Tuesday, November 18, 2008

BIG NEWS

Two things:

First, the band has taken another lurching step into the 21st century, and now has a band instant messenging account. Add the screenname muellerfamilymus to your contacts, and hit us up. We don't bite--in fact, we'll be glad to hear from you.

Remember, that's:

muellerfamilymus

Second, we now have an account over at flickr.com, one of the internet's premier photoblogging sites. I've uploaded hundreds of pictures from 2008, and we'll be adding many, many more in the next couple of days. We're going to try to get about eight years worth of musical pictures posted, tagged, and captioned. So skip on over to our photostream and check it out!

Monday, November 17, 2008



I've posted a few new pictures that our friend Jeff Pouland took at the Rex Theater in Galax, Virginia. You can check out some of his amazing photography work at http://www.jeffpoulandphotography.com/.

Now that we have a couple of weeks off, we are taking some time to polish some material that's going to be on the next record, and are learning a couple more songs: one of mine, entitled "Drag the River", an older gospel song called "River of Jordan", and we've been kicking around some ideas of "I'm Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar."

Stay tuned!

Tuesday, November 11, 2008



This video clip came from the backstage at the Tennessee Fall Homecoming, in Norris, Tennessee. They have one of the most realistic looking Abraham Lincoln impersonators that I've ever seen. Lincoln always seemed to be breaking out his musical saw to play for people, so we asked him to jam with us on a few tunes. Enjoy!

There are new kittens at Mueller central command! On the left, you'll see Delicious a.k.a The D.O.G., and on the right, you'll see Fluffy a.k.a. What'sup What'shappening.

It's the The D.O.G.!

Me, Laurah, and Sarah, at the Tennessee Fall Homecoming in Norris.

Hog scalding is pretty intense.

Well, which is it?

Boilin' down the molasses.


On a Mayberry's Finest advertisement.

Sarah was suspicious of the affectionate couple in the background--I think they were probably suspicious of us as well, judging by the look on that guy's face.

Hanging out with a marionette while waiting for our barbecue to arrive.

At the Gibson store in the Nashville mall.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

MUSICAL HAPPINESS IS NEW GUITAR STRINGS

I'm proud to announce that The Muellers now endorse GHS Strings! I've been using GHS products for years, but I'm glad that we can make it official. A big thank you goes out to Ben Cole, Melissa Eben, and all the fine people over at GHS who are helping us do what we do best...wear out guitar strings really quickly.

Check out their website and give their products a shot. Laurah and I recently switched our mandolin setups to one of their light gauge sets, and they sound and play great.

Here's a couple of pictures from the radio show last month. Bear in mind that these were taken in the early morning. The Muellers are a lot of things, but we are definitely not early birds!


Warming up in t



(We live in Red Sox nation, as you can see in the top left)