We’re off to the Fortune Bay Casino in Tower, MN this coming weekend. I’ll do my best to keep posting as we go along this summer. Also, word soon on some new Orleans recordings being released.
First let me apologize for my months of silence. It was a necessary respite in a time of pervasive uncertainties, both for me personally and for Orleans as a band. But now there is much to report, thankfully, and I wish to get on with it. But where to start?
Baillie & the Boys at a country fair just outside of Atlanta — with dear, old friends Kathie Baillie, Michael Bonagura, Vince Barranco on drums and me as the singing bass player. This is the exact band configuration that existed in 1989 when Kat and Mike brought me to Nashville to be part of their success.
The invitation had gone out by email to a select group of friends and family. Some of us were to forward it to lists of our own, to reach those not on the initial list.
Well, OK … I have put this off as long as I can stand! Why is it so hard for me to sit my ass down and write? It’s not that I don’t know how. Maybe, on top of all the usual reasons one procrastinates, I’m avoiding feeling what I’d rather not. It’s not like I haven’t done my grieving. I have. But I know there’s more where that came from.
