The Prairie Dogs

Well I’ve been working on getting the Prairie Dogs out and about on the web these days. I spent the beginning of the month sending our CD around and seeing if we could get some reviews and try to generate a few sales at the same time. Right now we’re one of the featured artist at Radio Indy where I’ve uploaded a few songs and you can hear us both on their main radio stream and on the acoustic stream as well. Go by their site and help support independent radio if you can. Oh, and tell them that the Prairie Dogs sent you and that you’d like to be the featured artists on the main page!

We’re also on the radio in Germany at Alooga and in Belgium at Goldenflash as they both were kind enough to ask for CD’s when I put them up for sale at our site on CD Baby . Also our CD just got put on the main page of Kweevak, another spot on the web for independent musicians. They have promised me a review, but so far it’s not up yet so be sure to look around and come back often for updates.

Other than that I’ll be going back to school starting at the end of the month. Making that long drive up to Olympia and back one night a week, all so I can get my grubby hands on a diploma twenty or so years after the fact. With any luck It’ll want to make me write more and not less, better and not worse. Though with Evergreen you never can tell what you’re in for. I could spend the whole quarter bitching the same way I used too back in 1984. Like school is just one big old family, and though you might have gone away for a while and grown up you still resort to your old self when you come home.

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