The Muse and Whirled Retort 2023
The Muse and Whirled Retort July 2023
Thursday, July 13, 2023
The Muse and Whirled RetortHey everybody, It’s that time again! It has been a long road, mostly divided highway since our last little email reunion which took place at The Kerrville Folk Festival, but now I am at The Oregon Country Faire. Some of you may have read that my trusty steed was broken into. Nothing significant was stolen, but their failed attempt to steal it left her wounded and it cost $1200 to get her healthy enough to gallup again. Ouch.
Show business is so glamorous.
That said, I gonna put my crass commercial announcement here.
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   Click Icons For Link ***** Enough! Enough already, with the crass commercial announcements. There will be tour info and other announcements following… but for now it it time time time for your:
T.H.E. .M.U.S.E. .A.N.D. .W.H.I.R.L.E.D. .R.E.T.O.R.T. July 4, 2023 Veneta, OR
The Road Map of America By Chris Chandler
The road map of America unfolds before me, from God‘s own glove compartment. Used as a napkin to wipe the grease from my chicken fingers, purchased from the devils old drive-through. Discarded out the window of want, and somersaults past silos and skyscrapers that materialize upon the horizon, and then disappear through the tiny black hole that is my rearview.
Dogs and horses parade the pasture, where dogwoods and horsemint bloom. Urban blight, and rural decay. Solid, white cotton fields, like freshly fallen snow, softening the Carolina landscape. Picked by illegal immigrants and shipped to chemical plants in Brazil. Transformed into the latest poly fiber. Fifteen percent cotton. Shipped to Bangladesh, and sewn into tablecloths and shipped back to South Carolina to be stocked up on the shelves of a Walmart by the very same people that once worked the textile mills that lie abandoned along the thin highways of fat America.
and amber waves of inequity. Mudflap angels and divisive bumper stickers, redefine patriotism on the rear bumper of a 1996 Toyota, Tahoe with a vaxless driver and a West Virginia license plate. “Honk if you love Jesus,” it reads. I do so, because I do. She gives me the finger, and forgiving her makes me love Jesus all the more.
Billboards blaring God guns in Gentlemen’s clubs fail to see their own irony .
A baseball glove, apple pie, and an A.R. 15. “Pure American,” it reads.
High heeled, hellcat in fishnets. “Hot legs always hiring. Beer specials noon to 4 AM. Amateurs and couples welcome,” it reads.
Jesus Christ himself, embossed and start black and white post, social realism style with bright, red realistic blood dripping from an ash crown of thorns. “This blood’s for you,” it reads.
Headlights on. Gas prices as high as the traffic and my expectations.
Eighteen wheelers lined up at ports of call ferrying prime next day deliveries past telephone and power-lines.
Rain, refineries and rainbows. Freshly paved asphalt glistens prismatic in the Appalachian drizzle.
Road side fireworks fleeting flare. Half price on the fifth, it’s only fair. The rocket’s red glare. The bombs bursting in air.
still floods the airwaves, on the Fourth of July.
Windshield wipers slapping time I was holding no one’s had in mine as I sang every song the radio new.
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Paul and I are looking forward to our (mostly) North West tour. Dates are below. Paul has a new album coming out ay day now, “The King’s Dream.” Details are at his site: https://www.PaulBenoitMusic.Net
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Friday, July 7th, 2023 9:00 PM to 10:30 PM THE OREGON COUNTRY FAIRE FAIRE SITE STAGE TIMES TBA Venita, OR Website: https://www.oregoncountryfair.org/
Saturday, July 8th, 2023 12:20 PM to 1:30 PM THE OREGON COUNTRY FAIRE BLUE MOON STAGE Venita, OR Website: https://www.oregoncountryfair.org/ Saturday, July 8th, 2023 The Oregon Country Faire Blue Moon Stage 12:20 -1:20 Venita, OR Website: https://www.oregoncountryfair.org Sunday, July 9th, 2023 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM THE OREGON COUNTRY FAIRE BLUE MOON STAGE Venita, OR Website: https://www.oregoncountryfair.org/ Sunday, July 9th, 2023 The Oregon Country Faire Blue Moon Stage 3:00- 4:00 Venita, OR Website: https://www.oregoncountryfair.org/
Sunday, July 9th, 2023 9:00 PM to 10:30 PM THE OREGON COUNTRY FAIRE TE LIBRARY SHOW Venita, OR Website: https://www.oregoncountryfair.org/ Sunday, July 9th, 2023 The Annual unplugged Library Show. A Faire Family Favorite. Dark:30
Saturday, July 15th, 2023 PORTLAND SCOTISH HIGHLAND GAMES MT HOOD CC (W JEN DELYTH) Portland, OR Purchase Tickets: For More Info
Saturday, July 22nd, 2023 SEATTLE SCOTTISH HIGHLAND GAMES ENEMCLAW STATE PARK (WITH JEN DELYTH) Enemclaw, WA Website: https://www.sshga.org/ Sunday, July 23rd, 2023 SEATTLE SCOTTISH HIGHLAND GAMES ENEMCLAW STATE PARK (WITH JEN DELYTH) Enemclaw, WA Website: https://www.sshga.org/
Wednesday, July 26th, 2023 7:00 PM HOUSE CONCERT IN BELLINGHAM THE HOME OF CARYN SIMMONS DM me for the addressBellingham, WA
Friday, July 28th, 2023 7:00 PM to 9:00 THE CHRIS CHANDLER AND PAUL BENOIT SHOW RETURN TO SEATTLE! EGAN’S BALLARD JAM HOUSE 1707 NW Market StreetSeattle, WA 98107 Phone: 206-789-1621 Website: http://www.ballardjamhouse.com Saturday, July 29th, 2023 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM BLACK CAT CABARET SNAP DRAGON CAFE 17817 VASHON HWY SW Vashon, WA Phone: 206-463-1310 Sunday, July 30th, 2023 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM CHARLES SMITH PRESENTS A HOUSE CONCERT CHUBROCKS BBQ SHACK AND MAN CAVE 15998 Clear Creek RdPoulsbo, WA 98370 Website: https://www.facebook.com/chubrocksbbqshack
Tuesday, August 1st, 2023 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM CHANDLER AND PAUL LONG AWAITED RETURN TO OLYMPIA LANTERN RECORDS Olympia, WA Phone: (360) 402-9055 Website: https://recordstoreday.com/Store/24455 Wednesday, August 2nd, 2023 7:00 PM THE EASTSIDE CULTURAL SOCIETY PRESENTS A HOUSE CONCERT AT THE HOME OF BROCK NOYES DM Me for Addressses
Thursday, August 3rd, 2023 THE CHRIS CHANDLER AND PAUL BENOIT SHOW RETURNS TO COTTAGE GROVE THE AXE AND FIDDLE 657 E Main StCottage Grove, OR 97424 Phone: 541-942-5942 Website: https://axeandfiddle.com/
Friday, August 4th, 2023 7:00 PM EUGENE! TSUNAMI BOOKS
2585 Willamette St. Eugene, OR 97405 Phone: 541-349-8986 Price: $15.00 Website: http://www.tsunamibooks.org/
Saturday, August 5th, 2023 7:00 PM HOUSE CONCERT IN PORTLAND HOME OF DEAN AND ABBY BOUDOURIS PM me for the address.Portland, OR
Sunday, August 6th, 2023 ASHLAND INTIMATE HOUSE CONCERT AT THE HOME OF KIRSTEN SCHIPPER You Will Have to DM Me for the address.Ashland, OR
Wednesday, August 9th, 2023 PAUL AND CHRIS RETURN TO THE NORTH BAY THE LOST CHURCH between Mendocino Avenue and B StreetSanta Rosa, CA 95401 Phone: 415-320-1408 Website: https://thelostchurch.org/contact/#santa-rosa
Wednesday, August 9th, 2023 8:00 PM BARFLY CABERET MARTUNIS 4 Valencia StSan Francisco, CA Website: https://m.facebook.com/pages/category/Cocktail-Bar/Martunis-994554857261865/?_rdr#_=_ As a duo with Paul Benoit and Dawn Oberg
Thursday, August 10th, 2023 8:00 PM BARFLY CABERET MARTUNI'S 4 Valencia StSan Francisco, CA Website: https://m.facebook.com/pages/category/Cocktail-Bar/Martunis-994554857261865/?_rdr#_=_ As a duo with Paul Benoit and Dawn Oberg
Friday, August 11th, 2023 THE CHRIS CHANDLER AND PAUL BENOIT SHOW THE MONKEY HOUSE 1638 University AveBerkeley, CA Website: https://www.themonkeyhouse.org/
Saturday, August 12th, 2023 CHANDLER AND PAUL RETURN TO NEVADA CITY TBA Nevada City, CA
Sunday, August 13th, 2023 8:00 PM CHRIS CHANDLER AND PAUL BENOIT RETURN TO SANTA CRUZ THE LIVE OAK GRANGE HALL 1900 17th AveSanta Cruz, CA |