Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Hello music lovers,
As some of you may know, I am in the middle of a European tour which is the cd release tour for Poor Man's Paradise. The shows are going wonderfully so I wanted to take a minute out and share some of the good news about the first stop on the tour, Paris.

Top 10 things to do in Paris:
10. play my first real gig in France at the very cool and historic Cafe de la Danse.
9. be the opening act for, and then get to hang out with, Gary Louris and Mark Olson - who started the great roots rock band the Jayhawks.
8. be a tourist - stop by the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame.
7. run into a great singer songwriter i played with long ago: Chris Stills, who is actually living in Paris and is about to star in a musical version of the life of Julius Caesar (in French).
6. hang out with family.
5. see some art - there was a great exhibit on Picasso at the D'Orsay Museum.
4. do some radio interviews. - with Johnny Da Piedade fro his show Big Cactus Country which is broadcast out of Disneyland Paris. I was slightly bummed that the giant Mickey Mouse did not have a beret. I also had a great afternoon with Lucie Blanc Dumont who runs the great French roots music site Lucky Honky Tonk.
3. run into an old friend from NY completely by accident and share a bottle of great French wine in a cool cafe.
2. have a drink where my Dad used to drink in the 60's.
1. alternate between trying to fit in and then let yourself completely stick out like every other ugly American.