From The Shlog

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08.12.08 A Little Goes A Long Way

I don’t play music or speak outside anymore. Especially not at anything called a festival. This is because the only reason I tour anymore is to release kids from poverty, to ask the audience to sponsor a child through Compassion International. And, truth is, folks have a hard time paying attention to one guy with a guitar strumming and talking in the Summer heat...especially when there’s no shade...and there usually isn’t...and there’s funnel cake in the air. If I can only play for Compassion’s kids ten times a month (we limit my schedule to that) then I choose to do the gigs held in ideal listening environments: air-conditioned churches and colleges mostly, sans sun and funnel cakes.

So, you understand, don’t you, why I said “no” to Joan when she asked me to come play and speak at her church’s festival at three in the afternoon in the middle of a dirt field at an “ag center” without shade trees?...(READ MORE)

Blessings,
PB