Valentine's Day & Other Nightmares

I am not looking forward to a Valentine's day performance.

Two or three hours of love songs?! I'm unsure whether this is going to be fun or depressing.


Well, I finally started wearing headbands around the house. For practical reasons only! You will probably never see me wearing them, but Al, I finally took your advice. Thanks! I can at least work now without hair in my eyes.

Got some hard decisions ahead, some hard traveling. Life is a hard puzzle, a hard puzzle indeed. I think I'll go now and rehearse for tonight's gig. In fact, I'll put together a rough setlist while I'm here.

• "A Boy Named Sue" - J. Cash
• "Big Rock Candy Mountain" -American Hobo Song
• "Cape Cod Girls" -Sea Chantey
• "Come Away with Me" -Norah Jones 
• "First Song" -Poem by Galway Kinnel, set to music by Andrew Bird 
• "The Way" - Performed by Fastball, dunno who wrote it. 
• "Drunken Sailor" -Sea Chantey
• "Folsom Prison Blues" - J. Cash
• "Frog Went a-Courtin' " - American Folk
• "Gun Street Girl" - Tom Waits
• "Hallelujah" -Leonard Cohen
• "Hallelujah, I'm a Bum" - American Hobo Song
• "I've Been Everywhere" - Can't remember who wrote this 'un. Merle Haggard?
  
• "James Alley Blues" - Richard "Rabbit" Brown
• "Long Way Home" - Not sure whose this song is. Country standard, for sure
• :"Me Father's a Lawyer in England" - English drinking song that I rewrote for my own purposes.
• "The Times They are a-Changin' " - Bob Dylan
• "Cocaine Blues" - J. Cash
• "Oh, Darling" - The Beatles 
• "Nightingale" -Norah Jones 

Alright. Ridin' off into the sunset now. Got a mini-party happening tonight. Cheers!