http://torey.com/journal Torey's Official Blog Sun, 13 May 2007 18:37:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Since I've been getting some email asking about the cancelled shows, I figure I might as well post this up here. I am recovering from back surgery out here on Boston's North Shore. I pushed myself a little too hard this past year and ended up limping through the last ... http://torey.com/journal/?p=37 I've been in Boston! I'm living by the sea in the town of Beverly. "The Puppet King" is done and will be released soon. I have a few pre-release copies to sell, but it'll be a month or two before it hits the online retailers. I'm already writing more tunes ... http://torey.com/journal/?p=36 Wanda Fischer just sent me this picture of the two of us with John Sebastian from the WAMC benefit we did this August. http://torey.com/journal/?p=35 Check it out, you can now buy my CD 'Earthed' at CDFreedom.com. There is a link to it in the "songs" section of this site. Please buy a copy and tell your friends. Proceeds help me to pursue my many hobbies including eating, maintaining shelter from the weather, filling my ... http://torey.com/journal/?p=34 Saturday night at Slow Jed's I played my new electric cigar box ukulele for the first time. I played it for the whole first set! I am really happy with the pick-up that I built out of $5 of old speaker parts. http://torey.com/journal/?p=33 Will I be the next Garth Brooks? I don't know, but I'm here in Nashville at a coffeeshop on music row hoping that over the next few days I can find a publisher who is interested in the kind of songs that I write. If anyone knows anyone in the ... http://torey.com/journal/?p=32 I have been looking for a while for a good cigar box ukulele. These handmade instruments represent a folk tradition of making music with materials at hand. I remember, as a kid, stretching rubber bands over a cigar box to make a simple guitar. A couple of months ago, Madcat ... http://torey.com/journal/?p=31 It's morning at a Davy Crockett Truck Stop. I'm waiting for my biscuits and gravy as the Tennessee sun forces its way through the window. It is already beginning to warm up and I notice that I, with my denim jacket, am the only one in the place wearing long ... http://torey.com/journal/?p=30 OK, I haven't blogged in a while. In that time I've been to Denver, Colorado, Denali National Park Alaska, played the Kantishna Music Festival in Alaska, flown to the Arctic circle in a small plane with my friend Simon Hamm at the controls, played in Cambridge, Massachusetts at Club Passim's ... http://torey.com/journal/?p=28 This past Saturday night, I had the pleasure of being part of a benefit for WAMC public radio. I played guitar and sang harmonies to Wanda Fischer's fine versions of Woody Guthrie's 'Pastures of Plenty' and Tom Paxton's 'Life'. We were both surprised and thrilled when, during soundcheck, John ... http://torey.com/journal/?p=26