Welcome, there are impressions. Mondays, music, mini episode. Where are we now? We are in Greenfield, Massachusetts.
Third Times Charm. The Sun is out. Adele is posed on the couch, poised on the couch. On my little couch here in my little studio.
Taking a breath, taking a beat. I'm nervous today. Why are you nervous, dear? I have a show, I have a local show today.
I have a show in Amherst, which is about 25 minutes south of where we live. Amherst is a college town. It is. It has Amherst College, a revered, almost Ivy League school.
I don't know, maybe it's an Ivy League school. I don't know, but it has the University of Massachusetts, the expansive campus of the University of Massachusetts. Yeah. And there on the little main street that runs through town, there's a club called the Drake.
And I'm going to play there. Yeah, it's a solo, loo solo show. Loo Barlow. And I'm worried, because I don't think there's going to be a lot of people there, so it's always a very sobering experience to play in my hometown.
It always has been. Home town shows are rough. And I haven't played in a while, so that always, a first show of any sort of tour is difficult. These sort of one-off shows locally can be a little challenging for me.
It's difficult for me to be a warm, expansive, relaxed individual. Yeah. I'm keeping my distance from you today because I know I'm letting you just move around the house in whatever energy field you need to be inhabiting right now because I know that it's probably a variety of things. And show days, I don't blame you.
That's very stressful, especially a local show. And yeah, it's strange that I think that I've seen you play locally and it's sort of strange. It's like, where is everybody? And then you kind of step foot outside of Western Mass, and the shows do quite well.
They do pretty good. And I feel relaxed. Yeah, that too. When I'm on a tour, when I'm outside of my little zone, and I'm going to people's houses or little places to play, I feel, I'm going to say, I feel really good.
Well, there's going to be a lot of people you know here tonight, like a lot of also parents of the kids at our kids' school and just people and things and family. Yeah, it's kind of loaded. It's a bit of a balancing act. Yeah.
I'm sending you love. I can feel it. Oh good. I'm glad.
I think it's going to be great. You know, and I think once you start playing hopefully some of those feelings will subside. Well, I'm going to practice all day long to bring the best that I can bring tonight at the Drake and Amherst. Yeah, I'm looking forward to it.
By the time people hear this, it will have already occurred. That's true. Old news. Moving on.
Moving on. Yeah, next we'll be talking about your song. So commencing in five notes. Case 10 to three.
I'm going to walk a mile covered up your head in scarves and telling myself stories where you live. Our trees will be all everywhere. The sort of moment where the heat is good. Three hips, guys.
Don't bother feeling it. What can I say? I'll miss you every way. Is there something I've got to do?
I don't know what to say. That one's a little emotional for me. Yeah. It was when I finished the instrumental track, I was like, oh no.
I was like, oh, this. Yeah. I know. This is going to be really difficult.
Yeah, I know. I know. You forgot. I thought maybe it wasn't emotional.
I thought maybe when I played it for you, you wouldn't. Maybe you'd be like, oh, I don't know what the words are. Then maybe I'd have to read them for you. I know.
Okay. So you heard it then. Okay. I was just thinking about how we lived in California for a long time and it was so beautiful there that it was the way that I got through some most difficult times of my life was just being where I was.
Yeah. But there were really difficult and tragic things unfolding in my life. Boy, when I would come down to Los Felis Boulevard, going east and sort of cresting that hill near Griffith Park and seeing sort of out water and then Glendale before you and then the mountains behind it. Oh, God, I love that view.
And it would just, I would be like, I don't know. It was like this and talk about Sunshine, just this sort of, and it helped me get by. Yeah. Same.
There is this intoxicating appeal to that landscape that I can really catch you by surprise and can carry you through or not necessarily through, but maybe over or sail kind of above a difficult time. You don't maybe really deal with it until later or ever. Maybe the difficult time is still sitting within you, but you somehow sailed above it and that landscape kind of helps carry you past it. Yeah.
I went through a lot of that there too. And again, to mention the book that I actually finished. Yeah. And they thought we were crazy.
That seemed to have, it was sort of, it's a very LA book. And Susan Hayward, the Dennis Hopper's wife at the time, I think she was going through, she described her period in LA as not as simple as the best of times in the worst of times, but she was, it was, it was. And I guess when I look back, that's kind of how it feels well. Yeah.
It's a place that can hold both. Yeah. Take a breath. We'll be there soon.
We're going to be there in, gosh, three weeks maybe, three weeks driving down some of those same roads and it'll be, it's, it's always bittersweet going back there for sure. Yeah. It just is. Yeah.
It's hard leaving a place you love and yeah, you know, I'm sure other people can relate to that. Once I was driving from Silver Lake to Glendale on Glendale Boulevard through Atwater Village and I was listening to Van Halen. Oh, nice. And it was amazing.
It was it, it was shortly before we moved, you know. Oh, right. Yeah. And I was like, Glenda, I mean in town.
Oh, shoot. I know. Alright, this is going to take me a second. Hold up.
This is going to be live. It's going to be live. I got it. I got it.
I got it. I got it set it up. I was setting it up. I was just going to say lose going to, is that a ukulele?
This is a baritone ukulele, but it's, I string it differently. So it's not a ukulele tuning and I do not play ukulele songs on it. I'm using it as a tiny guitar. Okay, so who's going to play this on time?
It's not a tiny guitar. That's true, it's like it's small. Yeah, this is me warming up for the show tonight. So my voice is not in tip-top shape.
It's okay, honey. Is it okay? Yeah, it's okay. It could be a little pitchy.
Aw. You can twist my arm. It won't do me any harm. You are strong.
I am weak. I'm whatever needs to be. Where's the faith in the faithful? Lookin' right in the ungrateful.
Where's the truth in the law? That denies it. Needin' arm. That defies her right to choose.
Move into the B-Shaw. It's the way to move into the. Today, bring the sugar from the farm. Sound a crazy cop to arms.
You are the ocean, making waves. There's no end in sight. Be brave. Now we're always on.
Run. Move into the B-Shaw. To me. Please show us the way of into me.
Today. I love that song. Off of Reason to Live. A Pandemic Solo Album by Lou.
Yeah, that was my song for Donald Trump. Well, not just for Donald Trump. Kinda. Can you explain?
I can. I can explain. You can twist my arm and won't do me any harm. It was sort of a tough time.
I felt that he... There was a lot of bullying from Donald Trump. And not to him and, you know, sort of the people that he had. The people that surround him.
The people that he had on his back were like ready to fight. And I found it was an unfortunate atmosphere. And I was just thinking that, you know, it's like, you know, do whatever you want. You know, hurt me.
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