Hello everyone,
It’s official, the American Goldwing touring cycle is finished. We’re all home, safe and sound and thankful to be settling in for a much needed rest during these dwindling days of fall and the coming winter. We’ll also be recharging our batteries and looking forward to getting back into the studio to record our next record.
In the meantime, we want to extend our most heartfelt thanks to all of you who have supported us by buying our records. If you don’t know already, record sales are still one of only a few ways that a band generates income, so whether you bought a single track or an entire album, thank you! We also want to thank all of you that came out to see us play. Whether you are a newbie or a long time fan, we appreciate you supporting us with your hard earned money and we hope it shows on stage, how much we love doing what we do. We couldn’t do it alone. Without you all, it’s just a rehearsal.
Honorable mention goes out to recent tour partners Brandi Carlile and her band for taking us on the road as their opener and being such a fun and generous group of awesome and musically inspiring individuals. We feel privileged to call you friends. Also, a huge thank you to the amazing bands that we have had the pleasure of touring with over the past year: Wilco, The Head And The Heart, Sydney Wayser, Sarah Jaffe, Dawes and Parson Redheads.
Love and thanks to our crew of sound technicians (Martin Gonzalez, Brad Lightfoot and Jacques Von Lunen), merch crew (Jenna Conrad, Abbie Simmons and Sara Stewart), tour manager Sara Full, booking agent (Trey Many and the Billions Corp. crew), management (Gold Village Entertainment - Danny/Brady and co.) and all of you rad freaks at Sub Pop Records, we love ya.
We’d also like to thank all of you promoters, house managers, monitor engineers, lighting designers, stagehands, bouncers and bartenders for helping make these shows happen. You’re not in the spotlight but without you these shows wouldn’t happen. Thank you.
Finally, to all of you radio DJ’s, journalists, photographers and bloggers (and anyone else we may have forgotten) that have taken the time to spread the sounds, words and images of what we do to a listening/viewing public…we are grateful.
Blessings to you all in the holiday season and new year!!!!
Blitzen Trapper
