Morning coffee with Gene Clark
Chuck Berry – Deep Feeling
Dire Straits – So Far Away
Neil Young – Mellow My Mind
Doc Watson – Deep River Blues
One more music link ‘fore I embark out in the rain..
Neal Casal – Traveling Lighter
Love this lots.. Insider information: This song inspired this paper cutting that I made last summer. Happy Friday.
Dust on my boots & some rambling..
Two years ago at this time, I was shoveling 2-3 foot snow drifts out of my mom’s driveway. Today I woke up to sweatshirt weather and the smell of spring rain and it’s making me a little antsy to be outdoors and to hit the road for some travel.. I love being out there. I told a friend once that the reason I liked to go out for morning country drives is because no matter what I’ve got going on, at least I’m moving forward… I got laughed at.
In other news, I just found out that Beatrice Coron and Clay Rice, two amazing cut paper artists that I’ve admired since I began cutting paper are both in the exhibit I’m in this summer in Topeka. I saw a Beatrice Coron exhibit at the Brooklyn Public Library when I lived in NY. It was mind blowing.. I’ll be giving some sort of presentation during the month of June for this exhibit – working out the details now.. more on that later.
The MacGuffin, a national & international literary magazine, is coming out in Feb. My work titled “Stacks” is the cover image and I’ll have a few works inside. I’ll post it when it’s out.
Also, look out for Lawrence Magazine, a local Lawrence, KS, magazine on city-goings-on, for an article about Lora Jost, Dave Lowenstein (two Lawrence-based artists) & myself. It went to press last week and should be hitting stands anytime.. and it’s free.
That’s all. Here’s a song. “Dust On My Boots” by Jerry Jeff Walker
Lists of things: on rotation
When I was in high school, I didn’t go out much and instead sat around listening to music most of the time – my best friend was a dj at the local AM country station.. And twice m’life later, I pretty much still do the same thing.. I spent the better part of my weekend sifting through crates, boxes, bins, etc., of records at record stores, thrift stores and antique stores in town… And during the time that I wasn’t doing that, I’ve been listening to a lot of these folks, whilst cutting paper of course:
From right to left, top to bottom:
1. Jerry Jeff Walker – Driftin’ Way of Life
2. John Prine
3. The Pennywhistlers – Folksongs of Eastern Europe
4. Songs of Leonard Cohen
5. Peter, Paul and Mary – See What Tomorrow Brings (in my mind, I’m the fourth member)
6. Dave Van Ronk and the Hudson Dusters
Surely more of these to come…