In case you are wondering, Elle Vaughn is the guy behind the drums now.

In case you're wondering we're slowing down on booking a bit while we get our drummer situation sorted out. Both Philip and Katie (our previous drummers) are going on big tours this spring and summer with other acts. So we're looking for someone who is not only great and good fit with the band, but also available. LOL So we'll keep ya posted.

The schedule and bio page have also been updated.

Happy New Year everyone!!!

We've updated the schedule with a couple gigs. We're working on learning new stuff (originals and covers) so we'll keep ya posted. Our "free" photo album became no longer free so I'm looking around for a new free hosting site. So more on that soon.

Check out the MySpace if you haven't already at:

www.myspace.com/lancealmonsmithband

and view our clips on YouTube at:

http://www.youtube.com/lancealmonsmith

Help spread the word. We hope to see you out!!!

Join us tomorrow night (Friday) at the Voodoo Lounge as we celebrate Lance's Birthday (which is actually Dec 22nd) with an all-star jam featuring Geary Tucker (and other members of the 4-Door Ramblers), Lacey Atchison, Freddy Earl Faust, JD Wheeler, and many more. This will be a great time. Show starts at 9pm.

AND next Saturday (12/27) will be another all-star Christmas Show at Voodoo with several acts including us, the 4-Door Ramblers, Bob Walters Banned, CO Jones, Tim Risbon & Fred Lite, and possibly more. So bring your jingle bells.

And don't forget to vote for us in the Best of the Valley 2008 poll at www.valleyplanet.com The link is at the bottom left of the screen. Thanks.

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and Bah-hum-bug.

Our new drummer is Katie Herron from Decatur, AL. She's played with alot of folks: Electric Voodoo, Trial By Jury, Angela Hacker (from Nashville Star), and Jason Elliott (from Nashville) to name a few. So welcome her to the fold as she learns how to put up with me and Nick. :-)

Thursday (Thanksgiving night) I'll be playing with Alabama Slim at the Voodoo Lounge. Slim, who is originally from Huntsville, is coming up here from New Orleans to play a hometown show. He's the real deal when you think of bluesmen and it's a free show so don't miss it. Starts at around 9:30pm.

We had a great time at Little Willies in Tuscaloosa. Cool place. Hope we can come back. It was good to get out of town. We plan on doing more of that next year.

We took some videos of our gig at Little Willies. They are now posted on YouTube at www.youtube.com. Just do a search on Lance Almon Smith and you'll see em. They are also on our MySpace in our videos section.

Philip is out on tour right now with his other band Thomas Function. They are touring the east coast all the way up in to Canada. He's having a blast. So we didn't book much this month. Katie Herron (Trial by Jury/Electric Voodoo) will be filling in for him on drums. She's awesome and I'm looking forward to something a bit different. But don't worry, Philip will be back for our gig on the 25th at Voodoo. See you at both those events.

What an awesome time we had a Blues Fest 2008. It was good seein' Alabama Slim and Ardie Dean again and meeting Adolphus Bell and Jerry "Boogie" McCain. Its always fun to play on the big stage with a sound guy and my two amps, a Vibroverb and a Vibrolux turned up creamy smooth. Can't wait till next year. You can check out the pics on Freddy and Lynn Fausts page at:

http://gallery.bamafolks.com/main.php?g2_itemId=41722

Don't forget about our debut at Little Willies in Tuscaloosa, AL on Saturday Sept. 20th. Alabama is away at Arkansas so I'm not sure what the crowd will be like. But its always fun to go back to my old stompin' grounds.

I finished all the songs for the album. Cut a quick demo for the guys and we're working em up. Should hit the studio soon as Philip gets back from his tour next month with Thomas Function.

Also, I'm sitting in with the 4-Door Ramblers for a few gigs while they find a new guitarist. So check some of those dates out. See ya in t-town.

Well, I'm still working on the songs for the album. The problem is that in the last month or so I've written 2 or 3 new songs that I kinda like so I've been polishing them a bit with the hopes of using them instead of some others I had previously written. So anyways, its a work in progress. Also, I just bought a camcorder so hopefully I can get some clips up on YouTube. So that's what's up. See ya at the gigs.

So what's been going on lately? Well, I've been working pretty hard on the songs for the album. We got a studio picked out and as soon as their schedule opens up in the next few weeks we'll get in there. In the meantime I've been polishing the new songs, rewriting them, adding parts, taking away, etc. I'm pretty excited. There will be a little bit of everything. Some traditional blues stuff, some rock and roll, and some quiet electric and acoustic numbers. So like I said, I'm pretty excited. Nick and I (Lance) have been rehearsing and such a bit.

Oh yeah, that reminds me. Philip's other group, Thomas Function, got signed to a pretty big record deal. They'll be doing some touring and stuff next year for it, including overseas, so that will be pretty cool.

So until next time...

Join us for our debut at Crossroads in downtown Huntsville this Thursday. We will split the bill with the 4-Door Ramblers and they will open the night. Everyone please come out and support both bands so that we can make this a regular thang. Should be one great night of blues and rock 'n roll. Hope to see you all there.

I've been working on writing and finishing the tracks for our CD hopefully to be out by summer. Looks like it will be close to 12 tracks. I've just about wrapped that up. We've even done some pratices with the new songs and I've done a few at the gigs we've done recently. Also looking into playing some new places and getting out of town more. I finished our gig demo so hopefully that will help. In the meantime, there are some live sound clips off of it from one of our shows at Voodoo last year posted on our MySpace. Check them out here:

www.myspace.com/lancealmonsmithband

Hey everyone. Just a quick update. We recorded our last show at the Voodoo Lounge and we are looking forward to making that into a demo and possibly even a live CD. So we'll keep ya posted here.

We are also in the process of finalizing the songs to be released on our debut CD which is in the works. We've been rehearsing a bit and tweaking things here and there. Currently we're looking at doing about 12 songs with 10 of those being originals penned by Lance. More to come on that.

This Thursday we will debut at Humphrey's so please come out and support us. Hopefully we will be inside. :-)

Also, don't forget that Lance's Birthday Bash will be at the Voodoo Lounge on December 22nd. This is always a big event and you never know who will show up to play. Its guaranteed to be a blast. See ya then!!!

Hey everyone. Thanks to everyone who's come out to our shows and especially to those who came to the Halloween Party @ Voodoo. That place was hopping. Had a great time. We are starting to book Xmas parties in December so if you are planning one and think you might want us to play get with us ASAP so we can pencil you in even if you aren't positive you will have it.

Also, check out our new pics and don't forget about our MySpace:

http://www.myspace.com/lancealmonsmithband

New photos posted.

Our photo gallery is back up. YAY!!!!

If you missed the huge jam at the Grand Opening of the Voodoo Lounge you missed one heck of an event. We should have some photos up as soon as we figure our photo gallery out.

Despite the increased crowds since beginning, the Sunday Nite Jam at the House of Brews has been cancelled by the management. Thanks to everyone for coming out and making this a fun experience.

The Sunday Nite Jam at the House of Brews has been going great. We've had great crowds and they're pretty lively. The Jam is every Sunday from 8pm-12am and we get into all kinds of genre's so come on out and have some fun at this "smoke free" early jam.

Right now Lance has been working on some studio work for Victoria Pennington's European tour this summer so keep your ear to the rail and we'll keep ya posted.

Also, the website which hosts the photo album is undergoing some renovations. Therefore you won't be able to view the album until they get it fixed.

Hey ya'll. We've been on a little break learning some new tunes and such. Check them out this Saturday night at Judge Crater's.

Also, Philip and I (along with Dan Hardin on bass) will be hosting a Blues Jam/Open Mic at the House of Brews this Sunday from 8pm-12am. If it does well it will become a regular thang. So come on out and enjoy this "smoke free" early jam.

Our gig at Philby's was moved from Friday, Feb 2nd to Friday, Feb 23rd due to scheduling conflicts. We are also honored to have been asked to play the 3rd Friday of every month starting in March at the House of Brews so mark your calendars. This is a great place!!!

Happy New Year everyone!!!

Join us this Friday for our debut at the House of Brews in downtown Huntsville. The HOB is Huntsville's newest smoke-free bar. Its a real nice place with a great atmosphere so come out and help make our debut big.

Don't forget Lance's Birthday Bash at Philby's tomorrow night. The band will be playing and we will have some special guests so be sure to come out and have some fun with us.

After a semi-lengthy auditioning process, Philip Dougherty has joined the band as our new drummer. He's a super tight drummer and a great guy so show him some love. We're getting him up to speed have been preparing for our big Xmas Party event this weekend and the Birthday Bash on the 22nd. Ya'll be sure to come out for that one.

The December 9th gig this week at the Furniture Factory has been cancelled. However, a new gig at LeeAnn's has been added for next Friday. We hope to see all of you there for our debut. And don't forget the Birthday Bash at Philby's on the 22nd. We will have lots of special guests.

If you happen to have a MySpace account, the band now has a MySpace page at 

Thanks to everyone who came out to the Furniture Factory Big Spring Jam weekend. You guys made the gig for us. We've got some neat gigs coming up at new places so be sure to check out the schedule. We're working in some new tunes so look for them in the new shows.

I wanted to thank everyone who placed an order through our website with Musician's Friend. If you didn't know, we get a cut of any order you place using those ad links on the Links page. I got a check the other day from Musician's Friend so a big thanks to anyone who ordered through our website. Money from those links goes to pay for our website.

BTW, if you were wondering why Google ads started popping up on our Guestbook, the guestbook provider was ad-free when we joined. But they recently started charging for an ad-free guestbook so it looks like our guestbook won't be ad-free for awhile. :-)

Lastly, I'm in the process of learning some new songs so if you got something you'd like to see us do, then email me and let me know. I'll see what I can do.

We'll see everyone at Philby's Friday night.

Thank you to each and every one of you who came out to the Furniture Factory and braved the heat with us. It took a set or so to really get going but we had a great time. I lost about 5 lbs. Victoria gained a bunch of new fans. I'm not really sure why that always happens...? Thanks to Bob Walters for sitting in with us and to Geary Tucker and my parents for coming out as well. And thanks to the heckler for pissing me off. No we don't play country. Sorry.

Be sure to come on out for our debut at the Furniture Factory tomorrow

(Wednesday - 8/2). It's a great place to play (and eat) so come on out and support us.

The Pinhook Yacht Club has closed its doors so all of our dates there are now cancelled. But something's in the works for the future there so we'll keep you posted.

Thanks everyone for coming out and supporting us in July. We had alot of fun. We probably won't have any more dates until August so we'll work up some new stuff for then.

Don't forget to get your Clapton tix. He's playing Wednesday, Oct 18th at the BJCC in Birmingham.

Thanks everyone for coming out. We've had alot of support and awesome comments from everyone so we appreciate that greatly.

The Saturday, July 1st date at Philby's has been moved to that Friday, June 30th.

If you want to see us at your favorite place to hang out, be sure to request us next time you're there. It helps when we call new places for bookings. We're working on a demo but until its done, word of mouth is all we have.

Also, we are available for private parties. Its summer and we've had a few requests already so I just thought I'd let everyone know. So if you like us that much just shoot us an email on the Contact page.  :-)

More dates have been added. Check em out.

Also, vote for Victoria Pennington in the 357 Customs Model Search at 357Customs.com.

Thanks everyone for coming out Friday night. We had an awesome time. It went really well so we'll be playing again at Philby's soon. Don't forget about our show at the Kaffeeklatsch this Friday. We consider the Klatsch home so it should be a great show.

We've added a new member to the band, Craig Edwards, a good friend of mine (Lance). He's agreed to join the band. This guy is a keyboard ace so be sure to check him out.

Also, we've signed up as an affiliate partner with Music123.com and other music related sites. I just bought a guitar from them that I will debut in a few weeks when it arrives. Anways, we've added a couple of links on the Links page for them and other vendors. We'll get a percentage of each sale so be sure to start your shopping here and help out the band. It won't cost you anything. It just helps us out. We'll be adding more sites shortly.

A message from Lance:

First off, let me thank each one of you for visiting the site. As most of you know, this has been a project in the making for the last 4 months. I know I've been asked about it a lot  and have talked about it a ton. And I've received alot of support and positive comments by friends and fans so I want to thank you guys. We put alot of time in working on new songs...rehearsing just about every week. I think about half of these tunes you guys have never heard me do before. Its all fresh and new and pretty exciting for me to finally get to do some of these songs and take it to the next level. So the question I always get is, "So whatcha gonna play?" Well, we're going to be doing some of the more popular rock and roll stuff people are familiar with as well as some of the blues stuff you guys said you like for me to do. We'll do some Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, the Rolling Stones, some Allman Brothers, and all the blues guys too. Of course I've also been working on getting my vocals up to par to do them as some of them are pretty difficult vocally. We also worked up a few originals of which I hope to be debuting more of in the future. I think you're going to start seeing a new side and hopefully an emergence of an artist. I am hoping this will all lead to work on a CD here towards the end of the year. That's the plan anyways. So enough with all the talk and hype. As Eric Clapton said during a benefit concert for his rehab center, "The talking is done. Now we're just gonna play." So I thank you guys again for your support so far and I hope to see everyone there at Philby's for the debut. 

We just got the website up. Bear with us.