Three of One; Quarter Dozen of the Other: Old Calf at Tea Bazaar January 24 and Ned Oldham and Alex Caton with Nathan Salsburg February 7 at CFOOT Studio

We are more of a quarterly concern.  We don't like to vie for your attention unless we have something to say.  Which doesn't mean we haven't been hard at work on new songs and new arrangements of olde songs.

Old Calf duo of Ned Oldham and Matty Metcalfe will kick new acoustical jams on a January 24 bill with Dare Dukes and Mister Baby at Charlottesville's  Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar, with Alex Caton fiddling and singing out in the second half of the set.

Then in a fortnight on February 7th, please come for a special coffeehaus engagement with No Quarter Recording Artist the fingerstyle guitarist Nathan Salsburg, whose just-released album Affirmed is a steel string odyssey of wooden guitar.  Ned Oldham and Alex Caton have been working up a set of vocal duets made of traditional and traditional-ish tunes, and welcome Matty Metcalfe as a musical guest on bouzouki and accordion.  No website (three cheers!) for CFOOT: it's above the studio art store on Charlottesville's West Main, not far from the University.  You walk in the front at 1108 West Main, straight up the stairs and keep going back until you run into CFOOT Studio.  You will smell the coffee, which is on us.

The photo of Old Calf in Brooklyn last summer is by John Ruscher.

Please Help I Used to be Darker Kickstarter before August 13!

Sorry so long between posts; I'm still not sure exactly why we are put on this earth, but I'm pretty sure it is not to blog.  However, Time is of the essence today: I am acting in a film that is being shot right now in Baltimore.  It is a great project by Matt Porterfield, entitled I Used to be Darker; check out Matt's discussion of the project during a live tattoo cut HERE.

Our Kickstarter deadline is Saturday, August 13, 2011.
Please consider giving what you can... there are some great rewards, including Ned Oldham and Anomoanon vinyl.  Check it out HERE.

Monday. October 18. The Garage. Old Calf. 8pm.

My lucky number is seven.  Why?  I have seven holes in my head, that's why.  That's not the only reason, but it's reason enough.  This calf was born with seven legs.  After delivery via C-section, it lived less than 10 minutes.  I like to think it lived for seven minutes.  Sad, but inspirational.

On October 18th at 8pm sharp, please come to the Garage, in the shadow of the R.E. Lee equestrian monument and Hill and Wood Funeral Home for a set from OLD CALF.

Ned Oldham w/Doug Paisley and Television Hill at Windup Space in Baltimore on October 14

A good reunion of old friends, and a new meeting.  Ned brings the new 7" and welcomes a little help from old friends Dave Heumann, Walker Teret, and (drum roll, per favore) Anomoanon drummer Jack Carneal.  Also, Ned lends some help to Television Hill--it's happened before and it's going to happen again.  Windup Space, in the station north neighborhood of Baltimore, also welcomes Doug Paisley, who is touring in support of his fine new album, Constant Companion, release date October 12th on No Quarter Records, for which label Ned and Old Calf are in the studio October 11+, tracking their debut album, Borrow a Horse... it's a tangled web.  The show is on Thursday, October 14.  First set is Ned's; then Doug; then Television Hill.  Please come!

Old Calf 30 September 2010 at Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar 8:30 pm sharp

The quartet--Ned, Matty, Michael and Brian--offers a seven-song blast, kicking off promptly at 8:30pm at Charlottesville's most intimate venue, The Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar.  Followed by Birdie Busch and The Threshing Floor.  Come and get yer copy of the new (and first) Ned Oldham 7" release on gleaming sapphire vinyl from Gold Robot records--it's good!  It's Old Calf's last show before they sneak into the studio in mid-October to record their first album for New York's No Quarter Records--more on this soon!

Let's Go Out for Old Calf 11 September at Cville Coffee

Ned Oldham, Matty Metcalfe, Michael Clem and Brian Caputo.  8 O'Clock showtime on 11 September 2010 at Cville Coffee.  $5.  Two sets.  Smoke Free.  Good wine, beer and food available.  T-shirts with the above image available.  You could be home by 10:30!  Or still go out!  In your new Old Calf t-shirt!  Also: the new Ned Oldham single Let's Go Out Tonight--harbinged and heralded in the previous post--will be available, as well as Matty Metcalfe's new album: Musette Moderna/Tango A'Tiempo

Let's Go Out Tonight

Forthcoming September 7th on Gold Robot records, the first Ned Oldham solo release. 7" blue vinyl with cover art by Kevin Taylor (the eidelweiss above is the B-side label image) and digital download code with purchase. Three songs: "Black Dick Pierce," "The One Light," and "If Tomorrow Comes Again."