Your friend Lindsey the drifter here. I feel like my consciousness is adrift on the wind these days. Perhaps due to a seemingly never ending fevery green sinus infection or maybe it’s unhinged eclipse energy. Maybe it’s Maybelline Grease. Every morning it seems like my eyes bolt awake and then I’m off on an adventure that is the day, an adventure with twists, turns, and lulls sometimes before I even leave my room. I remember when I thought these type of adventures only existed elsewhere, on trains down the coast or riding a bike I found in a pond to somewhere in Mexico. Now I ride these trains of thoughts in my mind and it’s just as interesting I think. Maybe even more so.
5 weeks from now I quit my day job. Then the real party begins.
I am going to watch my friend’s horses for a couple days this summer. Speaking of jobs, I can’t think of a better one for me. All I have to do is talk to the horses, make sure they have food and water, let them in and out of various gates, and put on their fly masks if things get too intense with the flies. While we were discussing these details, my friend told me quitting my job was a good idea, the right idea. She spoke with her hands arching in the air. There is a lot of money in the world and you only need a very small amount of it. It will come from surprising places, she posited. I think of her words now as I wrap these bumper stickers I thought up in bed last week and send them off to you.
Meanwhile, my friend Trevor has a magic hammock spot in his yard. By yard I mean, the desert outside his house next to the mountains, the ocotillos, and in the distance, the Rio Grande. We were laying in the hammocks watching the day die when he told us that he had seen many UFOs from those very hammocks. MANY UFOS. Glowing translucent red orbs that travel close to and far from the ground. We agree it could aliens, it could be border patrol. I gaze out into the desert. How many people are out there right now quietly walking, prayers for safe passage with every step. I envisioned we could build a tunnel for them under the ground. To safety. To the Future. To P. Terrys.
Somewhere drifting back down to Earth in my consciousness is the awareness that we leave very soon for a tour followed by shows shows shows all the sudden. I feel like all of my energy these days has been devoted to managing big shifts in my life and that I haven‘t been in a mindset to making music and being out in the world. I’ve been a receiver and now I’ll be an antenna. Instruments feel foreign to me. Singing feels like aliens possessing my body. I will be floating along entirely on guts and trust. Don’t wanna miss it? The dates are below if you’re interested. Luckily, I’ll be surrounded by professionals (Jeff and Carolina).
04/19 New Orleans, LA house show at 5126 Franklin Ave w/ Golden Ours + Jess Joy
04/20 Birmingham, AL Wild Violet Gardens w/ Lou Turner + Janet Simpson
04/21 Athens, GA Bolo Bolo w/ Lou Turner + Shane Parish
04/22 Columbia, SC Freshly Grown Farms w/ Lou Turner + Magic Tuber String Band
04/23 Spruce Pine, NC house show w/ Lou Turner
04/24 Durham, NC The Pinhook w/ Lou Turner + Nathan Bowles
04/25 Weaverville, NC Leveller w/ Lou Turner + Sally Ann Morgan
04/26 Charlestown, WV The Snack Institute w/ Lou Turner
04/27 Nashville, TN house show w/ Lou Turner + Ziona Riley 05/02 Austin, TX Sahara Lounge w/ Longriver
05/11 Lockhart, TX Fiddler’s Green
05/12 Austin, TX Practice Yoga Church w/ Shannon Lay
05/14 Dripping Springs, TX Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center w/ Shannon Lay
05/15 Austin, TX Captain Quack’s w/ Lost Patterns + Nicole Hale
05/20 Austin, TX Me Mer Mo w/ Gabi Torres
05/22 Austin, TX house show w/ Creekbed Carter + Kate Heron
05/23 Dallas, TX Wild Detectives w/ Creekbed Carter
05/24 Oklahoma City, OK Factory Obscura w/ Creekbed Carter
05/25 Fayetteville, AR Old Friend Farms
Happy trails!
Lindsey
The sticker is wonderful! I'm going to put it in my Texas River Song vinyl sleeve until I can find a car worthy of it🙏