Early December Update: End-of-Year Polls, Shows, Rolling Stone
(EDITED 12/4/18, 7:52pm CST) Happy, if somewhat under-caffeinated, greetings from a gray and cold early December morning in east Nashville. How’s it going out there? Isn’t the mall just lovely this time of year? I wouldn’t know; I haven’t been! I do hope you’re choosing to buy as much local, small business stuff as possible […]
Tour Journal #2 of 2 / December Shows/ Vinyl and More
Hello, friends! First things first: DECEMBER SHOWS: Saturday 12/1: Kelly House Concert in St. Louis. My friend, the uber-talented Steph Graham, joins me once again at one of my very favorite house concert venues! STL, please come on over; I’m always thrilled to play this room. For more info, contact: kellyhouseconcert@gmail.com Friday 12/7: Enoch’s Pub, […]
Tour Journal #1/ from Goshen, Indiana
Tour Journal #1 8:05 am Best Western, Goshen IN rm. 202 Dark night, literally and otherwise, coaxes up a chilly gray morning; the soft edges of it frame the deep brown curtains across the window. Old-school motel architecture here—2 floors, no elevator. Room doors open on to the balcony/walkway; the rails once painted a daffodil […]
Internal Monologue, Hotel Hallway, Effingham redux
Has it been two weeks? Same town, different hotel. Brown paisley hallway carpet–nice, if kept in the periphery of one’s vision. Far end of my floor, direction I’m walking, there’s a small window and down there, out on the “landscaped” grounds is a scrawny maple tree, about my height, all a-fire in red leaves, being […]