Guess what, Everybody -- I was sitting here just before midnight tonight in snowy Kearny, New Jersey, where they filmed some memorable scenes from The Sopranos--just the other side of the Holland Tunnel from NYC--watching the Buddy Holly movie on t.v., listening to True Love Ways and adoring it for the thousandth time, when I was quite pleasantly surprised by a link that I found in my inbox as I was shutting down the computer for the night. It's a Q&A that I did last month with a very talented writer, David McGee, for The Bluegrass Special at www.thebluegrassspecial.com
David called me from New York after attending my show at the Living Room on November 21, and we had a really good talk. He made me feel right at home, telling me of his youth in Oklahoma and his drive through east Texas and the Big Thicket with his sons, so I was perfectly comfortable "baring it all," as they say. Later, I found out that David has written for Record World, Rolling Stone, Spin, and Pro Sound News and published biographies of Steve Earle and Carl Perkins, as well as being the country music editor for Barnes&Noble.com! Wow--what can I say but that you gotta read this one! He even included a variety of pictures and a copy of the House Resolution honoring my music that I received from State Representative Jessica Farrar at the Capital in Austin!
And there's MORE: I've been working on compiling a list of links to send out soon so that everyone can see all of the wonderful things that music aficionados from the US to the UK are saying about the new album. I'm happy to report that Perfectly Legal was a top favorite of 2010 on quite a few writers' and radio hosts' lists at year's end, and sales have been strong with several shipment reorders from Burnside since the release on October 19.
Crash on the Levee with Jerry Treacy at WFDU was like a dream. What a fine program and a first-rate station, situated on such a quaint college campus where the first FM signal was ever broadcast right into NYC! And after the show, I participated in a lovely musical event at The Mission in West Milford, New Jersey--a gathering of musicians in a beautiful old church, which doubles as a premier listening room that seats about 200! Tomorrow, I'm looking forward to talking with Jeff Eyrich, who accompanied me on upright bass at the Living Room, about another show there in the near future. And on Saturday between 9 and noon EST, I'll be joining Big Kev Ploghoft as the first musical guest on his brand new radio show at FM 91.3 WLVR in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, then over to Allentown to perform for a studio audience between 1 and 4 pm EST at FM 90.3 WXLV on a live broadcast of Big Kev's Big Country Revue. I must say, the new year is looking very good . . . Y'all come!