Able Baker Fox

I don’t know how, or why, we do our January in Chicago. I think Florida, or Texas would be better suited for a winter vacation. But regardless of the weather, we have a good time. Jeff and I flew into Midway on Wednesday the 30th of January. My pilot said “Welcome to Chicago. Its negative 16 degree’s.” Fuck him. He was right!

After catching up with Jeff in the terminal we hopped a train into the city. Hooking up with our friend Mark we waited around for Mike and Trav to pull into town so we could get some grub at Hot Dougs. Char dogs. Bellies full, we decided it was time to meet up with Ben at the practice space.

We’ve got two shows to play this week (Thursday, and Saturday nights), and we’ve never even played and sang these songs at the same time. One year ago from now we spent 3 days writing 11 songs sans vocals, and lyrics, and then mid year 2007 we spent 3.5 days together recording the record. Its about time to figure out if we know how to do this or not.

After setting up the practice space and turning on the mics we battled our way through the set. Rough. Very rough. I was starting to think I should have practiced these songs at home on my own time. The second and third time through the progress had me in better spirits. We decide to call it a night and hit up some Mexican food at Garcia’s. Beers were had. After that back to Ben and Anne’s place for some shut eye.

- Nathan

Alright, the big week is here. To celebrate the official release of “Voices” (1/29/08) and our first shows, you can now stream the entire record here:

www.ablebakerfox.com/voices

See you in Chicago.

One of the first questions that we heard when we announced the CD release date of “Voices” was “what about the vinyl?”. Well, we’re proud to say that it’s being pressed as you read this and we’ll have a limited color (translucent yellow) at our shows on January 31 and February 2 in Chicago. Here’s the breakdown of the first pressing:

• 100 translucent yellow
• 275 black/yellow
• 275 blue/orange

Second Nature is also offering a limited edition slipmat if you pre-order the LP before January 20. Go here for more information on that.

CD’s are shipping now if you order them from here.

Thanks again to everyone for listening. We’re excited to finally get a chance to play these songs live. Hope to see you all there.

We’re excited to announce that we’ve been added to the Hot Water Music show on Saturday, Feb 2, 2008 at The Metro in Chicago. Tickets for that show are already sold out, so we’ve also scheduled our own show at the Beat Kitchen on Thursday, January 31 to celebrate the official release of “Voices”. Go here to buy tickets.

We just posted another song from “Voices” over at our MySpace page. It’s called “Face On Fire”…enjoy!

www.myspace.com/ablebakerfox