Stumpjack Wednesday October 10th

Hi all.

Our next meeting will be on Wednesday October 10 at 6:30 at Stumpjack Coffee at 1606 Washington Street. We will pretty much be talking about the tour and Chairs for Charity auction. However this happens to be a special day at Stumpjack too. At 8pm music will begin so you can stick around and enjoy the music after we meet. I will include a little ditty by David to tell you about it below. Hope to see you at the meeting!

Iowa's "Rosalee Motor Revival" to play at Stumpjack Coffee Co.On Wednesday, October 10th 2007 at 8 p.m., Rosalee Motor Revival will be playing at Stumpjack Coffee Company located at 1606 Washington Street in Two Rivers.
Guitarist/lead singer John Watkins and guitarist/keyboardist MJ Dunlap are founding members of Rosalee Motor Revival, from the small Mississippi River town of Muscatine, Iowa and are currently touring the Midwest, playing anywhere and everywhere they can for the simple love of doing it.
"I love to have the quiet," Watkins said. "We started playing shows in the bookstore in town because we knew that there was no bar in town that would allow that music to be played. With this kind of music, it's easier to just create a show as opposed to waiting for a hot spot bar to book you. You can play in attics and bookstores and art galleries. You can play anywhere."Their first album, Tablespoon, released last year, garnered excellent reviews and received a lot of attention on the indie music scene. Sean Moeller of the Quad City Times wrote "The songs are full of dusty details and charming quirks, plus an endless supply of melody that Watkins chaperones with a versatile voice that travels from Royston Langdon of Spacehog to Gary Olson of The Ladybug Transistor and stomps around in graveyards and city parks it passes in between." And Culley Smith of the River Cities Reader said, "The tone of Tablespoon switches between cathartic and somber, playful and plucky, but Watkins' dynamic voice manages wistful, whimsical, and everything in between."
It was little more than serendipity that brought Watkins and Dunlap to Stumpjack Coffee. Owner, David Smith, received an email from the duo asking if they could play at the Two Rivers coffee shop while touring Wisconsin and Minnesota. Watkins said he discovered Stumpjack via "a winding trail through the internet, and at the end [Stumpjack] stood out like an oasis of quirky rustic goodness." In talking about their music Watkins also said "we're just two guys who play music, which some have labeled as dark weird indie folk…I write songs influenced by events and folks in my life...its great fun taking heart-wounding ugly moments and shining them up for a song…something to make people tap their feet or evoke in them a new way of thinking."
"These guys are really quite exceptional," says Smith, "They have a sound that is at turns delicate and beautiful and then very earthy and raw, and the songs are both humorous and touching yet also layered and very smart."
There is no cover charge for the Rosalee Motor Revival show. The band's CD's will be available for purchase and autographs