hey friends-
i've promised myself that if i'm going to
continue to do this here journal thingy
that i'm gonna have to reveal a few
things about my personal life every now
and then...if you knew me you'd know that
i enjoy keeping my personal life personal
...having said that..

after playin in milwaukee the other night
i decided to drive back to indianapolis
and sleep for a few hours before heading
to cincinnati to play that night...i've been
on the road for most of the last month or
so and i was looking forward to getting
home to see amy...i got home and went
to bed and after a half hour or so amy
came in and woke me up...she said that
my dad had just had a massive heart
attack and that i need to go to the
hospital...i cancelled the gig in cincy
and went to the hospital

he was in a coma...the doctors said that
he went without oxygen for quite a while
and he had suffered massive brain
damage...he stayed in the icc unit for the
next few days until he died on tuesday
...he was 59....he was far too young

we buried him yesterday in the cemetery
in wanamaker indiana

"Simplicity is always a virtue. One kid on a
riverbank working out a Stephen Foster
tune on his new harmonica heard from the
correct esthetic distance projects more
magic and power than the entire Vienna
Philharmonic and Chorus laboring (once again)
through the Mozart Requiem or Bach's B
Minor Mass."
-Edward Abbey

greetings from milwaukee....
i played in st. louis night before
last and had a real good time....fred
(the owner) was one of the more
accommodating individuals that you are
likely to come accross....he's a true friend
to the touring musician...i knew that things
were gonna go well when he had a six pack
of fitz's root beer waiting for me when i
arrived....one of my hobbies is checking out
locally made root beer from whatever city
i might be playing in....fitz's is made in
st. louis and it's pretty good stuff

i'm sitting at the bremen cafe in milwaukee
right now...this is the first time that i've been
here during daylight hours...i've played here
a few times but i never realized that they
would make me an omelet....i'm a
sucker for a feta cheese omelet!!!

i'll be playing a fundraiser tonight for
russ feingold....he is the only senator that had
the guts to vote against the patriot act....he's
the only one that had the common sense to
insist that maybe the senate should be
able to read the patriot act before voting
on it...sounds like common sense to me