Yep, you read that right, last one. Go figure! Some of us have been in Dr. Dog for longer than we haven’t.   It’s a thing unto itself and it tends to do what it wants. We don’t know what Dr. Dog will do after this, we just know it won’t include going on tour…excepting the tour we’re announcing now, which is going to rule.  Don’t make a horrible mistake you will undoubtedly regret and relive continuously in anguish. Go to the show for all of our sakes.

Singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Michael Nau crafts reflective indie rock tinged with folk and psychedelic influences. He was known for leading the like-minded projects Page France and Cotton Jones in the mid-2000s to early 2010s before beginning to record under his own name in 2016. Though his prior solo releases also featured some version of a backing band, 2018’s Michael Nau & the Mighty Thread rendered his weekender tunes with a more full-band sound.

A native of Maryland, Nau formed his first band in Baltimore in 2004. Calling themselves Page France, Nau (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Whitney McGraw (keyboards, glockenspiel, vocals), Jasen Reeder (bass), and Clinton Jones (drums) released three albums of thoughtful, melodic indie rock in the vein of acts such as Death Cab for Cutie and the Decemberists, beginning with 2005’s Come, I’m a Lion. The band signed with Suicide Squeeze for 2006’s Hello, Dear Wind and 2007’s Page France and the Family Telephone before Nau and McGraw formed Cotton Jones Basket Ride. Establishing a style-blending psych-folk that would become more closely associated with Nau, that project released a self-titled EP before shortened its name to Cotton Jones. Cotton Jones’ full-length debut, The River Strumming, arrived via St. Ives in 2008, and the duo reunited with Suicide Squeeze for 2009’s Paranoid Cocoon and 2010’s Tall Hours in the Glowstream as well as the EP Sit Beside Your Vegetables, released in 2011.

Nau went solo for next recording effort, though his solo debut also featured McGraw — by then Nau’s wife — among its many guests. Built from a selection of several years’ worth of written material that was never fully realized, Mowing was issued by Suicide Squeeze in early 2016. Full Time Hobby gave it a European release later in the year, and his second solo effort, Some Twist, followed in June 2017, also on Full Time Hobby and Suicide Squeeze. The Load EP, a collection of songs that Nau didn’t think belonged on Some Twist, was issued three months later. In 2018, he returned with Michael Nau & the Mighty Thread. Offering more of his dreamy, reverb-sweetened indie pop/rock but with a more robust presence, it was recorded in a Burlington, Vermont apartment with more than a half-dozen contributors, including guitarist Benny Yurco, keyboardist Will Brown, and drummer Graeme Gibson