Blog You Two Times, Yeah.

Fellow friends and beloved family,

I made a promise I could not keep. And yet, I’m working it out in my mind that you aren’t too concerned about it. It has been a torturous past three days for you, no doubt, as my whereabouts and whatabouts have been left entirely up to your imagination! Well here here, and there there. Let’s settle this, shall we?

San Francisco was our destination on April 1st (make no mistake that we left tire marks on our way out of Reno). We drove in to the city in the early afternoon, checked in to our hotel and made a quick and much needed stop for coffee at Blue Bottle.

After that, shopping commenced. We hit Haight/Ashbury, a famous shopping district in SF, and came through with new albums from Amoeba Records, including Best of Warren Zevon, one of Roky Erickson’s, and Sam Cooke’s The Man Who Invented Soul, to name a few. We made it in to downtown (for more shopping) shortly after that before heading to Kasey’s show at The Union Room at Biscuits and Blues.

On April 2nd, we drove to Mountain View, CA for a show Kasey played at his friends Lacey and Jason’s house. Lacey hid lottery-ticket-filled Easter eggs all around their house, and Jason built a fire out on their back patio to attract the guests out into the cold. Kasey played an hour-long set to another respectful and inquisitive audience that asked about, among other things, his relationship with his harmonica.
Kasey described their courtship romantically, dating back to his early teens when they first started seeing each other, then they split for a few years when he got together with his band, and met up and began flirting again when he and his band split up. At first they were monogamous, he’d said, then B flat had started looking good, and F, too.. He became a regular polygamist of the harmonican persuasion. And bravo.
Thank you, Lacey and Jason, for hosting a gracious audience.

The afternoon of April 3rd was spent driving in to San Luis Obispo, CA, and walking around the downtown area in a leisurely daze. Well, for me anyway. Kasey did a radio interview for SLO’s NPR radio station, and met up with me afterward to escort me to dinner at Guiseppi’s (upon my sister’s suggestion). We didn’t have high expectations, but we did have low blood sugar and could have eaten probably anything anyone put in front of us. Fortunately for us, the waiter brought a basket of freshly baked bread and a combination of olive oil, balsamic vinegar, crushed garlic and grated parmesan for our dipping pleasure. And dip we did! Until our caprese salad and eggplant parmesan showed up to tide us over until the margherita pizza and butternut squash stuffed pasta graced us with their plated presence. We stuffed ourselves silly, and then headed to Kasey’s show at the Steynberg Gallery.

Kasey played another acoustic show to an intimate audience, which included two covers: Tonight Will Be Fine by Leonard Cohen, and Hold On by Tom Waits.
Almost immediately after the show, we made time to see Clash of The Titans, which, while entertaining, I do not recommend you see.

Well that’s all for now. Stay tuned for more intermittent updates as we venture through California and make our way to the beautiful south known to some as the country of Texas.

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