Hey Folks,We've made it out to Washington State and found it much easier to drive in the rain than the snow!  We also got a great write up in the Seattle Weekly...here it is:

"The through-line from W.C. Handy's groundbreaking, genre-establishing "St. Louis Blues" to St. Louis' Bottoms Up Blues Gang (currently the Gateway City's reigning blues duo) can appear fuzzy at times. Whereas Handy and company (Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, et al) fused brass-laden, twelve-bar melodies with elements of pop, jazz and ragtime, Bottoms Up guitarist Jeremy Segel-Moss and vocalist Kari Liston stick to a twangy, backwoods acoustic vibe. What past and present share is a wry delivery of arch, shoulda-known-better lyrics and a deliberately rough-edged stage presence that invites everybody to come a little closer. With a repertoire carefully crafted from equal parts originals and covers, Bottoms Up also knows how to pay reverent tribute; the duo cleverly re-imagines Louis Jordan's "Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby" as part boozy nightclub torch song, part groovy jam-band ditty. And like all great blues bands, no matter what the decade, they succeed wildly in making y  ou feel anything but blue." ROSE MARTELLI - SEATTLE WEEKLYAnd this is the schedule for the rest of the tour: (BUBG Calendar at STLBlues )

Wed. 3/10 @ Joe's Bar (Eugene, OR) 6p Thur. 3/11 @ Mock Crest Tavern (Portland, Or) 6p Fri. 3/12 @ Mock Crest Tavern (Portland, OR) 6p Sat. 3/13 @ Liquid Assets Wine Bar (Ashland, OR) 9p Thur. 3/18 @ Girordano Bros. (San Francisco, CA) 9p Fri. 3/19 @ The Black Cat (Penngrove, CA) 9p Sat. 3/20 @ Irelands 32 (San Francisco, CA) 9p Tues. 3/23@ The Cala Inn (Dillon, CO) 9p Wed. 3/24 @ The Little Bear Saloon (Evergreen, CO) 9p Thur. 3/25 @ Bobbie's (Leadville, CO)9p Fri. 3/26 @ McCalls (Fairplay, CO) Sat. 3/27 @ Jack Quinn's (Colorado Springs, CO) 9p Sun. 3/28 @ The Q Worldly BBQ (Denver, CO) 6p Thur. 4/1 @ The Shanti (St. Louis, MO) 9p Fri. 4/2 @ Riddle's Pennultimate (St. Louis, MO) 9p Sat. 4/3 @ The Venice Cafe (St. Louis, MO) 9p