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This week, Ella talked about our friend Jarrett‘s newest Lunch Lady book, Lunch Lady and the Summer Camp Shakedown.  Click on the cover to find it from an independent book seller.

The CD is now available at A Child’s Garden as well as at Cup & Top and Turn It Up.  Tuesday, it is available everywhere!  (Pre-order now from Amazon if you don’t have a local record store to buy it from.)  I don’t know if I’ve made it clear before, but it will be available on iTunes as well.

Tickets for the Pines show are available (with no service charge) at Turn It Up and at the Toy Box.  You can also buy them online with a pretty reasonable service charge of just 99 cents per ticket at Brown Paper Tickets.

We have some great sponsors already lined up for the show here.  If you’re interested, contact me soon.

We’re about a week away from the record’s August 10 national release date, so how about some updates?

First, buying the CD:

• Locals: The CD is available at Turn It Up Records (Northampton, Brattleboro, and Montague Center) and at Cup & Top Cafe (Florence Center)!
• Non-locals: The CD will be available at your local record store, assuming the existence of same.  If they don’t have it, ask for it!  It has national distribution from E1 and will be available through any major one-stop.
• If you don’t have a local record store, you can order it from Amazon.  Use this link and the nice folks at This Might Be a Wiki will not just donate their commission but also match it!

Second, seeing the release shows.  There are a bunch:

• Sunday August, 15: Dog on Fleas, Grenadilla, Uncle Rock, Rosendale Theater, Rosendale, NY (Details)
• Friday, August 20: Elizabeth Mitchell & Family and Frances England, Mill Valley Library, Mill Valley, CA (free) (Details)
• Saturday, August 21: Dog on Fleas, Lunch Money, Randy Kaplan, Deedle Deedle Dees, Armory, Somerville, MA (Details & ticket link)
• Saturday, September 11, 11:00: Randy Kaplan, Johnny Bregar, and Recess Monkey, Multnomah Arts Center, Portland, OR, presented by A Child’s Time to Rock! (Tickets)
• Saturday, September 11: Deedle Deedle Dees, Gustafer Yellowgold, Dog on Fleas, Knitting Factory, Brooklyn, NY (Tickets)
• Sunday, September 26: Dan Zanes, Elizabeth Mitchell & Family, Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem, Secret Agent 23 Skidoo, Deedle Deedle Dees, Tony Vacca, Grenadilla, Pines Theater, Look Park, Northampton, MA. (Buy tickets now!)

Third, other stuff:

• Songs from the CD have been getting play on lots of family radio shows, including our show, Sirius/XM, Ages 3 and Up!, and so on.  Do you do a show and haven’t gotten the CD yet?  Send me a note (show at sparetherock dot com) and we’ll hook you up.
• On a related note, Sirius/XM’s Kids’ Place Live (I won’t be doing the wacky capitalization, nope) recorded what sounds like an amazing Rumpus Room in-studio with Uncle Rock, Dog on Fleas, Recess Monkey, and Grenadilla.  It’ll air the weekend after the CD comes out; check out some pictures here from Out With the Kids.
• There aren’t a lot of reviews out yet, but Out With the Kids sure liked it.
• Zooglobble has a limited-time preview of the Lunch Money song.  Go check it out!

That’s all for now.  Please — please! — tell your friends and family about the CD, send them a link to ManyHandsCD.com, and buy/order the CD today!

Listen on demand any time at our page at WRSI.com.

Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – Cowtown
fIREHOSE – Walkin’ the Cow
Gustafer Yellowgold – Pinecone Lovely
ID
Lee Dorsey – Working in a Coal Mine
Dan Zanes – Tomorrow (Manana)
ID

Segment 2
Primate Fiasco – Apples and Bananas (Wheels on the Bus)
John & Mark – Colors (Children’s Record)
ID/prep to rock
Egg – La La La (I Love You)
Ellen & Matt – Side By Side
ID

Segment 3
Bazillions – Tommy Got In Trouble
Hipwaders – Things You Want
ID
Princess Katie & Racer Steve – Tiny Cool (Tiny Cool)
Prince – Starfish & Coffee (Sign O’ the Times)
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo – Opposite Day
ID
Kevin Kammeraad – Best Poem Ever

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Asylum Street Spankers – Sidekick (live at Spare the Rock)
School for the Dead -Superhero
Tim and the Space Cadets – Superhero
ID
Eric Herman & the Invisible Band – My Lucky Day

Segment 5
Stan Ridgway – Mr. Moon Man (at Iron Horse 9/12)
Jonathan Coulton – I’m Your Moon
ID
Board of Education – 8 Is a Number (live at Spare the Rock)
Baby Grands – Pluto (Baby Grands)
Polyphonic Spree – Running Away
ID

Segment 6
Caspar Babypants – Check It Out (Many Hands: Family Music for Haiti)
Brandi Carlile – Have You Ever (The Story)
ID
Harmonica Pocket – Spiders in My Breakfast
Jonathan Samson – Everything Is Music To Me (Another Kid’s Album)
Todd McHatton – Green Eleven (Sundays at the Rocket Park)
ID
They Might Be Giants – E Eats Everything
TMBG – Spare the Rock

Listen on demand at our page at WRSI.com!

Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – Stand On Your Own Head (Lincoln)
Alejandro Escovedo – Sad & Dreamy (The Big 1-0) (The Bottle Let Me Down)
Kathleen Edwards – Eat the Alphabet (live at the Riversound Cafe)
ID
Uncle Rock (w/ Elizabeth Mitchell) – There Is No Away (The Big Picture)
Charlie Hope – I’m Me! (I’m Me!)

Segment 2
Dog on Fleas – Sing About the Sun (Many Hands)
Joe’s Backyard Band – Cities with Seagulls
ID/prep to rock
Princess Katie & Racer Steve – We Dress Ourselves
The Not-Its! – Accidentally (Time Out to Rock)
Keith Munslow – Accidentally (On Purpose) (Accidentally (On Purpose))
ID
Pixies – La La Love You

Segment 3
Magic Kids – Superball
Beach Boys – Surfin’ USA
ScribbleMonster – No Good Can Ever Come Of A Sleepover
ID
Bazillions – Super Sonic Rocket Bike (Rock-n-Roll Recess)
Okee Dokee Brothers – Neighbors (Take It Outside)
ID

Segment 4
ID
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Jonathon Coulton – Mr. Fancy Pants
Trout Fishing in America – My Favorite Jeans
Big Star – The Ballad of El Goodo
ID
Lunch Money – You Are Here (Many Hands)
Rusted Root – Send Me On My Way
ID

Segment 5
Todd McHatton – Green Eleven (Sundays at the Rocket Park)
Flaming Lips – She Don’t Use Jelly
ID
Daddy A Go Go – What a Wonderful World
Ramones – Blitzkrieg Bop
ID
Dennis Caraher – Walk Like a Dinosaur

Segment 6
Recess Monkey – The Galax Sea
Luna – California (All The Way)
ID
John Ondrasik – The Hoppity Song
Led Zeppelin – Ramble On
ID
They Might Be Giants – The Guitar
TMBG – Spare the Rock

Well, this year’s Green River Festival is, as Jim Olsen puts it every year, in the books. This was the first year the festival had a family tent, and they invited me and the River to put it all together. We had a metric boatload of fun. I’m uploading a ton of videos to YouTube right now. If you want to see my first batch of pictures, visit here for day one and here for day two.

Thanks to everyone who came out to the festival and stopped by our area.  If you have any suggestions for future years, please either e-mail me (show AT sparetherock DOT com) or comment below.

Listen on demand at our page at WRSI.com.  And see you at the Green River Festival all weekend!

Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – James K. Polk
Theresa Andersson – Birds Fly Away
Stars – Asleep (Sing Me To Sleep)
ID
Sarah Lee Guthrie & Family – If Mama Had Four Hands
Renee & Jeremy – Is It Really Any Wonder (C’mon)
ID

Segment 2
Carolina Chocolate Drops – Peace Behind the Bridge
Okee Dokee Brothers – Lucy and Tighty (Take It Outside)
ID/prep to rock
The Not-Its! – Time Out to Rock
The Pop Ups – Outside Inside
Decemberists – Valerie Plame
ID

Segment 3
Flannery Brothers – The Wake-Up Song
Alexandra & the Good Batch – DEMAND
ID
Egg w/ Secret Agent 23 Skidoo – Look Both Ways
ID
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo – Road Trip
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Deedle Deedle Dees – Zora (Many Hands: Family Music for Haiti)
Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings – This Land is Your Land
Primate Fiasco – Sunny Side of the Street
ID
Poochamungas – Imagination Train
Justin Roberts – New Haircut
ID

Segment 5
Lunch Money – Roller Coaster (Silly Reflection)
Book Time with Ella (Ragtag)
Nields – Going to Boston
Elizabeth Mitchell – 3 Is the Magic Number
Us 3 – Cantaloop
Recess Monkey – Ukulalien (The Final Funktier)
ID

Segment 6
Randy Kaplan – The Kid is All Id (The Kid is All Id)
Rolling Stones – She’s a Rainbow
Joe’s Backyard Band – Dishes
Starfish – Joshua’s Treehouse
ID
They Might Be Giants – Letter Shapes (Here Come the ABCs)
TMBG – Spare the Rock