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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

We’ll be playing the earliest gig in Blue Party history tomorrow morning at 9 AM in Audubon Park.  While that’s awfully early for a group of musicians, we are happy to support the American Heart Association and the New Orleans Heartwalk.

Update: The Heartwalk raised $426,327! We’re very happy that we could play a part.

For all you people that are too cool for pop music, that title ^^^ is a Lady Gaga quote.

If you scroll down this page a bit, you’ll find a post with a lot of pictures from a Tipitina’s show that we played back in May.  There’s a picture that prompted Natalie to tell me that I needed to get a hair cut.  Well I didn’t get a haircut, and per Natalie’s request, this is what it looks like now.  Although you can’t see the mullet that’s evolving in back, I still think that a haircut is clearly NOT in the near future…

Speaking of mullets, I’m thinking about growing my hair out till Halloween and then getting it cut into a perfect mullet and designing my costume based on the fact that I have a mullet.  When I test this idea on other people, dudes are all about it, and the girls seem less enthused. Hmmmmm.

- Reid

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From left to right and top to bottom: Natalie, Alex, Chris, George, Al, Reid

(Reid actually said that.)

A plastic fork and a large styrofoam cup full of red beans. Thank God it’s monday, and thank GOD I’m back in New Orleans. Every successive week on the road feels like twice as long as the previous. The first week is normal, the second week feels like two weeks, the third week feels like a month and so forth. You just miss the little things, you know? Tuning in to O-Z, smelling a crawfish boil somewhere nearby, seeing people *gasp* drinking in public! It makes so much damn sense. Why can’t I just walk across the street with my beer? Why can’t I enjoy the park AND a daiquiri? You miss hearing everyone call each other “baby” (pronounced: beigh-beh) and the way nobody really understands how to drive down here. Nobody here knows how to dance either, but we all do it. It’s just too hot to give a damn, really.

There are so many things you miss, but you don’t even quite realize it until you get back from being in many different places. Of course consciously you miss your friends and your favorite bars and eateries, the weather and the river, but i find it’s hard to remember the little things. Little things like New Orleans’ regional speech inflections and its legitimate broad kindness. Being on the road with people brings you so much closer to them for better or worse, but also in a sense those connections you have become your entire world. You all start to separate from and simultaneously become more like each other. It goes with you everywhere, it’s impossible to avoid (not to say that we would), and because it’s always in your mental foreground and background, it grows your roots. It’s what you know now.

We make friends all over the place and some of those friendships have already lasted for years. We love going back to towns to see people and places we know and love (Berger in Manhattan, Taylor and the Garden Center crew in Starkville, Jay Scott in Decorah, Alexandria and Belinda in Macomb, and Nikki and Anna formerly of Milwaukee now in Omaha and Billings, respectively, to name a few. These people are not only great to us but they are also kickass themselves. They open their doors and we close down their livers). On the flip side, when you come home to people and places more, uh…more. I dunno. Real? Tangible? Visceral? Overt? You remember who you are, what you’re really doing, and what’s important in your daily life all over again.

By pulling out of the other side of the haze and having your base reaffirmed, the end of tour inevitably shifts your POV; you go through the rest of your life with at least a slightly different perspective. We’re thankful that this tour was both lucrative and immensely fun and and we can’t wait to go back out. We’ve got great stories to tell you in the coming weeks so stay tuned for some tasty licks.

Oh yeah and we play Tip’s on Thursday, May 19th with Royal Teeth so come party with us at our first show back home.

Here’s a picture right before we left Decorah, IA a couple of weeks ago.

Peace and Love,

- T.

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.

Man these guys kick ass. I just got back from a weekend run with them selling their merch and drinking their beer and as I’ve said before, it doesn’t matter how many times I listen to their tracks or see their shows, they always manage to surprise and delight me. They’re so tight and their consistent ability to mend new songs together seamlessly often leaves me aghast. With the addition of Ed “‘Stainless’ Steel” Williams earlier last year I was weary of how their sound would be affected. A few shows were played and it all kind of sounded messy as the boys were all having to get used to using less space musically, but through the processes of recording, touring, and songwriting, they certainly have gotten it together and their dazzling unified sound never ceases to rouse an otherwise dormant room of people to their feet. Dave keeps writing songs and Dave’s songs keep being awesome. I’ve heard some of the stuff from the new album they’re currently recording and I can’t wait to be able to give them my money so I can own it. If you don’t know, then now you know.

Check their website and read their blog because Rob posts some seriously funny stuff weekly. www.therevivalists.com

– T.

If you don’t know about this website, you should. www.ted.com

The following is an e-mail from Reid’s dad, Alson, to the Blue Party e-mail account regarding a recent blog post:

“Reid – If you scroll down your webpage a little, it says: “There’s a certain prostratic-like imbalance that engulfs an artist if there isn’t a consistent outlet.”

What I want to know is, whose bladder is leaking, and does it happen on stage? Otherwise, what the XXX are you talking about? Are you imitating Sarah Palin and inventing new words? If so, not cool.

Al Martin”

He also e-mailed it to Reid’s brothers and they had a good rip on it, too. We all get it from somewhere.

Much love,
-T.

We’re going on a 10-day tour with The Revivalists.  They’ve successfully “iced” the last two times we’ve played gigs out of town together.  Revenge will be sweet.

Check the Blue Parties page for details.