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OK, that's probably not a real news flash, but it seems like it's been a while since we've done anything new in front of people. Nice show at Dunn Bros. last night with lots of new faces (most of whom I'd seen the previous night at Border's). It's always a treat to see Steve Thorpe and I can't wait to give a listen to his new album.

So the new songs was Paul Simon's Me & Julio, which actually went over pretty well. I had been walking around the apartment all day singing it so that I would remember the words when we actually did it. Since we followed a nonsense poet (not a value judgement, he just did poems that didn't use real words) I really wasn't to worried about not making sense as it turned out. Still, I was able to tell the little story that is in the song even if I don't know what the story is actually about. We followed that up with Howlin' Wolf's Who's Been Talkin'. I've heard the original now, but I learned that song from Robert Cray's first album. Wolf did it in sort of a rhumba/blues style, Cray did it as a straight up blues ballad. I like both versions, but having heard the Cray version much more than the original, I'll keep doing it. Ironically, I threw my little Howlin' Wolf/Muddy Waters growl into Me & Julio but have never tried to throw it into the one Wolf song we do. We finished up with You Don't Love Me Anymore, which I finally attributed to the songwriter, Sir Allen Yankovich. He was knighted, wasn't he? Anyway, that song is really turning into something. It really fits well into what TSA and I do in general.

I attempted to play You Don't Love Me Anymore the previous night at Border's. I cound't remember the second chord. Actually, I couldn't remember any of the chords after that first C. I really owe a lot to TSA's great 12 String playing, and it's good that I fall on my face occasionally to help me remember that. I screwed up the end of Plastic Jesus at Border's as well. It really helps me remember that Slappy is Jebus is an ensemble. We are truely greater than the sum of our parts. I do some things, TSA does some things, nobody is really going to notice either of us if we're on our own, but together, well, that's something different entirely.

BOJ