Inauguration Day 

Good morning! 9:13 on this sunny Hump Day, a balmy 22 degrees. In just a few short hours, we'll have us a new POTUS and Veep. Some are bemoaning this of course, while many more are celebrating. I have "bemoaner friends" but I am one of the celebrants. So glad to see the Clampetts leaving the White House after 4 divisive and destructive years. . Y'all don't come back now, hear?

Music news. The bad news is that I still haven't got my CDs. The Sam Crain Quartet, 50 copies.  They were supposed to be here yesterday between 1:30 and 5:30, and then by 7pm. Got an email at 7:17 informing me that the package had been returned to the Post Office due to an incomplete address(!!).I sent an email which had a response this morning. They're "working on the problem' and someone is supposed to call me later today. In the words of Charlie Brown, AAUGH!

The good news is that I got Licensing for all 9 of the standards, which went through without a hitch. So I was able to get the album registered with CD Baby. It goes '"live' on February 1st, the earliest date I could get. All the tracks are in there, as well as info on the publishers. Had a moment of clarity as far as all their nitpicky rules, which I guess is good news within good news. All the t's are crossed and all the i's dotted. I've done all I can do...

And for the first time since last March, they're asking me to send 5 CDs. This tells me that the warehouse will likely reopen this year. More good news.. Back to the business of selling CDs. Now if I could just get my damned package, we'd be all set.

For all the hassles, though, I'm glad to have put this group recording together. Besides the usual self-promotion, I did this for the other three guys who worked with me all those years. For the longest time, I had this weird duality going, where I had one bunch to play with and another to record with. Four of my albums have musicians from Millikin on them, and were recorded in Decatur.. The Millikin years. All good, but I always wished I had something with my regular crew as well. 

So that's what's what right now. I think this year is going to be just as crazy for music as the year we just emerged from. I've got another stab-from-the-past recording, this one from 2007 which was just sitting there in limbo. Another expenditure on my part, paying for more standard tunes, but it'll soon be out there, earning me some of my money back. 

Not as humorous a post as yesterday's, but hopefully still a good read. Thanks as ever for stopping in and wading through it all. Happy Hump Day/Inauguration Day to you!! I'm outa here. More later. 

PS Today's pic is something I had laying around for just this occasion. A little photoshop magic from Superman II. PPS Today's tune is from--sorry for the plug!--my album Tele-ology. Jazz with twang.

 

 

 

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