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Our sincere thanks to all those who took part in last week’s CSA Survey! We’re especially indebted to those of you who took the time to write specific comments or suggestions.
We’ve got some intriguing results; we thought we would share them with you, as well as post Jake’s responses to a selection of the comments.
But first … our three winners of Organic Music t-shirts!
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I think I know a little how a farmer must feel after the seeds are in the ground.
I just finished a two-week road trip to Minnesota whose main purpose was to lay the foundation tracks for the next six months’ worth of CSA songs. I was able to schedule performances in PA, MI and Chicago on the way out, a few dates in MN while there, and one more in MI on the way back. You could say I’m pretty exhausted. I think I’ve got three different kinds of colds.
But we got the tracks, and that’s what matters.
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When I started identifying myself with “homegrown” music, I never thought it would get this good.
Last Sunday afternoon found me on the road to New Jersey for perhaps the most dubious recording session of my career – two friends, one house (usually populated with two kids), a random assortment of microphone stands and cables, and one big, fat, analog tape machine. This was guerrilla recording, and it was gonna be what it was gonna be.
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There is a knack to eating a croissant without leaving a small shower of crumbs on the breakfast tablecloth. I have not yet acquired this knack.
Digestion, prepare thyself: you are about to embark on a singular journey of gustatory enlightenment. Your stomach is about to go camping: as you would leave behind gadgets, deadlines, schedules and other distractions of life, your stomach leaves behind ascorbic acid, Yellow 5, high fructose corn syrup, sodium diphosphate, xantham gum, and Kraft. Along with anything baked before yesterday.
They say there are two Frances: Paris, and the rest of the country. I got my fill of both, and it was a great ride.
