tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226474702011-04-21T18:08:23.647-07:00k+d+hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16213253988816488311noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22647470.post-1140286129800482592006-02-18T09:54:00.000-08:002006-03-26T18:21:55.360-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7555/2272/1600/Danny%20Guitar.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7555/2272/200/Danny%20Guitar.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Today Henry is very vocal, giggling in reverse and shouting at me all morning long. Very distracting, as it should be, but it hasn't kept me off line.<br /><br />I'm working on a review of two recent ethnographies - both of which are very, very good and challenging reading. Today that project led me to Aaron Fox's excellent homepage at <a href="http://aaronfox.org">aaronfox.org</a>, and the music there led me away again to <a href="http://habittrail.org">habittrail.org</a> to see if Dave had posted some liveness from our last show at Hank's. Alas no, and he's in Nashville where I should be.<br /><br />All this will make much more sense with an introduction. I am an academic/anthropologist, and my ethnographic work in Northern Australia increasingly dovetails with my interests in music (particularly country and rock musics both in the US and in Australia) and its various technologies.<br /><br />Habit Trail is a NYC country band that I play in, or have played in when I have the time. Truth be told HT is a project of my friend Dave Novak, but my participation has played its part in putting music performance back into my life.<br /><br />And Henry is our new son, now just 8 weeks old. He's more than beautiful, and after a particularly scary surgery he's laughing and talking with only (all too brief) breaks for eating and sleeping.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22647470-114028612980048259?l=yakabayngu.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>k+d+hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16213253988816488311noreply@blogger.com0