and now i've been to florence, oregon...

...and masssachusetts (is the miss flo diner still there?), florence in south carolina and the original firenze...


the view from the balcony of old town florence over the bridge.

the bridge

and again

listening to the buffalo springfield  reunion

top ten things you don't wish to hear when on the road....

dateline: florence, oregon


number seven...upon arrival at a (locked) coffeeshop gig in coos bay (from the owner of the guitar shop next door)..."they locked the place up on tuesday, haven't seem 'em since...".  one lone poster (mine) in the window...and i could have really used a cup of coffee...

so,  instead i'm up the road in florence...one of those places where the trees grow right up to the shoreline...off-season, got a view of the bay...all in all...

listening to fabrizio de andre ~ cruze de ma

glory glory, hallelujah!

...and thank you president theodore roosevelt...

nice to know there's a free speech zone...

OCEAN!!!!

busy busy busy

dateline: san jose, california


having such a great time at the FAR-West folk alliance confab that there's been no time to tell you about it!

da road...

dateline - pyramid lake, california

because sometimes you just need to pull over and look....

Ah, the DIY life...

Dateline: Pasadena, California

another fun day off on the road...update website, check...create new DVD for myself and the other Bat Kat artists, check...sign up for a nimbit.com account, check...draft of an email announcement for the "black river" single and the new CD....well, i'm working on that.........contact the refrigerator repairman back home in santa fe and then the parts place and then get the right parts ordered and delivered to the repairman.....well, that's where the wine comes in.

not a total DIY guy, though.  here's the cover to the black river single and the cover to the soon to be released the man in the time machine album...both courtesy of italian photographer raoul iacometti and santa fe graphic artist andrea multari at whole brain design 

looking forward to tomorrow night's show at the firefly bistro...

buckhorn opera house and saloon (part 2)

dateline pinos altos, nm

the locals (watched over by sally)

oh, and the buffalo...mustn't forget the buffalo...

very special guest mike sautter...hadn't seen him in about 17 years

mike and his bride pookie...

(sister of my old partner david truly...of truly dangerous swamp band fame)

...by the second night, i noticed she was carrying a gun...

AND you can see mexico from here

it really is a fun gig.  i don't play too many saloons anymore.  had a ball remembering old beatles and dylan tunes and jamming with mike on some of my new stuff.  my buddy jono manson is playing here next weekend....try to catch the show if you're in the neighborhood...and i will definitely be back!

the buckhorn opera house and saloon (part one)

dateline: Pinos Altos, NM

these folks at the Buckhorn obviously didn't get the "funky funky band house" memo...

...AND it's a great gig!

these dreadful commutes

dateline: Gila National Forest

just another crappy drive to work...

i'll get through it somehow

i yam what i yam (and where i yam)

dateline chester, illinois

see?  ya just never know...one minute you're driving down a two lane country road in southern illinois, you pull into a small town and find a giant statue of wimpy in the town square...turns out that chester, illinois is the hometown of popeye the sailor's creator, e.c. segar...i was kind of bummed that the official popeye museum was closed on this early saturday morning.  i LOVE this stuff...i once got a private tour of the roger miller museum in erick, oklahoma, conducted by an older woman who turned out to be roger's neice. she delighted in showing me an old school essay on which a 4th grade roger said he wanted to grow up and play songs on the radio...or the time i got a tour of the tom mix museum in which the elderly tour guide said, "you see that aluminum suitcase right there?  that's the very suitcase what hit tom in the head and killed him when he crashed his car."....of course none of that could hold a candle to the time i saw emmett kelly's clown nose...but that's a whole 'nother story........

WELCOME!

...well, this seems as good a place to start as anywhere. since one of the things i'll be doing here is posting photos from the road, i figured i'd start with my all time favorite road shot....i was on tour in italy and sitting in a sidewalk cafe in florence waiting to meet jono manson. we were doing a concert that night across the street in this wonderful venue, the teatro del sale...the camera went off without my knowledge and when i was checking my photos after getting home, there it was...