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You Sure This Is How Richie Havens Got Famous?/What Else Is Gonna Go Right?
BY DWIGHT HOBBES, YOU SURE THIS IS HOW RICHIE HAVENS GOT FAMOUS? April 09, 2011
Corner Coffee cooked.
The audience was on it.
In attendance were Natalie Johnson Lee, Michael Chaney, Kimberly Nightingale, Michael McElrath, and Ezra Sauter. Kiss my grits if ya don't like that.
Sang and played a bunch of originals, some covers. After listening next day to the playback, a couple takes'll go on the upcoming live CD. Among about a half-dozen Corner Coffee gigs, there's enough material. Planning with Bill Travers to edit and masterDwight Hobbes Live at his buddy's studio. By the by, bless Travers's heart and soul, he greased the wheels so that Laura Moe is considering my song "Angels Don't Really Fly" for her repertoire. Between you, me, and the lamp-post, there's a chance she'll sing a duet with me on my perennially almost-wrapped-up studio CD Angels. It's been pretty cool, dropping in at the MN Music Cafe to jam with Bill Travers for their open mic. Last time, we rocked a fun rendition of a couple old blues numbers "Know You Rider" and "Death Don't Have No Mercy". May yet get Bill to pull some strings with Francis Duxbury III (Travers, Moe & Sir Duxbury are The Travelin' Moburys) and see won't that rascal Francis consider recording my song "In Love Without You". With Bill already having agreed to record "Lady Midnight", there's at least an outside chance I'll have songs done by each member of the group. What the hell, we'll see.
Meanwhile, the past 9 or so months of being back at it, after a long, long layoff, or paying off. Chops, if I say so myself, have got sturdy. Not only the singing, but, for once, people are actually complimenting on my guitar playing. Getting my trash-talking between numbers down betterer and betterer. And, for the pure hell of it, wrote my first new song in 20 years, a tight little thing called "Mary Jean", which might just make it to that live CD. All things considered, I'm a happy little camper.
Elsewise: Got word from Papyrus Publishing, Inc. that my book Something I Said hits the stands this year.
What else is gonna go right?
Beats me. But, baby, believe, I'm open.
About the Author
Coming: "Angels Don't Really Fly" EP by Dwight Hobbes & The All-Star Hired Guns featuring Alicia Wiley. The crew: Me, Alicia Wiley, Stanley Kipper, Chico Perez, Jeff "Boday" Christensen, Aaron "Orange A.C." Cosgrove and Yohannes Tona. Singer-songwriter Dwight Hobbes recorded the single "Atlanta Children" (BeatBad Records) and gigged 10 years in the Long Island/NYC area, including The Other End, Kenny's Castaways and My Fathers Place. Fronted the Boston blues band Midlight. In Minneapolis, Hobbes opened for David Daniels at First Street Entry, James Curry at Terminal Bar, sat in with Yohannes Tona, Alicia Wiley at Sol Testimony's Soul Jam, The New Congress at Babalu, Willie Murphy at the Viking Bar and Wain McFarlane & Jahz at Lucille's Kitchen. Dwight Hobbes still drops in at the occasional open mic around town.
Dwight Hobbes has written for ESSENCE, Reader's Digest, Washington Post, Minneapolis Star Tribune, St. Paul Pioneer Press, City Pages, Mpls/St. Paul, MN Law & Politics, Pulse of the Twin Cities, Twin Cities Daily Planet, Women & Word, San Diego Union-Tribune, The Circle, to Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder (where he contributes the commentary columns Hobbes In The House and Something I Said. He's spoken his mind over National Public Radio, Minnesota Public Radio and KMOJ in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Was regularly featured as guest commentator on NewsNight Minnesota (KTCA-Minneapolis/St. Paul) and Spectator (Minneapolis Television Network). His monthly column "Hobbes In The House" in MN Spokesman Recorder comments on domestic abuse and rape. His plays are Shelter - produced at Mixed Blood Theatre by Pangea World Theater, Dues - produced by Mixed Blood Theatre, University of Southern Illinois in Point of Revue, selected for Bedlam Theatre's 10-Minute Play Festival and published by Playscripts, Inc. You Can't Always Sometimes Never Tell - produced by Theater Center Philadelphia, Long Island University, reading at The Kennedy Center and published in the anthology CENTER STAGE, In the Midst - produced by Long Island University, starring Samuel E. Wright. Hobbes spoke on the panel "Farewell To August Wilson" at the Guthrie Theater, broadcast on Conversations With Al McFarlane (KFAI, KMOJ). Twin Cities Daily Planet articles archived at www.tcdailyplanet.net/dwighthobbes
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