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Despite dramatic weather conditions over the last 6 weeks including, tornadoes, waterspouts, hurricane velocity winds, fallen trees, lightning strikes and torrential rainfalls, work continues on the new album project by Shoes, with overdubs continuing and new songs being brought in.  Braving the power outages and property damage, Gary, John and Jeff weather the storms and forge ahead with the recording.  No hard drives were harmed in the making of this album.

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Shoes' drummer John Richardson was able to find some time away from the construction of his new studio, The Drum Farm and his touring dates with The Gin Blossoms to head into the studio over Mother's Day weekend, to lay down the basic rhythm tracks to 4 new Shoes songs. Originally allocating 3-4 days for the task, Johnny ended up pounding out the drums for the new songs in just under a day and a half!

The four songs consisted of one newly penned composition each from John, Gary and Jeff and the 4rth tune…Read more

Chicago-based, independent film maker Daniel Cooper, of COOPERsPLANET productions is premiering his new short film comedy, "Bigger & Better Things" Friday, June 24th, 2011 at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago. The film, which was written, directed, & animated by Daniel D. Cooper, includes many cool songs, including "I Knew You'd Be Mine", from Shoes. The song originally appeared on Shoes' "Stolen Wishes" CD. The quirky comedy clocks in at around 30 minutes and is a combination of live action and…Read more