FAREWELL THOMAS FERRY With heavy hearts we bid farwell to Tom Ferry, who is moving on from The Molenes to work on other projects. Tom has been a big part of this band from the start, and remains a great friend to us, but he needed to find time to pursue other musical avenues and to make room for his own writing. Until we find a permanent replacement (most likely a multi-instrumentalist), we are enjoying playing with guests such as Bruce Derr on pedal-steel (Slaid Cleaves, Say Zu Zu) and Charlie Gaylord on guitar (Diesel Doug and the Long Haul Truckers). Tom, meanwhile, can be seen on occasion playing keyboards with the excellent Mercury Hat.

EARLY AIRPLAY for SONGS Of SIN And REDEMPTION Tracks from The Molenes' new release have entered rotation at more than 70 AMA and college radio stations around the country. Please request a song from the new CD at an Americana-format, independent, or college station near you. Of particular note, we're at #24 in the Top 30 at M3 Radio in New York City. Please send a request and help keep us up there - every play helps!

THE OTHER GOOD NEWS: We now have full samples of five songs from the new album on our MySpace page, as well as edited samples of all the tracks on the Music page right here on our official web site.

On the air... The Molenes have been heard on KRVS (Lafayette, LA), WUMB 91.9, WXRV 92.5 the River, and WMBR 88.1 FM (Boston, MA), WUNH 91.3 FM (Durham, NH), M3 Radio (New York, NH), WRDP (Chicago, IL); WCLZ 98.1 FM, WPOR, and WBLM 102.9 FM (all Portland, ME); WUMF (Farmington, ME), WSCA 106.1 (Portsmouth, NH), NHPR (NH, MA, ME), WXOJ 103.3 FM (Northampton, MA), WMPBN (Maine's NPR stations), dozens of other stations around the US and the world and, bizarrely, on a disporportionately high number of Scandinavian stations. Request them soon at a fine broadcasting establishment near you.

Molenes portrait by Gregory Rec