NEW VIDEO...NEW SINGLE IN ENGLAND!!!

Hi gang!

There is fun stuff afoot in Jefferson World. (Sounds like a theme park for children who love The Declaration of Independence.) We are shooting a video in Savannah, Georgia, on, Sunday, August 2nd to support a single (THE LAST SONG) that we are releasing in Great Britain on, Saturday, August 1st. Confusing? Well, WELCOME TO JEFFERSON WORLD.

Our Savannah friend and musical soul brother, the most talented Stan Ray, has booked us all a gig at Cha-Bella Restaurant in the historic district of that hauntingly, charming city. Cha-Bella is fab. They are all-organic. They even have their own farm and the employees all chip in to harvest the herbs, fruits and vegetables. If I ever have my own restaurant, we'll all be digging in the dirt together like the sweet folks at Cha-Bella.

Anyhoo, Stan is hosting a wonderful wine tasting/songwriters' show, featuring STAN THE MAN and yours truly, Cousin Jeffy, on, Friday, August 7th. The wine tasting compares 'The Old World' with 'The New World' and that is a very trendy yet much needed comparison that most wine lovers need to experience. OLD WORLD (France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Austria, and The Planet Tralfamadore, etc.) meets NEW WORLD (The U.S., Chile, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, Kix Brooks and, probably, Rush Limbaugh before long. Too bad that Michael Jackson's "JESUS JUICE" did not take off before he did.)

So, we'll be comparing, spitting };~) , slurping, etc., around 7PM on August 7th and the singing and bellering shall commence around 8-ish.

We're also shooting a video on Sunday, August 2nd, with Savannah auteur, Jim Baers...at o-dark-thirty in the morning for God's sake. Looking forward to that. I might even look my age at that hour. Stan set that up too so his bottom must be kissed. You go ahead and do that.

We're releasing a single in Ye Olde England, as aforementioned, this coming weekend...cross your fingers or speak in tongues........we'll take whatever goodness you're sending. Hugs, free t-shirts and decades out of purgatory coming your way...at a serious discount!!!!!!

What else, oh YEAH! We got another 4 star review today. Country Music People, the venerable hillbilly publication from Great Britain went fairly bonkers concerning our dear AZALEA. Buy a number of copies of their latest August issue and send them to all of your favorite grandmothers. Google those rascals and tell them that we love 'em over here in Deep Dixie.

Cheers, y'all and BOOGIE ON!

Your old cousin-

Jefferson

JEFFERSON ROSS

The Album Zone

This week our album, AZALEA, will be featured on Colin Roke's The Album Zone on CMR Nashville, a 24/7 internet radio network based in England. Just go to www.cmrnashville.net or www.cmrnashville.com and check us out. There is a tab for schedule listings and just look for Colin Roke's schedule. Please remember that these are on British time so just calculate 5 hours later than Eastern time.

Plans are in the works to do a European tour next spring. I'm definitely playing the Country Music Messe in Berlin from March 12th through 14th. The Messe is the largest Country Music festival in northern Germany and it's a real honor to be asked to play there. We're also working on setting up dates for the UK and, hopefully, Holland, Ireland and/or France. Please come see us! We'd love to meet you!!!

Stateside, I'm playing a few dates in August. We'll be doing a showcase with Stan Ray at Cha-Bella restaurant in Savannah, Georgia, on August 8th, the open mic at Eddie's Attic in Atlanta on August 10th and a one man show at the Bell Buckle Cafe in Bell Buckle, Tennessee, on August 20th. Sure would like to see y'all there!

So, good things are happening. We're very excited about how far we've come in such a short time. The record is only a few months old and with no promotion or marketing budget, we've managed to get in places that we wouldn't have dreamed of a year ago.

Thank you, everyone, for your continued support and interest in AZALEA. We're having a blast with it.

Boogie on!

January 24th 2009

2009 IS GONNA SHINE!

We only have a couple of weeks until the official release of Azalea, even though we've been selling on-line for a couple of months, and we're already getting some very good press. It's an exciting time! have come in and, we think, some local
Everybody seems to comment on how good the record makes them feel and we couldn't be happier about that. That's why we made it in the first place. The making of Azalea was a labor of love and now the promotion of it feels the same way. We're making new friends daily and folks that we'd never thought would hear it are sending us comments about how much they like it.
We're being played on a number of podcasts and indie radio stations across the country. If you happen to know of any folky/rootsy stations in your area, please call them up and request Azalea. One podcast that is regularly playing us is The Acoustic Diner. Google them. It's a GREAT show!
So, let's have us a big old fun-filled year! The stock market may be down but good, homemade art and music are ours for the making and enjoying.
Peace, love and pot likker-
Jefferson

December 21st 2008

Had a great time at the Frank Brown International Songwriters Festival in Florida in November. 350 writers this year!!! Many thanks to Joe Gilchrist, owner of the Flora-Bama, for hosting all of us this year. I got to play seven rounds and this was my first year. Lucky boy am I!
I couldn't have done it without my Gomer cousin, Ken "Bullit" Hart, who set me up with lodgings and laughter. He is a true buddy and I love him even if his taste in mayonnaise is weak and tame. Otherwise, he is a go-getter and salty somebody; a lover of language who likes loafing and libation. We co-habitated with the venerable and always suave, Rock Killough, who, in my mind, should be in the Songwriters Hall Of Fame. He is beloved by all who know him even though he tried to kill Dr. Ralph Stanley and many of his closest friends witnessed this near crime. Rock always carries a very sharp knife and an even sharper mind. He is the only old man I know who can sleep until noon.
Got some great oysters down there. Try Wintzell's Oyster House whenever you are in the greater Alabama area...they have several locations all over the state but the best is in downtown Mobile...the original location. Those baked things that they do with the jalapenos blow my mind. And, the fresh shucked ones are, in the words of Pat Conroy, "the sea made flesh". De-LISHHHH.
Can't wait for next November! If they'll have me back down there, I'll be thanking my lucky stars, Bullit Hart and Joe Gilchrist.
Hoo-hoo!
Love y'all!!!!
Jefferson

November 9th 2008

JOURNEY TO THE LAND OF FAULKNER

Well, this past weekend, the brisk autumn breezes blew me down yonder to the Oxford, Mississippi, area (Home of Nobel Laureate William Faulkner, with whom I share a birthday, September 25th) to render up a set or two of original songs to delight the local music absorbers. At the generous invitation of fellow troubadour Ken Hart, I gladly packed up the old D-18 and, armed with nothing but a pack of pork rinds and a pint of Knob Creek, I shot out of The Music City Friday afternoon and arrived at Ken's just in time for cold PBRs and hot catfish.Before I knew how it happened we found ourselves sitting in on Nancy Apple's third set over at Taylor Grocery. Nancy is an amazing singer/songwriter and plays a wicked snare part with a set of brushes and a Dukes Of Hazard lunchbox. She really lays down the law with that thing. Luke Duke has been beaten unrecognizable, virtually erased by constant 4/4 slapping. She is also quite salty on the accordian.Don't recall our full repertoire that set but I seem to have a foggy recollection of me singing a vowel heavy rendition of "Stormy Monday Blues" while a middle aged couple was groping each other, slow dancing right in front of us, and Ole Miss debutantes were screaming like raging bats for us to play Earth, Wind and Fire. I managed to rip through an impromptu intro to Sweet Home Alabama causing my jam partners' eyeballs to roll to the backs of their heads and debs to squeal with Red State delight.The next night, Ken drove Travis Lamb and me down to Carrollton, Mississippi, to play our paying gig, The Carroll County Market. Conceived, owned and run by the stellar Cecil Abels, musician extraordinaire himself, CCM is a fine eating place and VERY vibey music venue. If you're ever down there, the steaks, pizzas and bbq are fantastic and the music is always good. Friendly staff and the customers are all home folks and lovers of good tunes.Anyway, we had a ball! Can't wait to do it again!Now I'm back in The Volunteer State for a few days before I head down to perform at The Frank Brown International Songwriters Festival on the Gulf coast. Come see us down there next week. Lots of legends will be serenading the flip flopped masses with their chestnuts of gold.Until next time this is Old Cousin Jefferson saying peace, love and cornbread. Happy Trails!