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02/19/08- Sick of Debt free
download!
"We
loaded into Oxide
Lounge in Bloomington, IL on a cold December afternoon (12.17.07)
to record a healthy dose of some acoustic Tire Fire twang. There had always
been talk of sitting down in the same room and doing a stripped down recording
and we finally found the time to do it! Some of these songs are favorites
that have been around for years and never found a place on an album, while
others were written only weeks before. All of the tunes feature our good
friend Jerry "Muttonhead" Erickson on either
dobro or pedal steel guitar and were recorded live with minimal overdubs.
The result is a raw collection of some of our finest acoustic material
that we decided to make available for FREE DOWNLOAD. Please enjoy and
pass it around." - Ed Anderson
Download
Sick of Debt here
Or download tracks individually (right
click and hit "save link as"):
1. "Sick of Debt" - download
2. "I Only Cry When My Momma's Sick" - download
3. "Honey to a Bee" - download
4. "Cigarettes and Coffee" - download
5. "Ice Cream Truck" - download
6. "Lost in Durango" - download
02/09/08
- Winter 2008 Tour Kicks off on 2/16!
We're excited to get back on the road next week. We'll
be hitting the Midwest, Texas, Southeast, Northeast, and Toronto over
the next 3 months.
We're even more excited about the bands we're playing
with this winter/spring: Reverend
Horton Heat, Nashville
Pussy, The
Beautiful Girls, Bloodkin,
The Radiators
and Blind
Melon. Check our tourdates page for the full story.
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01/03/08
- Vagabonds and Hooligans makes several year end Best of Lists!
While we're not into ranking music, we're very honored
to have made these critics Best Albums of 2007 list, hopefully Rolling
Stone will catch up to these guys next year:
- Cape
Cod Times - This trio synthesizes a modern-day country-rock
jukebox into a single disc that has all the daring and dirt-road grit
that's missing from the Eagles' new double-CD set. - Bill O'Neill
- St.
Cloud Times - This roots oriented, eclectic mix of music
grabbed my attention the first time I heard it. Since then, it has spent
more time in my CD player than any other disc this year. - Karl Leslie
- Radio
Cure Blog -- "Drive
By Who? BTF elbows their way into the Southern Alt-country spectrum
with this fine cd." - Clyde
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12/07/07
- New Years Eve!
Artwork: Fish Carpenter |
Join us to ring in a rockin' 2008 at Heroes West in Joliet, IL. The show
will be hosted and emceed by our good friend Adrianne
Curry. Show details and hotel options are below. We expect
the show to sell out so buy your tickets in advance to assure your entrance
on New Years.
Buy
Tickets (username: backyardtirefire,
password: tickets)
Show Details:
Monday Dec 31st, 2007
Heroes
West
1530 Commerce Dr.
Joliet, IL 60431
Doors: 8pm, Showtime: 9:30pm - ???
Ages: 21+
Cost: $20, includes champagne toast at midnight
Hotel Options:
Ramada Inn - Across the parking lot from Heroes; park
in the lot, and never move your car again.
1520 Commerce Lane
Joliet, IL 60431
815-730-1111,
First 30 rooms reserved that mention that you are attending Heroes
NYE will get a special rate of $49.99. After that rooms will
be at $99
Fairfield Inn - $119.00 - No special rates
1501 Riverboat Center, Joliet, IL - 815-741-3499
3 block walk or ride.
Hampton Inn- $119.00 - No special rates
1521 Riverboat Center, Joliet, IL 604431 -815-725-2424,
Located 1 block farther than Fairfield |
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11/21/07
- 2nd Annual Holiday Jamboree featuring Backyard Tire Fire &
Friends
Artwork: Fish Carpenter |
We're excited to announce the second coming of our Holiday Jamboree on
December 21st, 2007 at Daddio's in Bloomington, IL. Proceeds
of the charity show will once again be donated to the Salvation Army's
Safe Harbor homeless shelter. Other artists performing sets at the show
include: Bottle of Justus, 100 Year Picnic, Chicago Farmer, Scott Tipping,
Wiplot and the Dirty Hands Band. Support live music! Support The Salvation
Army!
Buy
Tickets (available locally at North
Street Records in Normal and Monster Pawn in Bloomington)
Show Details:
Friday Dec 21st, 2007
Daddio's
527 N Main St
Bloomington, IL
Doors: 7pm, Showtime: 8pm
Ages: 21+
Cost: $15 donation |
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11/14/07
- Backyard Tire Fire @ Langerado 2008
We'll be playing Langerado Music Festival on March 6-9, 2008 at The Big
Cypress Reservation - home to the Seminole Tribe located in Clewiston, Florida.
The site is located 30 miles west of Ft Lauderdale. We'll be joining an
amazing lineup that includes R.E.M, Beastie Boys,
Phil Lesh & Friends, 311, Gov't Mule, Ani DiFranco, Ben Folds, Built
to Spill and many others. Tickets will go on sale through our website on
Friday November 16 at 12:00pm. Click
here for tickets.
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09/18/07
- Vagabonds and Hooligans Fall tour!
We're currently in the studio putting together our next
album, in the meantime as a thanks to all of you we've set up a free download
of 6 Live tracks from Vagabonds and Hooligans
from our Double Door show on 2/17/07:
Download
tracks Live from the Double Door here!
Here is a full list of our tourdates, more info with
cost, times, and other bands playing is on our tourdates page:
October 5 / University of Illinois / Urbana, IL
October 18 / Hangar 9 / Carbondale, IL
October 19 / Friends & Co. / Charleston, IL (w/ The Fuz)
October 20 / Paulies / Bloomington, IL
October 31 / Mojo’s / Columbia, MO (w/Bockman)
November 1 / Larimer Lounge / Denver, CO
November 2 / Lazy Dog / Boulder, CO
November 3 / Bottleneck / Lawrence, KS
November 6 / People’s / Des Moines, IA (w/ Cracker, Jason Isbell
& the 400 Unit)
November 7 / First Avenue / Minneapolis, MN (w/ Cracker, Jason Isbell
& the 400 Unit)
November 8 / High Noon Saloon / Madison, WI (w/ Cracker, Jason Isbell
& the 400 Unit)
November 9 / Picador / Iowa City, IA (w/ Phonograph)
November 10 / Double Door / Chicago, IL (w/ Phonograph, & Chicago
Farmer)
November 15 / Rudyard Kipling's / Louisville, KY (w/ Phonograph)
November 16 / Ruby’s / Columbus, OH (w/ Phonograph)
November 17 / Grog Shop / Cleveland, OH (w/ Phonograph)
November 21 / Lucas School House / St. Louis, MO (w/ Joe Stickley's Blueprint)
November 24 / Chicago St. Pub / Joliet, IL
November 30 / Crusens / Peoria, IL
December 1 / Redstone Room / Davenport, IA (w/ The Winter Blanket)
December 21 /Daddio's / Bloomington, IL - 2nd Annual Holiday Jamboree! |
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08/02/07
- BTF part of New Orleans Musician's Relief Fund Compilation - ReDefine!
Backyard Tire Fire has contributed "The Wrong Hand",
which was originally inspired by the horror of Katrina, to NOMRF's new
benefit compiliation, ReDefine. Backyard Tire Fire is honored
to be on the compiliation along with Dr. John, Ian Hunter, The Kaiser
Chiefs, Edwin McCain & Maia Sharp Chicago Farmer, Susan Cowsill, the
dB's, and many others. Every dollar spent on the downloads goes towards
helping still-displaced NOLA musicians.
Find out more about the compiliation here
and contribute what you can. |
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08/02/07
- Catch a full hour of live Tire Fire on XM Loft Channel 50!
Our hour long performance will be aired in full, 6 (SIX)
times, the week of August 13th, check XM's
website for more info. Here is the schedule:
* Monday 8/13 - 12pm ET
* Monday 8/13 - 9 PM ET
* Thursday 8/16 - 3 PM ET
* Thursday 8/16 - 9 PM ET
* Friday 8/17- 4 AM ET
* Saturday 8/18 - 7 PM ET |
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07/26/07
- Clutch tour starts this week!
Our 5 week tour with Clutch and Year Long Disaster begins
this week. Click on the banner below to check out music from both bands.
Look forward to seeing you out and tell your friends in each town!
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06/18/07
- Backyard Tire Fire to play Simple Man Cruise!
We're happy to announce that we are playing Lynyrd Skynyrd's
Simple
Man Cruise from January 10th - 14th, 2008. The cruise will
be departing Miami, FL, and visiting Key West and Calica. Other bands
on the cruise include Lynyrd Skynyrd, Cowboy Mouth, Georgia Satellites,
Marshall Tucker Band, Bang Bang Bang, and many others. Get your tickets
early as the boat will sell out well in advance. More info is availabile
here.
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06/13/07
- More dates with Clutch!
We're very excited to announce that Clutch
asked us back out for another 28 dates in July and August. We'll be making
our first trip to Canada with them, as well as hitting the Pacific Northwest,
Midwest and Northeast. year
long disaster, a great rock & roll band from LA, will
also be on the dates. We highly recommend that you make it out to the
shows as all 3 bands bring the rock & roll. Check out a full list
of dates on our tourdates page. |
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05/29/07
- Instudio @ WLCE in Springfield, IL & Instore @ Vintage Vinyl
Check us out live instudio on WLCE
in Springfield, IL - Wednesday June 6th@ 3pm CST. You Listen
locally @ 97.7 or stream it online from a link off of their website.
Also we'll be doing a free instore performance @
Vintage Vinyl
in St. Louis on Thursday June 7th @ 5:30pm CST.
And don't forget about our shows @ Mountain
Jam in NY this weekend, if you can't attend the fest they'll
be broadcasting it live via their website.
We'll also be @ Twangfest in St. Louis on June 6thwith
Centro-matic
& William
Elliott Whitmore and Wakarusa
Festival in Lawrence on June 8th and 9th with folks like
Alejandro
Escovedo & Bobby
Bare Jr. |
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05/09/07
- Instudio @ WNCW
Check us out live instudio at one of the coolest radio
stations in America, WNCW,
in Spindale, NC - Wednesday May 9th@ 1pm EST. You Listen
locally @ 88.7 (Spindale/Asheville), 92.9 (Boone), 100.3 (Charlotte),
97.3 (Greenville). You can also stream
online nationally on their internet
radio. |
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04/19/07
- My Old Kentucky Blog & Sirius Instudio + other reviews
Check us out on one of our favorite blogs, My
Old Kentucky Blog. We were instudio with Dodge and his crew
in Indianapolis before the Mofro show. You can check out versions of "Vagabonds
and Hooligans", "Tom Petty", and "Spinnin' Around",
plus a new tune, "I Only Cry". The interview and performance
will be broadcast on Sirius Radio's Left of Center, Channel 26 in the
next few weeks @ 10pm EST.
Also - check out the review of our show last night from
Muzzle
of Bees, another favorite blogger of ours in Madison.
And a great review from Popmatters.com
and interview with the band @ Firesideometer. |
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03/09/07
- Backyard Tire Fire tour rolls on
Check out our tourdates folks, we've got some big shows
coming up in March with Melissa
Ferrick, The Slip,
and Freddy Jones Band,
plus some headlining shows in Plainfield, IL, Des Moines, IA, Sioux Falls,
SD, Mankato, MN, & Moorhead, MN.
April will bring us to the Southeast for our first show
in Oxford, MS which will be sponsored by Honest
Tune Magazine, then down to the Wanee
Festival in FL. Next is a week with JJ
Grey & Mofro that we're all really looking forward to.
Our May is slamming as we'll be doing more dates with
one of our favorite bands out there, The
Mother Hips in NY & NJ, then 3 weeks of rock & roll with Clutch
and The Bellrays
taking us from DC to San Diego.
Check the tourdates page for a full run down. |
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02/23/07
- Backyard Tire Fire cracks CMJ Top 200!
We're excited that our new record, Vagabonds and
Hooligans, has cracked the Top
200 on the CMJ radio chart, which tracks the most spinned
records on college radio. If you listen regularly to college radio stations
in your area don't hesitate to call and request Vagabonds and Hooligans. |
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02/19/07
- Backyard Tire Fire summer festivals!
We've recently been added to WDST and Warren Haynes'
Mountain
Jam Festival on June 3rd in Hunter Mountain, NY. We'll be
joined at the fest by Gov't Mule, Ozomatli, North Mississippi Allstars
and many more.
We'll also be at Wanee
Festival in Live Oak, FL on April 13th, with Allman Brothers
Band, Gov't Mule, The Derek Trucks Band, Robert Randolph, Nickel Creek
and many more.
We'll be back at Wakarusa
Festival in Lawrence, KS on June 8th and 9th once again,
joined this year by Ben Harper, Alejandro Escovedo, Bobby Bare Jr., North
Mississippi Allstars and many more.
Hope we'll see you all out at the fests this summer. |
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02/09/07
- Backyard Tire Fire on WXRT
We're going to be played on Chicago WXRT's Local Anesthetic
on Saturday February 10th at 4:45 PM - you can listen on 93.1 FM in Chicago,
or stream it online here.
Thanks Richard Milne! |
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02/06/07
- Vagabonds and Hooligans is released!
The new album, Vagabonds and Hooligans, is finally
available ! You can order it online
here, or if you like to purchase at your local record store
here is a list of indie
stores carrying us nationally, support local retailers! |
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| 01/18/07
- Vagabonds and Hooligans Record Release Tour
Happy New Year to y'all. We're very excited to announce our Vagabonds
and Hooligans record release shows (more dates to be announced in
next couple weeks):
02/10/07 The Picador IA
City, IA
with Death Ships,
Shametrain
02/16/07 NV Ultra Lounge Normal, IL
with Death Ships
Buy
Tickets
02/17/07 Double Door Chicago, IL
with Jay Bennett, Death Ships
Buy
Tickets
Co-bill with William Elliot Whitmore:
02/18/07 Top Cat's Cincinnati, OH
02/19/07 The Basement Columbus, OH
02/20/07 Garfield Artworks Pittsburgh, PA
02/21/07 Funk n' Waffle House Syracuse, NY
02/22/07 Iron Horse Music Hall Northampton, MA
02/23/07 Bayou Mount Vernon, NY
02/24/07 Appalachian Brewing Company Harrisburg, PA
02/25/07 Sonar Baltimore, MD
02/27/07 Hideaway BBQ Raleigh, NC (BTF only, not a co-bill)
02/28/07 Soapbox Wilmington, NC
03/01/07 Empire Richmond, VA
03/02/07 Lion's Den New York, NY
supporting: Oteil & The Peacemakers
(Allman Brothers Band bass player)
03/15/07 The Music Mill Indianapolis, IN
supporting: The Slip, also: Gringo
Star
03/31/07 Broken Axe Moorhead, MN
04/13/07 Wanee Festival Live Oak, FL
with Allman Brothers Band, Gov't
Mule, Robert Randolph, Nickel Creek
and many more
04/18/07 Southgate House Newport, KY
supporting: JJ Grey & Mofro
04/19/07 High Noon Saloon Madison, WI
supporting: JJ Grey & Mofro
06/08 & 09/07 Wakarusa Festival Lawrence, KS
with Ben Harper, Alejandro Escovedo, Bobby Bare
Jr., North Mississippi Allstars and many more
Tour Notes:
For our Chicago record release show at the Double Door on February 17th,
we'll be playing one set of Tire Fire rock & roll followed by Vagabonds
and Hooligans in order in its entirety. We're honored to have Jay
Bennett as a special guest. Jay was a significant force behind
the evolving sound of the twice Grammy-nominated Wilco for 7 years and
recently released a fantastic rock & roll record called The Magnificent
Defeat. We'll also be joined in Chicago by Death
Ships, a great band from Iowa City, we'llbe playing with
them in Iowa City and Normal as well.
We're excited to be playing again with
Will Hoge and Matt
Mays (as well as Brent Best's new project, The
Drams) in Urbana. Plus 2 weeks with a soulful singer-songwriter,
William
Elliot Whitmore and shows with The
Slip in March and
Mofro in April . Oh yeah, and we're set to play the mainstage
at Wanee
Festival in FL where we'll be followed by Nickel Creek, Robert
Randolph, Gov't Mule and the Allman Brothers Band! And we're back at Wakarusa
Festival with bands like Alejandro Escovedo, Bobby Bare Jr.,
OZO, North Mississippi Allstars & Ben Harper!
We're looking forward to making a lot of new friends on the road and
seeing a lot of familiar faces out as well! |
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We'll
be previewing The Places We Lived exclusively this week on August
19th with our friends at Rhapsody.com.
Click over next Tuesday 8/19 and listen to the entire album.
THE
PLACES WE LIVED tracks are:
