Oct 22 • epic

so, the last couple largo shows were awesome. friday the 13th was just epic. To me at least. Its strange to be on stage playing for 3 hours with so many musical heros. It was sara, me, gillian welch, dave rawlings, jon brion, benmont tench, and greg leitz. we'd planned to just do a few together and then break up into smaller groups but no one wanted to leave the stage. So we all rocked it the whole time. THe great thing about largo is how comfortable you feel staying on stage even if you dont know or dont want to play on the song. THere was a recording of it made. I'll try to find some songs to put up. ALso a couple videos i think. Anyway, we all had so much fun.... i feel so grateful to have been a part of that.

THen last thursday, we did our first of a long string of thursday night watkins family hours. Gill and dave came again but had to leave half way through the set to drive up north. But right after they left Sam Bush and John Randall (who were in town recording with Lyle Lovette) walked in and were imediately recruited to fill the gill and dave void. It was great. I dont think Ben and Sam had ever played together.....worlds colliding for me.

Other then that, i've really been enjoying being at home. I fixed up my studio a bunch. Jon's and my duo record is really coming along. I've been working alot on that....doing what i can while he's out on the road. I also went to Minneapolis for a few days to record with Dan Willson. We did six songs together for a really interesting EP he's doing that'll come out later this winter i believe. Pretty cool. MOre on that soon. THe waves are really big right now. I need to get out of shape self out there.