Music and Words by J. Boor
I’ve been cleaning my room. Here are two odd tracks found dribbling into oblivion like pebbles down a long hill of sand displaced by an excavator. (1) “Chicken Hush,” recorded live at Big Star Bar in Houston about ten years ago. When I found this recording I did not recognize the tune; it sounds different …
Throw Me Out of the Ballgame by Jerm Boor
Just in time (I hope) for irrelevance, here’s a video by Sally Foster, featuring the Fogline Musicians Guild, commissioned by Sonoma County, etc.
Three PSAs by the Fogline Musicians’ Guild are now live on the old-fashioned FM radio at KTDE Gualala and KGUA Gualala. And we are daily embiggening the radius of our effluence. Today Gualala, tomorrow Fort Bragg; maybe even Guerneville. No one is safe from highway safety. Two of the founding members of the FMG will …
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Here’s a song about ayahuasca, and (another) one about George Washington. Ayahuasca by Jerm Boor I wasn’t sure if the ayahuasca one would offend people who are into ayahuasca, so I sent this draft to my friend Jason, who is into ayahuasca like it’s going out of style. He liked it (the song), and so …
1: rough take of an allegedly humorous song about Jesse James. This one is a hit with the bursting outdoor crowds at the Fort Ross Store, who especially like the audience participation element, which is not represented on the recording, which has so far produced a sentence groaning under a multitude of subordinate clauses, so …
This is now a regular thing. I’m playing every Saturday, 5-8 pm, at the Fort Ross Store. Sometimes there will be others, too.
Look! Look! A new song. It is made of limericks, eleven of them in fact. Eleven Lenten Limericks by Jerm Boor Like another song of mine, this one began with an intentional misreading of the letters of Herman Melville. It started out whimsical and only slightly introspective, but became more Lenten as it went on, …