For the past couple months, I've been following my song's progress on
Neil Young's "Top 1000 Songs of Our Times" website. Now, the project is going LIVE! A concert is being organized in Los Angeles February 10, to feature six artists from the list, and I'm one of them! The event is being organized by
Cindy Lee Berryhill, and will also include performances by John Doe, Josh Hisle, John Hughes, and Jenny Yates, with an invocation by Reverend Madison Shockley.
The concert will be at
Largo, one of the best intimate venues for acoustic music in LA (just ask Aimee Mann, Fiona Apple, or John Mayer, just a few of the notables who have performed there and speak highly of the place). Get this: Audiences are actually QUIET during performances -- people go there because they want to HEAR great music, and they'll quickly correct anyone who thinks the middle of a concert is a good time to yap on their cell phone or gab with their seatmates!
If you're anywhere near Los Angeles, please come join us for this very special show.
Date: February 10, 2007
Venue: LARGO
Address: 432 N. Fairfax Ave, Los Angeles CA 90036
Phone: (323) 852-1851
In other news: Songs from the CD "Letters Home" are now available for download on
iTunes!
More news: We've been booked for a concert at one of the nicest venues in the Napa Valley,
COPIA, for May 17. Please save the date, and invite your friends! It's a pretty large room compared to what I'm used to, and I'm anxious about filling all those seats. It should be a really great show, though -- they have a very professional sound system, and we'll be rolling out some new originals, plus new arrangements of some other songs.
Still more news: Joe and I will be interviewed live on KSVY radio 91.3 on JM Berry's show, Sonoma Valley Music Scene, on Thursday January 25 at 8:00 p.m. If you're out of range, you can listen by streaming the show at
KSVY.org We'll chat, sing a few songs, and try not to embarrass ourselves too profoundly!
And finally: It is with bittersweet feelings that we have to say goodbye to our drummer, "Shoeless" John Fisher, who's decided New Zealand would be a nice place to raise his kids. He'll be missed, but on the upside, maybe he can establish a beachhead there for my future kiwi fanbase!
All my best to you, and please keep listening to "Letters Home" at the link below, to help keep my position in the rankings:
Top 1000 Songs of Our Times