On Monday December 19 I'll have a limited quantity of the drinking songs CD Time For Another Round (Gold Edition) in stock. A lot of people have expressed interest in a copy, so I'm putting up a PayPal button today. I will ship/deliver CDs as soon as they arrive.

Time For Another Round (Gold Edition) contains the 10 drinking songs on the original TFAR album, plus the six from the Three Pints Irish EP. It's never too early to start getting ready for St. Patrick's Day!

The Jim Tour - Part 01

The 2011 Tour - a work in progress.

Things are taking shape, and I'm long overdue on updating, so here we go! First off, the tour is going to happen earlier in the year than originally planned. I'll be hitting the road on Memorial Day weekend, and playing shows through the first two weeks of June. This is a slow time for shows here in New Hampshire, so it fits well with the rest of my schedule. And here is the rough itinerary, as it stands: May 30 - Fleetwood, Pennsylvania June 1 - Asheville, North Carolina (at the Anam Cara Theatre Company) June 3 - Fort Meyers, Florida (if I'm crazy enough to drive that far south) June 6 - Austin, Texas June 11/12 - New York City (for Song Fight Live NYC) There are still holes to fill and connections to make, but it looks like I'm off to Texas and back. Suggestions for stops along the way are certainly welcome. (Suggestions accompanied with couchsurfing offers will be considered more heavily. Heh.)

Sidewalk Cafe, NYC, 2009.

I played a set in 2009 at the Sidewalk Cafe, as part of the Song Fight Presents: NYC show. I'm working on making this room a stop on the 2011 tour. Fun!

Jim Tyrell_ Red Zero from Glen Phillips on Vimeo.

Jim Tyrell _ I Know My Rights from Glen Phillips on Vimeo.

Jim Tyrell_ Hey Ruth from Glen Phillips on Vimeo.

Song Spotlight - Courage

I wrote this song for Song Fight (http://www.songfight.org/). The demo was a simple guy-and-guitar version; the full arrangement on Onward To Yesterday fills the song out nicely. This song was the first test of the recording facilities at my house; I had to move everything back home after the flood at the Ashland studio.


Courage

You've seen the vision
The course is charted out
Made your decision
But still you fight the doubt

Can't lose another minute waiting for help
You won't get what you need from anyone else
You've got to look for the courage to convince yourself
You've done the good thing - you've done the only thing

You sent the message
You had the bridges burned
No time for guesses
No option to return

Can't lose another minute waiting for help
You won't get what you need from anyone else
You've got to look for the courage to convince yourself
You've done the good thing - you've done the only thing

(instr.)

And now you're all alone and looking for help
A thousand miles away from anyone else
You better look for the courage to convince yourself
You've done the good thing


This song (and all the others on Onward To Yesterday) can be heard by visitng the mp3 page on this site.