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UPDATE: Audio samples are now up. See links at the bottom of this post. My new CD just arrived! I don’t have a web page up for it yet, and it won’t be on CDBaby for another week or so, but if you’re willing to buy a pig in a poke, send $18 to Perfectible Recordings PERF-07 484 Lake Park Ave. #102 Oakland CA 94610-2730 OR:

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US addresses $18.00 Outside of US $22.00 2 copies (US only) $33.00

David Gans THE ONES THAT LOOK THE WEIRDEST TASTE THE BEST Produced by Tim Carbone 1. Shove in the Right Direction (David Gans-Lorin Rowan) 2. Down to Eugene (Jim Page) 3. An American Family (David Gans) 4. That’s Real Love (Gans-Skehan-Carbone-Goessling-Grubb) 5. Save Us from the Saved (David Gans) 6. The Bounty of the County (David Gans-Rita Hurault) 7. Echolalia (David Gans) 8. Headin’ Home Already (David Gans) 9. Autumn Day (David Gans) 10. Like a Dog (Robert Hunter-David Gans) 11. It’s Gonna Get Better (David Gans) David Gans – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, loop guitar, vocals Tim Carbone – violin, baritone violin, drums, harmonica, special violin, prepared piano, fire extinguishers, harmony vocal, background vocals John Skehan III – mandolin, special mandolin, piano, background vocals Andy Goessling – autoharp, banjo, acoustic guitar, ukulele, clarinet, bass clarinet, 12-string guitar, National steel guitar, baritone saxophone, background vocals Zac Matthews – mandolin, harmony vocal on “The Bounty of the County” Buck Dilly – electric guitar, lap steel, pedal steel guitar, tremolo guitar, organ Robert Matarazzo – harmony vocal on “Headin’ Home Already” Johnny Grubb – string bass Lindsey Horner – string bass Paul Knight – bass on “The Bounty of the County” Ned Stroh – drums, bowed cymbal Audio samples – click on each title to listen: 1. Shove in the Right Direction 2. Down to Eugene 3. An American Family 4. That’s Real Love 5. Save Us from the Saved 6. The Bounty of the County 7. Echolalia 8. Headin’ Home Already 9. Autumn Day 10. Like a Dog 11. It’s Gonna Get Better

I am 55 today, and I still feel that my best work is ahead of me. My wife, Rita Hurault, is five years clear of her cancer, and our love is deep and warm and creative and continually exciting. My country appears on the verge of electing a brilliant, articulate and compassionate president who will at the very least slow the decline of our national fortunes, and might actually do some good.

It’s a good day here on Haddon Hill.

Last week my community lost a good person. Tony Duggleby was an alternative energy entrepreneur, working to make the world a better place for everybody. Just as important, he was the soul mate of a dear friend, Nancy Levidow. They found each other pretty late in life, but they made up for lost time with an incandescent love.

Tony went to the ER in Vancouver BC on October 3 with breathing difficulties that turned out to be pneumonia. He struggled for twelve days, but the damage to his organs was too severe and we lost him.

I didn’t know Tony well, but he was a pillar of our community. The loss to us all is a terrible thing, but for Nancy to have found this love and then had it taken from her is more than anyone should have to bear.

I went looking for the line in “Sugar Baby” that says, “Some of these memories you can learn to live with and some of them you can’t,” but that’s not really what I mean to say here.

Every moment of existence seems like some dirty trick
Happiness can come suddenly and leave just as quick
Any minute of the day the bubble could burst

– Bob Dylan

“Quarter to Five” is an instrumental that I composed while my best friend, Tina Loney, was dying from cancer. I put a lot of emotion into this music. Performing it keeps Tina with me and allows me to transmute my grief.

This week I have been playing “Quarter to Five” for Tony as well as for Tina. This recording, from October 17, ends in an unusual way, illustrating some of the rage I’m feeling over our loss, and especially Nancy’s.

Quarter to Five (For Tina Loney) – for Tony Duggleby

While you’re listening to it, read about Tony and see what his friends and family have to say about him.