Until then...

Wednesday October 3
Hello to all!
Got a few quick updates for y'all...
The first and most important is the benefit show this sunday for our good friend Mark Whitman. He had a reaction to some medication recently which put him in the hospital and has caused him to miss gigs. He is expected to make a full recovery and all of us that know him are keeping him in our thoughts. Mark has been and continues to be one of the best guitar players in the northwest and is in the WBS Hall of Fame among many other awards and is also a great guy. If you know Mark, or have ever heard any of his many bands over the years, you know how true this is!
SO.... there is a benefit show this sunday october 7th at the Highway 99 blues club starting at 6pm, with a $5 dollar suggested donation at the door. All proceeds will go to Mark Whitman and his family. There will also be various items to be raffled off.
There will be a fantastic house band consisting of Chris Leighton on drums, Lissa Ramaglia on bass, Scotty Harris on sax, and Rolf Larson on keys, as well as - and this is the fun part! - a slew of Marks friends and other musicians that will be taking turns on the stage making for a very impressive night of music! Confirmed guests so far include: Paul Green, our very own Scott Lind, Eric "tow scoops" Moore, Jeff Herzog, Kimball Conant, Roger Enders, Rod Cook, Doug McGrew, Tim Turner, Hank Yanda, Billy Shew, the list goes on and on!
So please if you love the blues and good music, come on down and show your support and have a great time! And please, spread the word about it, we want a lot of people there!

In other news, we've changed the name of tuesday nites band from Justin KH and good chemistry to "Good Chemistry" and want to invite all to come down and check it out! They are just starting to get some really good bands in there on saturdays as well, but we'd also love to see you tuesdays too! Same line-up, Justin, Polly and Tommy, just a fresh name.
And one last thing, I love my mondays at the 99 club! It's really great to play with the best local musicians in the house set and then hear all the great local and diverse talent during the jam sets too! And you never know just whose gonna stop by for a breif hello and a song!

So remeber to come out on sunday for the Mark Whitman benefit show, and we'll see you soon!

Justin and the boys from A.U. and B.O.R. !


Sunday August 26
Hi ya Kids!
Well it took a while, but we did it. Remember back in november of last year when Justin K-H and Good Chemistry rocked the 99 club every tues? Well now we're back! Only this time we'll be rockin the Blarney Stone every tuesday starting sept. 4!
The Blarney Stone is located at 3rd and Stewart in Belltown, and we are very pleased to be playing there with this line up. For those of you that might not remember, Justin K-H & Good Chemistry consists of Justin K-H (hey thats me!) and Polly O'Keary on bass and Tommy Cook on drums. We always have fun together and the tune selection will be awesome! Were even trying to teach Tommy how to sing! (he's been working on sort of an eastern australian yodeling technique, it's very strange, you'll have to ask him about it!) So come on down and check it out!
Also, the monday jam has been going very well lately, our special guests have been really hot and they always bring a little extra mustard to the show, making it fun to watch and fun to jam! We will be skipping the jam on monday sept. 3rd for labor day but then we'll pick it back up again on the 10th with guest Sue Orfield on horn and a few other guests to make it another great night of music.
That should about do it for now, so as always, keep it real, and it you can't keep it real then at least keep it on the level and keep it here for the latest news on the A.U. / B.O.R. front.
Peace.


Thursday August 9
Hey everybody! Check out the photos from the Dupont Blues Festival on the pics page. Thanks to our friend Paul Reinstein for his great photos. Also, you can be the first one on your block to be sportin a new Buckets of Rain T-shirt! Liz, G-Man and Carmen at Raza-Gear really came through for us. If you see them at a show, please buy them a drink....and then buy a shirt! Thats all for now. We're at Fado tonight and Wilde Rover on Friday. Now...."Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved"....and get out there!

Monday July 23

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Sunday July 22
Hello Friends! It’s been a while so we thought we would bring you up to date on what is going on in the Author Unknown world. We are very proud to have been included in the DuPont Blues Festival coming up Saturday July 28th. Our set will go from 4:30 – 5:30, and then you can hang out and see 2 other great bands, the Tommy Wall Band and Polly O’Keary and the Rhythm Method. If DuPont is a little too far south for you, you are in luck because that night Author Unknown will be coming to the Dubliner in Freemont. This will be our first time there and it would be great to pack the place. For the rest of the summer, Thursdays at Fado will go from 9:30 – 12:30. And Blue Monday at the Highway 99 club is still going strong as one of the hottest jams in town. We had the pleasure of backing up Roger “Hurricane” Wilson from Atlanta Georgia last week. Next weeks guest artist is Jeremy Kidder from Jam on White Bread and the Lee Oskar Band. You might also recognize Jeremy as an occasional Author Unknown guest. Come out and Jam with us, or if you don’t play just come out and listen. It should be a great night! Also remember that you can get the Buckets of Rain CD at any show for just 10 bucks. What a deal! We have lots of stuff booked for the summer so keep checking the calendar, and come out and say hello! It would be great to see you.

Tuesday May 1
Well it seems that congratulations are in order! Our very own Scotty Lind took the 1st place prize in the division finals of Guitar Center’s “King of the blues” guitar competition. He will be representing our area on May 9 in Hollywood at the Western Regional Finals. We always knew that we had a champion in our midst, but it is pretty cool that other people are recognizing it too. So next time you see Scotty be sure to shake his hand. Heck, you might even get a pick out of the deal. On another note we need some people to write a review of our CD on our CD baby site. So…if you ever wanted to feel like a writer for Rolling Stone (and you have a copy of our CD) go to http://cdbaby.com/cd/bucketsofrain scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on “write a review”. If you don’t have a CD yet this is also a great place to buy one! Then come back and write a review. That’s all for now, until we see you again…
Be excellent to each other.


Friday March 23
Holy cow! St. Patricks day at the Wilde Rover was insane! What a great place to celebrate St. Patricks day. The band was in fine form, and really feeding off of the energy from the packed house. It was amazing to see the whole room full all the way to the back with people dancing, sweating and just generally having a great time. It was also great to see Husky and Seahawk legend Warren Moon in the audience. If you missed this one, we are back at the Wilde Rover on Saturday April 21. This weekend finds in Sequim at the 7 Cedars Casino both Friday and Saturday. Justin’s Blue Monday jam at the Hwy 99 Club is really picking up steam. It is turning into a jam night that is just as much fun to watch as it is to jam at. Maybe you should come down and do both!

Thursday March 15
Tonights Buckets of Rain show at Fado has been CANCELLED.
sorry

Friday February 9
Hello friends! The Buckets of Rain CD is now available online at CD Baby.com. Just go to http://cdbaby.com/cd/bucketsofrain and you can listen to clips of all of the tracks, buy all you want and even write a review of your own. Tell all your friends about it! Let’s say you are in England and all of your friends want a CD, but they can’t make it to Seattle for a show. Well now there is a way! We will be eventually getting links on here and on the My Space pages that will get you directly there. Speaking of My Space, check out http://www.myspace.com/authorunknowntheband there are a couple of live tunes up there, with more to follow as we get good enough recordings of live shows. If original music is more your thing then http://www.myspace.com/bucketsofrainband is the link for you! Be our friends! We will accept you just the way you are! It’s a great way to find out what is happening, and when those rare Buckets of Rain shows are coming. They are coming, we promise!
Take Care,
AU


Friday January 5
So hey there! A few updates for the calender and some noteworthy events to report.
For starters, as fun as it was (and it was fun!) the tuesday nite gig at the hwy 99 club with justin k-h and good chemistry is no more. It has been replaced by Justin (me) taking over the Blue Monday Jam at the Hwy 99 club instead and well be mixing up the format a bit. Sign up will be at 8 o'clock and then the house band (myself, andrew cloutier on drums and eric bryson on bass) will play the first set with a different featured guest each week. Then well do the jam sets and then the house band will close out the nite once more with vigor! Check the calender for the featured guests and then take note and come on down for these people are all very talented and will be worth the free price of admission and then some! I personally am very excited about this one and its a good long running jam so if you wanna play its a great opportunity to do so!
We'll still be doing our sunday jam at big daddy's so dont miss out on that one either, heck, if you really wanna play you could do it both nights!
Were also trying to get some more Justin K-H and Good Chemistry gigs too so keep us on your radar for that too!
Anyways, hope that everyone had a good safe new years and that you are all having a great 2007 so far!
Until next time............................................................................... !

Tuesday January 2
Well Hello Everyone!
Just a quick note to let y'all know that we really, really, REALLY appreciated the support for our cd release party and it was by all counts a raging success! We had over 150 people in attendance to witness the rock, and we sold 36 cd's at the event and have since sold almost one hundred! So we feel pretty darn good about that! And you all should feel good too, knowing that you were at the first Buckets Of Rain show in history!
SO please check up on us at our myspace page, cuz we need all of you as our friends, (www.myspace.com/bucketsofrainband ) and we'll keep you posted on the rest of the activities as we build our empire! Thanks again!!!!!!!!! We love ya's!