NORWICH – The members of Oxford-based Panhandle – following a busy summer touring schedule which found the band performing up and down the east coast – have made their way back home to Chenango County and are prepared to record their fourth full-length release and first-ever live album.

For a third straight year, Panhandle will perform on Thanksgiving Eve at the Blarney Stone Pub and guitarist Nate Gross said fans of the band, who’ve been asking for a live release since its inception, will be impressed with the energy he and his bandmates are generating from the stage.

“We definitely amped up our traveling schedule in the last year and it really shows in our playing,” stated Gross, who will be joined once again by bassist Ben Gross and drummer Jeff Landry. “We’ve traveled from Vermont all the way down to Alabama and back again and we’re hoping people remember that we’re still around.”

With three studio albums already under their belt – 2007’s The Bliven House, 2008’s Backhills and 2009’s The Miners Pack – Gross said the decision to record and release a live album was an easy one for he and his fellow musicians.