Featuring “Son/Sun,” “24 Hour Inspiration,” Vaudeville,” and “Ballet Girl.”
Track List:
24 Hour Inspiration | Son/Sun | Vaudeville | Celia | Don’t Belong | Always Room | Ghia | Two | Looking For Bruce | Don’t Believe Anything | Church by the Sea | Anali | Sick | Misery | Rise | Ballet Girl | Last Rites (For A Carefree Youth) | Wake | Winter in Brazil (lyric by Peter J. Harris)
I like this album. I’d been hanging out with a great group of musicians from UCLA at the time. Most of the guys were studying jazz and ethnomusicology. We got a really nice organic sound. Some of the songs feel a little young to me now, but tracks like Anali, Ballet Girl, and Celia represent a nice folk style that I don’t do as much anymore. Then there’s the beautiful words of Peter J Harris that I set to music on the bonus track, Winter in Brazil.
Features: Todd Sickafoose, bass; Mark Ferber, drums; Gustavo Aguilar, percussion; Jebin Bruni, various keys; Mimi Finn, tuba.
I saw you perform songs from Distil in Cambridge, MA. It was a small bar in Kendall Square, I can’t recall the name, and it was just you with your guitar. I’m guessing it was 1997. I thought you were great live, so I purchased one of your CD’s and I still enjoy it to this day. These songs bring back pleasant memories of long gone days. Thank you.
David! I need to turn on notifications for my comments — though to give myself a little grace, we’d just had a serious medical issue in our family when this came in. But, wow, it means so much to me that you wrote and remembered me and the music all these years later. I loved that tour and spending time in Boston. Thank you!