September 1st, 2003 saw me finally emptying my house in Kensington, MD where I’d Lived with Rowan Corbett and packing up for what was supposed to be just ONE year on the road… we saw Maryland off and on over the coming years, but Heather and I were destined to spend the next five year technically homeless, traveling and playing music, and on September 2nd of 2003 I wrote my first Journal entry from The Road :
“The first night out we played an open mic at The Point in Bryn Mawr. One of the highest calibre open mics I’ve ever been to. Much more laid back music than I was used to – we were like setting off a bomb in an eel tank. You know, except it was students rather than eels.”
Despite literally years of planning, we weren’t carrying the CD we THOUGHT we’d be carrying, and we made the album cover for the one we WOULD be carrying that first weekend. We’ve learned to roll with it.
Happy 14 Years of doing what we do wherever we damn well please Heather Aubrey Lloyd!
Today we played a really cool spot in Baltimore called the Four Hour Day Lutherie – a wonderful house-concert-ish kind of venue that seats just about the same number of people we packed into it. We were joined by Ira Gamerman and his Ghostly Mandolin and Brennan Kuhns’ latest project, Wanderlight. It was a good way to celebrate the Touraversary, a fun show. We were on our game and feeling comfortable. We made something like thirty bucks a piece and loaded out in the rain, but it still felt really, really good. (maybe it was the amazing quinoa bean dish?)
