Long Beach, Anaheim, LA, Cars, Heat

Gig in Berkeley was great and also in Santa Rosa the next evening. Fly from Berkeley to Long Beach. Play Anaheim. Didn’t play ‘American Novel’ in Anaheim for the first time on the tour. I played He Never Said instead but still made a few points! A lady came up at the end and gave me a pin badge of the American flag and said I had the spirit of a true American, which I think is good..Also met Rick Blackwell and his lovely family who drove three hours to be at the show. Rick is a stuntman who worked on films like Pirates Of The Carribean, Superman, Batman and others, and as a result my cred has gone way up with the kids back home. Weather very hot, just under a hundred degrees. Amazed by the amount of traffic on the roads in this part of California, so many vehicles. Yesterday we flew from LA to Chicago and then on to Minneapolis. Cooler. Good. Up at 8 this morning to do a radio interview. Bad. Not the interview, just getting up to do radio that early, thankfully I didn’t have to sing live. Playing a show here tonight. Eyes looking to home though we have a busy week ahead. I’m now 42 points up and think Chris should wave the white flag. He wont lay down though. Steve Fearing is playing more shows in the UK. You can catch him at The Talbot Hotel in Tregaron on the 30th of April and The Cabbage Patch Folk Club in Twickenham May 2nd. You should go if you can