alright, already!

since everyone wants the skinny on last nite, i figure that i oughta deliver lest i get my ass kicked. so here's the shakedown (breakdown, takedown...everybody wants into the crime life):

last nite was great. the 5 spot is a really cool joint with a good vibe and all the right beers. the crowd was slightly larger than normal, and very warm & friendly. some friends that i haven't seen in a while were able to make it out and some people that i didn't know until last nite made it out and spent some time chatting with me so that i can call them friends, too. things, as they tend to do, ran a little bit late, but most everyone stuck with me and even "made" me play an encore.** molly thomas was fantastic, as was katy bowser and shawn byrne's band.

the big story of the nite was that i whipped out a song i haven't played in 20 months (dec 5, 2003). the only reason i know the date is because i played the song at the imagine no handguns john lennon tribute with the long players. (side note: the long players have me 1 degree of seperation or less from the boss, roy orbison, patti griffin, squeeze, al kooper, jason ringenberg, tommy womack, will kimbrow and other fantastic artists that i can't think of). the song? i'm only sleeping, from the beatles' revolver. it's absolutely my favorite beatles' song ever (i think. it's one of the few that i can play and sing well. i've got lots of almost faves including, but not limited to: nowhere man, i'm looking through you, she said she said, & and your bird can sing. i gotta stop there or i'm just gonna hyper link the whole damn catalog.). i think it went pretty well, besides getting the lyrics out of order in the chorus that appears after the bridge. YOU try remembering everything in the right order after 20 months!

the other really cool thing about last nite is that the set was filmed. it turns out that craig havighurst, nashville's best music writer, is making a documentary about nashville's pop rock underworld and has asked if i'd be interested in being one of the artists featured (i said yes...). very damn cool, indeed. i'll let you know more details about this little project as i have them and have permission to discuss them.

thanks to everyone that made it out. sorry that some of you couldn't make it but rest assured i'm not going anywhere, so you'll have your chance to see me again sometime in the relatively near future.

**okay, i don't know that i can really call it an encore. 2 people asked me to play one more song before i even got off stage and i obliged them with a song that i don't play very often.