Thanks for everyone who participated in the first annual “Birthday
Sale”!  Take a look at the music/store though, because we’ve kept the
CD prices very affordable.

We are looking forward to a string of
shows with the Cave Singers coming up in a couple weeks and we hope to
see you at the shows.  On Friday, October 16th we hit Portland for the
first time as a full band!  With an in-store at Music Millennium at
6pm then we head to Mississippi Studio to play with The Moondoggies
and the Cave Singers!  The next night we get to open for the Cave
Singers at their homecoming/CD release show at Neumos.

We are very
stoked about these shows, and honored the Cave Singers asked to have
us at these shows.  Their new album, “Welcome Joy”, has been one of my
most listened to albums this year.  See y’all soon!

– Shane

We’ve extended the birthday sale thru October 1st! Its been great to
see so many of you taking advantage of this great deal, and we’d like
to give more of you the opportunity to get a CD, t-Shirt or poster for
only $5. And this Thursday, October 1st we will be opening for
americana legends, Slim Cessna’s
Auto Club at The Crocodile. So come on out and keep this party goin’!

This year I want to celebrate my birthday by giving you all the chance to rummage thru the torn out pages of my diary, the masks I wore in previous lives, the armor that protected me in violent battles and come away with new tunes to fill your head, but not empty your wallet. I’m talking about a massive birthday sale!

For the weekend of Friday, September 25th (my birthday) thru Sunday, the 27th you will be able to purchase any album, t-shirt or poster for only $5 a pop. Take advantage of this birthday sale, and let your friends know (in the words of Wanda Jackson) there’s a party goin’ on!

Love,
Shane

Thanks to everyone that came out to our Neumos show the other night. It was great having my old pal Zach Urban playing some blues harp with us. Zach was in the very first band I put together back in 6th grade. I wrote one of my first songs about him, too. Until about a year ago I hadn’t seen him in forever, he left the northwest for much of high school and our early 20’s. We reconnected about a year ago, when he moved back to Seattle, and it didn’t take long for us to start collaborating again.

Luckily, for us he is a great blues harpist! You can watch a video clip of us playing “Lost Myself Again” below. While the sound is pretty blown out on the lil digital camera, you can feel the power in the performance. With the “San Diego boys”, The Chromettes and now Zach Urban backing me up, we are a force to be reckoned with!

Also – check out the updated concert calendar – there are some exciting shows coming in September and October.

Until next time,
goodnight and good luck,

Shane.

“Shouting At A Silent Sky” is now available for order thru our website. For only $9.99, including shipping, its a pretty sweet deal. If you’d rather pick it up at a local record store they are currently stocked at Easy Street Records (Queen Anne and West Seattle), Sonic Boom (Ballard, Capitol Hill) and Every Day Music (Capitol Hill). Soon they will be at more shops around Seattle.

Today, emusic.com‘s free download-of-the-day is “Death & Texas”, if you don’t already have the album – here’s your chance to be add a song to your iTunes playlist for free.

Our first club show since the album’s physical release will be Sunday, August 16th at Neumo’s in Capitol Hill. Come on out for a great full night of music, we will be sandwiched between opener Ghost of Kyle Bradford and headliner Micheal Vermillion – two of my favorite music-makers.

And to close – I’d like to thank everyone who came out to our in-store at Easy Street last week to celebrate our album’s release – the album is now the #1 seller on their local chart! Thank you.

Love, Shane

Shane’s thoughts on KOMO News.


Video © KOMO.

Hey Friends – you can now pre-order ‘Shouting At A Silent Sky’ directly from us at http://www.shanetutmarc.com! The album has been available for digital download through iTunes since June 11th, but for $1 cheaper you can order the real thing directly from the band.

If you’re in Seattle come on out to our show at the Tractor this Sunday. We are opening for the legendary Junior Brown, and we are pulling out all the stops. With our normal drummer out of town, we have Mark Pickerel augmenting this 9-piece band. We will have the lovely Chromettes (Mia, Alicia & Fiia), we’ll have Ryan Richter playing his beautiful hand-crafted Lap Steel, Brendan Bosworth laying down the law with his bass, and Ty Bailie blowin’ our minds with his inspired piano ticklin’.

Hope to see you there!
Shane