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Tide Pools and Sand Dogs: From the Central California Coast
For the past week, we’ve been staying on the Central California Coast. Like, literally on the Central California Coast. Generally you...

The Rough & Tumble
May 22, 20152 min read


Your Songs Don’t Exist Unless You Sing Them
When we were still in college, we had a songwriting teacher named Will Gray who described the life of a songwriter/musical artist in this...

The Rough & Tumble
Apr 30, 20153 min read


#Camperlife
We’ve been hinting and telling and joking with you for the past year about the time in the maybe soon future that we will give it all up...

The Rough & Tumble
Apr 23, 20153 min read
It’s 4AM: Do You Know Where Your Teeny Tiny Folk Band Is?
2:30AM. Mallory shakes Scott’s leg as he is sound asleep. “Scott, I’m going to the store,” she says. “Why?” he said. “To get Sleepytime...

The Rough & Tumble
Mar 23, 20151 min read


Butter Writes Haikus and Other Adventures.
Oh sweet Savannah, city of ghosts, you sure thawed out a folk band last Saturday night. You know, to quote ourselves. The A-Town Get Down...

The Rough & Tumble
Feb 28, 20152 min read
Please Don’t Unlove Me
In a way, “Unlove Me” was the song that started The Rough & Tumble’s Holiday Awareness Campaign. We were playing a show in Florence, AL...

The Rough & Tumble
Feb 11, 20152 min read


Why I’m Not Reading My Book Right Now…
I pulled Butter’s bed out into the living room this morning because Mallory was at work and I was reading on the couch. She’s still...

The Rough & Tumble
Jan 28, 20152 min read


Rainy Days and Fridays Always Make Us Blog (or they do, now)
Most of the way through this soggy Nashville month, The Rough & Tumble are fighting their case of the Januaries the only way they know...

The Rough & Tumble
Jan 23, 20152 min read


Sometimes We Sang in Your House, Sometimes We Slept in It.
It’s been over three years of packing up that Chevy Cobalt, finagling our cast of characters. We’ve traded out that electro-shock therapy...

The Rough & Tumble
Oct 24, 20142 min read


Butter Is A Prairie Dog Now
When you’re driving through that flat stretch of land, sunflowers and wind we call Kansas, and you see a sign that reads, “LIVE...

The Rough & Tumble
Jul 15, 20143 min read
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