BIG NEWS COMING NEXT WEEK!

Hello friends. Big, huge, & gigantic announcements will take place next week. Most likely on Wednesday July 14th. News revealed, sounds no one has heard will be able to be listened to, & you will be involved.

We'll need you on board to make it happen so please come back next week & check out what's going on.

Things are only getting better, we are bound to make a change.

-HtB

Some pictures..

Seaside Amphitheater

Sunrise on the beach.. with a trophy.

Our friends Mandy & Melvin

(he likes to bring the party back to his hot tub)

Nathan

Hangout Music Festival

HELP NASHVILLE!!! "Local Lightning, Vol. 1"

"Local Lightning, Vol. 1" A Benefit Compilation for the Tennessee Emergency Response Fund Nashville, Tenn. - Local independent radio station Lightning 100 (WRLT-FM) has partnered with The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee, NoiseTrade, and some of Nashville's best independent artists to create "Local Lightning, Vol. 1", an online compilation CD produced by Lightning 100. Several local musicians donated their music to help raise money for those affected by the recent historic floods which ravaged much of Nashville and other parts of Middle Tennessee. Local artists who have contributed to this project include AutoVaughn, Space Capone, Mikky Ekko, Trent Dabbs, Andrew Belle, The Apache Relay, Madi Diaz, Hightide Blues, and others. Fans can download "Local Lightning, Vol. 1" by entering their email address and selecting any donation between $1 and $100 to receive the CD. Donations will go to the Tennessee Emergency Response Fund. Grants from this fund will be distributed to various nonprofit agencies to support relief, restoration and clean-up efforts in the aftermath of the flooding and storms. Copy and paste the link purchase the Local Lightning Vol. 1 http://www.lightning100.com/local_lightning_vol_1.php

Back from the Hangout Fest

We just got back from a weekend at the Hangout Music Festival. Lightning 100 did an interview with us after...

Pictures from the last couple of weeks will be up tomorrow. For now, sleep.

Shows!

http://www.twitter.com/hightideblues

Live in Atlanta w/ Heather Luttrell, The Dirty Guv'nahs, & Tesla Rossa

Super jam at the end of our show at Smith's Olde Bar in Atlanta on March 6th 2010.

The Hangout Festival & Rock By the Sea!

It's announced! We're kicking off The Hangout Music Festival (Trey Anastasio, Zac Brown, Black Crows, Ben Harper, Allison Krauss) on Friday May 14th. Grab tickets here.

*HtB 2010 SUMMER TOUR*

NEW YORK, COLORADO, CALIFORNIA & BETWEEN.

(DATES COMING SOON.)

UPCOMING SHOWS...

4.15.10 / ATHENS, GA / 40 WATT CLUB

4.17.10 / ST. GEORGE ISLAND, FL / ROCK BY THE SEA (w/ Corey Smith)

5.01.10 / AUBURN, AL / BOURBON ST.

5.10.10 / GULF SHORES, AL / HANGOUT MUSIC FEST

Photography by Taylor Hill

Pics from SXSW

FREE DOWNLOAD OF "DREAMIN' ALONE"

As we promised last night on the radio, click here for a free download of "Dreamin' Alone" from our last release, Love Come Easy.

We can't show you any of the new stuff yet as bad as we want to. In the meantime...

MGMT is streaming their new record go check that out..

http://www.whoismgmt.com

The Whigs new album is also out.. it's fantastic get it on vinyl and it comes with a free CD of the L.P. inside.

Our first time being on the road longer than a week since the record ended yesterday with a 14 hour all night drive back to Nashville from Austin (Cragon's a long haul driving machine) to make it back in town for a live radio broadcast of a 45 min. set of new songs on 102.9 the buzz in Nashville.

A few pics from Paul's phone/the HtB Twitter.

Doc is still a strapping lad at 15 years old.

John Hiatt at the New West Records party SXSW

The Flora-Bama

Rediscovering the magic of air hockey

In front of the crowd in Birmingham

Follow us next time we go on the road.

http://www.twitter.com/hightideblues

NEW SONGS. NASHVILLE. THIS THURSDAY.

Show dates & times in Austin for next week.

The road to Red Gorilla & SXSW starts today.

We're playing shows for the next two weeks on the way to Austin, TX on the

road to SXSW including a two night stand at the Flora-Bama Monday &

Tuesday of next week. These are generally the wildest shows of the year so

if you're on the state line join us.

(top) The band after a day in Mexico.

(bottom) Our basement converted into a studio with a little help

from our producer, Dan.

What's been going on?

We (top) have been collectively working on recording the songs that we

started writing mainly in December 2009 in Nashville, Tn.

We're working with producer Dan Hannon who left Atlanta & his family behind

for a month to live in Nashville & record the songs mostly in our basement rehearsal space where Dan loaded in a tour de force of recording gear goodness. (bottom)

And right this minute...

Realizing that half a bottle of red wine, a scratched Temptations vinyl, &

a bowl of lukewarm spaghettio's won't help you sleep.

A couple of shows in the middle of recording...

Two more weeks of album recording to go with a couple of Alabama shows scattered between.

We'll be debuting all kinds of new stuff at these shows since they're our first back after the studio & are excited to do so in Auburn & Birmingham.

Northeast & Midwest tour T.B.A. soon.

Pre-Production day 3 & New Video!

Day 3 of pre-production begins... Fly Me to the Moon, Please Believe Me, Poem, I Can't Remember, & Top of the World are all worked out.

Two more days & we hit Quad Studios to track it.