HEY!!!

Welcome to everyone checking in here from across the country and in different parts of the world. Welcome to the website for the Saturday of Labor Day Weekend, 2009.

I'm heading to Central Park.

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Beautiful day out there!

And since it's a holiday weekend, I think I'm gonna do something a little bit special.... just a little tradition that I actually like to do on long holiday weekends for all of us who don't leave town. It's just a small way for me to say how much I appreciate all of you who have made me "That Guitar Man from Central Park".

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Some of you regulars have an idea what I'm talkin' about.

Yeah, if you're wondering why we're not gonna be sharing music and laughs at our usual location ("The Hill") just check out yesterday's update for the explanation.

So, we'll be hanging out at the place I like to call "The Away Game". In fact, it looks as if we'll be closing out the rest of the season over on that side of The Lake. If you haven't been out there with us, don't worry. I made up a little map so you guys can find it easily. (Print it out and bring it to the park with you.)

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AND!!! I'll have the new CD with me!

The new album is here and I have a feeling you're really gonna dig the new songs. (Hope so anyway.) And yes... I finally had to put "Tom Cruise Scares Me" on an album! (More about that in a miniute.)

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Okay now! Couple of things!

Updating this page is kinda weird on Saturdays when I'm playing in the park. Well for one thing, right now a lot of you are reading this in different parts of the country and different parts of the world and won't be in the park. And a whole bunch of you are reading this right now to see if and where and when I'll be hanging out with my guitar today.

But depending on what time of day you're reading this, some of you just got home after discovering for the first time what we do in Central Park. To you guys I say, take a few minute to look around the ARCHIVE and see what we've been up to. The webmaster of this site, James Marino, has made sure the updates go back years!!! There are a lot of FREE songs to download, cartoons, some really fun Photoshop images... all kindsa swell stuff.

The rest of you who've been coming around here for a while know how passionately I feel about Life, about Love, about music... but also about social events that deeply affect our lives and the world around us. So, please... listen to this song from the new album. The song and the music video are freebies because I feel so strongly about this.

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Go to YouTube and leave a comment.

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I'll be back tomorrow, hopefully with some new information about how you can get the tracks from the new CD online. I'm not sure what the hold up is over at itunes. and I'll also check about the date you'll be bale to order the CD the old fashioned way here at the site.

I'm gonna try to figure out a way to really celebrate it's arrival. Maybe we'll just make the "Year-End Concert" in December a kind of "release party" as well as the fun tradition that gig is every year! It's gonna be swell to get all the artists on stage with me to play this thing LIVE.

Here are A few 2-minute clips from the CD:

KEEP HOPE ALIVE

ANY OTHER WAY

Keep showing up guys.

And, I hope you guys here in NYC are already thinking about the friends with which you're gonna share the "Year-End Concert". (Yeah, it's a long way off. but this is gonna be a special one this year!)

See you tomorrow.

Thanks again.