http://www.tenyearstoolate.com Music to share and enjoy! Sat, 07 Jun 2008 23:58:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On Sunday night, April 6, Ten Years Too Late will be competing in the second round of the Tazza Music Contest. We'll be competing against 39 other talented musicians for the chance to advance to the next round. While we're just cocky enough to believe that we've got the musical ... http://www.tenyearstoolate.com/2008/04/03/tazza-contest-this-sunday Our performance Saturday night at the Foundry Arts Show was, in our estimation, a smashing success. Our thanks to everyone who came out to see us play, and thanks also to the Foundry Artists Association for having us back. If you missed it, you still have a chance; we're playing again ... http://www.tenyearstoolate.com/2007/12/10/foundry-show Once again, Ten Years Too Late will be serving up the love at the Foundry Artists Association's Holiday Art Show. Come on out and get some holiday gift shopping done while supporting local artists and give your eardrums a treat at the same time. We'll be playing on Saturday, December 8, ... http://www.tenyearstoolate.com/2007/11/20/foundry-arts-show Ten Years Too Late will be poking its collective head out of semi-hiatus to play an open mic at the Coffee Depot in Warren, RI. (That's today, Friday Jun 22.) The open mic starts 7:30pm, and the Coffee Depot is located at 501 Main Street in Warren. Don't miss it. New ... http://www.tenyearstoolate.com/2007/06/21/exclusive-must-credit-tenyearstoolatecom So, I totally thought that the concept of rhyming "mistress" and "Christmas" was really original, and then I found out that there's an ACDC song about wanting a mistress for Christmas.  I haven't actually heard the song, but I'm guessing it's pretty different from this one. This is part three of ... http://www.tenyearstoolate.com/2006/12/21/this-christmas-your-mistress Last Christmas, when the band was just getting together, before we even had a name, our friend Ed literally bounded up to us, vibrating with visible excitement. "You guys have got to do this John Denver Christmas song." Oh, we told him, we're actually already working on "Christmas for Cowboys," and ... http://www.tenyearstoolate.com/2006/12/20/please-daddy So, everyone seems to be doing a Christmas album. Even Rachael Ray has a Christmas album, which makes me need to go lie down for a little while. Anyway, Ten Years Too Late are not immune to the holiday spirit. We've recorded a dazzling quartet of Yuletide-inspired songs for you to ... http://www.tenyearstoolate.com/2006/12/18/its-christmastime This, my friends, is a song about Santa Claus.  No, no, I'm just kidding.  All of the Santa songs will be unleashed in due time.  I mean, I guess this song could be about Santa, though, if Santa is an old, kind of addled guy who you see walking around ... http://www.tenyearstoolate.com/2006/12/13/willie So, apparently I write a lot of sad songs. In fact, my back catalogue is so full of them that I'm going to release a rarities and b-sides album called Sad, Sad, Sad. And then a follow-up album called, Yep, Still Sad. And then a greatest hits ... http://www.tenyearstoolate.com/2006/11/29/maybe This is a song about questions. It's a song about family and about history. "Promised Country" is loosely based on the poorly-remembered story I was told about how my great-grandmother, Gussie, came to this country. It had an emotional impact, of course, but the details, like so many of the details ... http://www.tenyearstoolate.com/2006/11/20/promised-country