Buddy Wakefield's Blog, page 75

It Turns Out

October 31, 2017

I may have been grossly underprepared to receive love.

Bootleg

October 26, 2017

Shame: Prove yourself to a bloody pulp.

And we were like….



@marylambertsing

The Width of this city

October 16, 2017

Featuring at the largest open mic in America

next Tuesday October 24th at Da Poetry Lounge

Greenway Court Theatre, 544 N. Fairfax, Hollywood, 9pm.

If you hate fun, you’re gonna wanna skip this one.

With whom I rock the casbah

October 14, 2017

Years ago I walked into a candy store with an old friend named Steve and we loaded up on a sack of chocolate situations. One of the original students at Youth Speaks Seattle, Mary, was behind the counter. Beam of light. Line drive of smile. Always was. So stoked to see her.

A couple years earlier Mary opened a show in Seattle and accompanied me (guitar/vox) on a new piece I’d written called Hurling Crowbirds at Mockingbirds. She nailed it. Of course she did.

When I tried to pay for the chocolate, Mary pushed my hand back… “Poets don’t pay for candy here.”

Months later I was scrolling through news and saw Mary on the MTV Music Awards performing “Same Love” with Macklemore and Jennifer Hudson… “Hey Steve, come in here. Remember the gal who gave us all the free chocolate at the candy store on Capitol Hill?” Of course he did. “That’s who’s singing the chorus on ‘Same Love.'” Of course it is.

Not long after that we saw her on the Grammy Awards with Madonna and Queen Latifah. Last week she was with Macklemore again in front of 80,000 people at the Rugby Final in Sydney amid Australia’s same-sex marriage vote.

Ear to ear proud? Pretty much.

Tickled to no end about the recent message from Mary inviting me to open for her in San Diego and Los Angeles next week? Absolutely.

On October 21st, Mary, Mal Blum and I gonna rock The Casbah (no, the actual Casbah) in San Diego before heading to L.A. the next day. You should probably come see this.



Tickets on www.buddywakefield.com/tour-info

Photo by Luke Wren Reid

all the air in the world

September 19, 2017

The year I wished my life on other people.



Photo by Sara Boulter.

I’m Kind of announcy

September 16, 2017

Makes Scents

September 11, 2017

Afternoon walkin around catching up with Derrick Brown after a month away.

He likes the candle shop where they let you name the scent.‬

go for holland

 

APRIL 2018

April 14, 2018 Loud Mouth Poetry Jam, Howie & Sons, 2430 S. Mooney Blvd., Visalia, CA, details TBA