I’m off to Memphis Tennessee on Wednesday to play Folk Alliance. It will be a weekend of great music and with any luck we’ll make some new friends and maybe see the ghost of Elvis strolling up and down Beale. Things are heating up with gigs in Calgary, San Francisco area, Montreal and Ottawa over the next couple of months. In between those I am also going to visit the other Memphis (in the land of the Pharaohs) in April with my sister. It’s amazing how small the world has gotten. Not long ago it took months to get from one side of this continent to the other. Now we can be at the other side of the world in a day. Having said that I’m the first to whine about the long lineups at airports and the invasive searches yada yada. I heard a comedian the other day talk about how we complain that the seats on planes today are so small. His punch line was “yeah but you get to sit in a chair 30,000 feet up in the air that’s traveling 500 miles per hour…and you’re complaining?” I guess a few hours of restless leg beats a month of stale biscuits and saddle sores  :  )