this past saturday at urban standard, clint wells was featured in a show put on by birmingham magazine. it was a listening party, with a twist. everyone, ostensibly, was there to hear the new griffin house record (which is really good). griffin couldn't be there, so clint wells was asked to come in as somewhat of a representative of the album. clint took this opportunity to debut some of his and brad lyons' songs they've written for their new flannery o'connor inspired record.
it doesn't have a name yet, but the line-up has been chosen, we've done a few rehearsals, and booked a few shows. i'm guessing they are going to commence to recording the album sometime this summer. also, there's a documentary crew filming everything. its pretty impressive.
now here's where it gets weird. the songs are all named after o'connor short stories, and mirror somewhat, their themes. this project is led by two songwriters, with back-up players including female backup vocals and keyboards, with me on bass. this first show was quite demure, but the upcoming venue shows will probably be a bit louder, and hopefully a bit sonically ragged.
our first show, this past saturday july 10th, was exactly 2 years after the wiseblood vol. 1 cd release show. clint played on the ep and at the cd release show back in 2008.
so here you have it. two similar musical project concepts, with completely autonomous songwriters, both involving me as the bassist. this is one of those inexplicable scenarios that make bham kinda awesome sometimes.