Outlaw Country, and a new video
9 Oct
Hello again from the road! We are on the east coast of the USA this week, driving thru some lovely fall color as the seasons change.
Tania Elizabeth made a video of a song from my first record called Goddamn HIV. We shot a lot of the video with a little flip cam HD on the road this year, in Provincetown,MA., Santa Cruz, CA., and up in the redwood forest in Northern California. She edited it on her mac book and I think it came out great. It brings me back to the place I was when I wrote the song in 1995.
News from Nashville:
When home I’ve been hanging around the set of a new TV pilot/series shooting in Nashville called Outlaw country. It’s my first time on a TV location, and I’ve learned a lot, mostly that a TV series is very hard work and it takes hundreds of people doing their jobs in unison to pull it off. Here’s a shot of me with the star of the series, Mary Steenburgen. After watching her sing the same song over and over again for days as the camera’s shot her from every conceivable angle, it dawned on me just how hard acting really is. Doing a scene over and over and over again is just how its done. I had no idea.
on the set of Outlaw Country with Mary Steenburgen
Watching the beautiful and sad ‘Goddamn HIV’ video was a very moving experience. I thought back to friends who had passed and to the aching grief. The visuals and transitions were very good, and drew me to aspects of the song that hadn’t come to mind listening to the album. It was important to be reminded of the tragedy of HIV and the heavy toll it’s taken. All of society’s hate and rejection seemed to be expressed in that one terrible, horrible illness.