The Redding Brothers

We're setting out to accomplish our resolutions for the new year. And they're going to be entirely different than anything you've ever seen.

The first problem with most resolutions is that they shoot too low. Lose 10 pounds, exercise a little, stop drinking so much egg-nog.

Nobody cares.

And so these resolutions are forgotten as quickly and lightly as they are made.

“Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood.” (Daniel Burnham)

We’re going to do exactly the opposite of what people normally do. A small group of us has compiled a list of resolutions that are life-changing, world-shattering, and above all, BOLD. We are defying the forces of entropy and blandness, and are setting out to make a year that will reverberate with greatness.

The second problem with typical resolutions is that they aim to AVOID something, to hold out on eating that gingerbread man (maybe - hopefully - perhaps) until the month of February. By DEFINITION, these resolutions are broken almost as soon as they are made, as human willpower fails. By the time March rolls around, nothing of those pale resolutions is left.

By contrast, almost all of our resolutions are ACCOMPLISHMENTS, things we can go out and achieve, and once achieved, can never be taken from us.

The third problem with new year’s resolutions is that they’re personal and self-centered. Ours are exactly the opposite, resolutions born of a small group, but spreading and growing in their audacity and scope as they go, inviting and provoking ever more people to join in our great effort.

So we're launching a new website and blog for this fantastic endeavor. And we want you to be a part of it. It's called:

The Resolution Begins!

Hi, The Redding Brothers here.

Merry Yuletide!

We hope you've had a great year so far, that you're enjoying the low gas prices, and that you aren't snowed in. We've had a fantastic year, low fuel prices are wonderful, and our roads have been cleared!

This year, we completed 53 Songs Of The Week, traveled through 7 countries in the Middle East, and made history with our Surround-Sound Concert. We have had a fantastic time. Of course, it's all possible because of people like yourself, and we thank you for that.

2008 has been our greatest year yet - and we're looking forward to an ever greater 2009. We'll be attempting to make history again, and we'll be letting you see how first-hand. It's going to be amazing.

There's still time to order our album, The Physics Of Immortality, for yourself or for your nearest and dearest friends. While we don't ship overseas, we can send this album to your family or friends anywhere in the U.S. And it makes a great gift: it's unique, it's music, and it's actually good :).

And just to say thanks, we'll email you all the songs from our winter EP, Snow, when you order The Physics of Immortality. "Snow" includes our breath-takingly crazy version of Carol Of The Bells, as well as a few other surprises. :)

So, thanks again, and enjoy your eggnog while it lasts!

-The Redding Brothers
www.ReddingBrothers.com

Last night, we had a great time chatting to people from all over the US and the world. We had all US time zones represented, as well as people from the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait.

For them, it was early early in the morning when we started chatting - and they have to deal with closely regulated and restricted internet - but they still made it.

Safe to say, it was the greatest chat ever.

We shared some new photos from our Surround Sound Concert, talked about coming to Texas and Colorado and Seattle and Florida, and had an awesome time. And we handed out copies of The Mister Rogers Song.

Is anyone interested in doing this again?

Last weekend, we performed as part of The Easter Seals' Telethon Of Stars. Here is an image from that performance. This concert was televised in Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, and Tennessee.

Taylor Kuykendall from Huntington WV's Herald-Dispatch chose Chauvet from our album The Physics of Immortality as his second Song Pick. Read his excellent review at The Herald-Dispatch.