Ready for some good news? So the fuck are we! Give us yours and we’ll give you ours – deal? Right, well … maybe not.

Our “good” news is that BIG GREEN IS NOW ON SPOTIFY! And now, as Paul Harvey used to say (ask your grandmother), here’s the rest of the story. Big Green has actually been on Spotify for years, only our releases got all tangled up with the work of another artist named Big Green. Frankly, that should have been good news for us, because we are (wait for it) THE LEAST SUCCESSFUL BAND IN THE HISTORY OF POP MUSIC, so any association with any other artist could only lift us higher. (Though in the case of the other Big Green, not very much higher.)

After some wrangling with the Spotify peoples, they managed to separate our catalogs, so the other Big Green need no longer be burdened by listing the 21 songs on Cowboy Scat: Songs in the Key of Rick, or have to explain the disturbing images in our video for One Small Step. But hey … that doesn’t mean you can’t be burdened by them!

While we’re working on the next album (and yes, we are STILL working on it), by all means open your Spotify app, find our artist page, follow us, play our songs, rate us, etc. Throw us a bone! We’ll find some way of thanking you with swag, free files, etc. Whatever we’ve got lying about. That’s just the kind of band we are.

Now, we’re NOT suggesting that you open our Spotify page on every computer in your home, workplace, etc., and start streaming our songs on a loop. Nor are we suggesting that you buy a bunch of burner phones and do the same thing. That would be highly unethical and an offense against the laws of god and man. Just listen on Spotify. Over and over …

Hey, campers …. In case you hadn’t noticed, our WordPress site was down for a few days due to unknown technical issues (our Web hosting service was probably vacuuming the server farm and tripped over a power cord or something). If it happens again, well god damn it … you won’t see this! Nevertheless, the party continues unabated, crashes notwithstanding. We’re still recording, posting stuff on YouTube and Instagram, and annoying the neighbors with our noisy activities. If we keep you up at night, let us know!

We dug up a Christmas tape from 1996 this week and posted parts of it on the Internets. Hey, it’s Christmas, right? What is the significance of this collection? Well, my friends – this project taps a deep vein in the corpus of Big Green material. These four songs, now on YouTube, represent some firsts, some lasts, and a whole lot of mister in-between.

First things first: I believe this was the first group of songs we recorded on our eight-track DTRS system back in the nineties – the same deck, board, etc., we used a couple of years later to do our first album, 2000 Years To Christmas. We got the system in 1995 and did a few test tracks before getting started on this 1996 collection, which was originally eight songs, including two we revamped, remixed, and released under separate cover.

What about last? Well, this was Matt’s last Christmas collection, recorded as a giveaway to family, friends, pets, etc. It was a yearly tradition in Matt-ville, from about the mid-1980s to 1996, covering a body of work that included all of the songs off of 2000 Years To Christmas, plus many, many more (including numbers we featured in our podcast, THIS IS BIG GREEN.)

There’s more where that came from. Enjoy your holidays!