Mark it down...

Get out your calendar and turn to Saturday Night... February 23rd.

7:30

I'm gonna be doing a monthly series of concerts on the Upper Westside of Manhattan through the rest of the Winter and into the Spring when I get back into Central Park.

The first of these gigs is on Feb. 23

Y'know, if you had a good time at the "Year-End Concert", or especially if you missed the "Year End Concert", I hope I see you at this new music hall that's probably gonna become kind of a home for me and the artists I love working with.

This coming Friday, I'm going to be announcing here at the website how you can reserve a seat for yourself and your friends. This new venue is a whole lot smaller than many of the venues I play here in town. (It seats 200, but a percentage of the seats are held for the guests on Hostelling International) So, there may only be about 100 or 150 tickets available for each gig. Gonna be a room filled with great people from all across the country, around the world and YOU... just like in Central Park.

So, check back here on Friday if you wanna get in on the inaugural, kick-off concert. We still have to work out some of the box-office details.

NY International Hostel Music Hall
Amsterdam Ave @ 103rd ST.

I'll tell you more about this on the podcast today!

Here... give a listen to the new installment of "I Love the Company". (Show #357)

Click on the logo, plug in your headphones, jam in your earbuds or turn on your speakers and listen.(You can always subscribe to the show and get it automatically by hitting that itunes button over there.)

SHOW 357

Musical guest on today's show: A young, audacious and gifted songwriter that I've come to admire... Jodi Shaw (Click on her photo to visit her website, find out more about her, where she's playing, and how to get her music.)

And, there will be a brand new installment of the more politically-minded and soicially-conscious podcast, "Where's the Voice" in the next day or so. We'll be a taking a look at the final "State of the Union" speech by this national disgrace and global embarrassment... George W. Bush.

In the meantime, this week's episode takes a good, no-hold-barred look at John McCain, Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, and the man I've stared calling...

Blessed Mike of God (Hypocrite extraordinaire)

Mike Huckabee

Anyway, just click on the logo, plug in your headphones, jam in your earbuds or turn on your speakers and listen.(You can always subscribe to the show and get it automatically by hitting that itunes button over there.)

WTV-026

BY THE WAY!!! I switched up the song I was gonna play at the end of this installment. I was originally gonna play "JesusLand". Instead, at the last minute I thought that Todd Snider's song would fit better. (I covered his track on my latest CD.)

Okay, before I get outta here I've gotta give you the opportunity once again to really be a part of all this. It's the permit fund for 2008. Listen, the fact that I'm an independent artist who is broke a lot of the time is my choice, and I wouldn't trade places with another human being on the planet. (People sometimes use the term "struggling artist". But... I'M NOT STRUGGLING. Yeah, I'm financially poor. But I'm not "struggling". Struggling is a state of mind and an attitude.)

Me?

I'm havin' a blast!

So, it's no big deal either way. But, if you'd like the opportunity to help out with the expense of showing up in Central Park every weekend, and even act like a sponsor for the podcast you can just click on this link. So, this not only helps with the special Events Permits, but also with the Sound Device Permits from the NYPD. Just click on this link and donate whatever amount you're comfortable with.

See you really, really soon I hope.

By the way... here's the code you can enter at GoDaddy.com if you wanna get 10% off your order, just for listening to ILTC. (code - ILTC!)

Thanks for everything.