Just wanted to write and thank everyone who came out on Sunday to the Summer Shade Festival.  I should have pictures and maybe even some video up very soon of the performance.   I have been working on another song as well and hopefully will start playing it out very soon!!!  I will be playing at Rev tomorrow night and hopefully I'll see some of you out there, we have several very good artists that are out there almost every Wednesday.  While it's masked under the name of Open Mic, it's really just a bunch of local artist getting together to jam for a few hours...  Fun times!  OK, I'll write more later, until then, keep rockin’!

Kerry
http://www.kerrywentworth.com
http://adventures.kerrywentworth.com

So hi everybody!  I know it's been a few, but I've been super busy!  I just moved into my own place and have officially set up a small studio.  I'm still unpacking and all, but it's getting there.  I'm really excited about Sunday at the Summer Shade Festival.  12:00 sharp at the Artist Market Stage in Grant Park.  I'd love to see everyone out there!  Also, just as a reminder, you can now download any of my songs from No Shoes Required at I-tunes and TuneCore.  Also go and check out my new songs on Youtube.com and add me as your friend!!!!    OK, back to the day job; hope to see some of you Sunday!
 
Kerry
http://www.kerrywentworth.com
http://adventures.kerrywentworth.com

This feeling I get when you're in my room
This everything that has nothing to do
With you or me
With the present
You see only what I want you to see
I hear only words you speak
No action
Nothing that comes close to the real thing
I can't wait or maybe contemplate a time
Where it's just you and I
Again
On the road to where?
Is there a sign to tell us how many more times
we have to go through
these old towns
dusty with different names and numbers
but the faces are always the same
I just want to breath
close my eyes to the fading moonlight
and open to the newness of the coming day
I can't help the seriousness in the voices on my head
they hear the clocks just as loudly as you can
So here I am
Waiting
I just need you to do this with me
This first step
in sync, beside me
not behind and not ahead

~~~

Kerry
http://www.kerrywentworth.com
http://adventures.kerrywentworth.com

You shouldn’t affect me like this
Your lease on my soul
It ran out long ago
And yet I’m still here
Holding together pieces of me
They keep dropping
Back to the floor of my reality
There shouldn’t be any feeling
When I hear that voice
No unsaid words to detect
Yet the hold back I can smell
Like a predator it’s game
But there’s no hunting party tonight
Although my mind growls with hunger
My hands slightly shake
Like a craving unmet
Withdraw starting yet again
Because of a small taste of freedom
From these self made bounds
Weaved from guilt and pride
They keep me on the ground now
Latched to limits and contradiction
It’s no way to live
And yet the light I seek has not been met
On this dark end road I stumble

~~~

Kerry
http://www.kerrywentworth.com
http://adventures.kerrywentworth.com

I look at your eyes while you look at mine
never looking at each other, just posing in time
That wind tussled hair on a beach in Maine
I could walk it now, but it's not the same
but it's probably best if we just forget
walk away while there is getting to get
my hand lingers for a while, memories all mine
will you look back, maybe take it as a sign
draw yourself close to read the words
is it what I'm reading or what you've heard
strangers, lovers, strangely loving on another
My own thoughts spread thin, barely enough cover
One passage leading on through the spectrum of truth
would skipping around it this time be some kid of abuse
I could tiptoe by and close my eyes
Pretend that this made up world was fine
And we could smile at each other, know what love is for
Drink deep in our own souls, if only for a while

~~~

Kerry
http://www.kerrywentworth.com
http://adventures.kerrywentworth.com

So now that I'm back from vacation...  I thought I'd catch everyone up on what's going on.  So Columbus was a blast.  Granted I went a little too trigger happy on the equipment reduction, but I don't mind playing a true acoustic set...   

Other than that, I have a new song, which I'm super excited about and I've added an older, revamped song back into the rotation.  Both songs are coming together very well.  It also puts my playing time for originals at 2 plus hours.  As some of you may know, I'm hopefully headed back into the studio to start recording a second CD in the next few months.  I am 8 songs strong and have been writing like a madwoman, so hopefully I'll have a few more songs to add to that very soon. 

I want to remind everyone again about the Rev showcase on August 9th at 7:30pm.  It will be all the "regulars" from Wednesday night and a few friends coming to play with us.  There will be free food and beverage (feel free to bring your favorite brown bagged beverage).  I'll be at Rev on Wednesday, if anyone wants to stop by and hang out.    More information to come because, hey I just got back from vacation!!!!!  My mind is still not quite all caught up....  haha! 
 
Kerry
http://www.kerrywentworth.com
http://adventures.kerrywentworth.com

Oh!  I forgot to mention:
 
Some really good news!!!  I'm now on I-tunes!  Also, my presskits are officially here and ready for circulation!  You can also look me up on Youtube and check out some of my newer performances including my new song (and maybe title track for the upcoming album) Move On.

So last night was pretty cool.  We did an Acoustic Sunset unplugged show at Rev.  All the regulars showed up and we all really had a blast.  I kind of hate labeling our Wednesday night jam sessions as "Open Mic" because it's really nothing like any open mic around.  We are really open to all types of music, we're all very friendly, and the actual set up for the night is laid back.  The night usually ends with an all out jam session with more people with instruments in their hands than people without.  For me, playing my originals and having people just come up and start playing along and harmonizing with me...  it's really something.  I can be in the worst mood ever, show up and by the end of the night, I'm all smiles.  To me, Rev is its own community which I'm so happy to be apart of.  The most eclectic and amazing people come out of the woodwork of Atlanta and show up at this little place.  I truly feel like a better person for having met such a variety of people, all with their own contributions to our little community.  As a side note, we are having a Rev Party on Saturday, August 9th.  I'll list more details as we draw closer to the date.  Also remember to support Shay by running by and taking advantage of good coffee, yummy food, and a great atmosphere that is Rev.  Hope to see ya'll soon!

Kerry
http://www.kerrywentworth.com

I think my biggest problem life in general is the fact that we all truly live in our own little bubble.  The world is perfect and everyone in it is either good or bad depending on what little information seeps through that soapy film of reality.  Not that we don't sensor and revamp our own worlds to look perfect to certain people, all the while sheltering them for those who might have seen the darker side that is now illuminated with pretty little abstracts of reality. A bend here, some extra color over here...  sometimes looks more like a cheap knock off of a Van Gogh than anything.  Yet we all do it.  We leave out the bigger picture...  usually we just give a sampling...  more like a game of mystery picture, but no one realizes they are playing .  Even when we are leaving a massive collaboration that was a life behind to start a new one...  There is always that picture back there somewhere... even if it's picked apart enough to make it completely unrecognizable.  Perhaps the hope is that it will fade and take a new shape that is agreed upon by the makers.  The footprints are the things to watch out for....  making sure your new canvas doesn't have strong impressions from the last.  If one starts building around those footsteps instead of building from the whiteness of innocence, the canvas tends to fade faster than expected, but just slow enough to take you by surprise.  So where does that leave us?  Still with our own little worlds, with the ozone of soap and the starry canvas we have to share...  meandering to and from different corners of the universe with our little paintbrushes, just waiting to add our own color. 

Kerry Wentworth
www.kerrywentworth.com

This long hard journey
Don't want to see the end
but perhaps a little downward tilt
to bring it back again 
A summit with some
easy going leveled plains
say that I'll be smiling
just down the lane
looking through a telescope
waving back at me
melancholy in those eyes
still visible from this step
can't you come and walk beside me
no parting ways just yet
walking shoe with a worn soul
count the miles outright
do i need another pair
to help me reach the light
out side the trees
this rock filled night
calling back and forward still
nothing from the left or right
yearn for freedom
yearn for something
yearn for everything I pray
no clouds
just the ground
the sweet red Georgia clay

~~~

Kerry Wentworth
http://www.kerrywentworth.com

Hello all!

I have been contemplating writing this all weekend and have just now gotten the time to sit down. You know there have been a few people in my life that I have met where I have looked at them and thought... wow, you have what it takes. You know the people I'm talking about, they are the people that you would find in 30 years and slap if they weren't still playing. The ones with the right timing could become someone in the music business that people envy. I think back to the amazing musicians I started out with in high school. One in particular was a guy named Bobby who played the base. Out of all the musicians that I played with (and believe me, they were all genius when it came to their instruments), Bobby was not only talented but he also had drive and ambition. He wanted to make music his full time job, not just something he had on the side. He really inspired me. I'm not sure how it all turned out, but like me, I'm pretty sure his eyes are still set on that goal. I keep my ear out for him where ever I go and would never bat an eye if I ever saw him playing on stage in front of thousands.

I've met my fair share of people like this in the last 15 years, but two of them have recently brushed by me. One is a guy who has come out to Rev's open mic a few times and other is a guy I met in Athens this weekend. Great talent, but even more, they both have those same drives... that look in their eye that sets them apart. You can tell that they are looking ahead and realize that with a little hard work and luck, there is that place there for them in the grand scheme of the esteemed world of music. That there is more out there and that the dream of being a full time musician is in reach if we can just grab that wishing star and hold on for dear life. The energy from a dream being realized slowly radiates from their whole being.

I hope it radiates from me too. I always have those moments of doubt, I think everyone does, where I question my own sanity... especially when I lug those 80 pound speakers around and play to that audience of 1 or 2... But I always ask myself "What would Hedwig do?" Comforted, I smile, get a better grip and move forward.

Kerry
http://www.kerrywentworth.com

I may walk,
I may fall,
but I will never stop dancing.