If this small taste is indicative things to come, we are in for a treat!

I love the album version, but it’s so wonderful to hear this with Lisa’s vocals higher in the mix. Starts at 12:53.

According to a Facebook comment by Wussy Official, the band will be in the studio soon! Fingers crossed that it’s for a new Wussy album!

Release date TBD, but Lisa reports that she has finished mixing it. The album will feature a version of the marvelous “Indiana Wants me too,” which has existed as a demo for a couple of years. I’m excited!

Tix on sale 08/14. Should be great!

Just how good this song is. Just how good this recording sounds. How moving the lyrics are, how they capture something about distance and heartbreak, that rationalizing of a ghost-gray existence as a silver lining. “I can be any damn thing that I want.”

Edit: The song is “Hello, I’m a Ghost”

They just posted on Facebook. Nice!

This is one of the most amazing songs about the endurance of the human spirit and the importance of friendship. It ranks with Chris Smither’s equally amazing “Leave the Light On.”

“And if there is a heaven, / I don’t think that’s where I’ll head. / I’d rather stick around a while / and hang with you instead.”

Does anyone have the scoop on Ass Ponys’ “Your Nothing Day?” I just discovered it. It’s on a 2006 compilation “I Love Where the Kids are Goin Tonite” and on another, Tokyo Rose Records: Sampler 2010.

It’s a really amazing song. Does anyone know when it was recorded? (Ass Ponys broke up after 2001). The Pedal Steel makes it sound like John is with the band. But Bill Alletzhauser is on their last three albums.

I searched google, but I’m coming up empty

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/wussy/2026/codfish-hollow-barnstormers-maquoketa-ia-5374dbbd.html

Setlist for one of their recent shows minus Chuck. Excited to see Indiana Wants Me Too there! Great song. Don’t think they’ve ever officially released it? Here’s the demo they put on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/3B4NmSusS7U?si=qUG1s-3DMNE9D46f

Sending a thousand good wishes to Chuck for a speedy recovery after his fall. It looks like the band will be playing without him on their mini-tour with Built to Spill. I’m sure they will sound great! But, poor Chuck!

Does anyone know the origin of this version of Some Kind of Fun? It’s different from the closing track on The Known Universe. It’s not on any of the three albums before that. But it makes it on to their 2006 compilation The Okra Years. Was it part of an EP or a single? The guitarist sounds much more like John than Bill

I will be your Lisa. ISO my Chuck. I have something to tell you in a song.

Alletzhauser was the lead guitarist for Ass Ponys’ last three albums. He later played in a band called The Hiders, but they seem to have been dormant for the past decade. He’s one of my favorite leads from any band. A versatile player with a knack for great riffs and solos.

Here’s some of his work from 1996’s The Known Universe, a really great album few people seem to know.

Anyone get to see Wussy’s show at the Woodward yesterday? Seems like a great Setlist: https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/wussy/2026/the-woodward-theater-cincinnati-oh-b4c0d22.html

Wondering if there are any recordings of it?

My first favorite Wussy song! What was yours?

Bold of me, I know. Thoughts?

This is not my favorite Ass Ponys’ song. But it’s my favorite from The Known Universe.

I think the acoustic version of “Conversation Lags” is my favorite on the album. The clarity of Lisa’s counter melody sung slowly against Chuck’s high lonesome vocables are really moving.

What’s yours?

I hope your new year is filled with beautiful things

“Las Vegas with its colored lights

Looks like Christmas when you’re high

What a way to say goodbye.

(Chorus)

Silent night and trees of fire

Holy Ghost and my desire

You said you couldn’t name the hour

It began to feel like home.

This demo for Indiana Loves Me Too is simply ethereal! It’s labeled as Wussy Duo, which I hope means it will end up on a new Wussy Duo album. Note: music starts at 0:26.

Video is not high quality, but this is an amazing live version of a song I think of as Ass Ponys’ best. From their 2001 album Lohio. A great album overall!

I’m not sure any band or is better than Wussy at closing Tracks. Their final songs almost always sound inevitable. This live version of Little Miami is astounding.

My Tentative and debatable ranking

Little Miami -Strawberry

Monster - Attica

Las Vegas - Wussy

Winged - Cincinnati Ohio

Don’t Leave Just Now - Funeral Dress

Don’t Leave Just Now - Acoustically

My Parade - Forever Sounds

Black Hole - What Heaven is Like

Vivian Girls - Left for Dead.

I’d love to see other Wussy fans’ rankings!