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2019

  • July 8th, 2019. Aidohwanna, MD

    It’s a grey, grey, grey, grey day. I’m kind of impressed. Glowering low skies that may only be a zone 6 but are SO uniform and oppressive they simply blot the light from the sky. Stumbling around my room this morning, lights had to come on because it was so dark… And reading the news…

  • July 7th, 2019.

    July 1st, 2019… the Teavolve Open Mic! It was a great night with fantastic featured artist Elena Lacayo! But my SLR crashed. Below is the ONLY photograph! It’s verr sad. Jon Patton playing mandolin for a friend at Teavolve’s open mic. July 2nd. I stayed home with my cat. Yup. c July 3rd. We took…

  • June 30th, 2019.

    Today I got to do a video shoot for my friend Annette Wasilik. I met a lot of wonderful, beautiful people. A pleasant enough dog walked my way. I did great art and great sound and enjoyed the Hell out of myself and got paid to boot. All in the scenic environment of Sugar Loaf…

  • June 29th, 2019.

    June 25th, 2019 Sorry, this is one of those photo-laden catch-up posts. Be strong. You’ll make it. First-off, Tuesday morning we woke up for our last morning at Steve’s boathouse. I went upstairs during my thorough idiot-check and regretted we hadn’t spent more of our indoors time in the little nook upstairs. Steve only had…

  • June 24th, 2019.

    Before we get into anything else – a big shout out to Steve Pelland and the Wild Honey Cafe for having us for another marvelous Westport Sessions show in Darmouth, MA! Steve Pelland opening for us at Westport Sessions. After the Westport Sessions show we retired to Steve’s boathouse where we kind of lay low…

  • June 23rd, 2019.

    Before we move on – another couple of photographs from where we crashed at Dream Away Lodge… Headed east in Connecticut to land in Westport Massachusetts, one of the most eastern parts of a northern state. The sky is cloudless and blue and with this straight stretch of highway and a full tank of gas,…

  • June 21st, 2019.

    This cat knows it’s Tuesday and time to go. Sorry beest. You’re too big to be a road cat. I’m freezing and I’m grateful because there have been moments recently when I thought I’d never be cool again. I frankly smell terrible and look worse and everything is cold and damp and though part of…

  • June 18th, 2019.

    June 10th, 2019. Teavolve’s open mic with featured artist Doctor Jackson Howard – not that he asked to be called “doctor” but it DOES sound pretty good. I’m not quite sure what to make of his sentiment that he left academia because he made better money as a musician… and then he came to play…

  • June 9th, 2019

    Prince has declared my pedal board cover the most comfortable of beds. Mondays in Baltimore – taking a walk before the open mic. Two nights of guitar heroes. Three nights of great shows, 2 of which were mine (or at least, where I got to play). Four nights if you count Teavolve, but I don’t…

  • June 2nd, 2019.

    The board is ready and waiting! Monday night’s open mic was a good gathering. A number of people that I hadn’t seen in a while – Morell (who suddenly has a first name!!! Arschell!) has retired and threatened  to come out to the open mics more frequently – and I’m down with that! Dave Benham’s…