Well, Easter has come and gone. Today I ate my last hard-boiled dyed egg–longtime Easter tradition–and thought about fertility and renewal and spring while eating it. Just kidding! I thought about how it needed salt.

Behold! The final egg!

Over the weekend I went to see Patty Griffin at the Wiltern. She is one of my all-time favorite singer-songwriters, and her show did not disappoint. I found myself weeping two or three times…Especially when she played a haunting, gorgeous, solo acoustic version of “Mary”…MAN she’s awesome.  WOW. HOLY MOLY AWESOME. That’s about all I have to say about that….Really rad.  Plus the super cool Buddy Miller opened for her and played in her backing band…Yeehaw!

...And the band played on...

Finally, to continue with this totally non-chronological blog, I just got back from a delightful interview/lunch with Mr. Jim Markunas, none other than editor-in-chief of CWG Magazine…VERY COOL. We spent 2 hours talking about everything from jazz (difficult!) to coffee (jittery!)…He despises Michael Jackson’s music and is ambivalent about the beach, and somhow I found myself loving him anyway. Well-played Jim!

I'm pretty sure I just whispered something outrageous in Jim's ear...

That’s it for now kids! I’m getting really excited about my show on the 27th…I’m also excited about my 6 week routine to get me able to do 100 pushups. Right now I think the show has a better chance of happening than the 100 pushups…But I have high hopes for both!  ;)

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Ahhh…The desert…Brings to mind that song that everyone thinks was done by Neil Young but was really done by America, and I don’t even like it but still–it brings it to mind: “A Horse With No Name”…Yesterday I went hiking in the desert wild, found water, got into a bitter rancher’s war, won, sold my cattle and retired. I think I’ll go into the music business…

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We had such a blast at our cd release show last week that we’re doing it again…Going to rock it out full band style on a Tuesday night again! This time it’s late April, we’ll wear different patterned shirts, I predict Danny’s hair will still be bigger than mine, and we may even pull out a surprise tune or two…You WON’T want to miss this!! (Or if you do want to miss it then I guess you’re just not as cool as I thought you were, now are you?)  :) :)

In other news, I’m hacking and coughing like I learned how to smoke from Bette Davis. I don’t smoke. But I’m just saying. I’m over it.

And in still OTHER news, I should have some new and exciting tour dates to announce coming up here pretty soon!! Did I mention I have a new album out?  love and kisses…

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Just a sampling of shots taken by esteemed photographer Steve Dashew at my cd release party last week… ;)

Oooh, cherry red!

Danny the Manny on trumpet and exotic print shirt...

I think I'm happy...

I KNOW I'm happy!

Bass! How low can you go? Death Row...Erik Kertes...

Matt Mayhall not only set up drums, he PLAYED them too!

Did I mention this is fun?

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Howdy kids…We had a BLAST last week at the CD release party. We rocked and rolled and had a lovely crowd. I drank a little too much champagne and ended up in a swimming pool with a chimpanzee at 3 o’clock in the morning. Just kidding. There were TWO chimps! Again, I kid. Or do I? :) At any rate, we cobbled a little bit o’ video…Check it out! Pics to come! Yay!

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