what a sick song..what a sick groove....lyrics..that VOICE.

solomon burke and the blind boys of alabama. 

more about him here

Screen couple for the ages, Morticia and Gomez. We should all be so lucky to find our attractive freaky soul-mates.

p.s.- i miss raul julia.

charles addams via Drinking the Paint Water

story of my life!

doing anything to avoid being awkward at endless holiday parties! checking your phone a lot works too. ;) 

girl is hilarious- check out gemma correll

ugh. you had me at "all over again"....what a great title. I heard this played at blues dance 
i went to, and just found it again...there's a million hot versions of this, but dayum. gotta get close on this one.

mr. bb king, courtesy of youtube. mmm

been having a good couple of days. 

I FEEL LIKE THIS. 

Jacques Lowe | The Joy of Music, N.Y.C., 1960

thanks cb

i'm doing a VLOG!

admission: i hate videos

BUT, i realize i squander opportunities to share what I do by being a giant chicken, and i'm sick of that...So, here we are. :) 

I started it originally as a place to do requested cover tunes ( i get a lot of those) but realized it's also a perfect venue for behind the scenes happenings of adventures (and misadvenutres) in living a creative life. So, here is my first video, a cover of Billie Holiday's "I'll Be SeeingYou". If you have a request, you can leave a comment on the video on youtube/or twitter/ and i'll consider it for sure .

xo

don't you ever just want to get on a train at night, going somewhere?

i do. 

Izis: Near Waterloo Bridge, London, 1950. From Izis: Captive Dreams - Photographs, 1944-80. 

thanks crashinglybeautiful

had an absolutely lovely time singing with the very talented Aaron Shadwell who is a singer-songwriter  from Boston. He asked me to come down to Q-Division Studio the other day to sing harmonies on a version of "Doves Cry" that he was filiming (full crew, lights, camera action!), with an absolutely crack band of studio musicians. Sounded awesome, and I'll post when I have the video....I just hope I had a good camera hair day. ha!

photo cred to Ben Zecker, who I was sending annoying text messages to while he was playing the keys. three cheers for multitasking! 

check aaron's music out here

Most glorious night!
Thou wert not sent for slumber!
~Lord Byron, Childe Harold

-photo by ansel adams...not sure the date or title.