After almost six months and 110 shows working with Joan Armatrading I am finally home again. My traveling shoes are off and will not come out till next year when Bex and I start the long and winding tour with her new record. This is what we are producing now, songs of love, pain, river boats, snakes and fishing, plus a Explore Spirit Bluegrass instrumental written by Bex and performed with the Reno brothers and Jake from Hayseed Dixie.
Once finished we are off on a well deserved holiday and I resume new radio shows and sessions mid October.
So good to be home, the House of Mercy was full to the brim last night with the Hayseed's Bex and Ian Siegal jamming around the kitchen table with plates of sticky chicken and libations.
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