may the wind take your troubles away...

...this is jay farrar formerly of uncle tupelo and currently (yay!) of son volt...he played a free (short) solo acoustic set at the uptown borders just an hour ago...i found out about the show at 6pm in a tiny little blurb on gapers block, and i freaked out cuz the show was at 7 and cadence was still napping...luckily, she woke up in the next 5 minutes and we hurried up and made it on time to the show...however, a lot of other people in chicago either read gapers block or are way more on the ball than i am (probably both) and the place was packed out...it does help though to have an extremely cute baby slung to you in a fancypantsy technicolor dreamcoat wrap, and i was able to squeeze our way to a place where we could actually see jay play...at least i could...cadence was strapped to my front facing me with her back to the ministage, so she could hear the music but had no idea who was producing the lovely tunes...

it was such a short short set, but a lovely one...i have to admit i'm quite the sucker for acoustic shows where guitars and harmonicas and former members of uncle tupelo are involved...i can't wait to see the whole band (son volt) live at the bumbershoot festival in seattle...

oh god, i gotta go...i just caught a whiff of cadence as she crawled by, if you catch my drift..