this tried to smother me with cuteness this morning…
“Bleed Me” came about around the time we decided to leave Chicago and try life out on the road. Mayor Daley had just sold the parking meters to a private company and it had become impossible to park anywhere without paying an arm and a leg and Yuma was working at a late night bar and watching the sun come up every morning when he got off work. Yuma Wray lived in Chicago for six years and I lived there for seven. After seven long harsh winters, a tour through the Southern states and a winter in Southern California didn’t sound half bad. Chicago’s a great town, but if you’re not careful it can really chew you up and spit you out.
“Bleed Me”
Well I swore that I would stay
might take all night
But now I’m packing up my bags
Before Chicago bleeds me dry
You find me laying low
drinking on my own
Cause you sold me out for change
And now I’m walking out the door
I know I can’t make you cry
Might take all night
Going south to Cincinnati
Before Chicago bleeds me dry
My mind is made
My debts are paid
Now I’m gonna pull you out
Like a bottle of cheap red wine
Gonna ask too many questions
Don’t know how to lie
Gonna stow away to Memphis
Before Chicago bleeds me dry
That bridge is coming down
I ain’t the one to pay that toll
Swore I’d be
I’d be here till I got old
You askin’ me too much
To watch the sun come up each and every night
Gonna hitch back to Virginia
Before this city bleeds me dry
I swore that I would stay
Might take all might
Now I’m packing up my bags
Before Chicago bleeds me dry
“Bleed Me” came about around the time we decided to leave Chicago and try life out on the road. Mayor Daley had just sold the parking meters to a private company and it had become impossible to park anywhere without paying an arm and a leg and Yuma was working at a late night bar and watching the sun come up every morning when he got off work. Yuma Wray lived in Chicago for six years and I lived there for seven. After seven long harsh winters, a tour through the Southern states and a winter in Southern California didn’t sound half bad. Chicago’s a great town, but if you’re not careful it can really chew you up and spit you out.
“Bleed Me”
Well I swore that I would stay
might take all night
But now I’m packing up my bags
Before Chicago bleeds me dry
You find me laying low
drinking on my own
Cause you sold me out for change
And now I’m walking out the door
I know I can’t make you cry
Might take all night
Going south to Cincinnati
Before Chicago bleeds me dry
My mind is made
My debts are paid
Now I’m gonna pull you out
Like a bottle of cheap red wine
Gonna ask too many questions
Don’t know how to lie
Gonna stow away to Memphis
Before Chicago bleeds me dry
That bridge is coming down
I ain’t the one to pay that toll
Swore I’d be
I’d be here till I got old
You askin’ me too much
To watch the sun come up each and every night
Gonna hitch back to Virginia
Before this city bleeds me dry
I swore that I would stay
Might take all might
Now I’m packing up my bags
Before Chicago bleeds me dry
We’re working hard trying to get ready for the album to come out in September. Here’s a rehearsal of “Cloin’s Lament.”
We’re working hard trying to get ready for the album to come out in September. Here’s a rehearsal of “Cloin’s Lament.”
I have been singing this song in the shower for months…about time I learned it. “Boulder to Birmingham” by Emmylou Harris.
I have been singing this song in the shower for months…about time I learned it. “Boulder to Birmingham” by Emmylou Harris.
We are not bunch of shiftless layabouts… Here is what we have been doing the last few weeks… “The River Made Me Do It” w Mr. Johnny Dulles on drums…
We are not bunch of shiftless layabouts… Here is what we have been doing the last few weeks… “The River Made Me Do It” w Mr. Johnny Dulles on drums…
We did a photo shoot yesterday, and like many of the things we do, it was pretty DIY. We solicited my mother into shooting about half of the pictures and then my sister came along and gave so much advice that we finally just asked her to take over. We did a couple wardrobe changes and shot the pictures in my parents’ backyard. needless to say, most of the pictures were really silly or really…unflattering. But I think we got a few we can use as promo pics and for the album layout! All in all a really fun day.
Miss Shevaughn
We did a photo shoot yesterday, and like many of the things we do, it was pretty DIY. We solicited my mother into shooting about half of the pictures and then my sister came along and gave so much advice that we finally just asked her to take over. We did a couple wardrobe changes and shot the pictures in my parents’ backyard. needless to say, most of the pictures were really silly or really…unflattering. But I think we got a few we can use as promo pics and for the album layout! All in all a really fun day.
Miss Shevaughn
Creatures of the Coast - we were lucky enough to catch Elephant Seals where they hang out nursing their young. After they are weaned the action begins as males fight to keep their harem and mate with as many females as possible. Then we saw Monarch Butterflies in Pismo Beach where they winter. We also saw quail, ground squirrels and birds.
Creatures of the Coast - we were lucky enough to catch Elephant Seals where they hang out nursing their young. After they are weaned the action begins as males fight to keep their harem and mate with as many females as possible. Then we saw Monarch Butterflies in Pismo Beach where they winter. We also saw quail, ground squirrels and birds.
Yuma and I got to take a little vacation while we were waiting on the final mixes of the album. And my pals Selena and Dan came out to California to visit! So we camped up the coast and made some kick ass camp dinners.
Yuma and I got to take a little vacation while we were waiting on the final mixes of the album. And my pals Selena and Dan came out to California to visit! So we camped up the coast and made some kick ass camp dinners.
The Salton Sea is located on the San Andreas Fault. Originally it was alternately a freshwater lake and a dry basin. In 1905, water from the Colorado River was diverted through the Alamo Canal to irrigate farmlands in the Imperial Valley, but huge precipitation and snow melt in the mountains that feed the Colorado sent a flood. The water broke through wooden gates in the canal and filled up the Salton basin, submerging most of the town of Salton. For some reason Wikipedia and some other sources are very vague about how this “swelling of the Colorado River” happened. In the 1920s through the 1950s it served as a waterfront resort town. However, the environmental decline of the area has left it as a lovely and horrific desolate curiosity. The lake was populated with Tilapia and other fish to lure in fishermen. The high salinity of the lake from natural sources and from agricultural runoff has led to annual fish kills. Thousands of fish carcasses wash up on shore to be devoured by birds. At least once this has resulted in botulism in birds. Water can’t flow out of the Salton Sea, so it escapes only by evaporation, which leaves behind salts and other minerals. The water is 30 percent saltier than the Pacific Ocean.
The Salton Sea is located on the San Andreas Fault. Originally it was alternately a freshwater lake and a dry basin. In 1905, water from the Colorado River was diverted through the Alamo Canal to irrigate farmlands in the Imperial Valley, but huge precipitation and snow melt in the mountains that feed the Colorado sent a flood. The water broke through wooden gates in the canal and filled up the Salton basin, submerging most of the town of Salton. For some reason Wikipedia and some other sources are very vague about how this “swelling of the Colorado River” happened. In the 1920s through the 1950s it served as a waterfront resort town. However, the environmental decline of the area has left it as a lovely and horrific desolate curiosity. The lake was populated with Tilapia and other fish to lure in fishermen. The high salinity of the lake from natural sources and from agricultural runoff has led to annual fish kills. Thousands of fish carcasses wash up on shore to be devoured by birds. At least once this has resulted in botulism in birds. Water can’t flow out of the Salton Sea, so it escapes only by evaporation, which leaves behind salts and other minerals. The water is 30 percent saltier than the Pacific Ocean.
