Nigel Egg: Blog

I am willing to suffer to bring you good music and I can prove it.
I travelled down to Winona last weekend to play at the Acoustic Cafe. I was setting up on stage and suddenly realized I had forgotten my harmonica case. Panic. I mean, I play a lot of harp in my live show! The local music store was closed. But to the rescue came Dedrick! This local musician overheard me phoning to try and scrounge up some harps, ran home, and returned with a couple of harps he hadn’t played for years.
Harmonicas are a fairly disgusting instrument as far as germs go – little food pieces lodge inside and there really isn’t a good way to get them out. But they do, eventually, work loose. On a good day, the dried up morsels exit the harmonica on a note where I am blowing outwards. But half of the notes are produced when sucking inwards. That might not be so bad if the resulting projectile came from your own mouth in the first place.

OK, I’ll stop there. I just pretended it was insects flying into my mouth because the truth would have been much worse (and many insects are edible).

I’ll have my own, freshly laundered set of harps for these upcoming gigs:
Friday Oct 1st in North Branch, MN at Jitterbeans 7-9pm
Thursday Oct 7th at The Acoustic Cafe in Eau Claire, WI. 7-9pm
No cover charge at either place. Click on the underlined link for directions, menus and so on.

A couple of people commented that when you download my music from iTunes, you don't get the CD artwork except for the front cover. The inside of the CD booklet has lyrics, info on the musicians and so on, and Troy's art work is really great. So - I'll post them all on my web site for anyone to download.

 I'm taking the rest of October to focus on writing – I have over fifty partially-written songs and I have to clear the decks to get in the right frame of mind to finish songs. Next gig is November in Duluth.

Thanks!

Nigel.