Nigel Egg: Blog

Here’s my dilemma of the day. I got in the car this morning and the windshield was covered in frost. This wouldn’t normally be a occurrence of dilemmic proportion, but I didn’t have a scraper and I needed to get to work. What could I use to scrape with? Aha! I have 5 CDs, in their cases, in the little cubby hole in the dash – I decide to use one to scrape the windshield. But which one? My own CD, Big Bang Baby Boom? No way. OK, here’s my friend David Hanners’ new CD, but that won’t work because it has the cardboard type of case and wouldn’t scrape, just get soggy. Whitey Johnson I refuse to use, because come on, I paid full price AND postage from CD Baby, and if Whitey (Gary Nicholson) found out, he might set lawyers after me. So that leaves CDs by Larry Suess and Waylon Jennings. Waylon’s Dreaming My Dreams is on my top-ten-of-all-time list. I have cried real tears listening to this album. It would be tantamount to celebrating black communion to use it as an ice scraper. Larry Suess, on the other hand, is a friend; he sang on my CD, he played backup guitar for me at the Songwriters meeting last month, where he gave me this copy of his latest labor of love, Tempered Steel. How could I ever look him in the eye again after abusing his trust? Well, I’ll manage somehow, I’m thinking to myself. (To be continued…)

 One gig coming up – I’m playing in town for the first time in three months! Saturday, November 27^th at the Riverview Cafe and Wine Bar in South Minneapolis with Richard Kronick on upright bass. Click the underlined link for map, menus, reviews, etc. We’ll start at 8pm.

 (Note - My December date in Delano has moved to Saturday, January 15th so we could get Billy McLaughlin’s Christmas Show scheduled at The Three Crows.) 

 So you probably realized that my car did, in fact, make it to Duluth and back. It was cool to get so many helpful emails back from you with mechanical advice! All but one from men, incidentally. I wonder if responses to my “dilemma” will be skewed, gender-wise… Oh, come on, did you really think I’m capable of such treachery? My dilemma was resolved because I vacillated so long that the car warmed up and defrosted the windshield. Phew!

Hope to see you at the Riverview!
Thanks,
Nigel.

P.S. I have a new song up on YouTube – Tax On The Blues. My contribution to reducing the deficit.
P.P.S. I’m posting my newsletters in the Blog section of the website if you’d like to read any of the old ones.