Before I mention this week's Live from the Lair, before I wax poetic about playing with Rowan Corbett w Juels Bland and Rebecca Berlin in Catonsville this Thursday, and before I even mention tickets for our last show of the year at the Baltimore County Arts Guild, I'd like to provide you this word from Heather Aubrey Lloyd:

You've heard how we become completely different people every seven years as our cells all replace themselves? It's a lovely oversimplification, of course. The childhood scar on my knee knows better. I was trying to fly a kite without wind, running as fast as I could and looking only upward, when I clotheslined myself across a sliding board at (thankfully) knee level and not neck level.

It's been seven years since “A Message in the Mess,” my last solo album. When I was on the verge of a career/life breakthrough. Then, in 2019, my world and everyone’s … paused. My studio work floundered. My anxiety skyrocketed. My husband began to refer to our deck as my "panic room with a view."

Maybe I have learned nothing from trying to fly the kite, but I’m making one more solo album, and showing off all those pandemic scars. But I need your help. Deadline Dec. 18. What’s on the album? Why not just one CD? Why should you care? Learn more and crowdfund/pre-order:

igg.me/at/panicroomwithaview  

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Family can make you crazy. It goes for Chosen Family as well. 

As we ran songs and ate chili yesterday, I was thinking about the chosen family that is ilyAIMY. Even Joey's been with us for almost a decade. They all make me crazy too, but there's no blood excuse forcing us together. It's a chosen collective madness. A strange 6-piece marriage where we take one another as we are but are better together than we are apart, always trying to raise our collective little leaky boat.

Being at the front of a band like ilyAIMY means stepping out of the way a LOT because every one of us deserves to be spot-lit. We're not a flashy jam band giving every member a 10 minute solo every set, but we truly want one another to shine, sans ego.

Lift one another up. That's what this noise is all about.

- rob
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