Well....I finally get around to writing up this show. Hmmm....Not the best show ever. I'm not sure why, but the venue itself was really poorly attended. I don't know why, but there you have it. First the downside...I felt like I was doing battle with the stage monitors for 40 min. and I couldn't hear a thing. This is typical of an outdoor venue and isn't really anyones fault. I had difficulty with the first song (North by Northwest) beacuse I had extra loud guitar in my ears the whole time.
The upsides were small but happy attentive crowd, 4 yr old girl dancing through the whole thing, teenage girls waving corncobs at me, and some great footage of 'Katherine's Coffee' ; check it out here or on YouTube. Also the Gibson J-45 I rented and used for the first time sounded great.
As I said the second show got cancelled, but I'm not really very unhappy about that.
Thanks for watching;
James

I was interviewed by Brander McDonald today, and I sang 'A Mile Or Two Behind'. It was good. I'll post it on YouTube this evening. JB

Well, I'm nearly cured, my IV is out and I'm on big pills and special expensive cream. I can play guitar again. Right now I'm very busy getting ready for my Edgewater gigs and trying to find an inexpensive way of putting a better pick-up into my Larrivee guitar.

Well....so much is going on, I've been busily recording some new songs, and finishing off the vocals on some other for the new CD, rehearsing and getting the details straight for the Olympics gig. And then I got this ugly out of control rash thingy on my leg. I went to the doctor at Emergency here in Chilliwack. After some humming and hawwing the Doc decided I needed IV Therapy. I'm not really enjoying it much so far. I've got this big thing attached to my left wrist, making guitar playing a little ackward and painful, I can't really wash the way I'd like, and I'm not getting much sympathy from the kids.
The up-side is that It's nowhere near my face.
J

Christmas is over and I can't say that I'm sorry. I'm just way to claustrophobic for this holiday. I did manage to get most of my obligatory tasks done without to much pushing and shoving. It seems that the only thing I find thrilling about Chirstmas anymore in seeing Linus Van Pelt quote the Christmas narrative in the Charlie Brown Chrismas Special that I've watched every year for as long as I can remember. Also that part of Handel's Messiah "For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace."
I have been working on and finishing some new songs and hopefully I'll be playing I Vancouver for the Olympics in Feb. I'll keep everyone posted.
Pax;
James