Hosts Needed: West Coast Living Room Tour!

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* We decided to add a show in Denton… looking for a host on April 26. Read below.

Tickets for everything else go on sale March 7.

Hello Friends! We’re looking for people to host Will Johnson Living Room Shows on the dates listed below. Please get in touch if you live near one of these towns and you want to host a show.

Read all the details on how the shows work and how to submit your house. After reading all of this and you’re interested, send an e-mail to: bob@undertowmusic.com and adam@undertowmusic.com

Please include a photo of the space where you would like to have the show and put “Will Johnson Living Room Show” and the city where you live in the subject line of the e-mail.

Tue April 09 – Marfa TX – TBA
Wed April 10 – Tucson AZ
Thu April 11 – Temecula, CA
Fri April 12 – San Francisco CA
Sat April 13 – Oakland CA
Sun April 14 – Reno NV
Tue April 16 – Eugene OR
Wed April 17 – Portland OR
Thu April 18 – Portland OR
Fri April 19 – Seattle WA
Sat April 20 – Seattle WA
Tue April 23 – Ft Collins CO
Wed April 24 – Colorado Springs CO
* Fri April 26 – Denton TX – HOST NEEDED
Sat April 27 – Forth Worth TX
Sun April 28 – College Station TX

We’ll make this as easy as possible for the hosts. All you have to do is let us borrow your living room for a couple of hours and in return you’ll get 5 free tickets for friends and our eternal gratitude.

Here’s how it works.

1. You have a house or loft space that can comfortably and safely host 35-50 people. A place with a big living room, finished basement or other indoor residential space would be ideal. (sorry, we can’t do outdoor shows). There needs to be enough parking nearby and your neighbors should be cool. It would be a huge bummer if someone called the cops because of all the extra cars and people coming to your house. You probably shouldn’t do this if you live in a small apartment with a bunch of uptight neighbors or a cranky landlord.

2. The shows will not be open to the public and no tickets will be sold at the door. We’ll pre-sell a set number of tickets for each show on our website. Be realistic on how many people your place can hold. We need to know how many tickets we can sell in advance. Ticket prices will be $15.

3. We’ll provide you with a detailed list of everyone coming to the show. This way the host won’t have to deal with money and only needs to check people off the list as they arrive.

4. The host gets 5 free tickets for the show. If you have other friends who want to come to the show you can direct them to the link to buy tickets on-line.

5. We’ll ask people to start arriving around 7:30pm. The shows usually start at around 8pm. It should be over by around 9:30pm. We’ll make it clear to everyone that they should be out of your house by 10:00pm.

6. You don’t need to provide any sort of sound system. All you need is a chair for Will to sit on while playing and some kind of ambient lighting like a floor lamp.

7. Your home address will not be published on the web and will only given to those people who purchase tickets.

8. We’ll need your help to spread the word to your Facebook friends and Twitter followers.

We’ll review all requests. Once we have a routing figured out we’ll be in touch.

Thank you for your interest and support.

Bob

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Old Arlington Stadium Art Print!

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Pitchers and catchers report in just a few weeks, and in order to celebrate I’m proud to release this limited edition screen print.

Old Arlington Stadium is the site of some savage, mixed emotions in many folks’ baseball memories. A lot of people didn’t much like that yard, so that’s why I felt compelled to pay tribute to it as part of my Dead Stadiums series. Many of us saw incredible feats by Nolan Ryan, Fergie Jenkins, Ruben Sierra, Julio Franco, and Pete Incaviglia there. It’s also where Robin Ventura got his face pummeled by Ryan in August of ’93.

My pals Satch Grimsley and Sarah Costilow did a great deal of the legwork on this batch. I’m grateful for their kindness and good work.

These prints are 25″ x 16″, signed and numbered, and are only available via mail order through the Undertow online store.

Limited edition of 100.

Thanks for checking them out.

-Will J.

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February 2013 Living Room Tour!

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We’re excited to announce Will’s first batch of 2013 Living Room Shows. These are small intimate shows with only 35-50 tickets available for each one.

FEBRUARY
12 – Alexandria, LA
13 – Mobile, AL @ IMC / Satori Coffee House *
14 – Waverly, AL
15 – Athens, GA
16 – Atlanta, GA (Snellville)
17 – Hunstville, AL
18 – Nashville, TN
20 – Memphis, TN
21 – Dallas  TX
22 – Houston, TX
23 – Sealy, TX
24 – Austin, TX
25 – San Antonio, TX

Tickets go on sale Wednesday, January 2 @ 2pm. CLICK HERE!

* Tickets for the show at Satori Coffee House in Mobile will be available at the venue on the night of the show.

PS: We’re working on plans to get Will to the west coast for living room shows later in the Spring. More news about that soon!

Photo by Brad Searles

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Living Room Tour 2013: Hosts Needed!

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UPDATED! WE HAVE A NEW ROUTING BELOW:

TICKETS GO ON SALE JANUARY 2.

Hello Friends! We need your help. Will Johnson is headed out on a Living Room Tour in February. We need hosts for the dates and towns listed below. Please get in touch if you live in or near or in-between one of these places and you want to host a show.

Read below for all the details on how the shows work and how to submit our house. After reading all of this and you’re interested, send an e-mail to: bob@undertowmusic.com and adam@undertowmusic.com

Please include a photo of the space where you would like to have the show and put “Will Johnson Living Room Show” and the city where you live in the subject line of the e-mail.

GET IN TOUCH BY WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12th.

PS: We’re working on plans to get Will to the west coast for living room shows later in the Spring. More news about that soon!

FEBRUARY
12 – Alexandria, LA // CONFIRMED
13 – Mobile, AL // CONFIRMED
14 – Waverly, AL // CONFIRMED
15 – Athens, GA // CONFIRMED
16 – Atlanta, GA // CONFIRMED
17 – Hunstville, AL // CONFIRMED
18 – Nashville, TN // CONFIRMED
19 – DAY OFF
20 – Memphis, TN // CONFIRMED
21 – Dallas  TX // CONFIRMED
22 – Houston, TX // CONFIRMED
23 – Sealy, TX // CONFIRMED
24 – Austin, TX // CONFIRMED
25 – San Antonio, TX // CONFIRMED

We’ll make this as easy as possible for the hosts. All you have to do is let us borrow your living room for a couple of hours and in return you’ll get 5 free tickets for friends and our eternal gratitude.

Here’s how it works.

1. You have a house or loft space that can comfortably and safely host 35-50 people. A place with a big living room, finished basement or other indoor residential space would be ideal. (sorry, we can’t do outdoor shows). There needs to be enough parking nearby and your neighbors should be cool. It would be a huge bummer if someone called the cops because of all the extra cars and people coming to your house. You probably shouldn’t do this if you live in a small apartment with a bunch of uptight neighbors or a cranky landlord.

2. The shows will not be open to the public and no tickets will be sold at the door. We’ll pre-sell a set number of tickets for each show on our website. Be realistic on how many people your place can hold. We need to know how many tickets we can sell in advance. Ticket prices will be $15.

3. We’ll provide you with a detailed list of everyone coming to the show. This way the host won’t have to deal with money and only needs to check people off the list as they arrive.

4. The host gets 5 free tickets for the show. If you have other friends who want to come to the show you can direct them to the link to buy tickets on-line.

5. We’ll ask people to start arriving around 7:30pm. The shows usually start at around 8pm. It should be over by around 9:30pm. We’ll make it clear to everyone that they should be out of your house by 10:00pm.

7. You don’t need to provide any sort of sound system. All you need is a chair for Will to sit on while playing and some kind of ambient lighting like a floor lamp.

8. Your home address will not be published on the web and will only given to those people who purchase tickets.

9. We’ll need your help to spread the word to your Facebook friends and Twitter followers.

We’ll review all requests. Once we have a routing figured out we’ll be in touch.

Thank you for your interest and support.

Bob

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Texas Monthly: Six Degrees of Will Johnson

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by Andy Langer

How the Centro-Matic front man’s knack for making friends and introductions helped turn Denton into “the new Austin.”

Will Johnson. Musician. Yes, sir, I do.Earlier this year, those were the answers Will Johnson gave to a U.S. Customs official as he returned from a European tour. The first two questions were standard: Name? Occupation? The third was clearly off-script: Do you make a living doing that? Not a question the official would have likely bothered asking Steven Tyler. “I suspect he was a little disappointed he wasn’t meeting a rock star,” Johnson says. “And if you’re not a recognizable rock star, you can’t be making a living, right?”

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