Blue Mercy Cafe

Music has always been an important part of my life. I can still remember playing "air band" to my Uncle Roderick's 45s from the '70s and then graduating up to creating pretend instruments out of household items (a few pots, pans, and trash cans for a drum kit; tennis racquets for guitars, and well, an actually a child's organ for the keyboard). We hammed it up to the music of the Clique, Five Man Electrical Band, and Three Dog Night until I was finally able to request my own music (the first of which were cassettes of Kiss Dynasty and REO Speedwagon's Hi Infidelity, for the record).

Eventually I moved up to real instruments and joined a few bands in high school and college.

One of my newest musical projects is called Blue Mercy Cafe. That's a catch-all, made-up band name to include stuff I do both alone and with friends that falls into the acoustic, folksy, art-hymn vein. I'm hoping to finish recording about 15 songs for a BMC CD I plan to call 12 Dirty Breadcrumbs. The title comes from a line in the song "Hometown, Population 144,000," available above.

So far, I've got three tracks down with basic tracks. They still need a good mix-down and to have additional instrumental and vocal tracks recorded, but I figured I'd share them anyway as a surprise. (You have been good, haven't you?)