Mike’s Blog: What’s Not To Like?

“Junior,” the Slugs last (or most recent?) album was released officially on April 1, 2000, a fitting date to be sure.  In support of the Junior CD, we played more than 40 shows between March-August of that year, all but one (Iowa City) in Northern Illinois. Being the ageing rockers we were/are, touring was out of the question at that time. We played many memorable shows including House of Blues in Chicago, Borders Books on State Street, Taste of Chicago, and many clubs, festivals, etc. We did radio performances on various stations including WCKG, WGN Radio (Christmas special end of 2000), and a full one-hour of Slugs on WXRT with Richard Milne. On Halloween of 2000, we played live on the WGN Morning News - in a studio where Dag & Gregg visited their dad at work many times in their youth. Songs from this record were subsequently used in the television series “Felicity”, which of course is always a thrill to hear our music on TV!

If you don’t already have this record, you can preview/download from Amazon by clicking the cover art:

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