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Back at Charles & Myrtles Coffeehouse

On April 11, I traveled back to Charles & Myrtles Coffeehouse in Chattanooga to catch Terri Hendrix and Lloyd Maines in concert.  Folks, this was one of the best shows I’ve ever had the privilege to attend and if you haven’t seen them perform yet, you will want to check Terri’s website out at www.terrihendrix.com so you’ll know when she’s coming to your area.

Terri has recorded a couple of my songs and she sang “Long Ride Home” that night.  I can’t tell you how humbled I felt listening to such a great artist sing one of my tunes.  Thank you Terri and Lloyd for a magnificent evening!

I’m still working away on the Thirsty Ear Café and we’re down to the last scraping of the walls to ready them for lacquer.  We’re taking all the old paper off the tongue and groove poplar, some of which came from other structures back when the house was started in the 1890’s.  It’s going to look good once it’s finished.

Here’s my partner in the café, Alison Harris, up on the ladder pulling the last of the old wall paper off.  The other shot is one wall that’s finished except for the bar that will have a couple of stools where one can sit and sit and listen to the music.  We used a stained glass film on the windows which turned out beautifully!

Charles & Myrtles Coffeehouse

Here’s a photo of Jerre Haskew, myself, and Dalton Roberts at Charles & Myrtle’s Coffee House in Chattanooga, TN.  We played a writer’s round together on March 22, and it felt so good to be with these guys again.

Jerre is a dear friend and original member of The Cumberland Trio (http://www.cumberlandtrio.com).  He and songwriting wife Barbara put us up for the night at their Raccoon Mountain Resort, and as usual were fabulous hosts!  If you don’t own a CT album yet, you may want to order one...these guys are GREAT!!  Dalton, (http://www.daltonroberts.com/) is a hometown philosopher, incredible songwriter/musician, and downright fun fellow, whose friendship is greatly treasured by all of us who are fortunate to know him.  I don’t know anyone with more humor or insight regarding the human spirit!  His recent blues CD is my current favorite, although, I’ve already worn out one copy of “Missonary Stew”.

If you’re wondering where I’ve been lately...well, the flu visited me at the end of February after returning from the Folk Alliance Conference in Memphis, TN, and I’ve been hanging out on the couch for several weeks trying to get my energy back!  I wouldn’t have missed the conference though.  I got to reconnect with my old friend Tom Pacheco (http://www.tompacheco.com/) and meet new folkies like Marc Black (http://marcblack.com/) and Steve Palmer (http://www.spmusic.ca/).

They all came to our puffBunny records room and jammed for hours!  It was such fun!!  I’m working on some dates in Texas for the spring or fall and will let you know as things develop.

Taylor Pie with Eben Wood

Eben and I debuted many of the songs off the new album at Hondo’s on Main, the evening of June 10. Besides the “So Little Has Changed” album, we also performed songs from a live CD of our last visit to Hondo’s back in October of 2006. It’s Eben’s and my first “Live” effort and I hope it will soon be followed by a DVD. Because of Hondo’s owner, Cris Graham, and the great staff and bartender, J.P., this venue is one of our favorite places to play and if you are ever in the area, I highly recommend their Texas style Ruben!

A Video on YouTube and 2 New CDS!!

OK, OK, I’m doing my best to make the new CD, “So Little Has Changed,” available for you’uns! CDBaby is working on a page for us, our website friends in San Antonio at Digital Connect are creating 3 new websites that will be up soon, and Cindy Hill in Vermont is writing a review for us. We’ve already been getting some phenomenal response from the prerelease copies we distributed. All of us at puffBunny records are chompin’ at the bit to get this product in the mail or on the download.

In the meantime, you might want to check out a cut from the new album Bob Alan and I wrote that Steve Wallace edited into a video format from some actual Jack’s Tracks studio shots, and our good buddy Jerre Haskew put up on YouTube. Just click on: Cypress Lake

Upcoming CD Release

After many months of planning, recording, and mixing, my new CD, “So Little Has Changed,” has gone to the presses. The artwork and liner notes took longer to finish than we’d hoped, but at least now it’s in someone else’s hands! I don’t want to go into detail, because that’s what liner notes are all about, but I will tell you that it was recorded in Nashville, TN, at Jack Tracks Recording Studio with Mark Miller presiding over the console and Eben Wood playing guitar, Dave Pomeroy thumping the bass, Kenny Malone slapping the skins and everything else in sight, and Russ Pahl adding his incredible steel and electric colors. Our new record company is puffBunny records and I’m excited about the musical future because the energy in this group is boundless and it is a label devoted to capturing the essence of an artist in performance, be it in the studio, or on stage.

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