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Kid Meets Cougar prepares to leave town

So what happens to The Clydesdale?

Kid Meets Cougar

Photo: Checko Salgado

Swirling rumors to the contrary, The Clydesdale is not, apparently, in search of a new drummer. Courtney Carroll isn’t going anywhere ... well, not long-term, anyway, she insists.

“We just want to see where the wind takes us,” Carroll explains. “We might get sick of it in a month and come right back; we don’t know.”

“We” is Kid Meets Cougar, the little indie side project-turned-serious endeavor she shares with boyfriend and musical partner Brett Bolton. The two have lofty ambitions for the coming year—trying their luck on the road, in a very nontraditional way. The plan has KMC departing in February. From there ...

“We’re going to travel around and see where we like, [then] we’ll plant for about a month in that city,” Carroll says.

“I think the tour will make itself as we go,” Bolton adds. “As soon as we come into town we’ll make enough acquaintances to get some shows together. The worst thing that could happen is we break down somewhere, but that’s a whole other adventure in itself.”

The idea hatched last summer, during KMC’s tour with Pan de Sal. “We had the realization that we could just hop in the van and go wherever we want,” Carroll says.

The pair’s impending trip has already affected one other local outfit: Bolton recently signed off as Bee Movie the Band’s primary drummer. “They knew it was coming,” he says. “I’ve wanted to do this for a while, [and] they’ve all been really cool about it. I’ll still be recording some stuff with them; [there just won’t be] a lot of time for live shows.”

As for The Clydesdale, Carroll says she intends to remain a member of the popular cowpunk quartet. “When I told them, [bassist] Jason [Aragon] was like, ‘Oh, cool, you can get us shows out of town then,’” Carroll says. “So maybe they’ll just hop in their van and come out and play some shows, too.”

Aragon doesn’t sound quite as certain of The Clydesdale’s future. “Long-term I don’t know, but short-term we’re definitely losing momentum,” he says. “Bands go on hiatus all the time, and whether you can come back as strong as you’ve been, it’s hard to say.”

Still, he’s quick to add that Carroll remains the drummer for The Clydesdale. “Once you start replacing people, you start losing the same original feel or sound,” Aragon says.