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December 13th, 2002
It's getting very close to the end of our perimeter of America tour. We see the holidays screaming down the pipe at us and shiver with anticipation (and yer basic sleep deprivation and malnourishment). From Boston to Florida to San Diego to Washington state to Buffalo to NYC to Michigan to Ohio and then home for the big Weeping Tile Xmas show in Kingston. If all goes as planned Sean, Cam and I should arrive in time for soundcheck on the 22nd of December, which is what the poster says is the date of the show (how fitting is that!). I’m putting the finishing touches on another fascinating tour journal and we’re getting set to mix our new record in January with hopes of a late spring release. Happy Holidays from all of us to all of you. Thanks for supporting the cause!November 23rd, 2002
Big news if you have eyes in your face! I've finally hooked up the new photo section. It's linked to the 'images' button over thereOctober 12th, 2002
Big news if you have children in your life! Butterfingers! "The People we Know",our 1st cd of music for young (and old) is now available through the good people over at maplemusic.com A perfect Christmas gift, eh? Stay tuned for more news on this exciting project. Websites, shows and more recorded music (Butterfingers! "The songs We Sing" is almost finished), all coming your way.September 2nd, 2002
We're home now from a big ole tour of America. Here's what the nice people from the San Francisco Chronicle had to say about us: When the sound crew played Pink Floyd's "The Wall" at last year's "Pledge of Allegiance" tour stop in San Jose, biding time until the fine fellows from Slipknot deemed themselves ready to take the stage, at least one of the older members of the audience was surprised at how great the record still sounded. Having played "The Wall" -- the all-time teenage dirtbag concept album -- countless times as an addlepated suburban high schooler a couple decades ago, I'd been thinking I'd never need to hear it again. Wrong! Or better yet: Luther Wright & the Wrongs. This inspired Canadian twang band has filled a niche few of us knew needed filling: With fiddle, pedal steel guitar and a meandering banjo, they have recast "The Wall" as a hillbilly song cycle. A horse opera, if you will. Sound ridiculous? They're dead serious, and darn good at it. It's an altogether different kind of "space cadet glow." .August 30th, 2002
Here's a review of the last show of this summers big tour that you can read at the Illinois Entertainment site.August 10th, 2002
Aww, shucks folks, Sean's laptop seems to have died a horrible death. This leaves the boys without a means of posting to the site while they're out on their current thrilling tour! So, they've got to depend on me (your eternally faithful web-chump (or poobah)) to post website updates for them. Me, being the jerk that I am, had something of a personal emergency situation that kept me from my computers for a week or so... So this update is one Luther sent me some time ago, and here I am posting it. Better late than a boot to the head, I guess, although if you can pull both, more power to ya! Apparently'If you hit this link- you can vote for Luther Wright & the Wrongs new video of Comfortably Numb and help get it played. (the more hits it gets, the better its chance to see airtime in both canada and the u.s.)That's what Luther says. And speaking of luther...
You can vote as many times as you want.'
I'm hard at work on a frantabulorous image uploading script that will allow the boys to directly upload images to the site, so's you (the aforementioned little people (I mean that in the elf-like sense, of course)) can enjoy up to the minute irrelevant pictures taken by the boys using their Wal-Mart digital camera! They be so dang hi-tech, by gum! The first batch of HOTHOT pics is sitting here on my laptop, just waiting for the perfection of said script. Perhaps I'll offer up this gem to show y'all what you've got to look forward to. (Please note that I am not in any way intoxicated as I write this.) (Seriously. I'm just that sophomoric.) Feast heartily on my innards, June 12th, 2002
Well we're on the road tomorrow to tour America for a month. Our recording of the next original cd is done as of a few days ago and we'll mix it in September and get it ready for a probable 2003 release. We made some t-shirts that we are hawking at shows along with our cd's. The kids cd that Dan, Ryan Bol and I have ready to go should be out soon too. Have a good summer pilgrims!!May 19th, 2002
Well we played a show with Stompin' Tom Conners the other night at the Tulip Festival in Ottawa. He's like Madonna or something. When Tom was outside of his trailor backstage no one else was allowed in the area. Big guys in blue security uniforms swarmed any violaters and one would get hustled back to wherever one came from (unless it was the port-a-potty, they wouldn't make you stay in there). How weird is that, eh? His show was spectacular, although the Ottawa crowd didn't take too kindly to his cheer for the Leafs. He also called the Headstones the Headhunters but Hugh returned the compliment when he remarked that it was great to play with Stompin' Tim. The line-up was LW & the W's, the Skydiggers, Stompin' T., and the Headstones. Quite a night in Ottawa which, by the way for you out-of-towners, is actually the capital of Canada. Toronto was never actually the capital but little ole Kingston was for a couple of years a piece back, (like a hundred and some years). uhh...see yaMay 13th, 2002
Hi there! I never write on this thing but today I want to speak up from behind the drum kit and give y'all a little up-date. We played with our friends the Waifs the other day. Blessed and multi-talented, they are back in the hemisphere for the summer. Check them out. Moving right along with more music for more people, we start recording a new cd of original material next week. Our old buddy Robin Aube, who has had a hand in most of the 'Wrongs projects to date, is migrating from Hamilton to press play/record. And our long time friend, producer and soundman Grant Ethier will be on hand to wrangle the Wrongs into pulling out all the stops. We've been holding onto some songs now for long enough so it’s time to toss them from the nest. Recording is the yang to tourings' ying as too much of either without a break can wear us down. Some songs won't let themselves be finished until the recording process distills them down to perfection. We've been having a hoot playing together this last year so it will be sweet (dude) to jam for weeks in perfect isolation. In other news: -the first of a series of cds for children by a 'Wrongs splinter group called, "Butterfingers", is all mastered and almost ready to get manufactured. It's titled, "The People We Know", and has eleven songs written and performed by Dan Curtis, Luther Wright and Ryan Bol. You will be able to get this through our website soon I assure you. The New York Times called to chat last week and they were putting a piece together about the band and the Rebuild the Wall cd that should be in next Sundays (May 19th) edition. A video for "Comfortably Numb" is in the works with Sean Turrell, the man who directed the first 'Wrongs vid for Brick pt. 2. Look for it in June/July. We head in out in earnest to America in June for a month of shows followed by an August run to California and points west. There's bound to be more news but right now I need more sleep. In the meantime forgive those who trespass against you. It's just one less thing to have to do tomorrow.April 24th, 2002
Well here we go! Today is the day that Rebuild the Wall hits the stores of America and Luther just got off of the phone from doing a pile o' interviews with radio morning hosts all over the map. Minds are being bent on classic rock radio stations in brand new ways by this bastard child of a road trip brainstorm. Those D.J.'s are so jacked up on jitter juice and nicorette that the questions came hard and fast down the pipe. Good thing LW has a penchant for talking too fast himself, it's akin to Jedi Russian roulette on the airwaves if you slip up. We are heading for NYC to play our release party and greet our southern brethren before we dive into recording a new cd of hurtin' originals. Then it's out on the road in earnest with all guns a'blazin', doing the C&W freaky-deaky for young and old!! See you along the way.March 11th, 2002
hey there pilgrims! You can check out our recent show at Lee's Palace for Canadian Music Week. It's a visual thing so I hope it looks as good as it felt! Video 1 -- Video 2February 21st, 2002
Well, hellllllo sailor!!! ...or perhaps I oughta say goodbye sailor. Luther seems to feel that Burke's wife may be getting hot under the collar about my horrid misrepresentation of her hubby as a short, balding, effete individual in a sailor suit towards the top of this page. What can I say... 
Nobody gave me a picture at the time, so I got a little creative. (Couldn't do much else really, as a Google image search for "Burke Carroll" just turns up a logo for orthotic footwear.) Well, rest assured that this piquant situation has been resolved. In an earlier effort to resolve this whole Burke dillemma, I got my hands on a sketch of Burke by K-town artist Tully, and was about to replace the sailor with that, when Luther dropped off a pic of Burke... That sketch is now displayed in the Graphics section. Thanks, Tully. In other thrilling LWW's news, the boys have signed some sort of an agreement or another with Back Porch Records, a U.S. label that bills itself as "Americana, cross-country and cross-over." Probably means a U.S. Tour, and easier access to the boys' interpretation of the wall for all y'all south of the border. ...And, Shiver Me goddam timbers! It's the stunning conclusion to the fall east coast tour in the diaries section! Ciao...