Thank GOD!

I'm back in the ranks of the employed once again. Thank God! Tending bar at the Blue Canoe on Tuscarora Lake. AND I'll be playing there as well. So things are looking up. I swear every time I take a week or 10 days off to go to Florida. Some tragedy occurs. But I can't go into these tragedies as I vow to stay positive in these trying times.
The CD is done and all thirteen tracks are uploaded to my website. Tonight I'm working on two more art projects. Uploading to Tunecore to be able to sell on line and I'm done with Year Of First's. THANK GOD! This CD has been three years in the making and I'm sick of talking about it. I am pleased with the end result though. Thank GOD! I guess the name of this post is Thank God!
Next project I have in mind starts with the Sherburne Pictorial. I'm thinking there are at least a dozen songs from the story's inside this historical gem! Osceola Indian Princess aka Sally Tucker. Captain Thomas Swan (a decedent ) of mine who fell in love with the most beautiful girl in all the world right here in Sherburne (go figure) and quit his seafaring days to marry and become a land locked farmer in Central New York. The octagon house has a story. Elizabeth Gladwin and her book, Grandmother's Doll which is stored at the Sherburne library, needs a read from me.
Much to do and discover. This winter I plan on holing up in the Sherburne Library and learn all that can in this god forsaken forgotten town even if it is falling down around me. Let it snow.

Blogging From The Barge

Thanks to Irene and Dr. Bronner peppermint soap. And to Rich Grant, Steve Skollar, Ed Vollmer and David Williams
The CD is done. The recording part of it is anyway. I've gone back and forth over what I'm gonna call it now for at least a year. I'm going with Year Of First's. So! The songs are in this order.

Damselfly
Year Of First's
Lucky Lou
Dr. Bronner
Truth Of The Matter
Spirit House
Woodchuck And Crow
Finger's Crossed
Winter White Out
Eleanor
Balm For Sorrow
To Long A Song

Photo shoot with Rich this Saturday to get a CD Cover. Just in time for the holidays. I'm will be happy to get beyond this three year period of almost total creative disfunction. Next week I'll upload everything to Tunecore and hopefully sell some music!

To Long A Song

Florida is Florida. I'm always eager to return to escape the every day hum drum of Hamilton. But once there, I'm always more than ready after a week or so, to get back on the road and go home.
This visit, I thought would be different with Bill's father now living in Altamont with Bill's sister. Karen. The condo would be all to ourselves! It was different. I didn't have to watch back to back episodes of Judge Judy and Wheel of Fortune. Bill Sr's favorite shows and suffer through his remote control muting addiction. The pool was way to cold and I couldn't swim and the wind was howling most of the week to walk the beach or ride my bike. There you have it. Freaking Florida limbo land. And the ride down and back is just to long a song. I don' know what will become of the condo. One extremely windy day. Bill had gone out to walk Lou and when returning, the door knob would only spin and spin not opening the latch. Lou was barking, the wind howling through the wind tunnel for what seemed to be at least 3 minutes. Finally I got a butter knife to try and presto! Before I even insert the knife. The door opened. I swear to god it was the work of Francis.
The condo needs so much work. Everything needs updating. Everything. The carpeting, the kitchen boards, the bathroom fixtures, the wall's need painting. Everything. I don't know if I'm up for the task. And then wouldn't you know it. I lost my bar tending job for the time being, at Michaels. Business has slowed considerable since school has started. And being the same old story of my life always being the last one hired I'm the first one they lay off.
The good news is the last song for new CD has landed in my lap this morning. Literally.
Rich will be back from LA and next week we will mix the remaining songs, design the cover and upload it to Tune Core which will digitally distribute them to itunes, Amazon etc. I'm so eager for this project to be over. What I thought would be not one of my better efforts is shaping up nicely. I'm pleased!