Author: theillalogicalspoon@gmail.com

O, here it comes again. A gathering like a winter storm, greatly anticipated and meant to be played in. Swirling around us and all of our lovers and even our enemies. Courageous chickadees joyfully sing, “You don’t have to do anything except be yourself”. All are welcome to this table. Have another round on us!

There will be music and fire and hikes and head dunking and discussions and skill shares, and all the eating, drinking, and merry making you have come to expect. We are not over it.

Look to the Hills, not the windmills. The Glory!Though the light we once saw is sometimes now veiled, we still will not buy what none should sell. Be the solar panel you want to install. Community is alive if we commune and breathe our own life into it.

Given the fact that civilization is so inhospitable to community and that it’s killing the planet it looks like our tomorrows will be harder than our todays, so, let’s keep holding hands and meet them face to face. Be brave.

Radio Shack has gone out of business, but the Winter Gathering prevails!

Beginning Friday, 1/25/19, at 5pm with a POTLUCK dinner first thing. 
full schedule to be posted soon…
Come bearing gifts (especially ones we can eat 🙂
Love, The Editors (of a new zine: Leaf Litter: Notes on Restoring and Reinhabiting the Great Lakes Bioregion)

P.S. We just dumpstered a ton of Christmas cards last night, so if you send me your snail mail address to theillalogicalspoon@gmail.com, you just might find a real letter in your real mailbox.

Tour has taken me on a beautiful journey deep into the heart of Appalachia, but now it is time to head north again. Fall has been rainy in this part of the world, but today I face the rising sun and looking left i know the directions even though i have no GPS. I have always had a strong homing instinct set to Michigan. I’m looking forward to the snow.

Thank you to everyone who has hosted shows so far! You have made this trip not only possible, but pleasurable! Everywhere i have been i’ve met a lot of folks are doing a lot of amazing work for the common good of us all and it is humbling and inspiring to see. I’ve also had many good conversations, and i hope those can continue. Keep your lamps trimmed and burning, and keep in touch!

P.S. I’ll be out traveling again later this winter. I’m trying to get out west, so let me know if you want to set up a show.

Video from house show in Durham, NC

Well, the autumn colors have reached their peak around here, and now what is left but to fall? No, the fun is not done yet! The Raven has been read and so the ceremony begins. The guitar is ripe to raise red fire. Is it sadness? No. It’s raging desire and love. The nomadic wind blows again and says it is time to travel. It is time for everyone to bring what ever fuel they have to keep the communal blaze burning. Of resistance, of restoration, of friendship, of… (there is no last word. There is only life.) I look forward to seeing y’all out at the shows! I am so excited to gather with folks for music and food and conversation and whatever else… When we meet face to face in this manner it is more than just another crowd, it is good medicine to all souls – saints and sinners alike.

Keep checking the tour schedule as I will be updating often as more shows get confirmed (and some get canceled). Shows

Exciting news! – I’ll be traveling with the brand new official hardcopy version of the band’s latest #4, Part B: Another Log for the Fire, as well as much of our older material. I will also have a new zine, just being printed today, from members of the Iron Creek Land Community (where I live and work) called Leaf Litter: Notes on Restoring and Reinhabiting the Great Lakes Bio-Region (and beyond)

“What will happen to your tribe if you don’t know your gift to bring?
Even a log for the fire, it would help your people sing,
Through this dark and arctic time.
What will happen to your life if you have no tribe to dance with?
Only cold and lonely nights, but that’s a question we must ask.
What will happen to your life if you don’t know your skill to serve?
What will happen to our lives if we don’t grow and we don’t learn?
Lord have mercy, may we learn.” -From Feel, Feel, Feel by theillalogicalspoon

We love to promote Jackson music! Check out this video from fellow Jackson band LVRS. It contains old footage from Grass Lake that includes Jeremy’s dad dancing around when he was a kid. Plus it’s a great song, from their great new album that came out earlier this year.