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Keeping busy – Happy Spring!

Lots of stuff going on these days: I’m doing a few solo performances in NYC in the next couple of weeks so check out the gig calendar for more info. Paul and I can’t wait to do our first duo show in New York (in June) since 2001. Paul’s coming up for a week-long visit! Hope you’re having a great spring!

FINE RED WINE is up on iTunes!

Hey folks, we’re excited to announce that after being out of print and unavailable for several years, Pistol Pete & Popgun Paul’s debut CD Fine Red Wine (from 1998) is now available on iTunes! We should have a link here on the website any minute now.

New Orleans Report

My trip to New Orleans was wonderful. The Thing About It was really great! While it was not without its flaws (that’s the nature of a workshop, to try things out), it was really fascinating to see and hear  the songs done by actors and to see how well the music worked in that context. Bookwriter Brian Sands, director Holly-Anne Ruggiero  and actors Ian Hoch, Jamie Wax, Kenneth Thompson and Cliff Thompson should all be proud of themselves. The accompaniment by “Popgun” Paul Cowgill and Galen Marquis was great and it was a joy to watch them bonding together musically on stage. It seems that many of the involved parties would like to see more happen with this musical, so for now let’s just keep our fingers crossed.

The workshop ended with a matinee on Sunday, January 31 and that night Paul and I convened in the All Ways Lounge for a special 3-hour set of many requests and some new songs of mine done solo. Ian and Kenneth (from TTAI) came up and sang “Angel’s Wings” and “Party Zone” with us, then Ian duetted with me on “Tea”. We also did a couple of sets backed up by Galen on keys and our old friend Kathleen Kraus on upright bass. It rocked and has got us thinking we should do an album as a foursome.

Somehow the Pistol/Popgun machine keeps chuggin’ despite our being in different cities, and I believe that somehow we always will.

Off to New Orleans!

I leave in the morning for New Orleans! Very excited to see The Thing About It, to perform with Paul at the All Ways and of course the Brigid Ball, my first since 2006. PP&PP will roll out the old “What If God Was a Homo” or some such chestnut at the Ball. Looking forward to seeing many of you there! New Yorkers, my “big” solo gig is on February 21.

“I Can Hardly Wait” performed on Good Morning New Orleans!

Wowee! Check out this clip from yesterday’s Good Morning New Orleans of new song “I Can Hardly Wait” performed by cast members of THE THING ABOUT IT.

Pete featured this month on Gay Guitarists Worldwide

Check out Gay Guitarists Worldwide where Robert Urban has run a feature on me this month – he reviews Son of a Gun and True Stories and posts a pretty meaty interview. Thanks Robert! And be sure to check out the other talented LGBT artists who are featured there.

Popgun Paul named musical director!

Our collaboration continues across the miles as “Popgun” Paul Cowgill has agreed to be musical director for The Thing About It – A New Musical, the workshop of which will be performed Jan. 28-31 at Southern Rep Theatre in New Orleans.  Brian Sands came up with the idea and wrote the book and at this writing it features 24 of my songs, mostly ones you’ve heard done by PP&PP but a few world premieres as well. I can’t think of a more perfect candidate than Paul and wish him success and inspiration in this new position.

Hello from Pete in NYC

There is a lot going on right now! I just chatted with Paul yesterday and am planning to visit New Orleans in late Jan./early Feb. in time for the Brigid Ball, my first since 2006.

In addition, our friend Brian Sands is working to mount a theatrical production involving a large number of Pistol Pete & Popgun Paul songs (plus some new or never-recorded songs of mine), so I will giving some attention to this when I am in New Orleans.

Creatively I’ve been on a roll like I haven’t in years. I have a whole bunch of new songs I can’t wait to share with people! Hopefully “True Stories” will be available for download any day. Hope you enjoy the revamped website – I sure do like that I’m able to post stuff myself now. Thanks Zan our wonderful webmaster!

Drop us a line anytime.

Welcome to the new site!

Pete has prepared a new batch of songs for your listening pleasure, and I’ve been helping him get the packaging prettified and sending it off to iTunes-land, and he also asked if maybe we could spruce up the website a bit, while we’re at it.

Gosh, that old site was getting dusty.

This new site should be much easier for Pete and Paul to update whenever they like, and it will also make it easier for you (yes you!) to share links to songs, post comments, and generally be all Web-2.0-ish.

More enhancements to come!

Message from Pete

Dear Friends,

It is June of 2006 and there have been many changes in our lives. In February of 2005, Paul was crowned “Pop Pop Pop, Empress XVI of the New Orleans Faeries” at the Country Club. We had made a secret pact that if one of us were crowned, we would share the crown and imperial responsibility. The Empress called a Lammas ritual circle on August 2, 2005, and surprised and delighted the community by passing his crown to Pete, dubbing him “Empress 16-1/2 , Monkey Wrench.” The crown, after all, has gotten heavy with the yearly addition of more and more trinkets, and it’s nice to share the weight.

Only a few weeks later, Hurricane Katrina came to New Orleans. We each managed individually to evacuate before the storm hit, and were re-united eventually in Tennessee, where we spent most of September and October. We got involved in Idapalooza Festival, where Pete did a set of all new post-Katrina songs, and Paul performed numbers from a gospel album he hopes to make available one day.

We returned to New Orleans in time to plan and put on the Ball, which happened on February 2, 2006 at One Eyed Jacks, where the crown was passed to Marcus Fraser in a ceremony that featured the music of “The Brigideers” (Pete, Paul, Jay Tombstone and Galen Marquis). On February 5, we held a tearful and bittersweet going away party for Pete, who decided to move to New York City after his building was sold to developers.

Pete now lives in downtown Manhattan and does occasional NYC gigs when he gets a chance. Paul still lives in New Orleans and is currently involved in a number of theatre projects there, in addition to being one of the curators of the Sidearm Gallery on St. Roch Ave. While we have no plans to tour in the foreseeable future, we see this as merely a geographical separation. Whenever we are in the same city, we will find a venue in which to play together.

Stay in touch!
Love, Pete and Paul