Quick update on things: Woody is moving forward, staying positive. His brother Jim has a cool site where you can keep up with Woody, post messages, medical updates, pictures, etc. Check out www.carepages.com. Type in JeffWoody. As for the band, we're playing a few shows here and there with fill in drummers. Keeping it light for now. As for the CD, I'm taking that slow as well. I'm hopeful that Woody will be up to going to the studio in the near future and lending his ears to mixes and B3 and pedal steel parts. I'm kinda waiting on that before moving further. I started this CD with Jeff there and I want to finish it the same way... so I'll wait till Woody is up to it. Being I don't have anybody breathing down my neck to get a new CD out, I want to enjoy the experience of making a CD (though during the making of this one there's been some tough shit to deal with). Part of the experience is the people you create the music with. So I'm waiting on my friend, and I'll continue to wait till he can be a part of it. And in the end every time I'll listen back to that CD it will take me back to the wonderous moments we had making it. It's all about memories. They can never take those away. Never. Take care. Later, Butch

I know it's been almost a month since I last blogged. It's been a hell of a month. Two days after I last blogged, I went down hard. The highest my temp reached was 104.5 on Christmas Eve. I ended up going to the emergency room for dehydration twice. I've lost almost 10 pounds. If somebody thought my arms looked like toothpicks before, look out now. But I'm starting to feel better. I haven't sang in over a month. This Saturday will be the first gig back, and first of the year. In other much more important news (enough about me!) Woody is doing better. Still a long way to go but there's blue skies ahead. Little by little, day by day, we'll get our old Jeff Wood back. Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers. While hopeful, he's nowhere near being out of the woods, but next to the news a few weeks back, things are looking better. We hope to spring him this weekend and go watch the footie at a pub and fuck up some eggs. It will be a slice of heaven to be able to do that with Woody again. We must all stay optimistic. Take care. Later, Butch