Assembly For the Gathering

I think I might have rehearsed so hard that my voice will be gone for the show tonight. I forgot that I agreed to do this “meet and greet” mini concert at Temecula Valley Winery an hour and a half away from  rehearsal yesterday. nearly drove by my house without stopping.

What I got for the effort though was a front row seat for Grammy Award Winning Guitarist Doug Smith. I’ve never seen anyone do what he could do with an accoustic guitar. I’ve been on tour with Phil Keaggy for cryin out loud. Doug has a unique approach and everything he did got standing ovations! between every song! btw.

No one was expecting him tonight least of all me. I sat Jaw dropped for his thirty minute montage of what you didn’t know you could do with a guitar.

He joined me on “I love you with my life”, which we will do together at “The Gathering” tomorrow. I played too much tonight, probably trying to recover the audience from what they got from Doug. worried about my voice now. But I’ve been really getting serious about presenting new and different songs in a guitar set mostly and I jumped at the opportunity to present a small set. of course there were die hard old fans who wanted to here Blue Skies and Maybe I’m Amazed.

I really didn’t wanna go to the piano but it still resonates as perhaps my high water mark in music.

These days I’d rather sing in lower keys… soft touch, warm vocal sound. I have two styles of song on guitar that leaves me feeling a little bi polar. half the songs are irritated smartalec presentations of dissasters. The other half are good feeling happy songs. from a marketing perspective I’m not sure where all that takes me.