Mad Manic Pop Hoedown

Day 263. Year of Queens. It has been an intense little world since September 27. Saturday and Sunday were intense. I felt like we needed to take down every emotional defense and try to be antennas and pick up all the energy in the air. The first take of the first song? I was so nervous. I wasn’t feeling it. The second take? I wasn’t feeling it either. @kevin.moloney.music said “that’s it!” I thought he was just being nice, but when I heard it the song was this mad manic pop hoedown. Champions of tomorrow’s fun!

Year of Queens. Tomorrow night - come along to @static_age_record_store to see us play with @badauthors and @theloverfacesband. Drunken dancing and heartbreak! That’s the answer to everything!

Year of Queens. Thank you to @static_age_record_store and @badauthors and @theloverfacesband. It felt like we had gone down to the bottom of the ocean and we are trying to get back to the surface.

Year of Queens. Day 267. We want to strip away facades and artifices - and just be ourselves. And this is a remarkably challenging aim…

Year of Queens. Day 278. Do what you want to do. We’re going to aim our ship toward creating something beautiful.

Year of Queens. Day 269. Craig offered his old homestead, on a dirt road up in the Swannanoa Mountains, as our practice space. We had another possible practice space on the second floor of a brewery in Black Mountain. I wasn’t sure - but now I’m so grateful we practice at Craig’s space. The air shimmers with magic and laughter and alcohol and music.

Year of Queens. Day 270. DCK practices in an old homestead in the mountains. The band is musicians - yes - but we are also sculptors of energy and philosophers of heartbreak and poets of trouble.