Everything I can say about your situation you already know.

I love your honesty. I suspect that honesty and music are your drugs.

Both of your lives are real. Both have good potential.

I'm glad you got a chance to visit home. I think you need it on a regular basis. You have to set the pace of your own life.

Your parents sounds like I'd like them.

You are truly an awesome guitar player.

Tell you dad if he needs money for the 10 albums, just let me know. 

Tell the writers that when you were 12, you and a friend named Buzz were on a bus. A beguiling red-headed teenager sat in the seat in front of you. You and Buzz thought she was really pretty. It was a long bus ride to Memphis and you and Buzz ended up getting to know Red and sitting with her all night, cuddled up in a blanket. And that's where the album name came from.

Here's to your happiness. Go for 5%, love.

LOL @ New York Kaki vs. Atlanta Kaki.

It just sounds like you need a break from everything. You have done three albums in three years. Then you do the touring behind it all. It really seems like you haven't just STOPPED for a while (not that I'm complaining. lol ) But sometimes you just need to be still. Chill at home with the family and do all the old shit you usta do. Or nothing at all, if it feels good.

Thats awesome about your sister by the way. I'm trying to get into law school and its nothing easy.

But anyways, just focus on the positive things. I am SOOO Happy with the album. I didnt think I'd like it as much as I do. Really happy for you. Good work. Your Dad is awesome. lol. And you do get to do what you love for a living. Some people never experience that.

Enjoy every moment of it.

But take a break from it soon.

W/Love, Ericka

kaki,

I love your music! I live in Arkansas, I saw you at Juanitas you opened for G-love and special sauce. Never before have I purchased a cd as quick as I did yours. I read your blogs, And this is the best once yet. Boring is fucking aswsome sometimes so I feel you and Arkansas is as hot as a whore in church with a fifty dollar piece waiting outside! So, this is like a double sense of getting to know you. In me you have a fan for life, one who will make anyone in earshot listen to this "awsome artist I saw at Jaunitas one night".  And even if you do what most artist do and put out at least one sucky ass cd. I promise you I will own it. I may not listen to it , but I will own it. I hope to see you in concert again and soon.

Abbye

Abbye.

you're real and fantastic and human like the rest of us.  we just love you for that.  i hope the 2% is enough to balance the scale.  some of us really need what you're doing.  you're healing people, whether you know it or not.  this past week i've been walking to work instead of driving, and i've been singing to the sidewalk and the trees and shrubs.  they by now know that they don't have to be afraid of the pain inside of them, and that if they open themselves they'll become the light they see, and also that the best instrument in the world is still the piano, but i think they already knew that because i've been preaching that for a while now.

thank you kaki.  for everything.

I come from a very small town in northern New Mexico but make my home now in Los Angeles.  That is about as far away from each other as you can get.  I completely understand the meloncholy feelings that have stirred up in you.  I feel the same way when i visit and find that i really do love my hometown and all my family there but would suffocate from boredom if i stayed there longer than was necessary.  It is a fine line for sure.  But it also, like yourself, allows me to examine the person that i am at each place.  And you know what, also very much like you, i find that i like both of them very very much. 

Thanks for the insight.  I look forward to seeing you next month here in LA.  Your new cd is maintaining some semblence of sanity for me while i traverse the freeways of LA.  THAT is the best review anyone can possibly get!! ;)

this is a beautiful post. if you were straight i think i would probably try to call you every day until you either agreed to marry me or put a restraining order on me. (whichever comes first) i'd travel around on the bus with you and give you backrubs and you'd ask me if i liked this or that riff, or in the case of the restraining order option, i'd just not do any of that. 

just letting you know the option is there if you ever, you know, feel experimental.

i'm in awe of the way you play and you are an incredibly interesting and reflective person. i like the way your brain works and you just seem to be really cool about how you think about your art.

anyway, i'll stop creeping you out, now. i'm excited to see you play at north by northwest in philadelphia sept. 8, if you look for me, i'll be the one with the wistful, dreamy expression in his face.

Super Kakilakious n' stuff. I dig your mind as much as your music, I think. You're just so damn cute.

Take care, and get those track descriptions out to us... we deserve to know too. Btw, it is a very well-done album.

Your honesty is so intriguing. I admire your ability to be so candid with all of this. Wish I could do the same.

Anyways--I got the ablum early Tuesday and absolutely love it. I'm moving to LA Sept. 1, so hopefully I can make it to the Knitting Factory to see you again! Best,

A~

That's heavy. Sorry about the France incident, I too have been in a few simular situations that will linger for life. I was actually there when they unplugged my mom from life support, but as hard as things have been, I'm afraid of fucking with the meds. I guess I worry that it will create more problems in the long run. That's just me tho. Thanks for putting up with all the bullshit to share that 2 percent, it is well worth it. The new album rocks, it feels like you are becoming more comfortable in your own skin - if that makes any sense.

Well, see you in North Hampton.

Keeping intouch with the Beauty of Nature..wherever you are....helps keep the body ,soul and mind grounded.....Love your creations of Beauty>>>>>>>>

not to add to your fears...but the fear of death is perfectly natural and we all fear it...you think that's the worst that's happened on this planet? LOL...I know it's different when you see it first hand...but don't worry...I think the reason most people feel troubled about this life even if they do find some sanctuary and success is because who really cares about us? Our friends and the people who love our music...that's it. Ten thousand years from now if humanity doesn't destroy itself will completely forget about us...at best we will be an ancient chapter in history that kids complain learning about. Listen to this Kaki I say this with the most utmost love for you and your life...everything matters and nothing matters. Everything matters because we live in an insanely miraculous universe with no explanation (although Einstein did prove that time is being controlled by an outside force and that the future is a dimension unto itself)...and nothing matters because everything must pass, must die. I know it seems so foul that someone could die so gruesomely and abruptly, but that is the human condition. I know most people nowadays think it's crazy, but it's true...the only thing that can save us is spirituality. I don't know your stance on God...I'm not christian or religious but I have a very strong belief in God...and I think heaven is a unity with the forces of the universe...a burning of pure energy...think about it...the happiest we feel is when our brains are using the most energy it can use at one time...(despite the untrue rumor that we only use ten percent of our brains....using one hundred percent of our cerebral cortex at a time is impossible and would probably induce insanity)...chemicals are part of the responisbility for euphoria but it is mostly how much electricity is pumping through our brains. Anyway...think about it...don't feel bad for the dead...feel...heh...grateful.

long live jerry garcia. peace

patrick

Wow that must have been scary.

I was in london on a double decker bus and we hit a guy on a bike. It was so scary

Michelle Packman from the group Vialicia:

I want to say that i know your pain. I want to say that I undestand, but I obviously don't, because i still havent learned how hard making it in music can be. I am a sucker and i hate to say it, but despite all the warnings and complaints about the field from older, seasoned musicians, my youth and stupidity keeps me going. I cant stop. But for you, it seems to be worth it. maybe later when you go over to NY and feel excited about your music, you'll feel different, but i know sometimes when the music stops, the weird sick feelings come back too. Anyway, I just want to say how cool it is that you're so down to earth and that my band buddy, jaci and I have so much respect for what you do. Thanks for giving up a few seconds of your life, maybe we can hope to offer something boring for you to read. Thanks.

I must have a garamond font!Hi Kaki.I'm a new fan. I heard you on Echoes, then immediately sold my guitar. Clonopin numbs it all...you know the rest of the lyrics. I lost two weeks of my life just from taking one a day of that shite. If I were you I would switch to chocolate and scotch. Keep up those beautiful tones.  Daniel Madore, Rogue Valley, Oregon.

Georgia is nice. Yeah, Peter Mulvey said he get's paid to drive and stay in hotel rooms. The music is free.