Tuesday May 23 2006
Natalie Hemby came over and we worked on a couple ideas and she has such a great voice. We made up a new musical idea, but we didn’t have any lyrics so we agreed to work on it another time. She sang some background vocals of the other song we wrote and the demo is finished now. She said she loved what I did with the demo. Liz called and said Jessica Maros was playing and I was on the list so I was going to go and John Deaderick called and he said he was going to Baja so I met him ($9) and he said he’s tired of everything on his ipod and just feels general malaise. We went to the mercy and Jessica is such a good performer. She was dancing and the energy level was much higher than most gigs you see. The guitar player was having technical problems, but she opened with our song, which was flattering. Then Melissa Mathes played, and she sounded great. She played 3 of our songs and it was neat to hear your songs performed in a club and I could kind of hear what was good about them, but also what could use improvement. Faster, for one thing. I could be wrong. But Angelo and Chuck Prophet were there and they were buying me drinks and so was Liz and I was doing more “Long Dancing” but I wasn’t drunk or anything. I just like dancing lately. Laughed quite a bit and came home.