This weekend I have two shows coming up with songwriter Andy Mullen. He plays a lot of old-time music and his originals are strongly influenced by it. He's got a great new album out, available til the end of this month for free on his site. Andy puts on a great show, and will probably call a square dance or two. (You have no idea how much fun it can be to watch a bunch of drunk hipsters try to square dance. It's even more fun to join them.) We'll be at the fabulous Jalopy Theater in Red Hook tomorrow, May 29, at 9, and at the Parkside Lounge in the Lower East Side on Saturday, at 9:30.

Then, on June 8, I'll be taking my vintage little Fender Champ out of the closet for a rare evening of straight-up amplified blues harp, with Gordon Linzner's Saboteur Tiger, at the Greenwich Village Bistro.

Details are on the shows page. And until the end of this month, you can still hear the complete set of fourteen songs that I wrote for the February Album Writing Month project. Sometime in June, they'll be archived off the site. Some will turn up on a real album one of these days, while others may never surface again, and you'll never hear any of them again in their raw written-and-recorded-in-a-morning form. (And that might not be a bad thing!)