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News from the Darkness

 

We have a horrible habit of losing track of time and failing to keep you folks informed of what’s going on.   This time, we don’t have a nasty car accident or any other good excuse.   Truth is, we kind of let the website get taken over by a SPAM bot and have only just fought it off.   Those days are behind us.   The battle is won.

For the record, the WNM is alive and well.  We have two shows in our homeland of Virginia coming up on April 12 and 13 and we’re working on some other shows for Summer and Fall.  Check the Engagements tab and our facebook page for more information.     Chase and Andy have also been working on new songs and we’re looking to make a new record in the Fall.  All good things.

Stick with us.  We’ll see you in Virginia. 

 

Apprentice to Ghosts Preorder

Our new record, Apprentice to Ghosts, is now available for preorder right here on our website. The official release date is February 20, 2012 but the folks at Lower 40 Records have promised to start shipping them out to you as soon as they arrive from the factory – which should be in about 7 days. So, get yours now by clicking on the Goods tab above. Otherwise, you can get it via iTunes, etc. on the 20th.

American Songwriter, CMT.com & Video

Here’s a number of things to keep you occupied on the Internet.

First, you can download the first track off of Apprentice to Ghosts called “When the Wheels Touch Down”, right now, for free on American Songwriter Magazine’s February Edition of The Muse Sampler. There are also tracks by Kathleen Edwards, Lambchop and a Woody Guthrie tribute featuring Will Johnson (from one of our favorite bands Centro-matic) and Jay Farrar.
http://www.americansongwriter.com/2012/02/the-muse-february-sampler-free-download/

Second, there was a little blurb about us on CMT.com.
http://www.cmt.com/news/cmt-offstage/1678131/offstage-finding-new-texas-music-from-a-little-green-gecko.jhtml

Third and final – that live video of Central Daylight Time is out now on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5cS7RthiMI

Cheers.

WNM

More from the Land of Lizards – CDT Video Coming

We spent nearly all day on Wednesday at In Your Ear recording studio in Richmond, Virginia filming a video for Central Daylight Time that should be out online next week.  This was yet another brain child of Geico and its ad agency, The Martin Agency.

It’s safe to say that we never thought commercialism would be so much fun.  We had a blast ripping through the song about 20 times while a professional dancer cut up the floor all around us doing her best gecko moves. Not to mention the fact that the gecko himself was present in the control room presiding over the whole deal (see below). You might not think he is real but after seeing him, you might reconsider. He’s real alright and he travels in his own custom wooden box and comes with an instructional video on how to handle him safely (not kidding).

We’ll keep you posted on the release of this video.

Meanwhile, you can still download the song for free here… http://www.myxer.com/get/item/15395314

Thanks to everyone for all your emails and comments.

 

Central Daylight Time – Free Download

Thanks for all of the inquiries and encouragement regarding Central Daylight Time (the song from the Geico spot). We were working as hard as we could to get it released. Geico stepped up and made it available for free download….

Go here to get it:  http://www.myxer.com/get/item/15395314

Happy New Year.
WNM

Mules and Geckos

Many of the keen eared WNM faithful have been asking, so here’s the answer:  Yes. That is indeed Wrinkle Neck Mules you hear in the new Geico “Texas” commercial. It’s been running seemingly non-stop since the Sunday before Thanksgiving. The song is one of our new ones called “Central Daylight Time”. The song will most certainly be on our upcoming record due out in February 2012 but we are working to release it as a single as soon as we can. Stay tuned.

Our thanks to the folks at Geico and our hometown super agency, The Martin Agency, for getting the gecko to show off his dance moves to the WNM.

If you haven’t seen it…..

Check it out

 

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Apprentice to Ghosts

Our fifth album, entitled “Apprentice to Ghosts”, will be released on February 21, 2012. Like all Mules albums, this one has been no small task in getting finalized and out the door because of numerous unforeseeable incidents and accidents (see other posts). Regardless, we are pleased to have finally reached the finish line and are pumped about the record in its final form.

We recorded 11 of the 12 tracks in Charlottesville, Virginia over 5 days in December, 2011. The only overdubs were a result of a single human being not being able to play two instruments at once. This has long been a goal of ours; to make a live record in a short period of time under one roof. The roster of songs for Apprentice seemed to fit that format perfectly especially when catalyzed by a bottle of Pappy Van Winkle 12 Year Old that Andy and Mason once received as payment for doing a show for our friend Billy Reid. We’d been saving it for a special occasion. Thanks Billy. Unfortunately, the bottle didn’t last until day two of the session. Our rate has increased to 2 bottles / show now.

As always, our thanks to Chris Kress for running the board and keeping us on task.

The track listing (in no particular order) is as follows:

- Apprentice to Ghosts
- On Wounded Knee
- Liberty Bell
- Double Blade
- Parting of the Clouds
- Central Daylight Time
- Banks of the James
- Patience in the Shadows
- Leaving Chattanooga
- Stones Above Your Head
- When the Wheels Touch Down
- Dry Your Eyes

 

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Where We’ve Been

Judging from your emails, we guess you all probably wrote us off for dead. We’re happy to say otherwise. The Wrinkle Neck Mules are alive and well. Thanks for staying with us and giving us some time to get our collective shit together.

Since we’re not sure where the story left off, let us give you a brief synopsis of the last 12 months in the life of Wrinkle Neck Mules. Back in December 2010, we spent about 6 days in a studio in Charlottesville recording a brand new record that we thought we’d put out sometime during 2011. Well, 5 weeks after that recording session, Andy flew off of a 30 foot cliff in a pickup truck while travelling in Argentina with his brother. See below.

 

Yes. Hardcore stuff. Luckily, all he sustained from this daring feat was a badly rearranged clavicle bone and some psychological scars that we probably haven’t seen the full impact of just yet. Needless to say, his injury put all Mules plans on halt for a while. In fact, we only played one show in the whole of 2011.

Alas, now he’s all healed up and we’re glad to announce the release of our new record “Apprentice to Ghosts” sometime in February 2012. The album was recorded live in studio – a departure from our previous methods – and we’re pumped to FINALLY get it out there for you folks.

You may have heard one of the songs from the album already without even knowing it. One of the tracks, “Central Daylight Time” is featured in a Geico ad that is currently running all over the country. It’s the one with the gecko in the honky tonk in Texas during his Epic Journey across the US. Stay tuned for more on this.

We’ll finally dust off all the instruments and hit the streets some in 2012. We’re confirming a few shows right now for February in association with the record release.

So, what have we been doing with our time this year?   Good question. Well, Mason, Chase and Andy took the time to form and launch their own clothing company called Howler Brothers. Check it out at howlerbros.com. We think you’ll dig it.

We’re glad to finally launch our new site and get on with the show. Thanks to all of you for your emails and messages. Sorry to be gone so long. We’re back on track and look forward to seeing you in 2012.

Happy Thanksgiving.