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  • The Muse and Whirled Retort - January, 2006

    T.h.e. .M.u.s.e. .a.n.d. .W.h.i.r.l.ed.. .R.e.t.o.r.t.To subscribe click:
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    A new Video is finished check it out at http://www.chrisvids.orgThe New CD is doing great! by Far the best record I have ever made.
    TO GET THE BRAND NEW 2 VOLUME ENHANCED CD SET "American Storyteller:" http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/cchandler3To check out the new CD Vol 1 for free: http://ohms.nu/chandler/disk_1/index.htm
    To check out the new CD Vol 2: http://ohms.nu/chandler/disk_2/index.htmCheck out: David Roe's site http://www.royalrounders.com
    Check Out Karen Kilroy's Impeachment shop http://www.cafepress.com/nomorein2004
    And NOW after the above crass commercial announcements!. . .
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    T.h.e. .M.u.s.e. .a.n.d. .W.h.i.r.l.e.d. .R.e.t.o.r.t.
    December 1, 2005
    Vol. VII Issue iv
    Akron, OHHey Everybody,
    It's that time of the month again OK it's late — maybe I am pregnant.  Actually, the news letter is late because I just gave birth.  I have just emerged from the basement in Akron, OH where I have been since Jan 30th.  Happy New Year.  Karen Kilroy and I worked straight through the new year on this new video.  Consider it my way of saying sorry for being so late.  I kinda missed the holiday though— working on the video — guess I missed all that take the X out of X-mas debate.  Personally, I wish they would leave X-Mas alone and put the Christ back in Christian.  But I digress.The video is terrific!  WOW!  It is of one of my most requested pieces, "Cracker Jack Cure / The Dutchman."  Needless to say I am real excited about it.Please take a second to check it out OK — it's longer than a second — The film is ten minutes long but I assure you it is worth it. Just click on this site and please feel free  to pass it around to your friends.  I hope you like it.Heres the link: http://www.chrisvids.orgIn case you didn't know, the song the Dutchman was written by Michael Smith.  He and I were both on Flying Fish records back in the day. I am honored to have been on such a prestigious label - may it continue to RIP.Michael wrote another song about another label mate Gamble Rogers shortly after Gamble died.  Gamble may very well be the reason we are having this conversation.  Now, this might seem like kind of a leap but in the spirit of the Troubadour emeritus of Oklawaha County Florida:  if you don't jump every now and again you're never gonna get off the ground.  Ya see, I had tried forever to get Deborah Fliehive to go out with me.  She was in my history class at (I'm not making this up) De Kalb Community College.  After months requests, bids pleas, surveys appeals inquisitions,  explorations, and everything short of a demand the poor woman finally agreed. We were to go see the band Pylon at The Moon Shadow Saloon.  The date was set.  Fake Ids were pressed and every trick in my 19 year old arsenal was loaded, cocked and the safety removed.  I was a double barreled premeditated mess.  I knew the guys in the band I told her.  Well, really I only knew the guy that ran the lights but I could fake the rest.  I was ready to impress.  I figured once she saw me hangin with the band she'd be all over me and her perception of the nerdy history  geek at De Kalb Community College clad in parachute pants, pre ripped T Shirt and every other  accessory the 1983 edition of the Davidson's Department Store Catalogue had to offer would be forever shattered forever. It's pieces would then be dispersed into the optimistic back seat of my Toyota Corolla. Life was lookin good. She was leanin'  in on me when the bouncer accepted our fake Ids.  But then Unfeigned reality crushed me like a falling anvil — and this was no cartoon.  There was no Pylon.  There wasn't even rock and roll.  I had gotten the dates wrong.  Pylon was playing tomorrow night.  Some guy — as I perceived the calendar --  who did a Kenny Rodgers cover of The Gambler was playing.  On top of that — it was sold out.  As we stood outside on the sidewalk I was making fast excuses and riffling through the local arts weekly known tauntingly as Creative Loafing.  Deborah's impatience was becoming plain.  My ability to improvise was dwindling. Then Suddenly, the black and orange sign that hung on the large double doors which read "you must be twenty one or older to enter" came swinging towards us. A couple walked out.  It turns out  the guy was a doctor and he had been paged on an emergency call.  The couple offered us their tickets, and we accepted.  "You won't regret it," he told me."I already do,"  I thought.We made our way to our seats and out walked a skinny man with a guitar picking and talking to the audience.  Talking to me.  He proceeded to completely captivate the audience which I had now willingly joined.  He was a great picker — at least I told myself — other than the intro to Stairway to Heaven and Freebird I don't think I had ever listened to an acoustic guitar. This guy was such a great story teller that I didn't even notice that somewhere in there he had stopped playing the guitar.  Deborah however noticed.  She was tapping her plastic magenta dancing shoes to a beat she heard in a cross town club.  He was telling tales of Narcissa Nonesuch, Still Bill, and Agamemnon Jones. I was hooked.  That's what I want to do.  The show went by in a flash.  I didn't even notice (or care) that Deborah Fleihive had managed to find her own way home.I tried to meet him afterwards — but it didn't happen.  I did however go home convinced that what that man was doing was what I wanted to do with my life.   I spent the next few years honing my craft and eventually wound up on the same label as Gamble.  I do a poor imitation of Gamble now.  Maybe one day Maybe one day.I finally did meet him back stage at Fish Fry and Folk Music concert in Rural Texas.  I had told someone what a huge fan I was and what an influence he had been on me.  I was introduced — and found myself tongue tied with nothing to say. I started shaking his hand and forgot to let go.  It was one of those classic "finally got to meet one of the real artistic influences of my life situations."  I remember that he listened intently, smiled, made direct eye contact and seemed to understand what it was I was really communicating as I babbled incoherently about  how wonderful he was.And He was.Gamble Rogers Died a couple of months later.  He drown while trying to save the life of another man.  Here's to you.  Gamble Rogers.http://www.gamblerogers.com/********************
    Now, watch the video "the Dutchman/cracker jack cure http://www.chrisvids.org
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    For now the low resolution version  video is available for free in a number of formats.  I hope to have some copies of it at CD baby real soon.  Buying a copy would go along ways towards underwriting this effort.  As I am sure you know — I don't have a job — well other than this one.
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    David Roe and I will be back up in the NE this month and then — a long anticipated trip to Texas.
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    You can now download many of my tunes at https://chrischandler.org/index.php?page=cds
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    The new show is incorporating video projection in both small and large venues — if we are in your neighborhood ya gotta check it out.
    If you would like to help promote the show via flyers or blogging or anything else — please let us know — it'll get ya a free pass to see the show.
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    You can also watch the VIDEO FOR "9TH WARD NEW ORLEANS"
    And "SOMETHING'S IN THE AIR"
    http://www.chrisvids.org
    "Something's in the Air" is available for purchase at http://cdbaby.com/cd/chrischandler5Now, H.E.R.E.S. .D.A. .D.A.T.E.S.Sunday, January 8th 7:30pm
    WestSide Cafe -- Frederick , MD
    1A W. 2nd Street,
    Frederick
    website: http://www.westside-cafe.comFriday, January 13th 8pm
    Inwood Coffeehouse — Wheaton, MD
    10921 Inwood Ave,, Wheaton
    phone: 301.593.7075
    website: http://coffeehouse.ufoco.orgSaturday, January 14th 7pm
    Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse -- Baltimore, MD
    800 St. Paul,
    Baltimore
    phone: 410.230.0450
    website: http://redemmas.orgFriday, January 20th 8pm
    Neutral Ground Cafe — Waverly, NY Saturday, January 21st 8pm
    Night Eagle Cafe — Oxford, NY
    6 Lafayette Place,
    Oxford
    phone: (607) 843-7378
    website: http://www.nighteaglecafe.orgSunday, January 22nd Syracuse, NY 8:00 PM
    A House Concert at the home of Yvette Hewitt
    202 Birch St
    Liverpool, NY
    315 457 1517 Tuesday, January 24th 8pm
    Klekolo World Coffee — Middletown, CT
    181 COURT ST,
    Middletown, CT
    phone: 860.343.9444
    website: http://www.ineedcoffee.com/by/java_goddess/Wednesday, January 25th 8pm
    Amherst Unitarian Meetinghouse -- Amherst
    Mary and Keith Present
    121 North Pleasant Street,
    Amherst, MAThursday, January 26th 8 pm
    Passim — Cambridge, MA
    A split Bill with Jim Infantino
    47 Palmer St,
    Cambridge
    phone: 617 492 5300
    website: http://www.clubpassim.orgFriday, January 27th thru Sunday, Jan 29
    The People's Music Network Songs of Freedom and Struggle
    A Music Conference
    Amherst, MA
    Amherst College
    http://www.peoplesmusic.org/Winter_2006/Winter_2006.htmSaturday, February 4th tbd
    World Community Film Festival — Courtenay, BC
    A screening of "Something's in the Air."
    Courtenay
    phone: (250)337-5419
    website: http://www.worldcommunity.ca/index.htm
    Thr 2 to Feb 9 Richmond, Ashville, Nashville, Arkansas, Texas Anyone? CONTACT ME AT chandler@chrischandler.orgThursday, February 9th 8:30pm
    Black Dog Tavern -- Ft. Worth
    2933 Crockett,
    Ft. Worth
    phone: 817-332-8190Fri Feb10 — 14 Austin, TX
    North American Folk Alliance
    Austin Hilton Hotel -- Austin
    500 E 4th St,,
    Austin
    phone: (512) 482-8000
    website: http://www.folk.orgWednesday, February 15th 8:30pm
    The Cactus Cafe -- Austin
    with David Rovics and special guest Anne Feeney
    23rd & Guadalupe,
    Austin
    phone: (512) 475-6515
    website: http://www.utexas.edu/student/txunion/ae/cactus/Thrs, Feb 16th
    Bryan, TX
    Revolution
    211 S Main St, Bryan, TX
    (979) 823-4044
    With David RovicsFriday February 17th
    A house Concert in Dallas
    At the home of David Mills
    RSVP: David Mills
    Email:    david.m.mills@sbcglobal.net
    214-324-2625Sat February 18th
    Houston, TX
    Dan Electros Guitar Bar
    1031 E 24th
    With David Rovics
    Sunday February 19th
    Plantersville, TX
    Texas Renascence Festival
    Chris Chandler and David Roe
    Nuevo Chile
    Toon Town
    Feb 24-26 David Roe in North DakotaThursday, March 2nd 8pm
    Dave Brinks Presents
    The Gold Mine -- New Orleans
    701 Dauphine Street,
    New Orleans
    website: http://www.goldminesaloon.netFeb 27, 28
    March 1, 2, 3, New Orleans, Baton Rouge anyone?Early March looking for work in SE to Mid AtlanticSunday, May 7
    Java Hut
    Worchester, MA
    IT WILL BE A BUSY FESTIVAL SEASON THIS SUMMER STARTING WITH:Friday, May 12th, -14th
    Susquehanna Music and Arts Festival -- Darlington
    2564 Silver Rd,
    Darlington, MD
    website: http://www.smaf.info
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