"So good. So good." Our Red Sox sweep the Colorado Rockies and are World Series Champs again. Rock on.

 Big Thanks to WBOS DJ Holly Harris for playing Red Sox Blues tonite on her Blues on Sunday show. She played it for good luck as Daisuke Matsuzaka took the mound at Fenway Park to face the Yankees for the first time. Good mojo Holly: Dice-K and the homerin' hometeam got the win, 7-6, and a series sweep... Holly's spin also marks 6 years of local airplay for the little shuffle.

The 2006 season ended early for the Sox, but a new son is rising in Boston, Japan's warrior-pitcher Dice-K. He may lead us to the top of the mountain once again.

 Our Sox fell short on their bid to repeat as World Champs this year, but their 2004 triumph continues to change our present and future. "We'll get 'em next year," sounds like a real possibility now. We've washed away all the years of bad luck, just like we hoped for in Red Sox Blues.

Buckets of Thanks to Bob Sprankle and his podcasting 3rd & 4th graders at Wells Elementary School in Wells, ME... for including Red Sox Blues in their Bobby Bucket Show this week... Bob and his Room 208 crew are the lead hook in today's New York Times article, "New Tools: Blogs, Podcasts and Virtual Classrooms." Congratulations folks! You are the future... Big Thanks also to Bart Steele of the Gyromatics, for the intro to Bob. The Gyromatics' tune Man I Love This Team, is the Song of the Week on the podcast.

 At 11:40 PM ET the Boston Red Sox win the World Series, and the last verses of the song come true: "... We finally win it all / And all the years of bad luck / We wash 'em clean one fine fall." "It is," general manager Theo Epstein said after his team's domination of the St. Louis Cardinals, "the ultimate cleansing." (Sports Illustrated World Series Commemorative, 11/10, p. 58)

Thank you 2004ever Red Sox.

The Red Sox crush the Yankees in Game 7 of the American League Championship battle and head home for the 2004 World Series. Like the song says: "You'll want someone to talk to / When we finally win it all / And all the years of bad luck / We wash 'em clean one fine fall." And what a fine fall it is. Go Sox!

 Big Thanks to Ernie Paicopolos of FenwayNation.com for featuring Red Sox Blues at his much-respected, 4-year-old fan site. He loves the song and has it playing automatically on a separate page. Check it out. Lots of Red Sox news and resources at Ernie's place.

In response to email requests, WZLX DJ Carter Alan played Red Sox Blues again today on his Sunday Morning Blues show... He spun it leading off a set of "baseball blues," as he called 'em, including cuts by Steve Goodman, Foghat and the Allman Brothers... Big Big Thanks to Carter and all of you who send him requests. You can see an archived playlist for 2/22/04 online here... More news on airplay below.

The band's been named Featured Artist by Digizaar.com... Big Thanks to Digizaar founder Alex Rivest and COO Milana Sobol... Boston-based Digizaar is a new online bazaar and independent artist community offering original skins, music , software, digital art, e-writings and more — for small change, or "micropayments" as they call 'em. Digizaar pays artists the highest percentages I know of... On our artist page there, you'll find all 11 songs from the new album, available in high-quality digital files for just $ .75 each. You can also get the CD and poster art files for a dime... The Featured Artist sidebar will probably be up on Digizaar's homepage thru the end of the month. Other featured bands include Dresden Dolls, Bourbon Princess and Virtuoso.

In game 7 of the ALCS, just after midnite (12:16) in the bottom of the 11th, Aaron Boone hits Wakefield's first pitch of the inning for a walkoff homerun, and the Yankees beat the Red Sox 6-5... [%#!&*^@!!!]... Kinda reminds me of a song... travelin' on... but it ain't easy.

Please join us if you can tonite for our CD Album Release Party at the Horseshoe Cafe , 226 Main St., North Reading, MA (978-664-3591)... Everyone in the band is looking forward to seeing many of you and playing our music for y'all... We'll do the new Chains of Being CD set beginning around 10 pm, including Red Sox Blues, and the core4 will also do a 'round midnite set of classic covers and originals... A Go Sox Rally may break out at any time... I've emailed directions and a map to all of you in the newsgroup, and here's the Press Release again in case you missed it... Fresh-baked, made-with-love CDs await, so come on by and celebrate with us.

In this week's issue of the North Shore Sunday, Lynn reporter Joel Beck puts a positive spin on Red Sox Blues and the song's local buzz... Joel's a born-and-bred Sox fan himself, and I think you'll enjoy his slant on things: check it out online.

Carter Alan played Red Sox Blues again this forenoon after getting lots of recent requests for the song, he said... Big Thanks to you all for the requests. See below for Carter's email  and phone contact info... His Sunday Morning Blues show runs from 9 to noon on WZLX 100.7.... Last time he played the tune, the Sox won a few in a row. Let's hope it happens again and we get into the playoffs!

WZLX 100.7 DJ and Red Sox Heartbreakers Support Group member Carter Alan is spinning Red Sox Blues again. What a guy! On his Sunday Morning Blues show this week, Carter followed Red Sox Blues with Albert King's Born Under a Bad Sign... He also played Brian Maes' Labor Day (The Day After) and scads more new and classic blues, including a cut by the Jimmy Rogers All-Stars — w/his son Jimmy D. Lane plus other heavy hitters. What an honor. What a trip... Check out the full playlist for yourself... Carter has a regular 9am–2pm show each weekday on ZLX; so let him know how you feel anytime: carter@wzlx.com... The entire station is into email these days: for general requests to the ZLX staff, use: requests@wzlx.com.

Red Sox Blues will be featured on the new album we're working on releasing this fall... The album track will include a clip of Carter Alan from his Sunday Morning Blues show.

The CD-single is with most all of the major Boston-area media people right now — including FM DJs, AM radio jocks, TV sports anchors and the Red Sox PA folks. Call or email your requests to your own personal favorites anytime. And it'd be great if you'd make an email request with these FM DJs who've already been playing the tune:

Thanks to Danny Kischel of The Boston Red Sox — he plays the music at Fenway Park games and events — for his voice mail message: "Hey Mike. It's Danny Kischel from the Boston Red Sox... I did play [Red Sox  Blues] during the [BAA] Half Marathon... that ran last Sunday [Oct. 13]... I like it. It's a good tune... We'll probably play it more next year..."

Fenway Park airplay during BAA 2002 Half Marathon.

WBOS 92.9 airplay by Holly Harris on her Blues on Sunday show.

WZLX encore airplay by Carter.

WZLX airplay by Carter on his Sunday Morning Blues show.

20th most-downloaded out of 1,100 on Phoenix mp3 site.

WXRV 92.5 airplay by Zsid.

Receive positive letter from Dr. Charles Steinberg, Red Sox Vice President for Public Affairs.

Tank, WZLX 100.7 Sports Director, first to call with thanks for CD, and says Carter Alan & crew just played the tune offair, for future consideration.

Red Sox Blues CD-single released with free distribution of 100 copies to local music & sports media.