J-City, Xmas Show in Chatt' and new stuff for sale.

Dec 8, 2010 -- 8pm
The Acoustic Coffeehouse
415 W. Walnut St.
Johnson City, TN

Dec 10, 2010 -- 9pm
The Company Party,
Butch Ross' 4th annual Xmas Xtraveganza
Market Street Tavern
850 Market Street
Chattanooga, TN

Both of these shows are free.

Seasons greetings, and welcome to the most wonderful time of the year (assuming you don't work a menial retail job) This year I've got a few holiday specials I'd like to tell you about.

The Year in Review 2009
This has been available as a download for a while now, but I've decided to offer this as a limited edition jewel-cased CD. There are 100 copies, each signed and numbered by me. They'll be available online and at shows, until they sell out or the Ohio Valley Gathering (March 24th, 2011) whichever comes first, then they're gone forever. The Year in Review isn’t actually a year in review. Instead, it is a collection of live tunes, rarely performed songs and some of my best in-between song bits. Recorded over the last few years at KMW, Dulci-more, Fort New Salem, the Leo Coffeehouse, House Concerts, UK pub shows and more, it features a slew of songs that I’ve rarely performed in public. Including some that have only been played live once.

The Dulcimer Christmas Card
Okay, this is in fact three years old, but with so many new names the mailing list this year, it's worth mentioning. It's a bakers dozen of Christmas instrumentals, or at least within my loose definition a Christmas song. In addition to the mountain dulcimer, I play all the instruments including banjo, guitar, upright bass, electric dulcimer and a Hungarian zither called a Citera. This is the CD that made my parents fans of mine. The CD makes a great Pollyanna gift, as rather than coming in a jewel case, the CD doubles as a Christmas card. It opens up to read "Wishing you the happiest of Holiday Seasons and hopes for a wonderful New Year."

It is also available as a regular jewel-boxed CD and as a tab book of note-for-note transcriptions.

The Moonshiner's Atlas Book
Now this one won't be out until January, but email me if you'd like to pre-order it. Finally after several years (and countless letters to lawyers) I'm finally releasing the tab for the record that started it all. Like my other books, it will be available with and without a CD. If you've ever wanted to learn how to play, "I like singing folk songs", "1952 Vincent Black Lightning" or "Fly Around" here's your chance.

So that's it for the holiday season (barring last minute additions). I plan on sending a year in review email, but otherwise, this is the last you'll hear from me this season. Don't forget that I'll be kicking the New Year off with a bang at the Kentucky Music Winter Weekend, January 7th-9th and then back at Bing Futch's Key West Dulcimer Gathering January 28th-30th.

Take care of each other and have a safe and wonderful holiday season

C-ya out there.

--Br
www.butchross.com