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	<description>Boston&#039;s favorite live roots music band - playing blues, bluegrass and old time country music. -- A Boston Globe &#34;Best Bet!&#34;</description>
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		<title>The debut CD is here! Order your copy today.</title>
		<link>http://www.amyblacklive.com/2009/12/the-cd-is-here-order-your-copy-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No more waiting for the new Amy Black and the Red Clay Rascals CD. It&#8217;s here and you can order it right now!
Click here to get to our online store. You can buy as many as you like, of course. We accept all cards as well as Pay Pal.
Thanks in advance for you support. We [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No more waiting for the new <strong>Amy Black and the Red Clay Rascals CD</strong>. It&#8217;s here and you can order it right now!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.cdfreedom.com/artists/amyblack/" target="_blank">Click here to get to our online store.</a> You can buy as many as you like, of course. We accept all cards as well as Pay Pal.</p>
<p><strong>Thanks in advance for you support.</strong> We worked hard to make a great CD that you could enjoy and had a lot of fun doing it. I hope you enjoy listening to the music as much as we enjoyed making it!</p>
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		<title>New gig: Village Smokehouse in Lowell May 7</title>
		<link>http://www.amyblacklive.com/2009/04/new-gig-village-smokehouse-in-lowell-may-7/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:06:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy</dc:creator>
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I went to dinner at the new Village Smokehouse restaurant in Lowell this past weekend. It&#8217;s the sister restaurant of the well-known Village Smokehouse in Brookline.
I noticed they have live music on Thursday nights and I thought, &#8220;Hey! My band goes perfect with BBQ&#8221; and chatted with the manager.
The long and short of it &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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<p>I went to dinner at the new Village Smokehouse restaurant in Lowell this past weekend. It&#8217;s the sister restaurant of the well-known Village Smokehouse in Brookline.</p>
<p>I noticed they have live music on Thursday nights and I thought, &#8220;Hey! My band goes perfect with BBQ&#8221; and chatted with the manager.</p>
<p>The long and short of it &#8212; we are playing there on Thursday, May 7 from 9 p.m. to close. There is no cover and it&#8217;s a really cool space (with great BBQ!). So come on out!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.villagesmokehouse.com/lowell " target="_blank">More info about the venue</a></p>
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		<title>New gig: Benefit BBQ for children with autism</title>
		<link>http://www.amyblacklive.com/2009/03/new-gig-benefit-bbq-for-children-with-autism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy</dc:creator>
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The band and I will be playing at a great event coming up on April 26 at Romaine&#8217;s Restaurant in Northboro, MA. Richard Romaine and friends are a throwing a big party to raise moneyÂ to helpÂ children with autism. While I would like to say that they best part is the band, I have [...]]]></description>
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<p>The band and I will be playing at a great event coming up on April 26 at <a href="http://www.romainesrestaurant.com/" target="_blank">Romaine&#8217;s Restaurant</a> in Northboro, MA. Richard Romaine and friends are a throwing a big party to raise moneyÂ to helpÂ children with autism. While I would like to say that they best part is the band, I have to admit that all-you-can-eat BBQ sounds pretty darn good!</p>
<p>Tickets are $25 for adults and $15 for children.</p>
<p>For more details on <strong>BarbeCure</strong>, check out <a href="http://www.barbecure.org/" target="_blank">www.barbecure.org </a></p>
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		<title>Live recordings from the fall Bull Run show &#8212; New songs for March show!</title>
		<link>http://www.amyblacklive.com/2009/03/live-recordings-from-the-fall-bull-run-show-new-songs-for-march-show/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 04:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our next show at the Bull Run in Shirley, MA is only a few weeks away&#8211;Saturday, March 28. I recently got the CD from our show in September. Take a listen! I&#8217;ve updated my MySpace page with five live songs. Listen here.
The band and I have a great show prepared for the 28th. We&#8217;ve got [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.amyblacklive.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/amy-photo-3.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-247 alignleft" style="margin: 8px;" title="Amy Black" src="http://www.amyblacklive.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/amy-photo-3.jpg" alt="" width="110" height="100" /></a>Our next show at the <a href="http://www.bullrunrestaurant.com/concert.htm" target="_blank">Bull Run in Shirley, MA</a> is only a few weeks away&#8211;<strong>Saturday, March 28</strong>. I recently got the CD from our show in September.<strong> </strong>Take a listen! <strong>I&#8217;ve updated my MySpace</strong> page with five live songs. <a href=" www.myspace.com/amyjblack " target="_blank">Listen here.</a></p>
<p>The band and I have a great show prepared for the 28th. <strong>We&#8217;ve got some new music</strong> including:</p>
<ul>
<li> Bob Dylan&#8217;s <em>Don&#8217;t Think Twice</em> (the Susan Tedeschi version)</li>
<li><em>I Feel Lucky</em> by Mary Chapin Carpenter</li>
<li>The Etta James version of <em>Hound Dog</em></li>
<li>The Robert Johnson blues song <em>The Last Fair Deal</em> (done Keb Mo style) and</li>
<li><em>I Still Miss Someone</em> by Johnny Cash</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Save a few bucks by getting tickets before the show. </strong>They are $12 in advance and $15 on the day. You know $6 is a pretty big deal in this economy, so give the Bull Run a call at 877-536-7190! Consider it beer money. : )</p>
<p><a href=" www.myspace.com/amyjblack " target="_blank"></a>See you soon. And enjoy the music!</p>
<p>Amy and the rascals</p>
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		<title>New Bull Run show and new music: March 28!</title>
		<link>http://www.amyblacklive.com/2009/01/new-bull-run-show-and-new-music-march-28/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amy Black and the Red Clay Rascal&#8217;s next show is on March 28 at the Bull Run Restaurant in Shirley, Mass. We should be safe from snow at that point. Of course, you never know in New England!
I&#8217;m fired up about this show. We are going to perform some new music (new to us at [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.amyblacklive.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/amy-singing-1.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-212 alignleft" style="margin: 8px;" title="amy-singing-1" src="http://www.amyblacklive.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/amy-singing-1.jpg" alt="" width="325" height="299" /></a><strong>Amy</strong><strong> Black and the Red Clay Rascal&#8217;s next show is on March 28 at the <a href="http://www.bullrunrestaurant.com/" target="_blank">Bull Run Restaurant in Shirley, Mass</a>. </strong>We <em>should </em>be safe from snow at that point. Of course, you never know in New England!</p>
<p>I&#8217;m fired up about this show. We are going to perform some new music (new to us at least). You can expect to hear many of the songs we&#8217;ve been performing including: <em>Red Dirt Girl</em> by <a href="http://www.emmylouharris.com/" target="_blank">Emmylou Harris</a><em>, </em> Bonnie Raittâ€™s <em>Love Me Like a Man</em> and <em>Angel from Montgomery</em>, <em>Move it On Over</em> by Hank Williams, The Johnny Cash trio <em>Big River, Folsom Prison</em> and <em>Walking the Blues</em>.</p>
<p>Plus, you&#8217;ll hear newly added songs by Patty Loveless, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Susan Tedeschi, <a href="http://www.robertplantalisonkrauss.com/site.php" target="_blank">Alison Krauss &amp; Robert Plant</a> and more from Bonnie and Emmylou.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s going to be a great night of music. I can&#8217;t wait for it and I hope you will be there to enjoy! Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 at the door. <strong>You can buy yours by calling 877-536-7190. </strong>Visit the <a href="http://www.bullrunrestaurant.com/" target="_blank">Bull Run website</a> for more information.</p>
<p><strong>If you haven&#8217;t checked out our YouTube channel, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/amyjblack" target="_blank">you can now</a>.</strong> You&#8217;ll see several videos from the Bull Run performance in September and from our recent December performance at J.P. O&#8217;Hanlon&#8217;s.</p>
<p>Best wishes for a GREAT 2009!</p>
<p>Amy</p>
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		<title>New show, December 6 at J.P. O&#8217;Hanlon&#8217;s</title>
		<link>http://www.amyblacklive.com/2008/11/new-show-december-6-at-jp-ohanlons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 02:24:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking to get out of the house and have some fun? Come out and see me and the band on December 6 at J.P. O&#8217;Hanlon&#8217;s in Ayer, Mass. It&#8217;s a great venue, everyone gets a good seat and you&#8217;ll love the food. Please call 978-772-9282 to reserve your seats. Seating is limited (only 60 seats). [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.jpohanlons.com"><img class="alignleft" style="margin: 10px;" title="JP OHanlons" src="http://www.jpohanlons.com/images/jpo_bar01_small.JPG" alt="" width="284" height="208" /></a>Looking to get out of the house and have some fun? Come out and see me and the band on <strong>December 6 at <a href="http://www.jpohanlons.com/">J.P. O&#8217;Hanlon&#8217;s</a> in Ayer, Mass.</strong> It&#8217;s a great venue, everyone gets a good seat and you&#8217;ll love the food. Please call <span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Verdana;">978-772-9282 </span>to reserve your seats. Seating is limited (only 60 seats). I look forward to seeing you there.</p>
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		<title>Bull Run show a success. What&#8217;s next?</title>
		<link>http://www.amyblacklive.com/2008/10/bull-run-show-a-success-whats-next/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 03:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy</dc:creator>
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 I&#8217;ve been a bad blogger. I haven&#8217;t written since September 25. I do have some good excuses though. I just started a new job (I&#8217;m a marketer by day and some times by night too) and have been pretty focused on that. AND I&#8217;ve been waiting to get the audio from the [...]]]></description>
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<p> <strong>I&#8217;ve been a bad blogger.</strong> I haven&#8217;t written since September 25. I do have some good excuses though. I just started a new job (I&#8217;m a marketer by day and some times by night too) and have been pretty focused on that. AND I&#8217;ve been waiting to get the audio from the Bull Run show so I can share it with you. I&#8217;m keeping the faith that I&#8217;m going to get it. Also, I&#8217;ve got some good video from the night, but am experiencing some technical difficulties. I will spare you the details.</p>
<p>Thanks to one of the people in the audience (Hans Nuecke from Germany) on the night of September 26, I do have some photos to share. I&#8217;m not looking my supermodel best : ), although I think Bob Sevigny might be. The photos did a great job of capturing the night. My personal favorite is of Jon Cumming (banjo and dobro). I love it so much, I&#8217;m putting it on the site. I&#8217;m sure Jon will love me for that.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not giving up hope that I will have video and audio to post. Also, <strong>many have been asking me when we are playing again. I&#8217;m working on that and hope to have a few dates to pass on soon.</strong> In the meantime, I&#8217;m still doing some singing. Andy Sicard (bass and mando) pulled me into a bluegrass gig at a church in Medford, MA today and I got to sing with my sister Corrie&#8211;always a treat. Andy did promise us a complimentary BBQ dinner, but I ended up eating a burrito in Davis Square instead. Still yummy. : )</p>
<p><strong>Oh, I didn&#8217;t mention that the Bull Run show on September 26 was great!</strong> It was a rainy night and the first of the presidential debates was on. We still had 110 people out. If you were one of them, thanks so much for coming.</p>
<p>Stay tuned for show dates (video and audio).</p>
<p>Amy</p>
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		<title>New website banners for 9-26 show</title>
		<link>http://www.amyblacklive.com/2008/09/new-website-banners-for-9-26-show/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andy Sicard did it again. Andy&#8217;s the bass and mandolin player for the Red Clay Rascals, but he&#8217;s also the creator of this website and now the creator of these nifty banners for the upcoming show. If you want to take one and put in on your Facebook, MySpace or elsewhere, please feel free. I&#8217;ll [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Andy Sicard did it again. Andy&#8217;s the bass and mandolin player for the Red Clay Rascals, but he&#8217;s also the creator of this website and now the creator of these nifty banners for the upcoming show. <strong>If you want to take one and put in on your Facebook, MySpace or elsewhere, please feel free</strong>. I&#8217;ll take all the help I can get. The links to the images are below. Please link the image to <a href="http://www.amyblacklive.com">www.amyblacklive.com</a>. Thank you! Amy</p>
<p>http://www.andysicard.com/images/amy_ad_image200.gif</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="AmyBlack_Banner_200" src="http://www.andysicard.com/images/amy_ad_image200.gif" alt="" width="200" height="200" /></p>
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<p><img class="alignnone" title="amyblack_banner_350" src="http://www.andysicard.com/images/amy_ad_image350.gif" alt="" width="350" height="125" /></p>
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		<title>Spreading and singing the word about 9-26</title>
		<link>http://www.amyblacklive.com/2008/09/spreading-and-singing-the-word-about-9-26/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 02:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy</dc:creator>
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Today&#8217;s adventure started with a need. I needed a new promotional photo for the papers for the upcoming show on September 26 at the Bull Run. My husband, Ryan, and I headed down to a super cool abandoned building not far from our house.
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<p><strong>Today&#8217;s adventure started with a need.</strong> I needed a new promotional photo for the papers for the upcoming show on <strong>September 26 at the <a href="http://www.bullrunrestaurant.com/" target="_blank">Bull Run</a></strong>. My husband, Ryan, and I headed down to a super cool abandoned building not far from our house.</p>
<p>We live in the small New England town of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groton_%28town%29%2C_New_York" title="Groton (town), New York" rel="wikipedia" class="zem_slink">Groton</a> and more specifically West Groton. Anyone who knows me knows that <strong>I LOVE Groton</strong>. It&#8217;s a very quaint little town with many old, well-preserved buildings and very little flash.  Also, it has beautiful public places (<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/gregfulcher/2553748697/" target="_blank">Groton Place</a>) and wide open spaces. Yep, I&#8217;m a country girl at heart. : )</p>
<p>When we got down to the building we realized that the little shop on the corner&#8211;<a href="http://www.gogroton.com/clover_farm_market.htm" target="_blank">Clover Farm Market</a> an adorable little market that was recently purchased and refurbished&#8211;was having a big outdoor party complete with music. We took the photos (the best posted here) and then headed home. But I wasn&#8217;t done with the Clover Farm Market!</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been looking for opportunities to promote my show and it hit me that the store&#8217;s all day music fest was just that. The people there like music and they live close to the Bull Run&#8230;perfecto!! So, I got a stack of my small flyers and headed back down. I&#8217;m friends with the owner and checked in to see if I could talk with folks. The answer was yes&#8211;so I had some excellent conversations with music lovers and found some who wanted to go to my show.</p>
<p>A bit later, blues guitarist <a href="http://www.ronnieearl.com/bio.html" target="_blank"><strong>Ronnie Earl</strong></a> (we got a lot of cool folks living in Groton) got up to play a few songs. Man, I love the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_guitar" title="Slide guitar" rel="wikipedia" class="zem_slink">slide guitar</a>. He drew a good size crowd of attentive listeners. When Ronnie was done tearing it up and the next band was ready to set up, I asked one of the owners if I could sing a song and invite people to come to my show in two weeks. He handed me the mic. : )</p>
<p>I sang one of my favorite songs sans guitar&#8211;<strong>S</strong><strong>hadow of Doubt sung by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0707248" title="Bonnie Raitt" rel="imdb" class="zem_slink">Bonnie Raitt</a> (click the player below to hear my version) </strong>and then invited people to the show. The response was a good one. And the best part was Ronnie. He came up to meet me, shook my hand and said, &#8220;You are going to do very well.&#8221; That meant a lot coming from him. I hope he&#8217;s right. : )<br />
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Long story, long, I&#8217;m on a mission to spread the word about my biggest show yet in hopes that we have at least 200 people in attendence. <strong>And some times spreading the word also means singing it!</strong></p>
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