Wow! Why Me?

Friday, July 28, 2017, 7:45am

Every morning I get up a little before 6 and make fresh coffee augmented with organic roasted cacao beans. I sit in the hammock and watch the sun come up over the hills across the river as I sip the hot brew. Its my moment alone and at peace and it starts my every day. No day can be a complete washout because every day starts idyllically. Foggy mornings, which I really love, will turn into a hot, muggy day. Bright mornings like today, will be cooler and often breezy. It took courage for Toshi and I to abandon our comfortable lives sucking on Mother Minnesota's tit for kerosine lamps and laundry and bathing in the river and all the rest of the inconveniences that moving to an undeveloped off-grid property in the rainforest entailed. But every day reaffirms that impulsive jump into the unknown. Yes, there are risks but after 24 years of living in this beauty, facing its challenges, surviving and prospering, no matter what happens now it's too late to say it was the wrong decision. It was certainly right for us!

This week saw the return to the studio for the Doktah D team. We started work on the next album, a collection of all Country Music, or, at least Country as we define it! The working title is Country Doktah and we expect it to be a bit off center and a lot of fun. At least the opening session working on Wind in the Wire sent us spinning off into uncharted territory, laughing and scratching our heads. The next one up, Wind Rider, promises to take us even further into Never-Never Land!

2011 dry season - thinking country thoughts

Finally, for today, just a bit of a rant. We appreciate the patronage of all those who have sampled our music. Thank you for giving us a try! For those of you that like the music and feel likely to want to listen to it more than once, please, if you can afford to, consider downloading the albums or ordering the CDs. Its fun to see that we are being streamed in countries on 6 Continents but, the truth is, it doesn't help us to recoup the cost of recording and publishing. For example, Spotify streams in the US pay out to the artist at $0.0002 per stream. Song downloads, however, pay out at up to $0.99 apiece. If streaming is where you're at, by all means do that rather than just don't listen but, if you can afford it and it can fit in with how you listen to music, please consider paying for it. Musicians get just as hungry as Spotify execs and need to put food on the table like anyone else. At least consider it? Thanks.
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