Come inside, and teach me how to jive and wail.

In 1998, the year I turned thirteen, I saw this commercial:

Screw the Gap and their khakis.  I needed to know what that song was, and what ’swing’ was.  So I asked my dad, who of course knows everything.  And he handed me this CD:

Although it’s hard to choose just a few highlights, as every single [...]

Zee Avi and other lovely ladies

I had two great shows this week, on Thursday and Friday.  The first was a cool opportunity to open for Zee Avi, a singer/songwriter from Malaysia who is my age who is on the road to “making it”.  I played it with Scott, so it was just guitar, bass and vox.  I kind of wish [...]