Sometimes it feels like the universe is conspiring to slow you down. I was flying and the connecting flight was supposed to be an hour and a half. It turned into four hours, and to make matters worse, my phone just kept going into airplane mode, rendering me out of touch...I couldn't even tether my phone to my computer! I wanted to nap, but I also wanted to keep my eye on the flight board, just in case they let us go early. But no, they just kept pushing it later and later. There is something to be said for carrying on one's bags, then you can jump on another flight. Next time for sure!
I am on a constant crusade to travel light. There were careful choices involved in packing and I scuttled the new screaming yellow Reeboks with raspberry laces for the charcoal grey Chuck's. I was raised with the notion that one had to 'dress' to go to the city. I mean wearing pearls and heels and something sophisticated, though that was a LONG time ago. Yep, Chucks will do just fine.
Joy Kills Sorrow wowed us during SXSW®, as they came to play the Threadgill's stage for the Music Fog Spring Marathon. Today's tune is called "New Shoes," and it is from their Darkness Sure Becomes This City album of 2010. They have a more recent one out, This Unknown Science came out last year. The band hails from the Boston area. You know there are a lot of musical gypsies up in New England. JKS combines mad skills and a love of all kinds of earthy, honest music. See them tonight at The Iron Horse in Northampton, Mass, and here are the rest of their dates.
- Jessie Scott
