We talked over the past week a little more about the next CD and it looks like we'll try to record in August sometime.  We're going to go ahead and book the time and that will give a deadline for me to come up with some more tunes.  I will devote more time to writing knowing that there is the session coming up.  Also, we talked a bit about what instrumentation we will use on the CD; that also will affect how I write.  We're planning to do more original tunes on this CD.  I'm anxious to try out some new stuff.

I played solo guitar tonight at Kalachandji's restaurant, the vegetarian restaurant at the Hare Krishna temple in Dallas.  I always enjoy it and would like to be able to play there more often.  I will try to make that happen.  Playing solo is a good outlet for me; I can try out new stuff and take chances that I might not take with the trio.  Tonight I played "Tangerine" at a faster tempo than I'm really comfortable just to see if I could do it.  It came out OK.  I also like to experiment with the RC-20 Loop Station, layering lines on top of each other.

Also played a wedding reception this afternoon with a quartet.  It was a good group.  The music was a good mix of jazz standards and a few pop things towards the end.  Busy day! 

Added 6-14-07:  It's starting to get warmer and may soon be too hot to play much at Kalachandji's.  I have been playing once or twice a week for over a month and really enjoy it. 

We are beginning to consider recording the second CD of the Sam Walker Trio.  Right now, it is only a thought.  We have yet to select or write new music, talk to possible guest artists to play on our CD (although there has been some discussion about that - maybe piano this time around), or set a date to go into the studio.  I am hoping it happens sometime this summer while we all have a little more time to devote to it.  I will try to post something regularly about the progress of things here to keep you updated.  For now, we are thinking, next is feeling and then willing...