Greetings friends!
It has been way, way too long since I checked in. To all the faithful: my everlasting gratitude for your loyalty, patience and support. You have my ongoing love and respect.
And if you are a newbie...welcome!
There is much to catch up on. Sit yo'self down. Chill for a while. I'll make the coffee and you twist one up.
Okay....The big news is the new CD. That's right! I said it!
Do Your Thing, recorded in New Orleans (pre-Katrina) and San Francisco and produced by Dan Prothero for Fog City Records is finally ready for public comsumption, so come and get yo'self a heapin' helpin of this musical grits-n-gravy with a side of down-home collard green grooves while it is hot off the stove! Have you ever tasted something so soul satisfyin' and righteously persuasive that afterwards, you wondered if grampa's been puttin' mushrooms in the moonshine again? Well, this one will rattle the neighbor's china cabinet. It will make the Jehovah's Witnesses stop coming to your door and make the pretty woman in the upstairs apartment grind and moan. Then, when you least expect it...it will make you see things...in the air...spirits and such. Oh they're there, alright...been there all along. You just gotta know how to conjure 'em...they are really quite friendly once you get to know them.
"How do I alter my reality in such a grown up fashion?", you might ask.
The answer is simple and direct, friends. Preview and order my new CD NOW at: http://fogworld.com/papamali/doyourthing/
...and remember, the holidays are here. So order a few extra for your friends. They would like to have their funky-ass world rocked, too.
Did I mention that this enhanced CD includes video footage from the recording session, shot in the studio with Kirk Joseph, Henry Butler and Robb Kidd as well as a live performance from world famous Preservation Hall in New Orleans and featuring myself along with JJ Grey and George Sluppick (MOFRO) and Robert Walter?
So whatchoo waitin' for?
OK, then! Let's move on.
I now have my hands firmly on the wheel of my myspace page - up until now, the good folks at my management, who initially set it up, have been occasionally updating it...but mostly letting it sit idle. Until two days ago I DID NOT EVEN KNOW HOW TO LOG ON! ( I swear! Someone else held my password!)
SO...if you have sent me a mesage, requested to be added to my friends, etc...chances are, you never heard from me. You were probably thinking: "Why that no good so-and-so! Just who do he think he is?" And you had every right to think that...nobody likes to be ignored. But it's a new day, people and I want to be your myspace friend. So drop by and say 'Wha'sup, Papa?' at www.myspace.com/papamali ...and this time, I won't leave you hangin'!
I have lots of activity planned in the upcoming months including:
a show tonight (11/16) in Austin at The Parrish. Doors at 9pm. Topaz and his excellent band (feat. my old sparring podnahs, Neil Pederson on keys & Dave 'Sniz' Robinson on drums) start the show, followed by the always gritty Greyhounds. Then at midnite, I take the stage with one of the greatest rhythm sections in rock&roll history, Chris Layton (drums) and Tommy Shannon (bass) better known as DOUBLE TROUBLE!!! Now, before you start thinking that I am just one of millions who would aspire to be the next SRV....forget it. There will never be 'a next SRV'! He was one of a kind. Period. But I will say this. Whenever I have had the extreme pleasure and honor to perform with Chris and Tommy (btw...two of the nicest, down-home cats you will ever meet) it is a special show. Their presence just makes me want to be my absolute best!
Saturday (11/18) I open for the great Johnny Winter at La Zona Rosa. This time I'll be solo, acoustic. So arrive early and shout out requests!
Then it's the holidaze, and I have a few things planned with my good friend Cyril Neville as well as some holiday road shows with the good and funky brothers from another mutha, GALACTIC!
So check my calender often, order the new CD and drop by myspace.
Later, Y'all!
Love, Papa
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