Our PA (or public address system, as we lovingly refer to it) caught fire recently. Yeah, huge amounts of billowing, electric smelling smoke poured from its every orifice one evening before a rehearsal. Repair? Replace? Upgrade? Those are the questions. How do you want to hear the Bottom Dwellers?

You know what? Radio doesn’t actually suck. We have three great stations in the Sacramento valley that play fantastic independent music or all types, including plenty of Bottom Dwellers. KDVS, KVMR, and KXJZ to name names. Start tuning in and find new music.

Obama trumps McCain in our tip jar shootout last Wednesday at the Davis Farmers Market.

The New York Times reports on one less pioneering honky tonk steel guitar player left in the world.

Ladies and gentlemen, there aren’t a lot of steel players to go around. Indeed, this is a worthy and lucrative instrument to pick up. And when you do, give us a call...

Think I Need A Drink has been featured as the Sacramento Single for August 11th, 2008 on the Sacramento Bee and at SacBee.com.

On our recent whirlwind weekend trip to Humboldt County, we stopped by KHUM for a little in studio performance.  That performance is now available in iTunes.

You may have noticed that we have a new website. If you hadn’t, well, we do.  We hope the particulars will be fairly obvious to most of you, but it may be worth while to call attention to a few of the changes since many of you use the site for different reasons. 

It’s finally here!  Our brand new album, “Think I Need A Drink” is now available for purchase at your local internet retailers. 

Just because the propane hasnt been flowing through the veins of the Bottom Dwellers tour van, doesnt mean we havent been working our keisters off. In fact, we have. On a new record, specifically. 

Whos a CD Baby Editors pick?

Indeed, ladies and gentlemen, if youre into that classic Bakersfield sound, wed be remiss in not telling you to give the Bottom Dwellers a try. Go ahead, its okay. If we didnt think so, we wouldnt be doing it.

[UPDATE] Well, we were finally replaced. But our buddies Stars And Garters are in there now! Shit howdy. Great new record, boys.

Wednesday night we were awarded a Sammies Readers Choice Award for Outstanding Country/Bluegrass Band at the Sacramento Area Music Awards.

For those of you who werent able to attend the Sammies Country/Bluegrass showcase the other week, Its pichers! Its almost like you were there, only quieter. 

You really do like us! The Bottom Dwellers have been nominated for the 2007 Sammies, and were all atwitter with delight. Chris, Ivan, Adam and I offer our generous and humble thanks to the dear readers of the Sacramento News & Review and to our esteemed Bottom Dwellers diehards who put your two cents where your mouth is. 

We received the following email from W.Bradley Pope, Professional Window Installer/Musician:

Dwight Yokam,Steve Earl,and Jack Ingram suggested to us that the lost highway goes in many directions. You guys prove it. Welcome to the lunatic fringe of country music.

One of the lesser known facts about the Bottom Dwellers, is that our drummer brews beer. And not just any beer, mind you. He brews exceptionally great beer. Beer that you would most readily choose in place of anything on the shelf at your local boutique grocery. And now theres proof! 

What do you call a musical group consisting of an NGO project manager, ex-punk rocker, high school teacher, and a multi-media designer that just piled out of a blue propanefueled passenger van? Answer: The Bottom Dwellers, a new country act out of Yolo County, Ca., whose cut, "Company Truck" was recently featured on NPRs Car Talk. 

The Bottom Dwellers are my new favorite country act in town. This CD is ample proof of why that is. Eighteen tracks of country tinged by the demon rock and roll.