It's been a while since we've had a Song of the Newsletter around here but I have one for you today. It's a brandy new full video of Time Traveler's Blues. But first I want to do a ...

Come on Out! Saturday at The Cave  

I'm going to be making myself a little scarce on local music stages for the next couple months. It's a smart marketing strategy to create scarcity ... by limiting ..... my ..........

I'm just kidding I don't have marketing strategies. For the next couple weeks I'm going to be concentrating on my first acting role, in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest in Chapel Hill, February 21 through March 2 — tickets and info here come on out, and I'll tell you more about it next week — and then I'm hoping to do a bunch of recording.

So I'd love it if you'd come out tomorrow night and send me off, while also enjoying a great rock show at the oldest and best dive bar in town, The Cave. 

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This is a rare flyer for a King Teen show that I didn't make. I feel like a star! Show time is 9 p.m. with me opening, it's 21+, and it's a $10 suggested donation.

I have two new songs since my last gig, which was two weeks ago.

This will be my second time playing with Blood Red River, though I've also seen them as a paying customer several times. If you like punk, surf, surfpunk, the Cramps, volunteer go-go dancers from the crowd, bands that put on a good show, or anything like any of those things, you're going to like Blood Red River if you don't already. I don't know Bengt Walker and his band, but I've heard good things. Come on out! 

Song of the Newsletter:

Time Traveler's Blues

This is my first full-song video in a while. It's a favorite of mine and one I'm planning to record. 

I would consider it a great favor if you would click on it, though I hope you'll watch the whole thing and enjoy it if you do. But your click tells the YouTube monster to maybe suggest it to other people. If you do like it, please share it! Thank you.

I'm not sure when it was that I became fascinated by time travel, but I think it dates to the episode of Bewitched where Aunt Clara, in need of an electrician, accidentally summons Ben Franklin, who wanders around marveling at what he sees in 1966 New York. I saw this in reruns I'm not quite that old.

I'll gobble up damn near any time travel movie, TV show, book, short story, whatever, even though most of them are pretty disappointing. My current top recommendation is 11/22/63 by Stephen King, the novel more than the miniseries, though that's good too.

What's yours?

I may have been yammering on about 11/22/63 to The Queen Teen when she stopped me and said "You have to promise me that if you ever get a chance to get in a time machine, you won't go." 

She was serious.

I promised.

I wasn't lying. I keep my promises to my wife and also I'm kind of a coward and I'm probably not getting in that thing whatever it is. I don't even ride scooters. 

But I got to thinking: I could be lying and what are the odds she'd ever know? And that became this song. I told her about it and assured her that THAT part of it, that I was lying, isn't true. Congratulations if you were able to follow that last sentence.

But she did make me promise, and I did, and that's why I get to say: Unlike every other time-travel story you've ever heard, this one's true.

Thanks as always for reading, listening and coming out.

Your friend,

The King Teen

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