…the Long Beds and I performed at Phoenix Park (with Mary Cutrufello) last week. Specifically, the song about The Joynt, the Eau Claire bar with the big neon sign that says “NO LIGHT BEER.” The song is called “Harry Was Right,” and it’s a hidden track on the Tiny Pilot album. It’s not available on the digital download version. You can also hear it if you go to The Joynt and play it on the jukebox, which warms our heart indeed. I wrote about The Joynt in Truck (that and other connections between the books and the music here).
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Mary Cutrufello Guesting With Long Beds
NOTE: ORIGINAL POST SAID JUNE 7, that was…umm…wrong. It’s June 9. Yes it is.
I’m honored to say that when the Long Beds show up to play at Phoenix Park on June 9 (and at the Mousetrap later that same night) there will be five of us, as Mary Cutrufello has consented to be an honorary Long Bed for the evening.
Among other things, Mary can let’er rip.
Sounds Like Summer 2011
The Long Beds are pleased to announce that we’ll be part of Volume One’s “Sounds Like Summer” concert series. Listening to music in the grass on a summer night down by the river…it’s a fine thing. To get an idea of why more and more folks keep flocking to this event, have a look at these photos.
We’ll be playing June 9, details here (here we are playing inside) But don’t just wait on us – enjoy the music all summer long.
Because He Needs All the Help He Can Get
In support of his new album Bon Iver, our friend and neighbor Justin Vernon has announced his band’s upcoming tour. Let’er rip, sir.
Honored…
…to be a small part of this.
Here, Piggy…
Fencing for beefers is progressing, we have a fresh batch of chicks due to arrive in a week or so (thus, actual spring would be nice), and next week we’ll be getting feeder pigs. The photo below was taken of our last batch, fairly early in their career. The wheelbarrow is full of acorns: here’s the story on that, and here’s the story on how some of the acorns were gathered. And here’s the album we were working on when we gathered the acorns.
Photo Album From Appleton Show
Wow, a neat bunch of photos from the show we played in Appleton. The venue was beautiful, as you can see, and they gave us great sound to match. This was a fundraiser for the Fox Cities Book Festival. Thank you to everyone who sold out those seats!
Just a Fall Crick Boy at Work
The guy in white there? On the giant stage before thousands? He’s our friend and neighbor and we’re proud of him in an Aunts-and-Uncles sorta way. We know how hard he’s worked…full video here.
Photo From the Road
Thank you to everyone who attended the recent Long Beds shows. Next one is in Appleton (combo of music and storytelling). Here’s a photo from the Sheboygan show, sent by Jason:
Working On A Song
Although I’m mainly a Farm & Fleet sort of fellow when it comes to music, I’ve recently had the opportunity to work on a song with jazz musician Geoffrey Keezer. It’s been an internet-based collaboration, with all communication via email (Geoffrey and I have never met, nor have we ever spoken, even on the phone).
After Geoffrey sent me an instrumental track, I put it on repeat and listened to it for a long time, trying to decide what I felt. I decided it made me feel like it was autumn and I was lonely. So I wrote this first verse:
Milkweed and heartbreak in the letterbox
Is the summer gone?
Will the snow fall to the sound of beating wings?
I thought I saw you at the corner shop
Ink and paper days
But you were floating far beyond the autumn haze.
Like a red leaf…on a blue wind
Far beyond me…forever turning
Like a red leaf…on a blue wind…your blue wind
Rest of the story and song (with audio) after the page break. (more…)
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