Couple a two tree tings

Making plans for a solo tour this early summer. Here's my idea - get my guitar/tambo/harp- and a bunch of songs and get on my motorcycle and play where they'll have me. Don't know where yet though I reckon
Duluth
Green Bay
Minneapolis
Detroit ish
Indy
Can my bike get me to Huntsville? New Orleans? hmmm

I've been inspired lately, and I suppose I'd like to inspire myself further with a motorcycle guitar tour theme. Like, I don't know, Lighthouses. Or BBQ. Or Bald Eagles -just off the top of my head. Hey that's a pun.

Also, this weekend was incredible. I mean really amazing. Enlightening and inspiring and filled with laughs and smiles. One of those times when you realize that out of all the stuff in the universe, it seems like it is mostly good stuff. 2 back to back amazing shows, I can't think of a true highlight but this was cool: So I'm sitting around in the living room with the Perennials and I tell them Chris sent me an email saying we should play "The Letter" by the Box Tops and play it tonight as an Alex Chilton tribute. And of course we won't have time to learn it as a band so we should learn it on our own and figure it out on stage. So we're here in the living room jamming this song in like 10 different versions, sometimes Chris (perennials Chris) is playing guitar, sometimes I am, sometimes Alex is and meanwhile the 3rd member of the band, Ryan the drummer is sitting there with a big smile on his face, just loving it. After a while he cuts in and says reluctantly, "I know this sounds cheesy, but it's the honest to god truth." He goes on to tell us that if it weren't for that song he wouldn't have been born. His mom and dad were dating, they split up and his dad moved across the country. She wrote him a letter and what it said wasn't clear, but he went to the record store and bought that single. He played it over and over with this letter in his hand, thinking hard I suppose, listening and hearing something and he was like, "Yeah! Listen Mister can't you see I got to get back to my baby once more." and he quit whatever he was doing and moved back and got the girl and the rest is history.
As we started out set in Madison, we jangled through that song and invited the Perennials to sing, though only one came up. Ryan. And he grabbed the mic with both hands and sang the first song of the night for us with a mighty smile and a fine response.
That story really touched me. I do what I do so that someday there might be a story like that. Just to really reach someone right in the heart, change a man, make somebody laugh, make someone dance, make someone think about a good memory, that's what I like to sing about too. That's all.
"gnight babe (with a smile and wink)" - Chris (Perennials Chris)