Next page >> September 29, 2009, 5:35 pm Hey Y'all,   Just a quick note from me, David. Weird to start this off with a thanks, but gratitude is what I'm feeling right now. Gratitude to everyone who has been so kind to me in my retirement from music. Gratitude to everyone, especially Alison, who has put up with my sad-sack behaviour over the last year and a half!   I've begun booking a gig or two again because I feel like I can be healthier about music and my career than I was the last time we spoke. It really wasn't you, it really was me.   I've realized lately how much I was able to achieve as a musician in the last six years, and several good friends have said some very helpful things to me. Someone just recently said that, because what I had achieved in music didn't look like success to me, that I called it failure... Those were wise words! He was right about that.   Somehow I'd managed to become a finalist at Kerrville in 2005, conduct a successful nation-wide tour for children with CF, release a fine CD, win recognition in several prestigious song contests, a bunch of good reviews, and make a living as a musician in America, play as sideman to Chris Chandler in one of the most provocative and incendiary performances the state of Texas ever saw, gather a bunch of great people all over the country as friends and still not understand how successful I was being.   Anyway, to everyone who supported me and booked me and bought my cd's and said so many wise things to me, I say Thank You.   And to D. You were right. I WAS only paying attention to the negative. Thanks for your Tuff Love, I see that now. Here's to The Open Door!   I'm BACK!   (this message brought to you, in part, by Paul Loyd. He's Just This Guy)