THANK YOU SO MUCH! We are completely amazed at how supportive you guys have been!

This update is to let you know that The Campaign is Not Over! You have successfully helped us pay for the recording budget of this album ($20K)… but the overall cost of this album (including promotion, music video(s), mixing, mastering, and distribution) will easily approach $50,000!

Because we have decided to stay independent, we will continue to stress the fact that You are our Record Label!
THEREFORE… we have set some new goals, and we have created some new reward packages!

GOAL #1. If we reach $30K then we will be able to pay for 3 Months of Publicity and Radio Promo – These are things that help us grow, and are things that we will be paying for anyway.

When we reach $30K, then we will email each donor an early mix of our first single, “Don’t Give Up On Me”!

GOAL #2. If we raise $40K, then that means that we will be able to pay for a Music Video for this first single “Don’t Give Up On Me”! After you hear the music, we hope that you’ll want to continue supporting us!

In order to reach these new goals, we’ve created a Christmas package, decided to offer more Backstage pass experiences at the Bijou and again on New Year’s Eve in Chattanooga! Please take a look around.

NEW PACKAGES!!!

$30 – Christmas Package #1 – Introduce our band to a friend by Pre-Ordering them a copy of our new album, and putting THEIR NAME into the liner notes! As a BONUS, we will send you a sticker and a physical copy of “Youth Is In Our Blood” to give your friend, and a Christmas Card for you! (Must purchase by December 18th to Receive by Christmas!)

$500 – 2 Backstage Passes and Tickets for New Year’s Eve in Chattanooga! This also includes Reward Packages #1 (advance CD), #2 (Mule Team), #3 (Signed Poster), and #4 (Acoustic EP) (ONLY 2 AVAILABLE)

$500 – 2 Backstage Passes and Tickets for FRIDAY, Feb. 24th at Bijou Theatre!

This also includes Reward Packages #1 (advance CD), #2 (Mule Team), #3 (Signed Poster), #4 (Acoustic EP), and #5 (2 Passes for the Guv’nahs Family Dinner on SATURDAY, Feb. 25th from 4:00 – 6:00pm) (ONLY 5 AVAILABLE)

READ MORE HERE: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dirtyguvnahs/the-dirty-guvnahs-help-us-make-a-new-record/posts

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In January 2012, we will be heading into the studio to record our third FULL LENGTH record with producer and friend Ross Copperman. We are extremely fired up about making this new album for you. Because of your support, we get to make music for a living. We write songs, and we travel around to play those songs for you. We hope that it brings you joy. That’s why we do it.

Putting out an album to impact the music world on a National scale costs a TON of money. Many major record labels will spend at least $50,000 – $100,000 just on recording the album, and then an additional $50,000 to $1 Million on the promotion of the record. THE PROBLEM? If you go with a major record label then they own your record… that means that they make the business decisions for you and even determine much of your creative control musically. We’ve had serious interest from major record labels, but we want to do this our own way and live outside the walls of major record labels.

WHY?

Because we want to make music for our fans… and only for our fans.

That being said, we have worked our tail off pulling favors and begging people all over the music industry from Nashville to NYC to find a way to record a national release level album for $20,000. YES, that is still a ton of money… but it’s actually less money than we spent on our last record, Youth Is In Our Blood which we recorded up in Woodstock at Levon Helm Studios. You have to keep in mind that we will be in the studio for about 2 to 3 weeks in January, and that after you record the songs you have to work with a highly trained professional for the mixing and the mastering of the songs… which is a process that is very expensive and can take months to finish itself.

IF we raise more than $20,000 then every single penny will go towards the promotional campaign of this album that includes paying a radio promoter for 9 – 12 months, a publicist for 9 – 12 months, and paying a video team to help make a music video for one or two of our songs. The promotional budget of this album will easily reach a cost of another $20,000 to do it right over the coming year.

Thank you so much for considering to help fund our next record. This journey has been absolutely unbelievable and we owe everything to you, our fans. See you out on the road soon.

Sincerely,

The Dirty Guv’nahs