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News (and some olds) about Big Green

Cracking the most ridiculous case of I.D. theft ever.

Ready for some good news? So the fuck are we! Give us yours and we’ll give you ours – deal? Right, well … maybe not.

Our “good” news is that BIG GREEN IS NOW ON SPOTIFY! And now, as Paul Harvey used to say (ask your grandmother), here’s the rest of the story. Big Green has actually been on Spotify for years, only our releases got all tangled up with the work of another artist named Big Green. Frankly, that should have been good news for us, because we are (wait for it) THE LEAST SUCCESSFUL BAND IN THE HISTORY OF POP MUSIC, so any association with any other artist could only lift us higher. (Though in the case of the other Big Green, not very much higher.)

After some wrangling with the Spotify peoples, they managed to separate our catalogs, so the other Big Green need no longer be burdened by listing the 21 songs on Cowboy Scat: Songs in the Key of Rick, or have to explain the disturbing images in our video for One Small Step. But hey … that doesn’t mean you can’t be burdened by them!

While we’re working on the next album (and yes, we are STILL working on it), by all means open your Spotify app, find our artist page, follow us, play our songs, rate us, etc. Throw us a bone! We’ll find some way of thanking you with swag, free files, etc. Whatever we’ve got lying about. That’s just the kind of band we are.

Now, we’re NOT suggesting that you open our Spotify page on every computer in your home, workplace, etc., and start streaming our songs on a loop. Nor are we suggesting that you buy a bunch of burner phones and do the same thing. That would be highly unethical and an offense against the laws of god and man. Just listen on Spotify. Over and over …

A Summer Place (No, Not the Damn Song!)

Shit boy howdy, it’s hot. Hot as blue blazes. Let’s see – what other cliches can I use to describe the searing effects of a dying planet? HOT ENOUGH FOR YA?

Yes, friends, your Big Green friends are in a summer place. No, we’re not on vacation, sailing a yacht around the boiling Caribbean. Far from it! It’s fair to say that we are on a kind of summer hiatus, though for me that has meant working on our new album DAY and NIGHT. (Not EVERY day and EVERY night, you understand, and of course, not ALL day or ALL night.) Just chipping away at the monument, here and there.

When will it be finished? Whoa, man …. not so fast. We’ve got about 40 tracks started. That’s a lot of squeaking and whistling, to say nothing of the tap dancing. I’m not whining, you understand. And as Orson Welles once said, “we will serve no whine … before its time.” In other words … I don’t know, sometime in the Fall, maybe?

As for summer activities, I’m sure you know that it’s not the same as it used to be back when we were just young critters, walking around a random barnyard, making stupid faces, and lampooning more famous musicians (which is a category that includes basically every other musician ever). Matt’s refinishing floors, I think, in addition to watching falcons and feeding beavers. Me? I’m negotiating with squirrels. And I’m getting my ass handed to me.

Anyway, stay tuned … we’ll be posting again soon. Enjoy your summer!

Crashing the party

Hey, campers …. In case you hadn’t noticed, our WordPress site was down for a few days due to unknown technical issues (our Web hosting service was probably vacuuming the server farm and tripped over a power cord or something). If it happens again, well god damn it … you won’t see this! Nevertheless, the party continues unabated, crashes notwithstanding. We’re still recording, posting stuff on YouTube and Instagram, and annoying the neighbors with our noisy activities. If we keep you up at night, let us know!