With Deer Tick’s 2010 album, “The Black Dirt Sessions” coming off as a highly personal and intimate record, Deer Tick’s frontman, John McCauley, along with guitarist / vocalist Ian O’Neil have announced eight shows in January 2011 where the duo will perform songs from that record in smaller rooms, as well as older Deer Tick songs, cover tunes and songs from McCauley’s other project, Middle Brother (formerly MG&V).