Mouthful of Lies is officially re-issued today, January 24, 2012!!
Available exclusively from Bandcamp.

remixed and remastered title track from our long out-of-print debut album.
re-issued date: Jan 24, 2012. Pre-order now exclusively at Bandcamp

Mouthful of Lies, our long out-of-print debut album from 1995, has been remixed and remastered and will be re-issued on Jan 24th, 2012. You can pre-order it NOW exclusively at Bandcamp, either as a download, or a CD with a digital download.

We celebrate the re-release with a big show at Schubas on Jan 28th. Get your tickets now!

Check it out… here’s the original audio from “Not Ashamed” from the 1995 CD version of ‘Mouthful of Lies’:
Not Ashamed (1995 original version) by stevedawson

and here’s the newly remixed and remastered 2011 version:
Not Ashamed (2012 remastered version) by stevedawson

 
Re-issue of our debut album, “moutful of lies”. Re-mixed and remastered
from the original 4-track cassette tapes! Re-release celebration concert
Saturday, January 28th at Schubas, with Jason Narducy as special guest.

Come see Dolly Varden and The Phil Angotti Band the night before
Thanksgiving at SPACE in Evanston, 8pm

Diane’s new paintings are currently on exhibition at Kasia Kay Art Projects
in Chicago. The show runs through November 26. She also has this new
animation, Animation # 4. It features a song written by our brilliant friend
Tom Recht called “The Tiniest Fly”. I played and performed the music and
Diane sang the song.

Jason Boton, who’s taken a lot of great photos of Dolly Varden  over the years,
has put together this video featuring postcards, posters, handbills and his own
photos from the past 16 years or so,  for our song “Surrounded By The Sound”
(from Forgiven Now). Thanks, Jason!

Dolly Varden is very happy to be part of this new and unique Chicago festival happening Sept 16 to 18 in Eckhart Park. We’ll play on Saturday, Sept 17th at 1:30pm on the outdoor stage. In addition to music there will be  carnival games, rides,  sideshows, and the renown Renegade Craft fair and a hand selected farmers market. too. Admission to the grounds is free and open to all ages.

Other upcoming shows include: SPACE in Evanston, IL, on Wed Nov 23rd – the night before Thanksgiving, with the Phil Angotti band. Tickets are on sale now, and the re-issue celebration for “Mouthful of Lies” at Schubas on Sat Jan 28, 2012 with the Jason Narducy band opening.

We’re about 6 songs into a new Dolly Varden album and it’s going very well. We’re tracking at my studio in Chicago, Kernel Sound Emporium, which is also Diane’s art studio. Back in 1995 we recorded Mouthful of Lies here, and most of The Thrill of Gravity, too, in 1996 – 97. Plans are underway for us to re-issue Mouthful of Lies in early 2012. We still have the original 4-track cassette masters and we’re loading them into the pro tools and updating the mixes. The tapes still sound good and with the updated digital remastering it will be quite nice. We’ve scheduled a re-issue release party show at Schubas for Saturday, January 28, 2012. We’ll play Mouthful of Lies start to finish, then we’ll do a second set of new stuff and a few faves. I’m not sure when the new album, yet to be titled, will be out, but most likely March or April of 2012. Check back here for updates. -Steve

photo by Jeremy Lawson
Welcome to the new and improved home for Dolly Varden. The band is currently
writing and arranging new songs and will begin recording a new album in May, to
be released (hopefully) before the end of the year. Have a look around. We’ll be
adding stuff to the website quite a bit over the next few weeks.
Thanks for stopping by!