It's been a nice weekend so far, and Monday's looking good too.

We played our two gigs, Saturday night at Crossroads and Sunday afternoon at our friend Scottie's house. There was a crossover of attendees at both, and all the feedback was positive. People really seemed to dig us at both places, and I thought we sounded really good most of the time. Casey had spent the week in Maryland and, trooper that she is, came directly from the airport for the second half of the gig. She showed up, having spent the past seven hours in transit, and stepped right to the mike and brought the goods. A girl in the audience (Helen....... Helen Wheels) requested some Counting Crows, so we played Round Here (actually a song by the Himalayans...) with our friend Buda sharing the vocals. I used to close my acoustic gigs with this one, so it was nice to bring it out again. I think we'll add it to our set...

Sunday's gig was poolside and it was a sober event, so there were minimal drownings and maximums bikini-ings. We were joined for a few songs by an amazing violin player named Carl. The guy was outstanding, and we hope to play more with him and possibly his percussionist friend Benny, who also sat in. I don't mean to marginalize Benny's playing, but I wasn't really able to pay attention to what he was doing with all that was going on.

I was fairly exhausted by the end of the afternoon but stopped by Elwood's on the way home to see if Mike was playing. Unfortunately, he was not. It's prob'ly for the best, 'cos I needed to get some din-din and would have spent much more time there if Mikey had been around.

Monday will possibly hold a visit to Mom's late in the day.

Here's the latest Song O' The Morn playlist:

5/26/07 - Real Love - The Beatles

I remember the thrill of the Beatles' Anthology coming out, and hearing this song for the first time with the surviving Beatles on the track. It wasn't really the Beatles, but it was sorta the Beatles and it was the first time in a long time and that was good enough for me. I pulled out my copy of John Lennon - Free As A Bird - The Dakota Beatle Demos and sadly found that the people at Pegboy Records (whoever they are) made some crappy CDs. It's gone all foggy-looking and will no longer play. Too bad, 'cos there were some haunting recordings on there, many of which were recorded by John through a boom box sitting atop his piano. Very intimate stuff, as I recall.

5/27/07 - When The Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin
Despie the allusions to Chicago, I can only think of New Orleans now when I hear this song (yeah, I know, me and everybody else). Plant is an under-rated harp player (and some may say an over-rated singer. Methinks I hear Dave...). Oh, and those are the brickheaviest drums I've ever heard.

Oh, I nearly forgot: I saw a woman wearing a Mitch Hedberg t-shirt this evening. I gotta get one or five.