Drums- Grubdog Mitchell
Electric Guitar- Landis Armstrong
so this was recorded at the hot monk in Novato, California, a song off of Fog and Bling released in 2019. I wrote this song on a little digital Korg keyboard. When I write on Keys, I know even less about what I’m playing than when I write on stringed instruments. It’s a song about alienation and social awkwardness of which I experienced in a big way in my young life as a teenager. Mostly this is sort of a romantic impression of some of those feelings, a fantasy, if you will of my young self perhaps, or some other person feeling this loneliness, this disassociation from the “real world. “ there maybe a skosh of Romeo and Juliet in these young lovers who disappear together into the wild, wild open world. In there escape they discover the beauty of the actual real world skies. The rivers, trees, and skies. I like to think in someway, they find themselves and live happily ever after, which I have, thank you very much.
This performance was part of three different shows I did in California. I believe it was in August 2024 the anchor date being a a reading/musical performance with my good friend Roy Ruth in Fresno. Landis Armstrong, who played guitar on this recording is a mutual friend with Mr. Ruth as well and we both traveled out to do the show with him. I picked up a couple of more shows to offset some of the costs of travel. We played Sacramento the night before with my old friend Grubdog Mitchell on drums. Together we formed a pretty hip and cool little trio that I wouldn’t mind performing with again sometime. Maybe if I'm out in California doing a poetry reading with Roy Ruth again one day that could happen. We had a full house this night at Hopmonk and really just enjoyed playing these songs for a very appreciative crowd. I hope you like it
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