Well we've played 8 shows with 7 different lineups in the past two weeks. We've got 5 more shows to go and we couldn't be happier. Here's some photographs fans have taken.

68 Jay St. Bar Brooklyn, NY

68 Jay St. Bar Brooklyn, NY

Well everyone we've been working our tails off!  I think we played 4 shows last weekend and not one of them had the same line up!  Today i'm on vocal rest (well trying to be) to get ready for the 5 shows we have this week!  After all that here's the scoop:

Wednesday July 2-  68 Jay Street Brooklyn, NY!!!!!  show starts at 7:00 and Matty Meyer will be joining us on               drums

Thursday July 3-  The Opera House, Shepherdstown, WV w/ The Get Rights & Bob Keel (cannot wait!)

Friday July 4- Cristina's Cafe, Strausburg, VA show starts at 7:00

Saturday July 5-  Wolf Hills Brewing Co., Abingdon, VA 5:30-8:00

Sunday July 6- Deja Brew Coffee House, Haymarket, VA 8:00 pm!

Hope to see you at the show.

Here in the Shepherdstown, West Virginia commune where photographer Kristian Thacker, comic artist Danielle Corsetto and musicians Jon Bertrand & yours truly Laura Mae Socks reside this summer things are getting fun and funner. Here's an update from Miss Danielle herself! Please come out to her signing this weekend at Four Seasons Books and tonight watch us in her living room where we'll be singing pretty for ya online! SIGNS SINGS SIGNS SINGS ok i'm weird.

Concert Window LINK 9:00 p.m. Eastern tonight!  Sign in early at 8:45!
https://www.concertwindow.com/shows/7070-laura-mae-socks

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hey everybody we're on tour...kinda.  Our first show is June 28th for the opening of Admiral Analog's Audio Assortment and Oddities.  The store is located in Shepherdstown, WV and it's a dream come true to have such a fine record store back in Shepherdstown after the void left by Intergelatic Garage so many years ago.  

you can check the shows page for information on the next few months of touring.  In the mean time i'll leave you with our new tour poster.  We made it ourselves!  Hope you like it.  It's our first attempt.

Welp we're back home in Louisiana booking away and taking names.  I'm getting a lil nostalgic about our tour so I figured i'd share some lovely photos taken at 1919 in Baltimore last weekend taken by my good friend Mike O'Neil.  Thank you so very much to everyone who came out to our shows.  You're all the best ever.

All photos by:  Mike O'Neil

When we travel north bound we have the great fortune of getting to basically live with our friend Danielle Corsetto in Shepherdstown, West Virginia .  Not only do we get to have late night do-nuts at Krumpees (go there!  they're still cooked in lard) but if Danielle comes to one of our shows she will always do quick sketches of us throughout the show that always blow my mind.    

OH AND we've had the pleasure of having Matt Metz and John R. Miller join us at our recent shows.  I been knowing these boys for a really long time so it's nice to finally get to play together.  We been hitting them three part harmonies on the REG!

photo by:  Jess Myhre

Well this has been an amazing week.   We started out in New Orleans at The Allways Country Jamboree and then made our way up to Charlottesville, Va where we played with the sweet and lovely Get Rights.  At the last part of their set we decided to combine forces and created a country super group; lemme tell you that was amazing.  Since then we played The Bluemoon Cafe in Shepherdstown, WV with John R. Miller & Matt Metz joining us and now we're laying low and recording trying to wrap up the recording for our first LP!  

This next weekend we'll be playing five more shows before we head back down to Louisiana.  We'd love to see you at the show!

photo by:  Tamara Grayson

photo by:  Sabra Guzman

photo by:  Suzannah Bellman

We've talked about this in a this-will-never-ever-happen-cuz-it-would-be-too-awesome way almost everyday for the past few years BUT THEN it happened and we bought a van!  We usually just squish Maes and us and hardly enough dresses (ha!) and less then 5 pairs of boots and tons of instruments and a PA in either our little tiny hatchback or the toyota truck UNTIL now.  We traded in the truck (sad) and moved on up to a Town & Country cuz we fancy like that.  She's amazing and she smells like coffee and has low low mileage. 

 We leave for tour this Saturday where we'll go to our other home (New Orleans) to play two shows (Pagoda Cafè & The Allways Lounge on my BIRTHDAY! and we'll be joined by Rennie Elliot on drums!) before we go on up to West Virginia to stay with our home away from home friends Danielle Corsetto and Kris Thacker!  Miss Danielle is about to go on an amazing cross country trip promoting her well loved comic strip Girls With Slingshots so we feel lucky that we get a few more sleepovers before she comes to our house!  ahhhh!  

While we're in the West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland area we got lots of exciting shows that are so exciting in fact I feel like I got ants in my pants all day long just waiting.  We'll be joining the Get Rights in Charlottesville, Va on April 10th and then April 12th we have a show at The Bluemoon Cafe in Shepherdstown, WV where Matt Metz and John R. Miller are joining us on whatever dang instruments they feel like playing.  I die.  

After that we're recording some duets and harmonies and mandolins and banjos and bass to finish the record (Larissa & Brechyn and Matt and Chelsea and John!) then playing some more amazing shows (including one at the Shepherdstown Opera House with Grace & Tony) and at the 1919 in Baltimore (one of my favorite places on earth) with Carrie and Her Dirty Pillows.  Then back down to Eggleston, Virginia to stay at the sweet sweet Buckeye Ranch and play at The Palidsades.  

Life is good and you are wonderful.

P.S.-  All of the shows are listed on the shows page so give it a look.

Hello dear fans

I just wanted to share that our first release has gotten some airplay in Charlottesville, VA and now on the north shore here in Louisiana.  It's very exciting for me to hear my original song on the radio.  It's reminiscent of the days when i'd sit by the radio waiting to hear my favorite songs with a cassette tape firmly in the deck waiting to hit record!  Press record people! 

Here are the links to the radio shows who have been playing us.

http://swampjacuzzi.podomatic.com on Mondays.  
The link is for episode 8 which we are on!  Gary's show kept me entertained the entire time and I felt honored to be played amongst the ranks of his other picks.

WTJU 91.1FM on Tuesdays from 4-6 Eastern
That's Miss Sabra's show where she plays you tunes from all the bands that will be playing around town in the next couple weeks.  We will be joining her on April 10th at The Bluemoon Diner with her band The Get Rights Love that girl.