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Stalking Delta Spirit

Follow Patrol’s Nathan Martin cross country to hang with California “soul-searchers” Delta Spirit.

By David Sessions    Feb 21, 2008    SHARE

Delta Spirit
Delta Spirit
So this is what happens when wannabe music journalists like us watch Almost Famous. I wasn’t bitten by the bug—I stayed upstairs in my office at the Patrol D.C. headquarters while Nathan lost his mind watching the film on our projection television. Next thing we know, he’s called Delta Spirit and is leaving in a matter of hours to meet up with them in Chicago.

So we’ll play along. I am, after all, quite eager to hear how this buzzing new band does opening for Matt Costa in the Windy City, and what intriguing dirt they have to share with us along the way. You can follow Nathan’s progress on The Scanner and on our new Patrol Twitter account, conveniently posted right here in this article. (P.S. Grace Morgan, a fantastic journalist and good friend of the Patrol staff, is joining Nathan on the trip. Hopefully we’ll get to hear a bit from her, as well.)

Now, let’s grab a martini and stalk Nathan while he’s too busy stalking Delta Spirit to notice.

Updates from Nathan’s Twitter feed:




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