New CD Just Released! Yep. While you all were goofing off, snarfing down cocktail wienies at Obama fundraisers, and giving your kids unsolicited feedback on their fashion choices, Dale Largent and I have been hard at work on my new CD Serious Business. And now, through the magic of electricity, it’s done. It’s been composed, arranged, rehearsed, recorded, dubbed, over-dubbed, under-dubbed, re-dubbed, rub-a-dub-dubbed, mixed, mastered, and mailed. Serious Business is 12 tracks - 11 songs plus a nifty intro - with more light-hearted material than fans of my previous effort, Whistling Past The Graveyard, will remember. This will please those of you who tried to cut your wrists after that one. But there's still the usual happy array of peeping toms, dead-in-the-backseat hitchhikers, clumsy lovers, disoriented children, and kidnappings. It’s a beautiful world, you know? Dale’s done a terrific job recording and producing it, riding herd on me and the many stellar players. It includes performances from musical geniuses J. Patrick Lombardi, Ed Zancanella, Peter Heithoff, Dale his own self, Dennis McGregor, Aaron-Andre Miller, Julie Southwell, Joe Schulte, Lucky McCall, Steve Neth, and the very pregnant Evin Faulhaber, not to mention Dale's kids and Molly Jim.

You can hear some clips on the Listen page or three full-length songs at myspace.com/williecarmichael I hope you’ll consider buying or one or ten of these gems. I have a thousand of ‘em lying around, and I need to sell ‘em quick or we’ll have to start eating Jeanie’s laying hens… Thanks as always to all of you for your support, and remember to get out and hear some live music this summer at a festival, barbeque, or beer joint near you. It’ll be way more satisfying than that all-music cable TV station you’re running 24/7. ALSO: Check out my new July songwriting class at Cascade Community School of Music. More info on the News page. yer pal, Willie