May 2008

The Pleasure Machine has been featured in the May 2008 issue of Mix magazine. East Coast editor David Weiss visited the studio in late winter, speaking with Head Reveler Travis McGee and C-Doobie Records bodhisattva Konchok Rangmos, along with the Northside Music Complex's Scott Rosenthal and Melody Lanes' Jay Braun. Please read the letter!

Mcleod Ganj is on standby for the North By Northeast Music & Film Festival & Conference, June 12-15 in Toronto. Stay tuned.

C-Doobie Records is pleased to announce the launch of V. 2.0 of our website, featuring new music, a new layout, and direct sale of featured music from our catalog. The C-Doobie t-shirt, featuring the label’s iconic logo, will soon be available.

C-Doobie Records artist Mcleod Ganj has released its debut EP, available at the iTunes Music Store in the U.S., Canada, UK/European Union, Japan and Australia/New Zealand; Amazon MP3, Rhapsody, eMusic, and GroupieTunes (as tracks or ringtones!), and via download or physical CD at www.c-doobie.com.

C-Doobie Records artist Travis McGee & the Revelers proudly announce the release of the hit single, If We Did It. This fine release features the songs “Something Out of Nothing” and “Talk for Clapping” and is imminently available at the iTunes Music Store and via download or physical CD at www.c-doobie.com. In the meantime, pick up the Revelers’ Sin List EP at iTunes or CD Baby.

C-Doobie Records artist Hunting Bigfoot has been busy recording the Peasants With Shotguns EP at The Pleasure Machine, the in-house recording studio of C-Doobie Records, and Cowboy Technical Services. Check this space for updates and release info. In the meantime, pick up Hunting Bigfoot's So Much For Last Year at iTunes or CD Baby.

C-Doobie Records music is recorded at The Pleasure Machine, the label’s in-house recording studio located in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn.

About C-Doobie Records

C-Doobie is an independent record label, publishing and production company based in New York City. C-Doobie albums and tracks are available via download from the C-Doobie Records website and various e-tailers including the iTunes Music Store. Select C-Doobie Records albums, EPs and singles are also available on compact disc via C-Doobie Records and CD Baby.

Additionally, C-Doobie's own Christopher Walsh recorded basic tracks of "Quiet," a song featured on Kieran's McGee's outstanding album Anonymous (Stanton Street Records), and various overdubs on his upcoming release. And if you listen carefully, you might hear him on a couple Jon Spencer Blues Explosion tracks, recorded in 2001 at the old Hit Factory studios in New York and featured on JSBX releases including Plastic Fang.

C-Doobie Blues is the in-house publishing company of C-Doobie Records. All C-Doobie Records songs are published by C-Doobie Blues (BMI), except as noted.

For licensing of songs and master recordings, or for additional information on the C-Doobie Blues catalog, please contact the Under Assistant East Coast Promotion Man at cdoobs@c-doobie.com.

On the Origins of C-Doobie

C-Doobie—it's a long story. In high school, my friends started calling me by my initials, C.W. I don't remember who said it first. There was no explanation that I was aware of, but most kids in a group have a nickname and "C.W." became mine.

Over time, "C.W." was shortened to 'C. Dubs,' and, later, C. Doobie. I don't recall who said that first, either, but it stuck.

In the spring, each of the boys' dormitories would form a softball team, and every night after dinner we would play one another on the expansive lawns of the campus.

We all got t-shirts with our dorm name on the front and nickname on the back. The back of my "uniform," not surprisingly, read "C. Doobie," and thus was immortalized C. Doobie.

But it wasn't until the following year, in college, that C-Doobie really took off, intriguing a new, larger group. Everyone loved this shirt, which I still wore on occasion. When this dorm formed a softball team in the spring, the team itself was named C-Doobie.

Paul Rowan, a veteran of that team and leader of C-Doobie Records artist Hunting Bigfoot, suggested C-Doobie as the name of our fledgling label, besting others under consideration. That's all, really.