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Oh YAY… I’ve had a kinda shitty week but now it looks like a lot of my worries about the tour have solved themselves. Ryan Hembrey (the upright bassist from Pinetop Seven) is going to do the shows with me, and we’re going to use his car! I’m SO relieved. I was not featuring the idea of doing all that driving, playing the shows and trying to find places to stay, all by myself. (Nobody that I’d normally play with can do it this time; Mike Krassner can’t get off work, Joe Ferguson’s about to get married and Glenn Kotche’s out on tour with Bird Dog. And Mike Daly still lives in New York!) So, yeah, it’ll be great, just me and my guitar and Ryan with his upright… I can’t wait! I made a tape of my demos for him to listen to in the next few weeks, and we’ll get in as many rehearsals as we can.

Oh yeah, I took down my "what’s new" page… this here diary covers that terrain well enough.

Played at Lounge Ax with Smog and USA

My band: Mike Daly (guitar); Jim O’Rourke (guitar); Michael Krassner (keyboards); Joe Ferguson (bass); Glenn Kotche (drums)

Well, I have moved my ass to Chicago, y’all! If you’ve arrived at this page then you know I’ve already switched Internet providers… my new e-mail address is XXX (now invalid).

GUESS WHAT… there’s a big fat feature story about my music in this week’s edition of the Chicago Reader. This is the first time I’ve done a real interview for a real newspaper with a real photographer and all. whoah…

I played my first gig in Chicago at the Empty Bottle on Friday night, it went great! I got to open for Rebecca Gates, the singer from the Spinanes, who I dig a lot. You know, she played a cool cover of the Pretenders’ "Talk Of The Town", and I was sick because I had come *this* close to playing an old country tune called "I’m The Talk Of The Town," a totally different song — it would’ve been perfect!! Maybe we oughta do it up as a split single, eh?

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Radio show on WFMU

With: Appendix Out; Songs:Ohia

My band: Mike Daly (guitar, lap steel)