Kevin laments the future dissolution of the great Oklahoma band The Great Divide:

Unfortunately, the interview they do with The Great Divide leads me to believe that band isn't going to be together much longer (page three of the interview here, but read the whole thing). That's too bad, because those guys are excellent.

I can't say that I'm surprised. I saw Mike McClure, the main lead singer, a couple months back doing a songwriters gig along with Kyle Hutton. McClure had just released his first solo CD and mentioned that he was working on a project with the lead singer of the one-hit wonder band The Nixons (but a good song it was!) and a couple other side projects. I strongly suspected that TGD's days were numbers. They are a formerly signed band that had their shot at the big time and missed (they were signed and dropped by a label, Universal I think). They have two lead singers (guitarist Scotte Lester sings a track or two on most CDs, Scotte's brother, the drummer, has a track or two himself) and that kind of thing can be hard to manage with any band, regardless of success (see The Eagles). There is also an increasing disconnect between the more rockish stuff that McClure is moving to and J.J. Lester's firmly country voice. I lament their probable passing, but look forward to what McClure has in store and I've always wanted to hear more of Lester.

For anyone interested (with a high speed connection), you can see two of their three music videos here on Launch.com, including Never Gonna Be, one of my favorite TGD tunes. While I'm hawking Launch.com videos, Cross Canadian Ragweed has their videos for Look at Me and 17 uploaded there. I can say without exaggeration those are probably their two best songs. Incidentally, Mike McClure has a cameo in the 17 video as the store clerk.

UPDATE: Kevin is under the silly idea that I went to bed last night. Ugh... today is going to be such a looong day. Forgive any and all incoherence on my part.