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(Sept. 1993); Right: Rob and I performing an outrageously out-of-tune rendition of our anthemic masterpiece, “Butterfly of My Soul” (similar date—late 1993-ish). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589a90101b10e3fd88d0d62f/792c89b2-bf80-40d6-8963-6a6a9b59b75d/Row_4_young_old.JPG Music - Make it stand out Left: Rob, Kris, me, & Jeff in Naperville, IL (1995). Jeff’s parents had just moved there, so the summer after our first year of college, Rob, Kris, and I took a road trip up to Chicago to visit. We saw Wilco (for our first time ever) at The Vic Theater that Friday night. Right: Seeing Scottish pop-rock darlings, Teenage Fanclub, in Denver (2019). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589a90101b10e3fd88d0d62f/7ff4be64-7232-4415-ac8e-725e16216e1f/IMG_3228+%281%29.jpeg Music - Make it stand out My first time seeing Phish and my first time seeing Wilco (one of my other all-time faves) were a mere two days apart in 1995! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589a90101b10e3fd88d0d62f/f0f2dadd-bb73-4e18-9975-8e97f4ff308f/Matt+%2798.jpg Music - Make it stand out In the backyard shed on Shotwell St. (1998) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589a90101b10e3fd88d0d62f/ec4f48b6-e344-41de-bb25-34190a8da85e/Matt+Feb+1999.jpg Music - Make it stand out Jones at Midway Café in Memphis (Feb. 1999) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589a90101b10e3fd88d0d62f/7114c884-9541-4608-bc41-baa63ee7efd5/MJR_outside.JPG Music - Make it stand out MJR album art, outside cover (Artist: Barry Erby) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589a90101b10e3fd88d0d62f/c0aa36f1-4ba4-4c6c-a7e4-13ba7c77d9d9/IMG_3237.jpeg Music - Make it stand out MJR album art, inside cover & disk (Artist: Barry Erby) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589a90101b10e3fd88d0d62f/52b43c68-0359-410f-8a6b-89ecc5e659a6/IMG_3241.jpeg Music - Make it stand out Jones. From left to right: Stevie LA, me, Luke, Tony, Nate (front), Hunter (rear). (Feb. 1999) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589a90101b10e3fd88d0d62f/a3018940-82bc-4f06-8c90-9a10947d14d6/Stout+%26+GBB.jpeg Music - Make it stand out Flyer for the first ever show as STOUT, opening for the Gamble Brothers Band at The Hi-Tone, Memphis, Aug. 14, 2002. Designed by Graham Burks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589a90101b10e3fd88d0d62f/2ce7e86d-c3bf-4e11-970f-c81e1e675e0f/OTR+outside.JPG Music - Make it stand out OTR outside cover. (Artist: Andy Vastagh) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589a90101b10e3fd88d0d62f/f39bae88-7974-4677-bef5-0f7137a4036a/OTR+inside.JPG Music - Make it stand out OTR inside cover. (Artist: Andy Vastagh) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589a90101b10e3fd88d0d62f/cbdf3b30-b912-4d02-8020-7956bb069222/OTR+inside+full.jpeg Music - Make it stand out OTR full inside cover. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589a90101b10e3fd88d0d62f/890439d2-ad84-42ba-9305-999003c6e0c2/Stout+CD+release.jpeg Music - Make it stand out Signed OTR CD release party flyer. (Artist: Andy Vastagh) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589a90101b10e3fd88d0d62f/05fddefe-44ac-44de-b62a-c10808fd81fd/Stout+CD+Release+collage.JPG Music - Make it stand out Left to right: Tony, me, Craig, Rory, Robert. STOUT On the Rocks CD release party. April 11, 2003. Newby’s, Memphis, TN. (Photos by Ross Smith) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589a90101b10e3fd88d0d62f/bd634c73-d763-4ff5-b743-e2c849e9a2bc/Stout+band+shots.JPG Music - Make it stand out Left: Promotional photo taken in 2003, somewhere in Nashville if I remember correctly (Photo credit: Ross Smith). Right: In front of the trailer sometime in 2004 (Photo credit unknown. Probably also Ross Smith, but not sure. Claim it if you took it.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/589a90101b10e3fd88d0d62f/2da587f5-4d5d-4f92-b773-b88cd786f9e8/Lucky+-+Stoutland.JPG Music - Make it stand out Bottom left: Me & Lucky, somewhere between Boone and Asheville, NC (November 2003). The greatest Lucky story of all time occurred about a month after this photo was taken. Lucky went dead just outside of Springfield, MO, at around 3am, on our way back to Memphis after a show with our friends Speakeasy. It was about 15 degrees outside. After freezing our balls off waiting for two different tow trucks and a taxi to take us and Lucky back to Springfield, it was about 8am when we finally got to the mechanic’s shop. Lucky was dead, and we had an important gig in Memphis at the New Daisy theater that night. A good samaritan overheard our plight and (as God is my witness, I swear I am not making this up) let us take his church’s van back to Memphis. He trusted us to bring it back in one piece. So, next thing we knew, we were a band of stanky swampfunked misfits hauling our Juicee Gummee trailer full of rock ‘n’ roll gear back to Memphis in a fully consecrated, honest-to-god church van. What can I say? We kept the Lord on our side, we took the Devil in stride. We made it back to Memphis just in time for our gig. Craig and I took the church van back to Missouri a couple days later. Never even saw the guy when we dropped it off. No one was there. We just left it out front with the keys in it. 100% true story. Top right: Driving through Stoutland, MO (March 2004).