In an act of brazen merriment I have uploaded a video of most of my caterwauling at Down Home Music a week ago. It be here:
Also! Due to amazing technology I’m putting together a live album of this for the streaming services to serve streamingly seemingly instantaneously (soon!) Here’s the artwork for the cover, from the grand Berkeley Cat Records graphic campus of Shannon Wheeler:
I am, sincerely, so very grateful, for y’all who showed up at this shindig and made it fly. It would have been a bit odd to caterwaul alone, after all. To John Pitts and all at Down Home Music, for inviting me to do this, and running it so beautifully, wow, thank you. Bob Hall, my logistical mystical rock n’ roll ally, couldn’a done it without ya. Bill Kopp whose 415 Records book tour precipitated this event, thank ye kind sir. There’s more, there’s always more. This is why thank yous are precarious - one forgets someone and this dawns on one in the wee hours in a sudden fit of mortifying shame, does it not? Why yes, Petunia. So thank you, too, and as I typed in the youtooby description - “Warm thanks to Down Home Music, to everyone who attended, to everyone who would have liked to attend, to everyone watching here online, and to the great cosmic mysterious whatnots. We love you.” There, that’s better.
We’re from Berkeley. We are cats. We do stuff.
Yours,
Eric Roy Dinwiddie