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Archive for June, 2010

Miscellaneous Grumpy Note Written in a Coffee Shop

Seriously, bud?  Your taste in jazz is so exquisite that you have to turn your computer speakers up and set them in tinny competition with the coffee shop sound system, currently playing Blind Boys of Alabama? Sometimes I wish I wasn’t such a polite Midwestern boy.  (Delightfully, he was caught out when – apparently forgetting that his player was set to “mix” – the jazz song came to a close and was followed heels-on by the opening riff of AC/DC’s “Hell’s Bells.”  Dude nearly broke his wrist fast-forwarding to a free-form sitar piece.)

Tiny Pilot Lyrics Added

Little while back I finally entered the lyrics for most of the songs on Tiny Pilot (excepting the hidden track available only on the CD version).  They’re here.  Of course the label master would want me to tell you that the poster/lyric sheet insert included with the actual CD also includes full-color photos of the recording session (including humorous captions) and little notes giving the background of each song.

Well I’ll Be Danged

If it ain’t ol’ Sammy Kershaw.  Showin’ some age.  So am I.

Man, one of my favorite voices.  You ever hear “Yard Sale”?  The video may ease over into cheese, but those vocals and those lyrics are stone cold country and demonstrate that one need not retreat up a quill-and-ink garret to plumb the barren depths of the soul.  Desolation, right on Main Street in Smalltown, U.S.A.  Just follow the cardboard signs…

Good to hear him again.

Hunkered in the Super 8

Mid-point of the East Coast tour.  Been goin’ good.  Hunkered down now in a Super 8 off the beaten track, schedule is such that I can stay in one place for a couple of nights, a rare treat.  Gonna do some book store stops, but also some typing.  And send a postcard home.

Thanks to the Harper crew supporting me from NYC and thank you to the booksellers and readers who have been hosting and greeting me all along the way.  Everywhere I go a friendly space awaits.  How neat that is.

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