Over the Moon with Peter Case

Awwww.  Man.  I am happy.  A bit tired, but really happy.

Peter Case was even more wonderful than I expected----and just lovely to boot.  Charming, smart people who play great music.....no wonder we invite them to our house.  He sounded amazing, he did one of my favorite songs when I asked, he read from his book....it couldn't really have been better.....

Thank you SO much to everybody. 

The donations really helped---we appreciate it so much, and were able to give Peter a little more than we'd planned.  Yay! 

Greg and Vicky for putting up Peter---you are so gracious as always. 

And the inimitable Jon Pines (Private Studios)---completely generous making sure we had all the equipment we needed.  Thank you for making this possible.

Peter, well, Peter was fantastic.  This morning I had to shake my head when I woke up to make sure that he really was in my house last night---and sounding so incredible.  None of the clips on youtube etc do his live performance justice.  And the direction of this new album is wonderful----as he said, it's kind of a combination of what he'd been doing with some of the energy/sound of his earlier stuff in the Plimsouls. 

And of course anyone who is so kind and patient with my boys always gets my heart.  Any professional musician who plays a show and then is lovely enough to sit on the couch while an 8 year old shows him how to play Michael Jackson's Billie Jean and chats to him....well, that's an awfully nice man....

Owen is over the moon today, to use my friend Heather's phrase.  Well.....and I guess I am too...  Oh, and Ernie?  He's still floating up there somewhere.....

(oh, and the good pics are from Richard Hill---thanks Richard!)