To be released 2007:
The
Living Moment
This
CD was recorded live with all the smoke and energies of blues clubs we
found ourselves in. A live gig always brings unpredictable moments of
every
description, moments in which life suddenly appears incandescent,
musically
and otherwise.
Take
the fierce thunderstorm and broken windshield wiper which delayed the
band
for one gig, which became the moment for Tail Dragger to voice We Sorry
(No. 8). As he tells Rob Lorenz, who wanted “to keep on drivin’ in the
rain,” “You ain’t gonna kill me this a way.”
Or take
“Feelin’ Lucky Boogie,” whose title comes from the realization in the
middle
of the instrumental, as I was about to tell the audience to put their
hands
together for guitarists Minoru and Rockin’ Johnny, that we were in the
midst of a full moon, on Friday the 13th, during the millennium. Oh
yeah,
feelin’ lucky indeed! Then I look over to see Rob Lorenz, a drummer’s
drummer
if there ever was one, standing at his kit, smoking a cigar, completely
in the groove. And that all poured into the song.
The
living moment is not simply the music, but the mojo that suddenly
manifests
on any given gig. Like the time a few years back we were playing
outside,
under a kind of pagoda, when....