We were well looked after at the Mandolin Cafe last night - the new owners Creig and Marla were very appreciative, the crowd was thin but rich in their enjoyment. Someone was saying that they didn’t feel excluded in the way that small audiences sometimes do - performers can sometimes withdraw when few are there […]
We were so glad to be in Portland - our friends Ji and Rebecca are some of the most inspiringly delightful, delicious, generous, RAD people and musicians you'll know. This is one of their bands, the Blue Cranes, with whom we had the pleasure of a cobill at the White Eagle last weekend. People were […]
Isn't there something so, well, almost endearing about foreign (perhaps alien) spam? Just when I'm feeling the unanswered email blues, I get something like this. And I get to be somebody else. I kind of like being a Doris! Not to mention the joy of being a god sent to somebody. A little hard to […]
This guy Don Griswold is awesome. A master ninja of un-self- absorption, he's also a poster child for the Don't-get-cowed-by-big- business school of thought. He bought the Old Liberty Theater, renovated it, and started producing quirky, soulful shows for which he actually (get this) calls the artists back. He deserves a medal, and though the […]
The Applegate - after a string of happenin' Bay Area shows, we were a little anxious over how this one would be. Well, unlike the classic story line of coming back to Earth after flying high, the Applegate felt like we stumbled onto a whole other world. The show, though thinly attended, gave us one […]
It was quiet and calm hundreds of feet above the sea and we practiced "Not You, Dad" there, a song of gratitude for our father, and a reminder of the kind of people we're striving to be. I think a recording is still up on our podcast on iTunes… We love you, Dad. San Luis […]
We had such a lovely couple days in SF that we fully forgot to write. A really nice gig in Mountain View, where we had an enthused and happening crowd at the Dana St., with great coffee and people to boot. This photo is of us with Jeff Kaliss, a great music writer and friend […]
Just because there's nothing on the calendar doesn't mean a band isn't experiencing something… we got pulled over yesterday - on foot! - in Salt Lake City for jaywalking as we tried in vain to get to Whole Foods, lone bastion of New Mexico hippie culture. The officer who checked our records was very nice […]
Yesterday we set out from Colorado toward the west coast, over roads we've seen a hundred times. The land North of Lake City always used to bum me out a bit as we descended from the high mountains, but seeing it in winter's transformational light rendered all that moot. Light dusting of snow, golds and […]
The people of Lake City have long been one of our favorite tribes of mountain folk. We got the rock and roll moment of recent memory last night, playing as part of a surprise party for our wonderful friend Amy Jo. Everybody thought the film of us they were seeing was part of a birthday […]