Call Me Al

So this video is, I don’t know how old it is. It says it’s two years ago, but this was during 2020. I know because this was part of the Sequestered Songwriter’s Facebook live stream that I joined about halfway through the Covid shut down. It was run by Jason Eady and Courtney Patton. They organized all of their friends doing a theme night each week. It was Paul Simon night for this one. What was also great about the sequestered songwriters themes, they gave us all something to learn, something to focus on, something to plan for. That is one thing live streams in general were great for. As I travel around the country people come up to me and tell me how much my live streams The Ribfry meant to them, their friends and family. I truly entertained a lot of people, more than I realized. Sequestered Songs was just one more thing that we could all enjoy and bond over and share with the fans. They were all cover songs, but I learned a lot of great songs. This is one of my favorite ones. I just ran across this randomly looking through old recordings, cleaning up my dropbox and some other files, listening to things. I remember doing this But gosh dog it’s really good. I did it way better than I remember. I mean it’s not perfect but that’s not the point to be perfect right? perfect is boring and I’m never boring. I just thought it’d be fun to share it here at Substack. It’s probably a lot of you may or may not look through all the YouTube videos I have. There’s tons of stuff out there, but most of them have only hundreds of views. They haven’t been seen by hardly anybody. I think I’ll start sharing some things that I liked especially from that Covid live stream era. There’s a lot of great stuff that I think in the coming years we’re gonna start seeing a lot of, appreciating it more for what it actually was. Yes, it was a reprieve from our nightmare lives. But taken on its as its own on without the surrounding context of circumstances there were a lot of cool performances that went down in livestream and we’re gonna have that forever. It’s like it’s a treasure trove and one that should be preserved. I think all you archivists out there get to work