On the 13th, I got to play the most rad place in Milwaukee; Lynch film meets The Palace Bar in Gpoint. Linneman's is the name and owned by a married couple and their last name is, well....Linneman. It's one of those places where you could drink all night when the snow drifts are high outside and the plow goes by every 20 minutes making that schhhhhcccccccccsccccccccchhh sound outside on the plavement. Perfect and you have no place you have to be so you can just stay there till they kick you out. The owner even offered the empty apartment upstairs s for me to stay in if I needed!
Why I would be dreaming of the cold winter on a day like today (I'm in Atlanta and it is finally warm) is unknown; although after growing up in Florida and never seeing snow till I was 18 prolly made an impact on me actually still liking the snow at this point in my life.
They were playing Don't Look Back up front at the bar and I seriously did not want to leave.
I got up there with the help of one of my new fav bands; The Vega Star. I just recently made their aquaintance through my friend Rebecca from Chicago. Their record "The Night" is incredible from start to finish in it's beautiful melancholy. I'm always drawn to that. Also playing was Lady Cannon; a wonderful songwriter (with a stunning voice) from Idaho yet sorta recently moved to Milwaukee.
She also took these pics too : )
Noblesville:
A quick trip but for a wonderful cause. My friend Kirsten (thanks Chris!!) organized a show at the local coffee shop in her small town called Noblesville (a bit outside of Indy) She coordinated the show to coincide with a Cystic Fibrosis Benefit walk that next day, in honor of a rad 12 year old boy named Fritz Mills who has Cystic Fibrosis. We raised $200 at the coffee house show and every bit counts! My cousin Jamie and our friend Courtney drive up from Louisville and there was even some karaoke in the house w/me on guitar..(heh heh trying hard to be as good as Joe McGinty on live karaoke piano hahaha, uh..i think i need about 100 more years practice) Fritz and his friends drew these awesome drawings and gave them to me after; I'm glad they dug my sound! I was nervous.
Louisville:
I love this town. Amazing old houses that remind me of New Orleans (the few times I visited)...I love Greenpoint, but the dam vinyl siding houses have no comparison. My cousin Jamie lives in theee most awesome house built in 1865. She and her boyfriend Scott took me around town to their fav places and we had a blast. I tried to get a show here....uh, no luck. C'mon Louisville; I got Kentucky blood in me...give a girl a chance next time!
We went to Vernon Lanes and saw Johnny Berry and the Outliers -- was in **awe** of the tele player Steve Cooley. ooooo! they're coming to Bklyn!
Also, when I was at Quimby's in Chicago, this book jumped out at me (duh. lone traveller on a road? motorcycle? bridge? check.) so I bought it; inspires me that someday I'll actually get the guts to compile in some compendium of sorts all of the angry thoughts I really do have inside.
