Well it's been a while since the last update and I hope the summer finds you all well.  Things have been busy here at and I'd like to tell you about some things that have been happening.

First up, back in May we recorded a new album at Echo Mountain Studios in Asheville NC.  Twelve new songs were recorded with Pete James (The Honeycutters) and I producing the affair and Alex Hornbake engineering, mixing and assistant producing.  Some of the songs feature some special guests like Sam Quinn, Amanda Platt, Mary Ellen Bush, Rorey Carroll, Ryan Burns and Nathan Golub.

Secondly-the new album is called Brian McGee The Taking Or The Leaving.   It will be released on October 19th.

Thirdly-Tours are being booked for this fall to support this release.  The band will be all over the east coast and I will also be traveling playing solo shows.  If you'd like to see a show happen in your town and there is not one on the schedule, please reply to this email and let me know what venue I should look into. 

Fourthly and speaking of shows, I will be opening up for JIll Andrews, formerly of the everybodyfields, this Saturday July 17th at The Grey Eagle.  This will be a solo show and I will mostly be playing new songs from the new album.

And fifthly, my new website www.brianmcgeemusic.com will be arrive on the web in just a couple weeks.  And don't forget to go to Brian McGee (music) on Facebook and Myspace to hear a new song.  And follow me on Twitter @brianmcgeemusic.

Thank you and see you down the road!!!!!!

If any of you live in the Charlottesville, VA area, I will be playing a solo show opening up for The David Wax Museum at Random Row Books, tonight at 7:30. This will be my first time playing in Charlottesville, a town in which lots of people have told me to play.

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We'd like to thank everyone in Bowling Green and Lexington KY for showing us a good time last weekend! We are currently working on booking our next shows in your town. Also, I will be playing two songwriter-in-the-round shows this weekend. The first one is this Friday at The Back Room at The Flat Rock Wine Shoppe. I'll be sharing the stage with Marc Higgins (Spartanburg, SC), Young Goodman Brown (Atlanta, GA), and David Ezell (Spartanburg, SC). Show starts at 9pm sharp with everyone on stage together.

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This Thursday we will be playing our first show in Chattanooga TN at JJ's Bohemia. We share the show with two other bands and it all starts at 6pm! On Friday we head back to Tidball's in Bowling Green KY and on Saturday we round out our trip in Lexington KY at The Green Lantern.

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This weekend we've got some serious honky tonk shows to play. Thursday, Feb. 25, we will be opening for The Bottle Rockets at The Grey Eagle in Asheville. Friday, Feb. 26, we will be playing at The Town Pump in Black Mountain for a Johnny Cash 78th B-day celebration. And on Saturday, Feb. 27, we will be playing at The Garage in Winston-Salem for an even BIGGER Johnny Cash party entitled CASH BASH. This party takes place over two days (2/26 & 2/27) and features about 15 bands paying tribute to The Man In Black.

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