THE DUST BLOWS FORWARD AND THE DUST BLOWS BACK

Music is like dust in so many ways, coming and going from all directions, accumulating in out of the way places, often unwanted but seemingly indestructible.

Documentation of my own music shows up randomly, a factor I have learned to make use of and enjoy.

“I thought it was a Roger Miller song but realized suddenly it was a Captain Beefheart cover! This could only happen at a Eugene Chadbourne concert”--audience member, Oakland 2020..

That is one of the nicest things anyone has ever said to me regarding one of my performances. This particular Beefheart song is one of the first I cross-translated into an Appalachian banjo tune and has remained in my sets ever since it first showed up in sets by the Jack and Jim Show.

Jack and Jim material from a BBC broadcast showed up a few months ago, the version of the Dust Blows Forward and the Dust Blows Back from 1997 is one of the bookends in this new pair of CDs; the version that inspired the Oakland comment is at the other.

Along the way a few other things I really liked with the Doc Chad Contemporary Rock Band and an ad hoc Vancouver island band became part of the program

THE DUST BLOWS FORWARD

1. I Used to Be Somebody

2. Hidden Anew

3. Poor Moon

4. This Ain’t No Picnic

5. Sun Ra Section:  5a  Where is Tomorrow

5b The Satellites are Spinning

6. Schroeder Birthday Song

7. In Memory of a Memory

8. Shapes of Things

9. Moose the Mooche

10. Colorado Kool Aid

11. Old Dog

12. Old Piano

13. The Dust Blows Forward and the Dust Blows Back

1,
5b, 6, 11  with the Doc Chad Contemporary Rock Band

Schroeder, drums;  Jan Fitsen, bass

3, 7, 10, 12, 13  with Daniel Masiel, electric guitar and tamboura

all other tracks solo from Oakland, Firenze, Greensboro