"Galgo Azul" by Juan Perdiguero
It’s been an interesting week. Oddly, we had two television opportunities. You heard about the NY1 thing but we also were filmed for “The Today Show with Kathy Lee Gifford.” Apparently they’re doing a story about MUNY and they are filming a bunch of the MUNY artists. Tricia from MUNY had us set up at the Grand Central Shuttle stop and we were filmed for about 45 minutes by a camera-woman from NBC. I pretty sure they’ll use something! Fingers crossed. Anyway, it will be national coverage if it happens. They said it will air the 10th or 11th of December. I’ll let you know!
Other than that, I’ve been locked in a basement in Williamsburg finishing up our new album. It’s so close to the finish line and I’m feeling really good about it. Things fell together pretty well. It’s got eleven songs and is much closer to what we actually sound like live than anything else we’ve ever done. It’s a combination of two different sessions we did down at Plan B studio in Phili. The first session was done the first of September the day after we played in Bathesda, MD for my whole family. It still feels a lot like the summer. Two weeks ago, we went down to Phili again and the results were very different, much more a preview of a wintertime vibe.
Ultimately, the challenge has been to get these two sessions, which were recorded and mixed differently, to play nice together on one album. I’ve done five different versions of the master but now I think I am just about ready to go. I really rely on some of my good friends who have huge ears and they give me a great set of feedback to bounce off of. Thanks, y’all. You know who you are. Especially Clifton. Clifton, you know who you are.
The photo above is from a good friend, Juan Perdiguero. I think he is a terrific artist and when the name came up to call the album “Hound’s Tooth”, I immediately thought of Juan and his dogs. Click on that picture there to visit his web site. He’s into monkeys now!
Tomorrow we’re going to be at Union Square and hopefully that hit will begin an idea I have had about getting swing dancers down into the subway. It’s happened before spontaneously and it was a great moment in New York City life. It would be fun to see it happen on the regular. I’ll remember to check in with the MTA and see if we can get their support! So tomorrow, (today at this point), Sunday from 3-5 in Union Square.