the original pressings, lost long ago into the abyss of a record company’s restructuring. Colin Cripps approved the new mastered version, and I even found a few boxes of the original CD pressing of Failer from 2002, with different artwork and a different recorded version of 6 O’clock News. It’s been a trip down memory lane (some memories clearer than others), messy and unkempt, but somehow wonderfully true and real. My manager Holly Lowman was instrumental in finding all these pieces and putting them together so this could happen. It’s pretty insane to think of who I was back then, all the doors it opened for me. Playing my US television debut on the Letterman show the week Failer was released. It still seems surreal that this record took me where it did, and that you all loved it so much. So many people have asked when this album would be available on vinyl, so here it is. As I’ve come to learn, failure is the stuff that makes success so much sweeter.
When I was 19, I was working at a coffee shop in Ottawa spending my time writing songs and playing shows. In the following few years those songs evolved into my first album, Failer. Songs formed from my love for songwriting, falling in love with Americana and roots music, finding a place in my local music scene, and living a pretty wild first few years out on my own. 19 years since it’s release, the vinyl pressing of Failer has finally been printed. Pre-order at the link up top. It seems strangely fitting that the boxes of freshly pressed vinyl were shipped to my coffee shop in Ottawa, Jim Bryson took the first copy home the day it arrived. It wasn’t an easy thing to put together. We had to source the music from John Whynot, who originally mixed the record because we couldn’t find the original files. We had to have it re-mastered for vinyl by Greg Calbi. We didn’t have any of the artwork saved from the original pressings, lost long ago into the abyss of a record company’s restructuring. Colin Cripps approved the new mastered version, and I even found a few boxes of the original CD pressing of Failer from 2002, with different artwork and a different recorded version of 6 O’clock News. It’s been a trip down memory lane (some memories clearer than others), messy and unkempt, but somehow wonderfully true and real. My manager Holly Lowman was instrumental in finding all these pieces and putting them together so this could happen. It’s pretty insane to think of who I was back then, all the doors it opened for me. Playing my US television debut on the Letterman show the week Failer was released. It still seems surreal that this record took me where it did, and that you all loved it so much. So many people have asked when this album would be available on vinyl, so here it is. As I’ve come to learn, failure is the stuff that makes success so much sweeter.
When I was 19, I was working at a coffee shop in Ottawa spending my time writing songs and playing shows. In the following few years those songs evolved into my first album, Failer. Songs formed from my love for songwriting, falling in love with Americana and roots music, finding a place in my local music scene, and living a pretty wild first few years out on my own. 19 years since it’s release, the vinyl pressing of Failer has finally been printed. Pre-order at the link up top. It seems strangely fitting that the boxes of freshly pressed vinyl were shipped to my coffee shop in Ottawa, Jim Bryson took the first copy home the day it arrived. It wasn’t an easy thing to put together. We had to source the music from John Whynot, who originally mixed the record because we couldn’t find the original files. We had to have it re-mastered for vinyl by Greg Calbi. We didn’t have any of the artwork saved from the original pressings, lost long ago into the abyss of a record company’s restructuring. Colin Cripps approved the new mastered version, and I even found a few boxes of the original CD pressing of Failer from 2002, with different artwork and a different recorded version of 6 O’clock News. It’s been a trip down memory lane (some memories clearer than others), messy and unkempt, but somehow wonderfully true and real. My manager Holly Lowman was instrumental in finding all these pieces and putting them together so this could happen. It’s pretty insane to think of who I was back then, all the doors it opened for me. Playing my US television debut on the Letterman show the week Failer was released. It still seems surreal that this record took me where it did, and that you all loved it so much. So many people have asked when this album would be available on vinyl, so here it is. As I’ve come to learn, failure is the stuff that makes success so much sweeter.
When I was 19, I was working at a coffee shop in Ottawa spending my time writing songs and playing shows. In the following few years those songs evolved into my first album, Failer. Songs formed from my love for songwriting, falling in love with Americana and roots music, finding a place in my local music scene, and living a pretty wild first few years out on my own. 19 years since it’s release, the vinyl pressing of Failer has finally been printed. Pre-order at the link up top. It seems strangely fitting that the boxes of freshly pressed vinyl were shipped to my coffee shop in Ottawa, Jim Bryson took the first copy home the day it arrived. It wasn’t an easy thing to put together. We had to source the music from John Whynot, who originally mixed the record because we couldn’t find the original files. We had to have it re-mastered for vinyl by Greg Calbi. We didn’t have any of the artwork saved from the original pressings, lost long ago into the abyss of a record company’s restructuring. Colin Cripps approved the new mastered version, and I even found a few boxes of the original CD pressing of Failer from 2002, with different artwork and a different recorded version of 6 O’clock News. It’s been a trip down memory lane (some memories clearer than others), messy and unkempt, but somehow wonderfully true and real. My manager Holly Lowman was instrumental in finding all these pieces and putting them together so this could happen. It’s pretty insane to think of who I was back then, all the doors it opened for me. Playing my US television debut on the Letterman show the week Failer was released. It still seems surreal that this record took me where it did, and that you all loved it so much. So many people have asked when this album would be available on vinyl, so here it is. As I’ve come to learn, failure is the stuff that makes success so much sweeter.
When I was 19, I was working at a coffee shop in Ottawa spending my time writing songs and playing shows. In the following few years those songs evolved into my first album, Failer. Songs formed from my love for songwriting, falling in love with Americana and roots music, finding a place in my local music scene, and living a pretty wild first few years out on my own. 19 years since it’s release, the vinyl pressing of Failer has finally been printed. Pre-order at the link up top. It seems strangely fitting that the boxes of freshly pressed vinyl were shipped to my coffee shop in Ottawa, Jim Bryson took the first copy home the day it arrived. It wasn’t an easy thing to put together. We had to source the music from John Whynot, who originally mixed the record because we couldn’t find the original files. We had to have it re-mastered for vinyl by Greg Calbi. We didn’t have any of the artwork saved from the original pressings, lost long ago into the abyss of a record company’s restructuring. Colin Cripps approved the new mastered version, and I even found a few boxes of the original CD pressing of Failer from 2002, with different artwork and a different recorded version of 6 O’clock News. It’s been a trip down memory lane (some memories clearer than others), messy and unkempt, but somehow wonderfully true and real. My manager Holly Lowman was instrumental in finding all these pieces and putting them together so this could happen. It’s pretty insane to think of who I was back then, all the doors it opened for me. Playing my US television debut on the Letterman show the week Failer was released. It still seems surreal that this record took me where it did, and that you all loved it so much. So many people have asked when this album would be available on vinyl, so here it is. As I’ve come to learn, failure is the stuff that makes success so much sweeter.
When I was 19, I was working at a coffee shop in Ottawa spending my time writing songs and playing shows. In the following few years those songs evolved into my first album, Failer. Songs formed from my love for songwriting, falling in love with Americana and roots music, finding a place in my local music scene, and living a pretty wild first few years out on my own. 19 years since it’s release, the vinyl pressing of Failer has finally been printed. Pre-order at the link up top. It seems strangely fitting that the boxes of freshly pressed vinyl were shipped to my coffee shop in Ottawa, Jim Bryson took the first copy home the day it arrived. It wasn’t an easy thing to put together. We had to source the music from John Whynot, who originally mixed the record because we couldn’t find the original files. We had to have it re-mastered for vinyl by Greg Calbi. We didn’t have any of the artwork saved from the original pressings, lost long ago into the abyss of a record company’s restructuring. Colin Cripps approved the new mastered version, and I even found a few boxes of the original CD pressing of Failer from 2002, with different artwork and a different recorded version of 6 O’clock News. It’s been a trip down memory lane (some memories clearer than others), messy and unkempt, but somehow wonderfully true and real. My manager Holly Lowman was instrumental in finding all these pieces and putting them together so this could happen. It’s pretty insane to think of who I was back then, all the doors it opened for me. Playing my US television debut on the Letterman show the week Failer was released. It still seems surreal that this record took me where it did, and that you all loved it so much. So many people have asked when this album would be available on vinyl, so here it is. As I’ve come to learn, failure is the stuff that makes success so much sweeter.
When I was 19, I was working at a coffee shop in Ottawa spending my time writing songs and playing shows. In the following few years those songs evolved into my first album, Failer. Songs formed from my love for songwriting, falling in love with Americana and roots music, finding a place in my local music scene, and living a pretty wild first few years out on my own. 19 years since it’s release, the vinyl pressing of Failer has finally been printed. Pre-order at the link up top. It seems strangely fitting that the boxes of freshly pressed vinyl were shipped to my coffee shop in Ottawa, Jim Bryson took the first copy home the day it arrived. It wasn’t an easy thing to put together. We had to source the music from John Whynot, who originally mixed the record because we couldn’t find the original files. We had to have it re-mastered for vinyl by Greg Calbi. We didn’t have any of the artwork saved from the original pressings, lost long ago into the abyss of a record company’s restructuring. Colin Cripps approved the new mastered version, and I even found a few boxes of the original CD pressing of Failer from 2002, with different artwork and a different recorded version of 6 O’clock News. It’s been a trip down memory lane (some memories clearer than others), messy and unkempt, but somehow wonderfully true and real. My manager Holly Lowman was instrumental in finding all these pieces and putting them together so this could happen. It’s pretty insane to think of who I was back then, all the doors it opened for me. Playing my US television debut on the Letterman show the week Failer was released. It still seems surreal that this record took me where it did, and that you all loved it so much. So many people have asked when this album would be available on vinyl, so here it is. As I’ve come to learn, failure is the stuff that makes success so much sweeter.
When I was 19, I was working at a coffee shop in Ottawa spending my time writing songs and playing shows. In the following few years those songs evolved into my first album, Failer. Songs formed from my love for songwriting, falling in love with Americana and roots music, finding a place in my local music scene, and living a pretty wild first few years out on my own. 19 years since it’s release, the vinyl pressing of Failer has finally been printed. Pre-order at the link up top. It seems strangely fitting that the boxes of freshly pressed vinyl were shipped to my coffee shop in Ottawa, Jim Bryson took the first copy home the day it arrived. It wasn’t an easy thing to put together. We had to source the music from John Whynot, who originally mixed the record because we couldn’t find the original files. We had to have it re-mastered for vinyl by Greg Calbi. We didn’t have any of the artwork saved from the original pressings, lost long ago into the abyss of a record company’s restructuring. Colin Cripps approved the new mastered version, and I even found a few boxes of the original CD pressing of Failer from 2002, with different artwork and a different recorded version of 6 O’clock News. It’s been a trip down memory lane (some memories clearer than others), messy and unkempt, but somehow wonderfully true and real. My manager Holly Lowman was instrumental in finding all these pieces and putting them together so this could happen. It’s pretty insane to think of who I was back then, all the doors it opened for me. Playing my US television debut on the Letterman show the week Failer was released. It still seems surreal that this record took me where it did, and that you all loved it so much. So many people have asked when this album would be available on vinyl, so here it is. As I’ve come to learn, failure is the stuff that makes success so much sweeter.
John Lennon must have had a time machine, knowing that a song like this would mean even more to us now than ever. This timeless song “Love” is out today from my forthcoming acoustic EP ‘Dogs and Alcohol’ featuring acoustic versions of songs from ‘Total Freedom’.
That’s Murphy. His dad is behind the camera.
Closing time
What’s better than announcing a tour? Asking @colinjcripps to come. (He said yes.) September 8 – Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall* September 9 – Minneapolis, MN – Fine Line* September 10 – Milwaukee, WI – Back Room* September 11 – Grand Rapids, MN – Grand Rapids Riverfest September 13 – Bloomington, IN – Buskirk-Chumley Theater* September 15 – Philadelphia, PA – The Met^ September 16 – Saxapahaw, NC – Haw River Ballroom* September 18 – Louisville, KY – Headliners* September 19 – Charleston, WV – Mountain Stage September 20 – Knoxville, TN – Bijou Theater* September 22 – Alpharetta, GA – Outlaw Music Festival September 24 – Columbia, MD – Outlaw Music Festival September 25 – New York, NY – Le Poisson Rouge* *with @mickflannerymusic ^supporting @jasonisbell Tickets on sale Friday, July 9 @ 10 am.
WEST COAST CANADA 2023 Very excited to be playing with Jason Isbell and his band in March 2023. See you there!
Some pretty big news. Lots of mixed emotions, but most importantly…. All the incredible memories I’ll be taking with me. Yes, I’m quitting quitters. 😉
I have been so lucky to have some amazing women come into my life over the years being a coffee shop owner, these are a few special ones who made my 2020 album release even more special @quitterscoffee – what a team. ❤️
Last day of June ❤️
Quelle nightmare!
Don’t miss Kathleen’s official showcase as part of this year’s @americanafest. Get your tickets now for this amazing week of music. #americanafest
WEST COAST DATES ADDED! I can’t believe I get to 1. Sing and play with these people 2. Play songs from “The Last Waltz” 3. Perform in these venues 🥂🍾🥂 West Coast shows at the @orpheumtheatrela in Los Angeles on December 4 and @foxoakland in Oakland on December 2 & 3 are on sale now at http://thelastwaltztour.live
Here’s my review of Cayamo 2022. 🌴
Here’s my review of Cayamo 2022. 🌴
Heading to @30afest? Catch Kathleen’s performances all around town this weekend.
Tickets are on sale for The Last Waltz Tour with 13 dates starting this November, making stops at historic venues across the east coast. @thewarrenhaynes @jameyjohnsonofficial @kittythefool @andersosborne Dave Malone @donwas @johnmedeski @cyrilneville @terencehigginsdrummer @bobmargolin @markmullinsmusic . For a complete list of venues, dates, and tickets, go to http://thelastwaltztour.live. Don't miss this epic tour! #thelastwaltz @blackbird_presents
