The BearFoot Hookers Need Your Help
The Bearfoot Hookers are a favorite around Hounddog Radio, and when they come in the studio, they always bring the party. They’re also some of the nicest guys you could ever meet.
That’s why when we got this request from The Hookers, we couldn’t help but see what we could do to help The BearFoot Hookers raise a little dough to get their new album pressed.
Usually we don’t just forward emails to the website, but there’s no way we could duplicate the energy (and some comedy) oozing from the email, so we’re just going to repost it as is, so you can see who you’d be helping:
Hey y’all,
I know, it’s been a long time. I’ve grown older, you’ve grown wiser, and some of us (Ty) have just grown. But the important thing is that we’re all here now, in this new and brave electric world where though we wade through threats of fire, famine and flood, there is no news so important as a new Bearfoot Hookers record.
What?
Did you read that right? Has it been five years? Are they all out of jail? I thought the guitar player had herpes? Didn’t they break up?
And the answer to at least three of those questions is a resounding, “No.” Yes, yes, friends and family, members of the congregation and unrepentant sinners, The Bearfoot Hookers do indeed have a new album that is in the damn can. Meaning we wrapped the recording sessions Saturday when none other than the legendary Fat Bottom Horns came in and laid some sweet soul butter on top of this deep-fried Southern soiree.
But like any news that gets you thinking, “This is too good to be true. The recession truly is over!” there is a caveat. And if any of you know this band, you can probably see it coming. It’s like that time that you ran into one of the guys in the band in a bar and y’all got to talking, threw back a few shots and one thing leads to another and suddenly there’s 10 folks crowded around chanting your name, some are shirts and some are skins, things get a little sketchy after that and suddenly you wake up the next day in some stranger’s attic clutching a guitar with a receipt in your pocket for a $400 bar tab run up in an hour and a half. I know, it happened once to me too. How do you think I got involved in this outfit in the first place?
Forget that craziness, though. I know I have. In fact, I don’t think I ever really remembered it in the first place. As a friend of mine once told me, the past is not dead, it’s not even past. Gospel truth, that. Which brings me back to this record, aptly named Beer Drinkin’ Gospel Revival. You see brothers and sisters, the Building Fund is a little short as usual and what with the price of gas and the cost of inflation and six months of supporting the various habits of a top-notch engineer, we find ourselves in need of a little help from our friends to bring this thing on in.
Let me emphasize that we are finished recording this album. What we need is some financial assistance in order to mix, master and press this sucker into that lovely and swiftly decaying physical format of modern music, the CD. But we find ourselves in an age where these types of modern day miracles are possible. Through the assistance of www.kickstarter.com, the Bearfoot Hookers are running a pledge drive/pre-sale/all-hands-out fundraiser to bring in the last of this roughly $2,000 we’re short. We want this thing in hand by June and we need your help to do it. I can see that look in your eye and yes, this is a legitimate business with legitimate partnerships and protections for your online funds.
Here’s how it works. Kickstarter is partnered with Amazon.com, the largest behemoth of online sales in the world. (They eat little independent bookstores like mine for breakfast.) You know you’ve ordered something throughAmazon in the past. (Probably books, but that’s ok, too. I still love you.) If so, you’ve already got an account with them. You pledge money through Kickstarter and it’s charged through the financially reputable Amazon.com. And here’s the kicker: if we fail to get pledges in the amount of our goal of $2,000, then nobody is charged anything and it was all for nought. I think we can do this, though. You can donate as little as $1 or as much as you’d like. We’re offering different incentives for different pledge amounts as you can read here or see in a video here. Let me emphasize that any amount helps. If you can only donate $1, then please do because that stuff adds up. You can just look at this as a pre-sale also and just go ahead and purchase your copy of the album in advance.
So please, please go here…
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bearfoothookers/mix-master-and-press-the-bearfoot-hookers-new-reco
…now and help get this album out. (The video is pretty funny, too.) If by some miracle we go over the amount, for God’s sake keep pledging because we’re really in hock on this thing anyway. Also, if we get a good bit more, then I’m making a push to have this thing pressed in vinyl, so we might make another goal for that if the project takes off.
So again – and as always – we’ll send peace, love, good music and questionable moral decisions your way if you’ll send a little cash ours. Email me with any questions at thebearfoothookers@yahoo.com.
Seriously y’all, we need the money.
See y’all at the revival,
Jon
Here’s that link again in case you missed it:
