Good morning! 9:56 on this sunny Tuesday. Thinking of a Ramones song this morning: 20, 20, 24 hours to go. I wanna be sedated. Wondering what kind of debacle awaits us tomorrow. The Red-hats are coming! The Red-hats are coming! In that way, I'm dreading tomorrow. But it's still gonna be Inauguration Day. Biden and Harris will still be sworn in. I try to keep Politics out of this post, but sometimes you just can't help it.
Music news. My new CD, The Sam Crain Quartet, is supposed to be here today. All I know from the tracking information is that it's here in town and due here sometime today by 9pm. Unfortunately, I have to sign for it, which means listening for the door. And with my luck, it'll take all day to get here. This is a little bit like buying marijuana before legalization. It always got here, but quite often several hours past when I was told to expect it. One time the guy was so high he forgot to leave me what I'd just bought and waited several hours for!
Anyway, this new record will soon be here.. As soon as I get the discs I'll start getting everything online, and it's just a matter of time before it's available as both a download and physical CD. Sharing another cut from the album today. I don't know what I'll pick just yet, but it'll be something fun to listen to.
And I have an anecdote to share with you today. A pianist friend of mine recently took a gig playing at a Piano Bar. I remember Bob Klocke working at The Green Turtle for years. He was a jovial guy and probably fit in beautifully with that kind of job. Noisy, interactive, with folks seated all around the bar. My friend is more serious-minded, and probably launched into some Bill Evans or Bud Powell tune that nobody'd heard of.
There was a lady sitting close to him while he was playing, and carrying on a loud conversation. She left to use the bathroom and when she got back, there was a note on her chair. It said shut the fuck up.,
I imagine the gig ended either that night or shortly thereafter. Not everybody is cut out for doing a Piano Bar...
Anyway! Someone graced me with that story just last night on the phone. Every time I thought of it, I'd crack up all over again. Just the audacity...Couldn't wait to share.
And that's pretty much all I had this morning. Thanks as ever for stopping in and reading. Happy Tuesday to you! For now, I'm outa here. More later. 
.PS Today's tune is Take the A Train, recorded at Robbie's sometime in 2004. GG Pelletier, tenor saxophone; me, guitar; Kevin Ellis, bass; Don Cochran, drums.
PPS Today's pic goes back to January of 2014. Rob Killam and myself at some restaurant on Toronto Rd. I'd left my job with the State the previous July and was treading water until I reached the age of 60 and could formally retire. Being as that my birthday is in August, it was kind of a long haul. Rob helped keep me afloat with all these duo gigs. Plus they were fun!