With the big date set for surgery on April 29, I am attempting to clear the deck of unfinished projects. Not confident that all will be completed but this one is unquestionably a must. A mere three days prior on April 26, against considerable odds, will mark the 45th wedding anniversary of Cathy and I. Including over a dozen location moves and trauma both expected and unexpected, through ups, downs and occasionally even sideways situations we have somehow endured. Although unalike in just about every category, at times diametrically opposed, we are easily a pair of the most stubborn humans in history.

From my perspective, I still see that 18 year old vision of Natalie Wood meets Annette Funicello in a tube-top and full-on Angela Davis Afro that I refused to sell a Lynyrd Skynyrd record to in 1975 at Harmony Hut in East Brunswick, NJ. Instead, I gave her a copy of Dave Mason’s “It’s Like You Never Left” with a promise that if she didn’t like it, all she had to do was return it for the Skynyrd album of her choice. Of course we met at a Record Store.

I have not really spent much time in the studio. Lately sleeping seems to occupy the bulk. A few nights back, in between dreams and thinking about the last 45 years I headed to the studio and fired it up old school. I had an opening song (a new one from The Swell Season) and a closing, a song we always dance to. Actually, the only song we ever dance to.

This is what came out.

Love You, Cath.



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