Grreat, yet another new posting interface. Can't imagine why they think this is better.

New truck today. WOOHOO! 2003 Chevy S-10 extended cab. Killer price.

Updated listening list:
Harvey Mandel - Cristo Redemptor
BoDeans - Home
Prince - Very Best Of

Also, one of the weird little coolnesses of a musician's life - stumbled across an old off-the-radio tape from 1983. We'd make these to help us figure out what to learn next. Some songs I had COMPLETELY forgotten about by Rick Springfield, Don Henley, the Call, and (I think) 38 Special. Plus some more that I hadn't heard for a really long time from The Cure, INXS, Chris DeBurgh (Don't Pay the Ferryman - great tune), Duran Duran, and the English Beat. Made for a magical trip down memory lane.

I've got some even older Casey Kasem countdown tapes somewhere - I should dig 'em out.

Wow, my listening list is so far outta date...

...I think I'll just start listing 'em here:

Oxford American mag: 2003 Southern Music Sampler
Steely Dan: Everything Must Go
Vanguard Records: 2001 Sampler
Cream: 20th Century Masters
Morphine: Greatest Hits, 1992-95
Jeff Beck Group: Rough 'n' Ready
Radio Deutshe Orchestra: Bach: Brandenburg Concertos 1-3, 6
Clare College Choir: Rutter: Requiem
Return to Forever: Where Have I Known You Before
Uncut Mag: Psychedelic Sampler
Return to Forever: Light as a Feather
Dusty Springfield: The Ultimate Collection

Any Mountain fans out there?

Here's the story behind the dedication for Nantucket Sleighride.

I had no idea. Apparently not the story of the song itself - not much connection to the lyrics...

Well, I HAVE been working in the studio a bit, just not talking about it here...

Voice classes at college this summer have made a real difference in my singing - my recorded voice is still not gonna give a real singer a run for the money, but it's at least less painful to listen to.

So, follow this link:
Beautiful Still
for a song I wrote for Kim last year, and finally recorded a scratch vocal for.

Or follow this link:
NoWhereRadio
for:
1) Baby Baby Girl, a song I wrote for Alyssa,
2) Lift, a rock/gospel setting for Charles Wesley's "Rejoice, the Lord Is King", and
3) a far more polished version of "Beautiful Still", performed by my friend Al Carmichael. I don't think any vocal class will ever get me singing like THAT...

Wow - Blogger weirdness. Strange new interface at the back end. Apparently I'm the victim of an autodetect scheme that says I don't support the right kind of stylesheets, and that it'll eventually be overrideable, but not yet. Sheesh.

So I gotta learn the new interface before I post anything of substance...

Nice dinner with fatsarah last night, who is neither fat, nor particularly princess-like. Especially compared to some other Princess Sarahs I know.

A couple of weeks back, I found out a fellow CCAN listee was in my summer vocal class. And a couple of fellow listees from a private list of classical composers managed to attend our DC concert, linked below.

It's always a thrill to meet people that you sort of know, but have never met. I'll have more chances this summer - NPM convention in Cincinnati in July, Homerec BBS's second annual Jamfest in Connecticut in August.