lapsed in effort

hey there,

lot's has happened since we last spoke...
sxsw was interesting... at best... no opportunities
to play but many opportunities to observe. we have
a plan now... and we will execute.

i was sick for the better part of the first three
days of tour... lost my voice... regained my voice...
i'm at about 90% right now... little rock arkansas was
fun... really enjoyed meeting kat and all the folks at
the after thought... expensive dinner, but fun times
for certain.

i'd like to drop a special note for southern Missouri
and northern Arkansas. You look like you need a vacation...
barren... wasteland... seems like nothing will ever grow
there... i have no idea about people survive... or at least
how they define living in those areas.

Cicero's... you were fun... real rock star feeling and vibes...
pizza magnificent... one lone car... delivered and powerful...

night off in Alabama... we stayed with old friend, Keith Harrelson...
he runs Moonlight Music on the Mountain concert series. Last night
James McMurtry played... he sounded great... we were reated to a 12
string acoustic version of Rachel's Song... yow.

tonight, we're playing in Atlanta... meeting up with some folks...
making friends and influencing people!

vocal cord status

my voice... though weak
has returned. last night
we played the much vaunted
cicero's in st. louis. really
nice place... with nice
sound, nice sound person, good bands,
and really well crafted beers.

st. louis is home to budweiser...
and you would think that that
juggernaut of crisp bold american
taste would be everywhere... but it isn't

schlafly's... that's the brew to buy...
man... there was another beer too... hop slam.
dave handled that one... not me...

been giving my voice as much rest as i can,
still coughing up some nasty flakes of
phelgm... thick, sticky, green... ugh.

enough of my charm and candor... we saw
a wolf yesterday... walking up the exit
ramp onto a highway... at first we
thought, coyote... but they're much
smaller... odd to see something so wild
and "mysterious" as a wolf trotting up the
expressway... guess he had to get somewhere
faster than a rural route.

right now dave and i are in Pevely, MO. A
super 8 motel... off of Highway Z. I must
admit a pang of fear rifled through my veins
when I saw Highway Z was a real thing...

images of zombies lurching east and west...

scary dude, scary.

grimm

the road

much like cormac mccarthy's post
apocalyptic novel, our spring tour
has been caustic. my throat, coarse and
dry has lost all of its vibrancy...

i had just come to certain conclusions
about my voice. a new vocabulary of
sounds had opened the other night and
now i am shut out... access denied.

jerk.

i am on the mend but must say that
i really value my ability to speak
freely... since i had lost it. I was getting
nervous... tomorrow night's show is

important since we're moving up to a
larger club... playing with other bands.
last night in columbus i had to do a
low down storytellers version of our set.

mostly spoken word with weary scratchy vocals...
think kris kristofferson and barry white...
in fact, at the beginning of the set i did
a barry white impersonation... quite sexy.

dave has done most of the driving. he is
a peach. for certain. i found a new throat spray
called vocal eze... it's an organic compound of
licorice root and marshmallow root... sweet!

so far seems to be working... i also got the
chance to start editing some of the video from the
microshow... very cool indeed. thanks to everyone
who came out for the experience...

okay... i promise to keep up with the blog from here
on out! okay?

okay.

Grimm

so long february...
guess i didn't get
around to blogging much...
no one seemed to miss
me and seemed like a good
time to hibernate a bit.

tours have gone well... we're
gearing up for the big
march push... several great
dates are coming up...

here's the run down

3/10 Microshow, Baltimore MD
3/11 Cafe Nola, Frederick MD
3/12 31st St Pub, Pittsburgh PA
3/13 The Treehouse, Columbus OH
3/15 Cicero's, St. Louis MO
3/17-18 SXSW, Austin TX
3/19 The Celtc, Pascagoula MS
3/21 Smith's Olde Bar, Atlanta GA
3/22 The Rye Bar, Athens GA
3/23 Elliott's Revue, Winston-Salem NC
3/24 The Cave, Chapel Hill NC

Good Times!!! Just Me and Dave touring...

Yah... wish there were some new news going
on... but it's tough out there... trying to
stay motivated and moving forward...
maybe I'll go work out? will that help?

oh.. you never know, right? taxes comin'
up... that's a great reflection on how much
beer i drank during the course of the year...
yikes. :)

Grimm