Just came back from a solo show in a bar in Deventer. Solo shows in bars seldom are fun but i won't learn. Most bars are for drinking and talking, not for sensitive songwriters. The afternoon starts with a corps student who asks me to play blues songs and after the show a drunk babyboomer comes up to me to tell me how he liked it and that it sounded just like Neil Young. I'ts really meant as a compliment. In his world someone with a high pitched voice and an acoustic guitar sounds like Neil Young. The words of the songs doesn't matter. He didn't even listen to the songs cause he talked through the whole show.  It's  a curse. 

And then a woman came up to me. She had been listening the whole time. Told me after a 12 year relationship she broke up with her boyfriend some days ago. She found some strength in the songs. I gave her a CD.

So, now i'm going to my favorite bar, drown my sorrows in beer and talk through the fragile songs of the nervous songwriters at that place.

Tomorrow i'm mastering the first two Melleville songs in the Sahara studio with Henk Koorn.