the photographer Peter Gibson was at the Brooklyn show a few weeks back; I've been enjoying his photos, which speak in their own way about this new musical season
Recent news from jonnyrodgers.com:
As of September 3rd, 2009
Just outside of Bend, Oregon, during a trip to the west coast, visiting family, friends, playing shows, etc... I did a show just outside of Eugene, Oregon last week, before which we combed all of the thrift-stores in town for a working set of Wine Glasses. Though a little chipped, slow to speak and rough around the edges, I managed to do a fun and compelling show with them, in conjunction with a fundraiser for mine and Desirea’s upcoming trip to Cambodia with Love146. I’ve been a spokesperson for Love146 for some time, so I’m glad to begin doing more extensive work with them in the fall. More on that as the fall advances... I’m leaving the Wine Glasses with a twelve-year-old pianist named Mercy who spent the after-show party playing the glasses with unbroken concentration. I thought it was interesting and fitting, since I’d performed Peter Gabriel’s Mercy Street on glasses as my last song.
Desirea and I also visited Portland and Seattle during our trip here, wonderful cities each, and alluring in different ways. I also spent an enjoyable afternoon at my father’s church in Sacramento, CA, playing a hand-built replica of a 17th century German church pipe organ, complete with a manual-pump-bellows and Nightingale Stop, all in quarter-comma-meantone temerament. Pure Thirds!!! Wolves!!!
Visits to lava fields at 5000 foot elevation, and riding former cow-herd horses down dusty Oregon high-desert trails. Even finding some time to wrestle with the soon-to-be-released extended-single for Spare Them All, the choral song recorded during the Aviary sessions, along with some new goodies which I’ll leave as a surprise.
I’ve been playing some “lovely shows” with John Biatowas on violin; just the two of us in various cities. Keep your eyes open for us in September.
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