One of those weeks that was so good but so busy that I'm glad the Sunday gig is canceled. And on the seventh day he rested. And ate too much.

Don't you hate it when you learn something important but you're not sure what it is? I had the best tipping week ever. Don't know why. I put myself through heavy self analysis this week when I had time between guitar lessons. Key to promoting your music is knowing in clear terms, what the hell your music is and who your ideal fans are. You'd think that's easy but, "Aahaa!" I say to you. It is NOT. Or I'm particularly thick headed. Well, I'm definitely brain damaged, anyway.

But my performances are a tale of two venues. My coffeehouse/cafe sets are a mixture of my own tunes with more hip covers that I've adapted to my acoustic style. Think unplugged. Think Rob Thomas alone on the beach with an acoustic. Think Elvis before he was Elvis in his trailer with an acoustic. Think John Mayer without all those licks. Think Damien Rice with just one acoustic. Think Paul Simon without Artie. Think Led Zep without the screaming. Think Lennon/McCartney alone and not trying to impress anyone but themselves. I've been compared to Dylan a lot for reasons I don't quite get. And Sting and even Bob Weir. And others. Okay, whatever, but those guys alone in their living rooms.

Then there is my mainstream tourist Florida set. Mainstream oldies while trying desperately to avoid Jimmy Buffett. I'm not dissing him, I'm just VERY tired of him. Maybe you have to be a Florida musician who gets 500 Buffett requests a night to understand that. The fans at this set are primarily, but not exclusively, older and also prone to ask me for Frank Sinatra and Englebert Humperdink. That's a real guy's name. Honest. At least a name he gave to his real self. A musician friend of mine suggested that I use the following line upon fielding such requests, "Oh, I'd love to but Englebert (or Frank or Barry or whoever) and I have a mutual exclusivity legal agreement. I don't cover his songs and he doesn't cover mine." If they point out that Sinatra is dead I would say,"See that's how binding that agreement is. He took it to his grave."

My late twenties to early forties fans buy my CD's. The oldies fans tip me well. I'm going to cut an oldies CD for them. I could really use some suggestions on which oldies to cover. Most of my readers are younger but I'd SO much appreciate your oldies selections because around here, most of my sets are mixed ages. So I still need to be able to please different parts of the crowd even when one group vastly outnumbers the other. My partial set list is here. If you have time to check it out, it may help. Hmm, I just noticed its ALL messed up. Jason, HELP! If you have time to check it out, it may help. But I'm TOTALLY open to learning new OLD stuff. So let me know what you'd like to hear if you were in a cafe where an acoustic guy was doing oldies. Please?

It is my goal to post at least part of a song I'm working on later this week.

The promotional video is edited and I'm working on getting a Quicktime version done so I can post that as well.

I'm chipping away at other work tapes and if anything is listenable even if not releasable, I'll post them as they are done.

Have a splendid week This is a three gig week for me. And two doctors and possibly a dentist. No problems. Just warrantee check.