shows

Just back from seeing Kris Delmhorst and Erin McKeown at the Independent. I may have more to say about that later, but for now, I'll just note that all night, between songs, my mind kept straying to this lovely acoustic guitar fragment that I couldn't quite place. It was about an hour into the show before I began to suspect that it was the intro to "Can't Take Our Love Away". Well done, Josh!

Some things that are coming up: Sunday afternoon we have a set by Bev Barnett and Greg Newlon and one by Russell Barber. Sadly, Chelsey Fasano had to cancel. I may play a short set to fill time, if the need arises.

Next Saturday, Sam Shaber is playing a Sunnyvale House Concert. I've been to a couple of these, they're very comfortable and the host has good taste in booking, and cake. Paul doesn't have a PA of his own, so I'll be bringing mine for this one.

And next Sunday at Barefoot we have Valarie Mulberry and David Gunn, the Invisible Cities, and Sheltering Sky. With singer-songwriters, indie pop, and Celtic folk, this is a pretty eclectic mix; I'm looking forward to it a lot.

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Every Friday I see a lot of pictures of cats and a lot of lists of songs, and I don't have a cat, so here's my Friday Random Ten:

XTC - No Language In Our Lungs
Margot Wagner - Smudged & Smeared
Ida - Requator
Gemma Hayes - My God
Unni Wilhelmsen - Everyone's Honesty
Too Much Joy - Song for a Girl Who Has One
Donald Fagen - Snowbound
Arrested Development - Washed Away
Tin Cat - Special
Milla - Gentleman Who Fell

Yep, that's pretty random. Some of these are obvious or we've discussed them before, but I'll note that Margot Wagner is a singer-songwriter I saw in Minneapolis, Unni Wilmhelmsen's song won some contest that mine later didn't, and you know what, I still like that Milla album, supermodel or no.

A Non-Random One: You know I'm not really a rocker, but man, Kid Dakota's "Pilgrim" is a good song.