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Michael Day had a bootleg label 8 track tape copy of Joni Mitchell's Blue when we were teenagers -- a glorious album, sad and introspective, yet full of exquisite poetry and melody and intelligence and emotion, all delivered on the wings of this unusually shrill soprano belonging to a young Canadian woman. We fancied ourselves he-men in north Autauga County in the 1970's, but this beautiful, sensitive LP about lost love and melancholy spent a lot of time in Michael's Craig PowerPlay car stereo as we prowled the backroads of the Black Belt. I still listen to it frequently, especially when my mood is shading toward indigo. In fact, Blue ranks with Dylan's Blood On The Tracks and Springsteen's Nebraska as records that changed my life.

 

Like Joni, we're gonna be on Both Sides Now this Saturday night, appearing on either bank of the mighty Cumberland for two performances. We'll begin at the Flatrock Cafe, 2624 Nolensville Pike at 7 PM for a couple of hours of highjinx with Mark ($) Robinson and Daniel Seymour -- our first time at this cool little coffee/beer/eats place that's been booking some notable songwriter types of late. Join us there, and then follow us across the river to Foobar Too for Suzette's Alt-Country Hoedown, a hip Music City tradition. This one promises to be a barn-burner, what with Amelia White! Jon Byrd! Richard Ferreira! Rachel Owen! and the lovely Suzette and the Neon Angels! on the bill as well. The show starts at 9:30 PM and we go on some time after that, so come early and stay late. We're pretty sure you'll see two or three Faders onstage together again. Hell, that's enticing enough, ain't it?