Rehearsal was a success. I am more tired than I have ever been in my life. I check into my hotel. Finally. It's well before 9p.m. I know if I go to sleep now there will be a chance that I will wake at four or five a.m. and then fret all day about getting a nap in before my gig Thursday night. I can not be tired for my first show. And so I decide to stay up as late as I can so that I will have a full night's sleep and (with hope) awake at a normal morning hour and be back on line for the …
Introducing: Bites Blues Club & The Latvian Blues Band
Zigis, who I immediately adore, gives me a verbal tour as he drives the 15 minutes to the club. My hotel sits literally across the street, and it's a narrow street. Close but yet so far... …
Hell Ride Continued…
The plane takes off and sounds like what I can only describe as the Empire State Building being dropped into a cement mixer. After about four years, the heat kicks in with the smell of alien fossil fumes. And then, as if on cue, …
What Kind of Singer Are You?
I am in the midsts of preparing for my trip to Riga, Latvia. I am a bit nervous (new band, new old material, long assed lay over in Stockholm, my thighs squeezed into a airplane seat) but ready to face what lies ahead - a brand new adventure. Ready or not, here I come! I got an emailed list of interview questions from a Latvian musician. He wanted to post it on his band's web site or something like that but it struck me how much he did not know about me. It's not his fault of course. No one …