this year has felt like a thunderstorm.
maybe it is the hypnotic stage lights or the crash of the cheering crowds like thunder that led me to that metaphor. either way it feels as if i have been struck by lightning.
since the first thunderous hit i have been out of my body. watching myself like a puppet. which incidentally is robert plant's nickname for me.
i just finished the "raising sand" tour with t-bone burnett, alison krauss and robert plant and am now on tour with a new artist named matt white.
i am the only girl on the bus.
amazing how much i miss female companionship.
before the show in idaho the other night we were all starving and believe it or not 2 guys had a hotdog stand on their front lawn across the street. in the snow.
we all laughed when we saw the 2 guys eating pizza hut. they weren"t even eating their own food.
the gig may have been a little odd (middle of nowhere, snow, pizza hut food) but all the essentials were there,
the crowd was listening, i was singing, and it was snowing.
i feel like i am living inside a tom waits song.
if you're not familiar with him, he is a well traveled man who writes beautiful melodies (he calls'em maladies) and usually has strange characters in20the stories he sings about.
maybe that's what happens when your struck by lightning... you feel like tom waits.
sharon
We just finished the Robert Plant and Alison Krauss tour a week and a half ago, drove home from Nashville back to Philadelphia, had just enough time to kiss our cats, and say hi to our family...and we were off again!...First stop this time...Mountain Stage, in Charleston West Virginia. (Scot Sax, Two of the Sister's Three, Cass Sadler and Anna Christie had no opinion of Charleston or the people in it before, but...if the courtesy and respect that was given to me exists in the rest of the state, then I am officially a new fan. The audience was packed into a little, very cool theater. They had eager ears for music, and I could feel their energy from the stage.
An amazing bill, which included Steeldriver and Amos Lee made for a really fantastic night of music. In particular, a big shout out to Chris Stapleton from Steel Driver, who REALLY rocks my world...both as a singer and as a songwriter. To top it off, Mountain Stage host and founder Larry Groce treated us to a celebratory toast under the Charleston moonlight at the end of the night.
i know... let’s have a contest, do either of you have any friends... of course lot’s of them...
Category: Friends
i had the chance to meet one of the coolest girls that ever lived.
jodilyn vienis.
today it has been 11 years since she has died.
she taught me what is was like to grieve for her.
before she passed, her father died of luekimia, she spoke of him often.
