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Okay folks, there is much to tell so you better pay attention and get busy otherwise you may miss the boat.

I spent the afternoon wandering past the mills in Easthampton with Stuntman Steve Sanderson where he brought me up to speed on what he thinks you, the fans, need to know about what is in the works for the near future.

This weekend September 15th and 16th is the 4th Annual Drunk Stuntmen Horseshoe tournament at the Rt. 63 Roadhouse in Millers Falls, MA. Signups for the tournament will begin at Noon on Saturday with the competition beginning at 1PM. Food will be served around 4 with the music starting at 6 pm. Featured performers for the two day event are the Bum Steers, Rob Skelton's Pitchfork and the Lonesome Brothers. The Drunk Stuntmen will perform Saturday at 10 PM.

On Sunday the day will begin with a motorcycle ride which departs from the Roadhouse at 10 AM. The tournament will resume at 1 PM. The Lonesome Brothers will perform Sunday afternoon. Price of admission for the two day event, including food is $15.

The Stuntmen will participate in a very special benefit concert at the Chapin Auditorium on the Mount Holyoke campus on Thursday September 20. The Stuntmen will share the stage with John Gorka, Cliff Eberhardt, the Young at Heart Chorus and others to raise money for the Samuel Owen Haynes Fund. Samuel’s father Chris Haynes, a music professor at Springfield College and friend to the Pioneer Valley music scene is raising his son after his wife Heather Egan Haynes tragically passed away on May 27, 2007 from complication relating to childbirth. The concert begins at 7 PM. Please come out and support this show. For more information including where you can send a donation please click on the “Tour” icon.

Recording sessions for the next Drunk Stuntmen album will take place beginning September 24th at The Fidelitorium in Winston-Salem North Carolina. Mitch Easter, a noteworthy musician in his own right will be working with the Stuntmen on this new project. Easter, the creative force in the band Let’s Active co-produced REM’s Murmur and Reckoning. He also produced Lolita Nation by Game Theory. The Drunk Stuntmen are very excited to be working with Mitch Easter. They hit the Studio in Winston-Salem on their last Southern tour to lay down a few tracks. There will be a total of 11 tunes on the new album. Some of these include 6:29, Every 3rd Thing, Halcyon Days, Still My Baby, Underground, Mid Tempo and Buy Your Love. The band has been rehearsing feverishly getting their material down for the sessions. If you want a good idea of what will be featured on the new album, come to the Roadhouse on Saturday night, one set will be devoted to the material they have been practicing for the recording session.

Steve says that the band is going for a feel that will be a conglomeration of the roots rock nature of Trailer Life combined with the more mainstream radio ready feel they achieved with Iron Hip. The sessions are going to be recorded live on analog tape with minimal over dubs. Anyone who has seen any of the new material develop over the last number of months should be excited to hear what will come of these sessions. The ideal release date is for Christmas but may be extended to early Spring of 2008.

A DVD is due to be released documenting the Drunk Stuntmen/Young at Heart Chorus Back To Back Shows. Anyone who attended these shows experienced the magic. There are some great performances and crowd shots. If anyone out there has ANY video footage of these shows please contact Steve ASAP, it may be included in the project. By ASAP we mean just that. We want the DVD finished and ready for sale by the Ireland shows which begin October 7. If you have video of these shows Please email:

Stuntmansteve@drunkstuntmen.com, Subject Y@H DVD

Some of you may have noticed there have been technical difficulties in the Photo section of the website. A new format is being implemented and will be online soon with a number of new pictures added to the Archive.

Rumors - As you all know the rumors are true since I did just make them up. This one involves the Drunk Stuntmen playing in a venue on a sovereign nation, not too far from Ledyard, CT, where they allow gambling. There, a cute Native American goddess will bring you drinks if you obediently keep feeding nickels into those slots. If this rumor is true, which it isn’t, someone suggested that a good cover for the venue might be Oklahoma Hills by Woody Guthrie.

Some of the older material which will not appear on the new album but has been featured heavily in the Live set list rotation of late, may be released as an EP. The tunes in question are Pirate, Grave Digger and Moniker. “A release,” Steve quips, “that should have happened ten years ago.”

That’s all for now and remember - Do Your Own Stunts!