To Bring You My Love

I'm typing as Jeff is recording his guitar part for the end of our cover of PJ Harvey's "To Bring You My Love". This is the first song I ever played guitar on with a band and will be the last song on our debut full-length album. In the earliest incarnation of Sabrosa Purr (some of the songs were there, but not the name) I was playing with my friend Brian in San Diego and "To Bring You My Love" was the first thing we played together. I didn't even know how to play guitar at the time and I think I played the main riff incorrectly. Even though the song has evolved quite dramatically, I think I still play the main riff wrong or at least a little differently than the original! It remains for us though a favorite at shows and even in our rehearsals. And it's always nice when people recognize it at shows. Inevitably, about 30 seconds into the song or when I sing the first line, someone yells out "Yee-aaahhh!", "PJ!!!!". I feel the same way too! I love playing it and always hate when we have to cut it from the set.

Aside from the sentimental attachment I have to the song, being that it was the cornerstone on which I started building what has become Sabrosa Purr, I've always felt a strong connection to the lyrics. "Hell and High Water..." indeed! I was ..."Born in the desert" and I've definitely "Been down for years", but there's also a simmering optimism, some kind of hope that I feel in the bones of the song itself. I hope people enjoy it on the record as much as we've enjoyed playing it. And most of all, I hope that PJ Harvey doesn't hate it! It's with the utmost respect and admiration for what she's created that we offer our tribute to her, to the relationship we have with you and to the bond we have with each other as bandmates and friends.

Listening to Jeff record his part right now and recalling Jacob as he recorded his, I'm reminded of my astounding good fortune in having them as a part of my life and as a part of our band.

Can't wait "To Bring You My (our) Love"!

Will

Purring in the desert

We just got back, from playing the "Clean Air, Clear Stars Festival" out in Pioneertown, CA. This is a little place in the Joshua Tree area where they used to film old Westerns back in the day. The old town is well-preserved and anyone walking down the main drag through town looks like a bad-ass that's about to draw and take your wretched life from you. Dust kicks up from their heels and they sort of fall into a swagger as if they're mildly possessed by the dirty and the dangerous who've come before them. It was fun.

We played for a good cause, with good bands and met good people. Check out Spindrift, Sky Parade, The Flash Express, The Go Fever, they were some of the ones that stood out to me. There was also a cool local guy whose CD was played between sets that was awesome. I thought it was Neil Young, but it wasn't. I can't remember his name though, which pisses me off because I really liked it.

Anyway, we could only stay for the day because we're trying to finish our new record, but we really enjoyed it and are grateful to have been invited to play.

"Clean Air, Clear Stars" - go next year if they do it again!