tour diary: blood moon
1:14 PM (FROM yesterday because buttondown glitched on me). a morning filled with broken cameras (dropped when drunk), spilled coffee (slipped when story telling), palmetto bugs (slinking up loose jeans), sunburnt solders (begged for it): we’re leaving new orleans, we’re driving to birmingham for our off day.
last time i was in new orleans i was there for a work trip, the sort of work trip which felt more joy than work, the sort of work trip where you go early with your colleagues and you and your colleagues sing labor songs at dinner and your colleagues buy menthols out of vending machines and you shoot bourbon with the 75-year old osha expert you worked with and your childhood friends are randomly in new orleans so you meet up with them and your best friend’s best friend from college who’s from new orleans and you all drink $2 tall boy PBRs and then you go home and write a new song about this and not until now, back in new orleans 2 years later, do you realize how you should arrange it: slow & heavy - inspired by the sludgy southern grunge of basically nancy, who is departing for austin from us today.
it always moves me how things can stay and seep and sit and travel through us like this. and it’s an important reminder that good work takes time and patience and you know when you know because the very thing will beckon to you and in your heart you will know it is true.
tonight is a blood moon. the last time i saw a blood moon (to my memory) it was 2021 and i was on the jersey shore with my family. i received some texts from a terrible man and went out and looked at the moon and now that’s a line in tony soprano (he says i’m too vulgar for his taste / but he likes the way i make his heart race / this blood moon won’t leave new jersey / the devil found me breathing and earthy), a song which came together around two years later. it was captured in full from our set in athens, ga: here.
nashville: friday, the east room
charlottesville: saturday, jbird warehouse
brooklyn: friday april 18th, the sultan room
more over the summer
xoxo