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GOT A SAMPLE OF THAT NEW SONG FOR YOU HERE TODAY. (A little further down the page.)

Before we get to anything else.... I gotta tell you guys, I am such a fan of Creative people. There are so many clever and talented people out there -- and many of them are making TV commercials. Every time I see this spot I laugh out loud. In the next couple of days I'll post the full-length version and then a special treat. But as of right now this is just about my favorite commercial on TV.

Click to watch

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Hey guys!

"THE SOMETHING'TH ANNUAL YEAR END CONCERT"

...is actually coming up in about 10 weeks. Tickets went on sale and are selling... slowly right now, but steadily. (Hell... it's 10 weeks away.) So I'm feelin' really good about the gig this year. Might be another sell-out. If you're one of those out-of-towners who plans their visit to NYC around the concert, you should know it's on Saturday night, December 10th this year.

Really lookin' forward to it. Got some new songs. Gonna play a bunch of the old favorites. Got the same core of wonderful artists on stage with me again and they're all completely jazzed to be doin' it again. It's such a fun gig.

And I'm gonna debut a brand new song that was the direct result of that bullsh*t that went down in Hudson River Park this past Summer. (I'll explain a little more a little further down the page.)

If you feel like rounding up some friends and getting the very best seats, you can get tickets this week!

Or just call the box office directly:

212-501-3330

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Okay...

One of the 3 NEW SONGS

Right now I've got 3 new songs cookin'. It's so weird. They all couldn't be more different than each other. One is a positive, uplifting track about reviewing the choices in a Life. Another is about the un-evolved barbarism of capital punishment in this world. But I'm gonna give you a little taste of this third one... that is really unlike the others.

Yesterday, I sent these rough trax to Nelson for a bass part, to George for a piano part and to Chris for a fiddle part. Maybe I'll throw some banjo on it. Dave and Teresa will definitely lay down the harmony. Maybe we'll debut this song so all of you can sing it at the "Year End Concert" in December.

Remember when that nonsense took place downtown in Hudson River Park. In a nutshell, the people who run that park kinda embarrassed themselves by pulling the plug on my singing the Sun down after about 10 years of music and sunsets because some entitled, self-centered people lied to them in a complaint about something I supposedly said during a gig. At first it seemed incomprehensible that the people who Hudson River Park could react that way without knowing what the hell went on. Then a bunch of you guys got really pissed off and the whole issue got picked up in the news media. It went so far that The Dr. Phil Show sent a producer/director out to interview me about the whole silly thing.

Honestly -- not that I care all that much about the motives of other people, but I was suspecting that there must have been something else going on behind closed doors. I thought about different possibilities... maybe the people who run that park are just THAT bad at their jobs. (The park is is financially running horribly in the red.) Maybe there was something political going on. Maybe it was just the kind of thing that happens in a park that is actually a corporation. Maybe it was about donors or favors. I had fun kicking some of these things around because the Truth was never really sought. And then.... THEN it finally became clear to me. The entire issue boiled down to something very, very simple.

Very simple.

And so, as always, when I stumble upon a simple Truth I try to put it in a song. The new song tat was born from the conflict downtown is called...

"THERE WILL ALWAYS BE"

CLICK ON THIS LINK TO HEAR A SAMPLE OF THE SONG

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If you were around for the whole Hudson River Park thing, shoot me an email and let me know if you agree with the basic premise of the song!!!

EMAIL ME HERE
(Actually, you can email me for any reason at all!)

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Okay, I plan on heading to Central Park on Saturday! We might have 2 or 3 more afternoons left in the "outdoor" season. If you're in New York City, please check back. I hope I see your shining face out there, even if it;s a little chilly. Bring an extra blanket. I should have a better idea about the weather TOMORROW!

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NOW! A FEW VIDEOS ABOUT SOME MORE REALLY COOL STUFF!

Here's a little video from last year's year-end concert. Give you an idea of the kinda fun we have in that room every year.

Click to watch

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I also wanna jump start myself, my enthusiasm, and everybody's awareness about just a couple of really fun and exciting projects on the horizon. FIRST -- this is the new Broadway project. I'm gonna talk about this a little bit more tomorrow as well. I really feel that it's time to take the whole feeling we get in Central Park to a much larger audience. I'm just about to enter a new place where this little "Broadway" piece will really begin to come together. Now I'm just in the "dating" process... to find the right producers to make it a reality... and the right director/co-writer/co-creator to bring this thing to life.

Seriously. This is getting exciting. But then again.... it's what I do. This is the kind of stuff that makes me live.

In a nutshell, we're putting together something that we hope is headed for Broadway or... Jupiter... or... I don't know. But it's gonna be done someplace. Broadway legend, TONY WALTON, a man who has more Tony Awards and Academy Awards than I have socks, is behind it 100%... so now it's just about getting the right team together and working it.

Here's a little 10-minute video from Tony and his wife... explaining the project.

Click to watch the video

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THERE

I guess if you've been coming around here at all, you know that Emmy Award-winning filmmaker/director Dean Love has been kicking around an idea that is just kickin'! Well, his web-series / TV project that I've been telling you about over the past few months has launched it's funding campaign.

Click here to watch the video

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And then click here to visit the launch website to be a part of all of this. At the site you can see all the cool shit you get for joining this effort.

VISIT THE "THERE" LAUNCH SITE

I'll be telling you guys a lot more about it over the next few weeks.

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I updated this year's photo gallery. It just keeps growing. (Maybe you're in there!!!)

Click to visit the gallery

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AND HERE'S A REALLY FUN GALLERY FROM LAST SUMMER!!!

Click to visit last year's gallery

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If you're new you can always go back and browse through THE ARCHIVE as far back as you wanna go. I mean... thanks to my friend, my webmaster, and resident evil genius James Marino, you can historically go back through this website all the way back through the Bush years right up until the present. It's really kinda freaky how much content is here on this site.... cartoons, free songs, Photoshop images. Very cool.

Here are a couple of different fun galleries to check out.

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Y'know, honestly -- what a very cool thing it is I get to do with my Life and my music. I'm so, so grateful to every single one of you who are reading this right now... every single person who's ever hung out with me even once in that park. It means so much to me to know that there are people who "get" what my music and my stories have to say to the world. It reminds me... I guess, it reminds all of us that we're not alone and that there are others who "get it".

Are you new here to this website? Now, you might be one of the people who's checking in here for the first time. (There are always a bunch of newcomers here at the site, especially in the Summer season. Bookmark it every day and check back. I'm gonna start bring more video to this page again very soon.)

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HAVE FUN TODAY!!!!!! (And be cool to each other, okay?)

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Thanks for everything.

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Peace ☮