itself, or did that come in other ways before you could record the songs? It was a simultaneous process. The healing is ongoing, life being what it is. I had an intent to do it right. I didn’t want to be a jerk... I don’t have stuff worked out when I write the songs. It’s one thing to recognize something as true, it’s another to hold on to that belief in the midst of what my mind is throwing at me. To integrate it is the daily challenge. It’s messy work. The songs are the reminders.
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Does the old Toad material still resonate at all for you? I’m happy for them, but they were written by a different and much younger person. But we just finished Toad’s last show of the year – we had a great season. Even some of these songs, which I recorded a year and a half ago, I’m not in the middle of them anymore, so I don’t identify with all of them. You just moved with your girlfriend to Nashville. Why leave Montecito after all those years? It was time for a change. It’s great to be around musicians and not be one of the only people I know who do music for a living. I’m normal here – it’s just a middle-class job. There are a lot of friends I’ve made over last 25 years, and now they’re my neighbors. My manager and my songwriting partners are walking distance. And I’m still coming back to Santa Barbara every month. (Glen Phillips performs Wednesday at 8 at SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court. Nashville singer-songwriter Jonathan Kingham, who also plays keyboard and steel guitar for Toad on the road, opens. Tickets cost $15. Call 962-7776 or visit www.sohosb.com.)
LAGQ takes the Road to Lobero
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet’s Bill Kanengiser was stunned when Pat Metheny told the ensemble he wanted to write a piece for them when they met at a guitar festival in northern Montana three years ago. Sure, they’d paid tribute to the jazz guitar star back on their Grammy-winning Guitar Heroes album, but this was something else. “I didn’t think he knew who we were, but it turned out he’d been following our careers for a while,” Kanengiser said over the phone this week. “He’d been wanting to write for us for years but had just found a window of time.” Thus was born “Road to the Sun”, Metheny’s work for four guitars written for and dedicated to the LAGQ,
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