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"Dressed in blue and playing high-energy folk rock that's perfect for a house party, The Blue Party is possibly the 'funnest' band on Earth." - Arts Council of New Orleans

"The Blue Party blends sounds as if they were making a jambalaya out of good times. With equal parts rock, folk and dance, they stir up a musical dish that really suits their home of New Orleans." - wellthatscool.com (Tuscaloosa, AL)

"Underneath the hyperactive, road tested party antics of this six-piece lies a level of sheer musical virtuosity not found in many groups stomping around town" - Barryfest.com (New Orleans, LA)

"The Blue Party ushered in the evening with a set of springy, sunny early 20s anthems. Uniting soul- searching travelogues (“Honduras”) and hip party chorales (“Homeless”), they showed why they are quickly becoming favorites with the campus crowd – plus, it’s kind of hard not to get behind a band with a bouzouki." - Groovescapes.com (New Orleans, LA)

"The Blue Party got the crowd in such a happy, dancing mood that a visit from Starkville Police with an order to turn the volume down did not even phase the energy level in the backyard...this party was one for Starkville's history books" - The Mississippi State Reflector (Starkville, MS)

"They effortlessly mix musical styles to create a sound that is all their own." - The Vignette (Kansas City, MO)

"The Blue Party first played in Hays in September 2010. When The Blue Party returned to Hays in April, the band drew on Wednesday night and had the crowd singing their lyrics." - The Hays Daily News (Hays, KS)

"As soon as the first chord was struck, a dance party broke out. With the members dancing with audience members and everyone having an awesome time to their up-tempo tunes, you couldn’t help but watch this band play and crack a smile." - Music Makers (Starkville, MS)

"With their fun, yet heartfelt lyrics and sound, the Blue Party will make sure everyone who listens to them will have a great time." - Scout66

Before I get started, best beer koozie ever?

America, I write to you this afternoon from chilly Lincoln, NE where we will be playing Zoo Bar this evening. We haven’t spent more than 5 minutes here so far but the bar boasts a 25-year career in the blues business, the drafts and stage are pretty sweet, Guitar Shorty (who married Hendrix’s sister in ’61) is playing right now, and it smells wonderfully of BBQ. I have time for a quick blog post, so I’ll shortly brief you on the tour as it stands:

Little Rock, AR:  Great show and we stayed out til’ sunrise, but not before stumbling out of a strip club. The person whose house I stayed at ran out of gas in the middle of the road and A-Bach and his boy had to come get a canister from us, fill it up, and then bring it back. Alex’s parents (pictured below) are the coolest people ever and his mom cooks like the dickens. While broken, distraught, and adorned with my throwback John Starks jersey, his dad told me that he knew the Knicks were gunna lose Game 1 immediately after they lost. He came from another room to smile and point at me while he told me, my face expressionless. We wrote two new songs, The Rush and Dirty Rabbit, which will be played over and over this tour and will debut in New Orleans at Tipitina’s on May 19th. Oh and shout out to Royal Teeth who will be sharing the bill with us.

Hays, KS: Chuck’s. What can I say besides Jager Bombs? We love you, Chuck.

Manhattan, KS: The word had gotten out that we were treated with respect at the last bar we played, so Campus Tavern in Aggieville did their best to match. We raged with some of the Fiji’s that threw the Tiki/Lake party for us last spring, and Chris and I were invited back to a house to participate in an ancient ritual.

Kansas City, MO: Not to be confused with Kansas City, KS, which is entirely different. We had a strong Blue Party coalition represent for us on Friday night and after two encores we could have led the crowd into war. We stayed at Reid’s dad’s (Alson) house in Lenexa and enjoyed he and his wife’s (Yona) food, drink, laundry machine, showers with actual hot water, pool table, big screen TV, children’s drawing books, backyard/golf course, and downstairs bar to our full advantage. We wrote some more music and George and I did an interview with McClain Johnson. McClain’s interviewed legends (New Orleans’ and otherwise), he has his own podcast, he’s employed by gonola.com, and he’s one handsome SOB. Easter was fun. Chris sat at the grown-ups table the whole time.

Lincoln, NE: No idea yet, but the bartender’s cute.

From the road,

-T.

(This post is not a rip-off of This Post)

Hello, friends!  Rob T here.

I would like to start this weekend not with a recap of our impressively busy weekend, but rather with a tribute to the newest member of The Revivalists Blue Party: The Moustache.  Do not call it “Zack’s Alex’s Moustache.”  You would not call Zack Alex “the Moustache’s Face,” would you? Actually, you might. The moustache joined Zack Alex about a month ago, and their arrangement has been very much mutually beneficial.  The Moustache is finally receiving the exposure it deserves, and it has done wonders for Zack’s Alex’s confidence as well.  Here is a photograph of Zack Alex pre-moustache.  Note the nakedness of his upper lip and the utter lack of direction in his life:

The Moustache is currently in its late adolescence.  It has survived the awkward “1970′s porn star” phase that plagues many a young pushbroom, and is maturing nicely into the fullness of adulthood, whereupon it will allow Zack Alex to begin waxing it into more of an 1870′s saloonkeep type of shape.  The Moustache’s twitter account currently has tens of followers, and it is a popular contributor at The American Mustache Institute.  Here is a photograph of The Moustache with one of its many adoring fans (also pictured: Zack Feinberg Alex Bachari):

The Revivalists Blue Party is delighted to have joined forces with such a prodigious moustache, and we are anxious to see what new musical boundaries we can now push as a seven-piece ensemble.  We’ll close out this little tribute with a candid photo of Zack Alex and the Moustache palling around:

Bold, confident, innovative.  Moustache.

The Midwest tour starts tomorrow! Here are the dates:

April 15, 2011 - Town Pump – Little Rock, AR
April 20, 2011 - Chuck’s – Hays, KS
April 21, 2011 - Campus Tavern – Manhattan, KS
April 22, 2011 – Harpo’s – Kansas City, MO
April 23, 2011 - Harpo’s – Kansas City, MO
April 27, 2011 - Zoo Bar – Lincoln, NE
April 28, 2011 – Barley Street Tavern – Omaha, NE
April 29, 2011 – Pyramid – Decorah, IA
April 30, 2011 – The Loft – Macomb, IL
May 3, 2011 – Mojo’s – Columbia, MO
May 5, 2011 - Town Pump -Little Rock, AR

We’ve got some time off planned in Little Rock and KC to start work on our next album and book our Southeastern tour for July. So… by the time we play Tipitina’s (we’re headlining Tips on May 19), we’ll have a boatload of new songs for you NOLA folks! Awesome!

Props to Katilin on this great crowd pic from our Mississippi show last weekend.  Click on the picture for the article about the show in the Mississippi State Reflector:

A very good band friend posted this as her status today. I’m merely sharing her thoughts:

“All of us have thousand wishes. To be thinner, to be bigger, have more money, have a cool car, a day off, a new phone, to date the person of your dreams. A cancer patient only has one wish, to overcome cancer. I know that 97% of you won’t re-blog this on your blog, but I hope my friends will be the 3% that do. In honor of someone who died, or is fighting cancer, or even had cancer, post this for at least one hour.”

- T.

We had an outrageously awesome time this past weekend in Starkville and Shreveport.  In what might now be our biggest market, we got down with hundreds of folks in Starkville at yet another epic night at The Garden Center (Update: And the newspaper wrote an awesome article about it!)  It was our 3rd time playing there and it just gets better everytime.  Can’t wait to do it again in the Fall.  The next night we hit up Fatty Arbuckles in Shreveport.  That venue is doing a hell of job of basically becoming New Orleans North.  We started at 2 AM.  The sun was out when I went to bed.  Late night gig = awesome.  Early morning drive = not awesome.

Next Friday, we leave for the Midwest.  If you are anywhere in a 1-state radius of Kansas, I suggest you tell your boss now that you’re not going to be at work on April 21, so you can come to our 4/20 show at Chuck’s.  We’ll also be going to Nebraska for the first time, with stops in Lincoln and Omaha. Go Huskers.

See you on the road,

Reid