Along the Pacific...

For the next little while I'll be kickin' it along the pacific coast of California...drivin' around for surf, music, and to meet up with old friends. The David Rawlings Machine (which involves Gillian Welch and members of Old Crow Medicine Show) is playing at The Fillmore in San Francisco on Tuesday (2/9) and I just grabbed a ticket for that to gain some inspiration and simply groove and listen to the sounds of my favorite acoustic guitar player...




Meanwhile I hope to gather inspiration from the moist climate, green trees and hills, roaring pacific, and clean waves and carry that on into my own shows....
(Friday-2/12 in Oakland at the Nomad Cafe (6500 Shattuck Avenue, CA 94609) from 7:30-8:30pm, and Saturday-2/13 at Asana Teas and Cafe in Santa Cruz (103 Lincoln St., CA) starting at 8pm and going till 10:30 or so...with perhaps a few friends joining in at the santa cruz show...

I'm polishing a host of new songs, including a few new cello songs and am excited to debut the new material.




Meanwhile, right now, the wind sings in the trees, and a light rain patters out of the dark night, good swells roll in off the ocean, wrapping even into the insides of deep bays to peel along sand bars, and the walls of a friend's old cottage seem to resonate with a warmth and humanity that I really only feel along the coast. It is a fine place, this California Pacific....and I think I'll lay my head down and rest upon it awhile...