Went Down to the hot springs today. The sulfer has cleaned out my head. Picked up a new cdrecoder this weekend and another mike cable… my latest recordings have come out with alot of background noise so I have to sort out a grounding problem in the old homestead again… any way I was diging about thinking i needed some gold and i find a golden earing and an old bronze knife. Pretty cool stuff… wish I had something new in music for you all this month so I dug up an old rocker we called the “Credit Card Song” but its title is “The Liquor Store”. I’ll bring it up in a few days. it’s alot different than the other stuff but still the same story teller just hard rockin. peace till next time. jv

ADDED A NEW OLD SONG TODAY. COMIN’ TO TOWN WAS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN AS A HOMAGE TO THE LATE GREAT JOHNNY LEE HOOKER. LAST TIME I GOT THE PLEASURE TO SEE HIM PERFORM WAS AT THE FILMORE IN SAN FRANCISCO WHERE HE CAME UP AN DID AN ENCORE WITH BO DIDLEY WITH RON WOOD… WHAT A GREAT SHOW THAT WAS JOHNNY WAS UPSTAIRS AND BO DIDDLY SAW HIM AND INVITED HIM DOWN. (JOHNNY OWNED THE BAR ACROSS THE STREET BACK THEN) ANY WAY THEY DID LITTLE RED ROOSTER WITH JOHNNY ON THE HARP… JUST WHALIN’...! GOT TO DRIVE TINA TURNER HOME THE NEXT DAY WITH HER SISTER… NOBODY RECOGNIZED HER LOOKIN LIKE A GRANDMA TALKIN WITH THAT NUTBUSH ACCENT… LET HER KNOW SHE MISSED A GREAT SHOW… SHE AGREED. BACK WHEN I WROTE THIS I WANTED TO TIE A CROSSROADS TYPE THEME TO A HARD DRIVING NEWSPAPER BOY RANT… YES MY FIRST JOB WAS DELIVERING PAPERS WHEN I WAS 7. AND WHO COULD PASS UP HEY! HEY!

AFTER THE WIND DIES DOWN AFTER THE LIGHTS RUN LOW WHEN THE CANDLE FLAMES MEET AND FLASHES DISSAPATE HEAT THE SOUNDS OF THE WAVES GROWING STRONGER WITH THE TIDE AND THE SHALE SHAKES LOOSE AND TURNS INTO SAND RUNS THROUGH MY FINGERS LIKE THE HOURS THROUGH MY HAND. AND THE BONES CHILL IN THE MIST OF SALT SPRAY THE STARS SHINE LIGHT THE WAY THE HEART CLIMBS ON HOPE OF DAY A GLINT OF LIGHT ON THE HORIZON COMING. I CALL TO YOU ACROSS THE SKY. YOU ARE STILL THERE. JV08