Like most small time artists, our budgets are pretty slim when it comes to things farming out things like booking shows, hiring PR agents and getting ahold of radio stations, and all that.   It's time vs. money right?  Well, yesterday was a good one - Adela & I have Jun, Jul, Sept, Oct & Dec tour booking in progress - all at the same time.   

Our strategies the past couple years is to book smaller 3rd tier towns, small places with a…

That was a fun week out on the road, it was really great finding new places to play and explore.  We are really thankful to be able to do this.   Stop one, we got into Hudson  New York – playing at a place called “American Glory BBQ” –  Our good friend Sandy McKnight – a great accomplished songwriter stopped by and hung out with us for a while.  

That night was spent at the wonderful Pennsylvania Highway Rest Stop.   Maybelle is our newest member of the Adela & Jude family –…

Adela & Jude owe a huge debt to the music of West Virginia, and the good people and mountains of West Virginia are under attack.  Massey, and other coal companies are routinely destroying the culture, history and people - all in the name of profits. This abuse has to stop.   Would you allow your children to be mistreated generation after generation?   As the great, late Hazel Dickens put it,"you took my husband, now - you want my child"..

So, Adela & Jude are…