It's hard to believe we're just five days away from Saturday, Sept. 4., which we've been anticipating ever since Wheedle's Groove was booked to play at this year's 40th Annual Bumbershoot Festival. Now we have even more reason to be excited. Not only is Saturday the first day of the festival and the day Wheedle's Groove will be shaking things up before New York's Budos Band on the Fisher Green stage, but it's also a sanctioned day for the veteran Seattle soul funkateers. Earlier this week, Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn officially proclaimed September 4, 2010 as Wheedle's Groove Day. Everyone, from the band members and representatives to everyone around Light In The Attic, is tremendously delighted and honored to be regarded so highly on such an historical music weekend in Seattle. You can find us celebrating en masse and dancing like crazy on Saturday at the Fisher Green (State Farm) stage at 3:45pm.

Matt Sullivan remains hard at work attempting to complete Light in the Attic’s reissue of Jim Sullivan’s 1969 album, U.F.O. Scheduled for a November 2010 release, Matt has embarked on quite the journey as he tries to find answers into Jim Sullivan’s mysterious disappearance 35 years ago in Santa Rosa, New Mexico. He has been kind enough to chronicle his story in vivid detail. You can read previous installments here, here, here, here, and here. After tracing their steps through the notable landmarks of Santa Rosa, New Mexico, the desert outpost where Jim was last seen, this most recent, long-awaited dispatch finds our leading man (and his two ace companions) on their way back to San Diego, where Sullivan's wife Barbara and son Chris currently reside: