The words out now that The Boggs have been set aside and a perhaps startlingly different new band, The Hundred In The Hands, has shot up in it’s place. But there have still been a lot of questions coming my way as to what the story is exactly.It all began in the months following the last Boggs U.S. tour with Built To Spill. While we were waiting to begin touring the record in the UK, I started itching to try something new and so, I went into the studio to record a track with then Bogg Eleanore Everdell. Almost immediately, Eleanore and I knew this was work that was new and exciting for both of us and that it needed time to develop and a spotlight of it’s own. Although I always felt pretty free to completely change The Boggs’ sound from record to record, this really was something different.What made recording that track so much fun and so challenging was the collaboration itself. That kind of collaboration could not really happen in The Boggs and it would have been impossible to develop this new direction to it’s full potential as long as I still wore the ‘band leader’ crown. Drawing a line beneath The Boggs and calling it done allowed me to make a clean mental break and made room for Eleanore to step forward into the roll of co-captain. Here it seemed was a chance to start on an entirely new set of questions with a new approach without feeling bothered by the mess and weight of the past.Over the past few months we locked ourselves a way and began writing our first batch of songs. And finally after all the months of secretive work, we announced ourselves with our first single ‘Dressed In Dresden’.
We just wrapped up work on a follow up single and played our first ever show last night in Brooklyn and now we’re on our way and looking forward to the coming year.-Jason FriedmanDownload ‘Dressed in Dresden’ and the companion track ‘Undressed In Dresden’ for FREE at THEHUNDREDINTHEHANDS.COM
Michigan folkie Chris Bathgate have just released a new single. As we previously mentioned, ‘Do What’s Easy’ is available as a digital release via iTunes. To bide his time until will start writing a new album, Chris Bathgate, is playing few intimate shows in London this week end. If you haven’t seen him live yet, I reccomend you to come down to The Betsey Trotwood tonight or to The Miller on Saturday night.
