Jon Rauhouse News

Dates in Arizona

Jon Rauhouses’s Steel Guitar Rodeo Tour – featuring Kelly Hogan & Tommy Connell with Special guests from Calexico and the Nick Luca Trio – takes in a couple of dates in Arizona in Feb. See the tour page for more details.

And if you can catch a great live act.

Fender Frontline Catalog

Jon Rauhouse is now an artist rep for Fender Banjos. See him featured in the new Fender Frontline catalog on the banjo page.

He thanks them immensely and strongly recommends their banjos and amps. See the Gear link on left for more details, pics of Jon’s Fender gear.

New Gear & Tour Pics

Jon’s been sponsored by Fender so now has a shiny new banjo and amp to play with, pics of these (banjo – FB-59, amp – Fender Twin Reverb Custom) and his MSA Pedal Steel have been posted in the gear section.

A couple of pics of the Steel Guitar Rodeo tour have been put up (click the On Tour menu link)

New compilation album

Jon appears on the new Bloodshot compilation disc “Hard Headed Woman : A Celebration of Wanda Jackson” due for release on October 28th. He plays on the track “Brown-Eyed Handsome Man” (Neko Case).

Also available at the Bloodshot site is a poster for “Steel Guitar Rodeo”.

New Tour Dates

Dates for the Jon Rauhouse’s Steel Guitar Rodeo Tour during October have been added. Opening for the Old 97′s with the band lineup of Jon (Steel Guitar), Tommy Connell (Guitar), Kelly Hogan (Vocals), Will Lovell (Bass).

New releases

Jon plays on the upcoming releases from Neko Case and Sally Timms.

Sally Timms upcoming release is on Touch and Go Records and is Titled: In The World Of Him. It will be released on September 14th 2004.

The new Neko Case record comes out November 9th 2004 on Mint Records in Canada and on Anti everywhere else. It is called: The Tigers Have Spoken.

Boith discs have been added to the Discography page, with album cover and details of instruments Jon played.

New tour dates added

New dates have been added to the Tour page.

Jon will be appearing with Jon Langford and the Sexy (JR is one of the Sexy :grin:) in the NorthWest during August and then with Neko Case during September in Texas & New Mexico.

So get along to a live show to catch old “Orchid Fingers” in all his Sexy glory :wink: :grin:

Pics and stuff added

A couple of pictures of Tommy Connell in the studio during the recording of Steel Guitar Air Show have been added to the Gear page.

Also Windows Media and Real Audio clips for all the tracks on Steel Guitar Air Show have been added.

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