Last Show Until The Album’s Finished

There’s nothing like a good fish fry, and good friends, coming together to enjoy a summer night.

And so, you are cordially invited to come to the Pointe South Mountain on Thursday night, June 30th to enjoy both.

Alden and I will be doing our last gig for a while, and so it is a prime opportunity to come out, hear some songs you love, and hang out with friends. We play from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at Latitude 30.

7777 South Pointe Parkway, Phoenix, Arizona 85044.

Located just a few degrees off Baseline Road, just west of I-10

Directions: I-10 east to Baseline Drive

Exit Baseline and travel west to South Pointe Parkway

Left on South Pointe Parkway

We’re recording the show for posterity. So if you wanna be famous, sit close to the microphones.

The City That Never Sleeps

New York City is so beautiful.

New York is a funny place, though. It has a reputation for being cold and heartless, but every time I go, I find it to be just the opposite. Everybody that I encountered during this trip was so wonderful and welcoming.

It was also the second time I lost my purse in New York City, only to have it returned to me by one of the many wonderful New Yorkers that live there.

The first time, many years ago, I left my purse in the back of cab, only to realize it as the car was pulling away. I was not staying anywhere, per say. (Actually, I was sleeping on the floor of a bookstore in Brooklyn, but that’s another story.)

And even without an address, the next passenger of the cab took an entire day out of their life to track me down – and I got my purse back.

Again, it’s the most fabulous city – with genuinely wonderful people.

But, about the new album… The songs are all written and the recording will again, be really diverse. People keep telling me that I need to pick one genre and stick to it, but I’m a little more musically scattered than that. Any of you that own Treasure Quest know that, and hopefully appreciate the album for that.

We’re still trying to get a polka on the record. After all, it wouldn’t be true to my Wisconsin roots if we didn’t find room for one of those. But none of the songs have a polka part, as of yet.

There is however, more of a southwestern influence, and it’s coming out quite nicely. We’re also going to cut a few Spanish versions of some of the songs – though it’s doubtful that both the English version and the Spanish version will be on the same album.

Please let me know your thoughts – both on the polka and the Spanish/English versions of the music.

Until then, Adios and Take Care.