I always feel like you're in trouble with a musical artist when they move into their Abbey Road period. You know, they start making Art with a capital fart rather than good music you can tap your foot or sing along or shake your butt to so nobody can even tell if you just farted wait where was I. 

I promise I'm never going to have an Abbey Road period. Abbey Road was fine but She Loves You was a towering work of genius that unlike Abbey Road will be remembered in 300 years if there are still people. This is a hill I will die on and I'm not joking, though I did just make an in joke for one subscriber to this newsletter — maybe you!  

Come on out

I'm playing Wednesday at place called Abbey Road Tavern, is the thing. It's a Songwriters Circle put on by the North Carolina Songwriters Co-op, like the one I played a couple months ago at another joint in Fuquay-Varina called The Brick. Big songwriter town, Fuquay. 

Note that early time slot. 6-7:30 p.m. 

The Co-op calls these things Songwriter Circles. Sometimes they're called Guitar Pulls, after the tradition of a bunch of people sitting around on let's say a porch somewhere and passing a guitar around, each person singing a song and then passing the guitar on. You pull the guitar into your lap from the previous person and sing your song, see? 

So this'll be a guitar pull with me, Rich Scher and Susan Riggs taking turns singing our songs and talking about em, except we'll all play our own guitars. I don't like to pass my guitar on to other players because I don't want it getting the idea that things could be better.

Last newsletter's Song of the Newsletter was Convict Trump, sung to the tune of Charlie Brown, which I'm surprised hasn't earned me a takedown notice yet from Sony Music. Since then, on the suggestion of my friend Bobbie, who earned herself her first songwriting credit for it, I've made up a new Trump song called Shark Week, inspired by his recent ruminations about sharks and electric boats.

I've played it out twice so far, and haven't come close to remembering all the words and chords correctly. It's like a cognitive test that I have NOT been acing. Come on out to Abbey Road Wednesday and see if the third time's the charm.

The COOS — come on out schedule

June 25: The Cave, Chapel Hill
July 4: EnoFest, Durham (tickets)
Aug 17: Arts at the Sutherland, Wake Forest (info)

Thanks

In a rare instance of the Big Tech Surveillance State doing a nice thing, I was able to see that a few of you followed the link in the last newsletter to help my friend and former boss David Talbot in the wake of his stroke. Thank you, The King Teen's Friends, and if you missed it and still want to help, the family's needs are ongoing even though they've reached their funding goal. Here's the link again: GoFundMe. 

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