From the Airstream on Positively 4th Street...

Hello friends...
Good snowy day from Lyons Colorado in my favorite spot... the airstream on positively 4th street...Hope this email finds you well...
I haven't sent out a big email since last August when my album 'Big Black Birds' came out and I was doing my digital CD release at The Walnut Room in Denver... It was great to see so many of you there and I rarely really ask you to come out for a show but I have another Big show at the Walnut Room in Denver next Thursday Feb 16 at 7 pm http://www.thewalnutroom.com/show/detail/54012
It's a big deal to me and I really need you to come to the show. I have booked it with 2 of my favorite Colorado Bands Turn 4 and 4 H Royalty... If you like Son Volt, Drive By Truckers, Lucero, Whiskeytown etc... you will love these bands... The show starts at 7 pm and I will go on earlier in the night... I will be joined by my guitarist Eric Straumanis who captures the record perfectly. I love playing with Eric!!!

Lots has been going on in my musical life... Last year I did a solo fall tour back to Chicago, Indiana, Nashville, Knoxville and Austin. It was great to get out an see America and fall in love with it... I just demo'd a new song I wrote about it called 'America' (go figure) and in fact I have 8 new songs that I've been working on... which feels great... I feel the next record in the making already...
I am really looking forward to heading back down to Austin next Month for SXSW where I am doing a few unofficial showcases and I am bringing another great guitar/lap steel player with me, Jamie Mitchell from 4 H Royalty... So if you have friends in Austin, please send them my way!

In other news, I also formed a side band with the co-producer of my album, Eben Grace, (he played with me at the last Walnut Room Show) it's called Merula (Latin for Black Birds) and I am the side player on his songs! It's been great we've done a handful of shows and it's an honor to be in a band with him! He is making his first solo album which I got to listen to a couple tracks off it last night confirming that he is so fricking talented!!!!

If you haven't already, would you please stop over at http://www.reverbnation.com/jamilunde and become my fan? As stupid as all this sounds, it is apparently important to venue bookers who look to see how many fans I have an where I am on the charts... There is a lot of press and reviews of the album as well you can read... While you're at it... Here is my facebook page foe the album
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jami-Lunde-Big-Black-Birds/171101019616352?sk=wall that you could also be come a fan of or like or whatever it asks you do it to show your support.

If you don't have the album yet, it is for sale at Twist and Shout in Denver, Albums on the Hill in Boulder and on iTunes http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/big-black-birds/id446959165 I still have a long way to go to pay back my investor and every sale helps.

I am starting to book a spring tour on the West Coast for mid May/June of this year and looking for any house concerts or venues to play... if you have any suggestions please let me know...

I am still splitting my time between Lyons and Frisco and keep going with this album, playing lots of shows and trying to keep moving forward... I just spent 4 days alone here in the Airstream submersed in demo-ing the new songs, booking shows, waking to the sounds of the mourning doves and going for long walks down Old St Vrain Road with the dogs... I feel good...

Upcoming shows:
WED FEB 15 ROLLING STONES TRIBUTE OSKAR BLUES LYONS 7 PM
THUR FEB 16 W/ TURN 4, 4 H ROYALTY & TALL BUILDINGS DENVER 7 PM
FRI FEB 17 BAR DOUBLE S LAPORTE,CO 9 PM
THURS MARCH 1 NO NAME BAR BOULDER 1O PM
THURS MARCH 15 SXSW UNOFFICIAL FLIPNOTICS AUSTIN TX 2 PM
THURS MARCH 15 SXSW UNOFFICIAL ARTZ RIB HOUSE AUSTIN TX 7 PM
FRI MARCH 16 SXSW UNOFFICIAL TOUCHE'/TINDER BOX MUSIC SHOWCASE AUSTIN TX 8 PM
WED MARCH 21 THE BAND/VAN MORRISON TRIBUTE OSKAR BLUES LYONS 7 PM
FRI APRIL 6 JAMESTOWN MERCANTILE JAMESTOWN CO
SAT APRIL 14 BUENA VISTA ROASTERY BUENA VISTA CO
THURS APRIL 29 SHUG'S SHACK BOULDER WITH TURN 4 & 4 H ROYALTY (CONFIRMING)
THURS MAY 3 OSKAR BLUES HOME MADE LIQUIDS AND SOLIDS LONGMONT,CO
SAT JUNE 23 GOOD OLD DAYS FESTIVAL LYONS,CO

I am planning another fall tour back to Chicago and Nashville for the Americana Conference in September just in case you were wondering what else I am thinking of for this year...

Anyway I would really love to see you (especially at the Walnut Room Show) and I would love to hear what YOU are up to ... so send me an email or find me on facebook (my personal page) https://www.facebook.com/jami.lunde1

That's all for now...
All My Best
j a m i