blue christmas

November 3, 2024: I hadn’t picked up my guitar for over a year, playing only my ukulele in the meanwhile. I looked at my guitar the other day and thought, yeah, it’s time, change the strings and get to it. For this return to my roots I wanted something in a different register, high, tight and wiry, ethereal, like a snowy, cold walk in the park. So I scootched a capo way up the fretboard and played only the bottom four strings for these songs. This is the music that came out of my fingertips and my heart, mournfully joyful, song after song, just what I wanted!