Today I'm taking delivery of a "portable" air conditioner in order to make the one-room studio I'm trying to record in bearable. It's expensive, so if it works I'll recommend it, and if it doesn't I'll tell you ALL about it. What else... Got to get a piano working in here, as I've found that going back and forth between the keys and the guitar is really the way I write best. Oh, and I SWEAR that I'm booking shows late in the Fall. It's hard because of my hands, so I'll probably only do 2 or 3 shows at a time, and we're looking for schools to play to subsidize the air travel, so you never know if I'll see you in a big city or a college town...

I'm trying to book some shows for the fall, and it's tough to get the dates now, as we're already a little late. All just to say that with everything going on, including the good folks at Naive records being very busy with Carla Bruni, I don't imagine a huge, new set of "new" Jude recordings until the new year. So. Here's what I'm thinking: in another month or so I'll finally put out a live CD. Just because I'm lazy, and there's NO WAY I'm going to sit own and listen to show after show of myself, I'm going to master and press that old show in Baton Rouge that people seem to have traded over the years. Why argue with sucess, right? We'll probably add a song or two (or three) to make it more worth buying, and I'll take out the part where I ask for everyone to sing along to my Nirvana cover and then the board recording makes it sound like no one is singing...

THEN I'm going to put out even more demos, but these will be from The Bomb Factory, the marvelous place I ran to when I was down and made the Sarah recording. I have to go back and listen, but we all recall them as pretty beautiful, even if some of them were incomplete. I just figure that after all this time of trying to make everything perfect and then never getting it there anyway, I might as well get as much music out into the world as possible. Especially if some of you are going to have to cover your ears when I sing about getting drunk and voting for McCain - doh!

Just kidding, my friends. Keeping this sight free of politics is something you can count on me doing. There might be a link here or there, but I've always been about the songs - much to the detriment of my career at times - and, at least at this sight, I always will be.

Oh, and THANK YOU all for the comments and compliments that keep coming in about "Cuba". You must have all downloaded it to get it so quickly! The cool thing is that all the traffic has actually put "Redemption" back in the map, which is nice, since I ordered a WAREHOUSE full of it right before watching most sales go digital! Someday soon I'll put down all the lyrics from Cuba here on the site...there are a couple of mistakes that I obviously have to alert everyone to so that my fixations can become yours and we can all live together in a kind of forgiven obsessive-compulsive relationship. Wait. That actually sounds a little terrifying. Oh well, kisses and hugs to you all - speak soon!