2019
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ilyAIMY upDates 10/28/19 – Tis Halloweeeeen!
Happy birthday Heather Aubrey Lloyd! Well, almost. Heather’s birthday is Halloween. Halloween is Heather’s birthday. The two are inextricably intertwined and we always have to dress fancy for the Anniversary of her Life. Oh. And eat candy. Gotsta eat some candy. We’ll be having a Halloween show in Ellicott City. You’ve been warned. upComing and…
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Spring.
Here’s a little bit about my tune Spring. Take a listen to it on the player below… and maybe even throw us a couple of bucks and buy the track! cicada. Where Spring Lives as the last (labeled) track. I often think that music has been a Live-saver for me. I started as a draw-er,…
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October 23rd, 2019. It’s weird, but I’ll take it.
Before heading out I had big decisions to make. Since it’s 100% rob all night, surely I’d spend some time on baritone – but which baritone to bring? Frustrated. Frustrated with some sort of domain redirect that I’ve screwed up and don’t know how to unscrew. It might have me attempt restoring my whole website…
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October 21st, 2019. Happy Anniversary!
When Kristen is away for the whole day and I’m home, Prince says… October 21st was our second anniversary. Kristen and I went up to Longwood Gardens, because we go to gardens on the 21st of October. It’s how we roll. Below, Kristen’s photos because she takes better photographs than me…. Some rob photos that,…
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October 19th, 2019. Career Killers.
Surely this is driven by a black horse that drowns the unsuspecting. A friend gave me the unfortunate concept of “Career Killers” a while back. A gig SO defeating, SO viciously deleterious to your morale and self-esteem that it makes you throw in the towel. It makes you finally realize that your dreams are stupid,…
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October 15th, 2019. Not my finest work.
A very frustrating and frankly humbling experience in the studio today. I’m not a session musician, and make no claims at being one, but I thought I was better than that. I think I thought that. I keep going back and forth. Making excuses or feeling pretty damned awful about it all. There is the…
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October 14th, 2019. Why so sleeeepy?
I’m non-plussed that I feel sleeeeepy. I shouldn’t be. I don’t know that I got enough sleep last night, but enough sleep was certainly an OPTION. I went to bed tired, and I went to bed by midnight. I was probably asleep before 2. I woke up before my alarm, but I woke up tired.…
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October 9th, 2019. The Chesapeake Bay.
Arriving at 12.30am. Not much to see. Tuesday was an amazing day. Long. Exhausting. But wonderful. Monday night after Teavolve Heather and I drove an hour and a half out to the Eastern Shore – down 97, out 50, over the Bay Bridge in high winds, through nostalgic small towns that remind Heather of high…
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October 7th, 2019. Teavolve’s Amazing.
Tonight was probably one of the best Teavolve’s ever – or at least certainly one of the best in a while. Absolutely stunning lineup. Great audience, fantastic featured artist in the form of Jeff Miller. A great combination of people who’ve become recent regulars and long-missed surprises. It had STARTED as kind of a hard…
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October 6th, 2019. I am BEAT.
And what I REALLY mean – I’m beat because we’ve played a LOT of really amazing shows over the past several weeks. Whether it’s churches in NY, festivals in Massachusetts, bars in DC or the freakin’ NEW DEAL CAFE – I can’t thank our friends and fans enough – I’m BEAT because I’m doing what…