Dyson & Crackerjack Highway

My old drummer, Dyson, from the Pollyanna Loves Cassandra days, has been working in San Francisco with Crackerjack Highway. He tells me that they’re touring the Northwest in late March. (I’m down for their Luckey’s show in Eugene on the 26th.

Back when Dyson joined up with Shipe Band in 2000, he came from a hot Eugene local progressive funk band (with Olem Alves, Asher Fulero & Zak Johnson). Shipe music didn’t exactly scratch that prog-funk itch, so it’s good to see him returning to it. I hasten to add that he has the super-evolved chops to meet the prog agenda. And he’s singing, to boot.

Renegade Saints cover on You Tube

I was doing a little work on my You Tube channel, when I discovered a rare gem: Smooth Audio Flow covering my old Renegade Saints song, “Deep End,” at Lollapotato.

Over the years, I gather this song has seen a good bit of action. I know of a church band that plays it at their services. (Which, by the way, I think is wonderful, in spite of the fact that its origin lay in a more secular variety of epiphany… sort of Edgar Alan Poe on peyote.)

S.A.F. did a fine job on this. It makes me want to get my ass back in the studio and write another song.