AMERICA

Here I Come
LL

     It's been nearly 8 years since I took a Greyhound Discovery Pass tour around the USA. Much has changed, much has been lost, much needs to be recovered, and nobody ever gets any younger. Although I believe, within the physical limits aging imposes, that youth is a state of mind. Don't give up the ship, or the ghost for that matter!

     This past winter has been a huge growth time for me. A woodshedding space was provided for me, and with studio time included in December my music grows in leaps and bounds. Melodies for several songs I once only strummed chord changes to. (Nineth-Wave, Surf-A-Jesse...) Reggae arrangements for several songs. Plus I've assembled a book of old favorite songs I've always loved, like AS TIME GOES BY, THAT Lucky OLD SUN, and GEORGIA, ON MY MIND.

     I'll be doing house concerts, playing public places, parks, college campus gates (like the one in my avatar picture at my alma mater Indiana University) and maybe some mystery guest appearances so far.

     Towns I'll visit, Bloomington, IN, Louisville, KY, Baton Rouge, LA, St Petersburg, FLA, Atlanta, GA, Columbus, OH, Syracuse, NY, Rome, NY, Seattle, WA, Portland, OR, Kalispell, MT, Missoula, MT, and other places too numerous for this blog today.

     The Pass I have is good for 60 days from 5/21. If you'd like me to visit your town, and especially if you'd like to trade a couch, guest room for a house concert, send me a message here at busker4freedom

OH...one last thing. My deep gratitude to Country Joe McDonald for posting a re-write of his FIXIN' TO DIE RAG I sent him in 1999, it's been in his ALL THE FIXINS file at countryjoe.com for these past 10 years.  When The WholEy HOG REALLY FLIES