rusty mixing video and audio; band show coming up; new CD?

After a break for the 4th of July holiday and hanging with his family during the Madison Regatta during the time (Rusty parked his tour bus along RV row on the riverbank, and it was a gathering spot for many of Rusty's family and friends), news is now rumbling out of the River Road camp, and there are a couple of things that are a couple bits of news and rumor that Rusty Bladen fans should be interested in hearing.

If you attended the theatre show in Scottsburg on June 24, you saw a video crew and cameras there. What you may not have seen was the audio truck grabbing a 48-track digital recording of the night. The video was shot for promo purposes, and Rusty is going to join the engineers to mix the audio captured.

While we haven't seen or heard any of it yet, it is coming to the interactive world sometime in July. Look for an MP3 on rustybladen.com for download, and we'll see what happens with the audio once it gets mixed. River Road has talked about releasing an MP3-only product on iTunes, etc...this may or may not be that project. And I bet the video leaks out to us too.

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Is a Christmas album in the works? No promises, but it was talked about last year, and the idea shelved when Rusty had his tour van accident. And it is being talked about again this year. We hear something that is a combination of band and solo, with the "rusty-fied" versions of Christmas classics plus at least one orginal holiday tune. Still only rumors for now....

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Did You Know Dept?...
You can now download (in .pdf form) the official promotional posters for upcoming shows. Grab the poster file from the website, print off a couple with the ink jet or laser, and take the posters, some tape and staple gun around the area where Rusty is playing. He is in Aurora July 15 and New Washington on July 30. Live close? You know what to do...

That's all. Rock on and keeping logging on.
Rob