world tour by andy harrington band

On this small gray island that smokes, Andy Paper Heart takes us on a special tour -- a meat packing plant!

Where are we now?

We wave goodbye to all our friends at the Dream Dump because it's time -- take a deep breath – breathe in, breathe out -- to set sail upon the dangerous waters of the Straights of nkan (the unconscious) bound for the uncertain shores of the great unexplored territory where we will learn the world to make is your own --don't be the buffalo. Finally, over the Sunlit Sea, we make a dreamy trip to the Neo-Known Sea and the Neo-Known World, back to the ever-present problems of animals, love, eternal reoccurrence and dizziness. We hope you enjoy your trip.

A Biography of Sorts...

Andy Harrington met Pooh Sprague and Tim Augustinowicz through mutual acquaintances Rick and Davey Davis in Brownsville, Vermont in 1980 and began a very informal musical partnership which later became the Andy Harrington Band.

Roughly speaking, in the beginning, Andy wrote the songs, and Tim and Pooh picked out the “good ones." The lineup had Andy on rhythm guitar, Tim on drums, and Pooh on bass. They all sang.

After a bit playing together in the Rick Davis Band, the three rehearsed as a three-piece and the inner-critic roared, "too much empty space.” The partners enlisted guitarist and songwriter Mike Veitch to fill the holes – holes were thought to be bad in the early 1980's.

The new band debuted at the Davey Davis pig roast at Mt. Ascutney in Brownsville – we forget the year – and finally, no one threw bottles -- that was thought to be a good thing in the early 80's.

But following engagements in a seaside bar (Jonah on the Half Shell), around a campfire and in a horse barn, Pooh decided to ditch and brokered a deal with an unsuspecting Bob Neale and Jenny Adams Neale to join Andy, Tim and Mike and form a new band.

The old band broke up, a new band started up, the years peeled away, the new band broke up, the old band woke up and

Andy, Pooh and Tim got back together to hash out old tunes and piece together some new ones -- in reality, Tim needed someone to practice with for a wedding gig.

And more time passed...

In 2000, some 20 years on, Davey Davis (once again) was on the hunt to fill a summer playbill and persuaded Andy, Pooh and Tim to dust off for a gig at Hawk Mountain in Plymouth, Vermont. At Pooh’s urging, Doug Southworth joined to play keyboards – the hole thing, again.

The band, with help from Davey, Kevin Forrest and Ken Norcross, caught the attention of the Pentangle Council of the Arts in Woodstock and was hired to play the council’s summer concert in 2001 and the fourth of July concert in Woodstock, Vermont in 2002. Longtime band collaborator Dave Baldwin came out from California and recorded the July 4th concert and thus began what would become ‘world tour.’

The band was concurrently recording songs at Norcross Studio in Hammondsville, Vermont – “Brooklyn” and “Jenny.”

In the fall of 2002 the band performed at Davey Davis’ wedding in Cornish, New Hampshire and when no opportunities surfaced, they enjoyed a hiatus over the winter to pursue other interests.

Ken Norcross joined the band in 2003 for several gigs at a club in Bradford Vermont. And Dave Baldwin again came in from California and recorded the last concert on Dec. 18th.

Another lengthy hiatus ensued.

However, it was during this lull that David managed to scrape together enough decent tracks from the live recordings to offer a glimmer of hope for a new album.

Finally and very quietly, in 2006, the band released “world tour”, a 10-song album that captures the warmth and humor of the band in both live and studio settings and documents for posterity its longtime commitment to its music and its own understanding and treatment of ‘the hole thing' which has since come to be called the exploration of space.

Thanks for listening!

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