I’m offering you my early Christmas blessings with a hot tip on a new album by Eric Clapton. It’s called inappropriately enough “Happy Xmas”…. and by far it surpasses anything Slowhand has done in 30 years…(ok, From the Cradle came out in 1994, so maybe not quite 30 years)! Anyway….go out today and get it! I cant say that enough times. This is the album we’ve been wondering if he could make for years and years. It just happens to be a Christmas album. Trust papa Andre. It’ll satisfy your holiday plimsoul and your appetite for a great Eric Clapton record. See you at the Raven in Woods Bay this Friday 7-10 and at Highlander (Missoula Brewing Company) on Saturday from 6-8pm. Here come the holidays. Let me be the first to say Happy Thanksgiving. This year I’m going to do my best to count my blessings and celebrate family and friends….regardless of political affiliation religious preference or social affliction. I urge you to lay down all arms except the ones you hug with. Love is the answer to this disgusting argument we are experiencing in these Trumpian times. AND we can all rise above it during these times of celebration and joy. Maybe I’ll see you this weekend in Woods Bay Friday or Missoula on Saturday. Love each other and yourself. See you soon.