It's exhilarating and complex managing a band that's scattered across the state, writing new material for the band and for my solo alter-ego, teaching first grade, and raising a five month old. I've shipped a couple hundred CDs off to radio stations and music writers and been emailing reviewers whose work I appreciate in the name of getting our album heard ahead of a west coast summer tour. The fruits of my hunt for the next big gig so far is an in-store performance at Rasputin Records in Berkeley on April 15 and our album on the "Bay Area Buzz Band" and Indie racks in the record store. Stoked! Many more seeds about to sprout...
I left off at Vaya Con Dios at last check in, the lone linguistic deviation on Unfold. When I wrote the songs on my first album, Bay to Maples, I had Italian on my tongue, probably because living on the east coast I was far away the Spanish that surrounds you on the west coast. But Unfold is a California album and Shady Maples is a California band (especially once Brooklyn Bill moves out here), and you can't represent California properly without Spanish.
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