Alan James as Joe Rathburn's guest, Aug. 28, see below.
More recording is in progress.
Thursday, August 28th
7:00 to 9:00 PM
Joe Rathburn & guest Alan James
at
Milano Coffee Company
Address: 8685 Rio San Diego Dr. Ste B,
San Diego, CA 92108
Phone: (619) Coffee-5, (619) 263-3335
"If you can't have a good time with us--you are seriously
out of practice at it and should get out more often."
Re the message that's been up: (Some other aspects of my life have put a hiatus in my playing out much for the last few months. That'll be changing this summer and I'll have a real calendar again.)
My longtime friend, housemate and erstwhile manager Britt King died July 4th, after a long battle to keep her candle lit at both ends despite living with the limitations of a gradually failing heart. It was a big one, but she finally wore the poor thing completely out and had to leave . She left with a touch of classic Britt style, taking to the sky on no less than Independence Day. Our thanks continue for our many friends who played and sang her on her way at her July 20th memorial.
April, 2008: I have a new used instrument. It's a solid body baritone 12-string guitar made by Joe Veillette that got a bit toasted in the Malibu fire last year. That makes it a little more special to me than a shiny new one, because my house nearly toasted in the Witch Creek fire--the houses across the street south of me fried. The guitar may have some doubts about leaving one southern California brush fire zone only to end up in another, but you'd never know it from the way it sounds. My oh my.
Our newest CD's, of the James & Douglass Live
(10 songs) and James & Douglass, In Concert (recorded at Hot Monkey Love)
are still available.
