Oddly enough, I had a conversation about them not three days ago. We hosted a band, the Deedle Deedle Dees, which was playing a kids' gig in town (town being western Mass). They were looking through our CDs and one of them said they thought we might be the only people they knew to still have a Judybats CD. I remember seeing them at the Fine Line and really enjoying it -- and talking with the band outside the venue and enjoying them too. Nice guys and some great records.

"Full Empty" was one of my favorite CDs back at that time. Lots of great songs on that one. Then I needed food, and, someone else owns the CD now.

Kind of like Toad The Wet Sprocket.. whatever happened to them?

I still pull a couple of their records out and listen to them. I like the lyrics to the song Saturday and Convelescing in Spain (i'm not sure how to spell that word and I'm too lazy to look it up-instead I'll just write this that actually took longer than it would have taken me to just look it up). I heard the band was the combination of two other bands, one was a folk group and the other a metal-leaning rock band. I wonder if its true. Does anybody know?

*humming "native son | what have you done"*

Of course! And now I'll have to dust off their CDs, I think I only grabbed the singles as a highlight in the iPod. A quick look at lunch shows they're around... sorta:

( http://www.judybats.net/about.asp )

Wow, thanks for bringing them up.

-Julia

Jeff Heiskell, it turns out, is recording some good stuff:

http://myspace.com/heiskellmusic

(I sent them a note and heard back...)