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  • Cicadas, Melodies, and Sweat

    Feels so good to be back in NC where the heat gets to your head, immediately.  Right now, looking out my window, storm clouds are to the North and I’m getting my ass in gear.  I’ve already written one song and played it last night at John Saylor’s open mic, which was so beautiful I cried…

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  • LAST SLAKFAC (Anita) SHOW at Metropolis this FRIDAY! 8:00pm-11:00pm

    Dearest Crew of Brattleboro and Visitors from near and far, announcing the fiesty and melody-filled tunes of your favorite local-yokel-yodelessquie, Anita Lorraine, while local is still an appropriate description! That’s right, this is going to be my last show in beloved Brattleboro for a long while and I’d be honored and touched (literally?) by your…

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  • A Truth about This Hot Spell

    Sitting in the afternoon heat I realize I must be Crazy or spoiled, one. ‘Cause up here, for a while, the heat’s much more fun. No sweaty drips post shower or swim that come from moisture deep within Humidity that sits you down or makes you nap and wear a frown. Vermont has heat, that…

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  • Today’s Thing’s’s

    Today’s Thing’s’s

    Alarm, ceiling, bed, eyes, open. Floor, feet, muscles in my arms. Thoughts, morning.   Awake, bed, half-awake in my pajamas. (Not Frog Pajamas) Wander, tea or coffee.  Wonder-Tea. Awake.  Really awake awake awake awake. Phone, Tom, Yes to Way the hell out there Visit – needs for comradarie.   2nd try eggs, day 1, tomorrow…

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  • Just saw two bicyclists pulled over on 88 headed to Albany from Ithaca. They (the bikers) had GIANT American flags strapped to their backs. The trooper looked pissed, flailing his Bear arms and the cyclists had their jaws agape. This is the perfect opportunity for a song. Grandmother gangster, bearing down the interstate, don’t care…

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  • Rock In Roll!!!

    Rock In Roll!!!

    Acoustic stage performance in front of all my friends and Family in NC: check.  Two open mic sets at the Our Fest: check.  Two performances at the Our Fest in Sherman, NY, one of which featuring Christopher Yarrow (Lovechild of Peter, Paul and Mary) on the washtub bass: check.  One in-house presentation of Somewhere Over…

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