The Able Birds. Andre Cutair's new project was surprisingly rockin, a really agile Indie creature of some bluegrassy flavours and beautiful songwriting and tight harmonies. I vote yes.

January 7th, 2008.
We hadn't had a PLOJ in a year. Possibly over a year. That's just frightening. I think it's better for everyone if we get this tradition back together, dust it off and try to get it back together all regular as clockwork. If only because I was looking at the calendar and soon we get into the Roman numeral category of Ls and stuff. Last Saturday we had PLOJ XXXVII which means the NEXT one is the XXXVIII special!

PLOJ XXXVII was amazing. It started off slow. It started off with everyone lost, frankly. John Thayer's address (that's Nomad to many of you) is on the beaten path but the actual PLACE is just a little bit off of it and I have NEVER had to answer my phone so many times during any other gig, PLOJ, funeral, whatever. Eventually a sort of pheremone trail or something was laid down and people seemed to be finding their way

We're About 9 is always amazing. It's a shame they don't play out more often. As it was it was flattering to have them and I thought MichaelBerkowitz was in danger of swooning.

better, but the 38 Special's going to be a little more cautiously organized. Maybe we'll even generate some freakin' signs.

Even I had had to call and double check where I was and then when I showed up I was all afeared that noone would come but me and Heather and my mom. But about two hours after the event begun, in true musician style, we had a really full house. I'm always flattered by the number of people that come out for these things and the sheer talent that shows up. A lot of local names show up, really amazing writers that quiet the raucasity of the overall jam.

The food was great and finally broke from tradition and made Puerto Rican black beans and rice rather than my usual tabuleh, we had cookies and vegetables and pasta salads