Let's Give the Boy a Hand

Although Jay-C usually handles the blogging duties for this band, he's not handling much of anything this week due to a recent "mis-handling" of a set of electric trimming shears. As the photo here indicates, our earnest young rhythm guitarist and co-vocalist severely cut the middle finger on his left hand (that's his "guitar-fingering" hand, by the way...) in a very deep and very painful manner while doing some yard work on Monday. In all seriousness, our thoughts and prayers are with Jeff as he struggles through a couple of weeks of pain killers and longing gazes at his beloved Gibson guitar.

The news wasn't all bad this week, however. The Central Standards were named as one of the three finalists in Rock 103's "Great Unsigned" Local Music Contest! Thanks to the ratings of online voters (thank you, thank you, thank you) the Standards (along with co-finalists Perspective and Gabby Johnson) will perform at the Overton Square Crawfish Festival on Saturday, April 8th sometime between 2:00 and 4:00. We hope you'll come out and cheer us on! Judges at the event will choose one of the three finalists to perform at the Memphis in May Beale Street Music Fest. Due to Jeff's injury, we will most likely have a stand-in rhythm guitarist there with us, while Jeff concentrates more exclusively on his vocal duties. We hope to see you there!