OPEN FOR BUSINESS! The June Apple Musician’s Coop in an epic Minnesota Star Tribune photo by Bill Davis of Pop Wagner, Bob Bovee, Sean Blackburn and myself, with honorable mention in the caption of Maureen McElderry, Jerry Rau, Bob Douglas, Dakota Dave Hull, and Tommy Lieberman.

DATELINE: BUFFALO, NY, In my 50 years of songwriting, I have sung myself back home just about every night on stage. Last week I not only sung myself back, I WENT BACK and sung the songs on THAT land, and it means so much. Photo: LSK https://t.co/jo6OCR4emR

THE WRITING’S THE THING for me bringing a new song into the world. Hear some favorites, some you didn’t know, and of course the brand new. Photo: LSK. THIS WEDNESDAY, 6PM STILLWATER PUBLIC LIBRARY: LINK: https://t.co/Msn8BNnfQh

PLAYING ANY PUBLIC LIBRARY no matter where—is acoustically pure without mics or “sound”, people get in close-and like the books on the shelves, the words in the songs are the thing. Bring yourself! See you there.

ONLY IN-TOWN DATE THIS SUMMER! Hear the upcoming songs for the new album currently in the works, plus your favorites. REGISTRATION REQUIRED-LINK: https://t.co/Msn8BNnNFP

IT’S BASEBALL! The “Saint Francis Silverbacks” vs. the “Ramsey Renegades” and the Empire roughly on the First Base Line. No $55 dollar tickets, no $9 Beer, no $14 hot dog variants, just the game and the steady clack of the typewriter between innings. Photo: LSK

JULY 14 BIRTHDAY’S TODAY FOR MY MOTHER (Third from L.) AND WOODY. Guthrie in 1912, and Hazel in 1922. Both part of an unforgettable generation that overcame so much, gave so much, & changed America for the better. Photo: CSM & Woody Guthrie Archives.

AH-OOH! “Somebody” has been in Studio recording a new song in Rockabilly. Afraid though you’re going to have to pay to hear it when the album comes or find me live ‘till then. Here’s the typewriter track on the recording HERE for free. BTW that’s a FIRST production (1929) Elton.

Star Tribune baseball glove story by ace reporter Rachel Hutton is the “catch” of today’s edition. That’s my pitch!

THIS IS WHAT SONGWRITING LOOKS LIKE: Messy!

THE AMERICAN GOTHIC HOUSE, awaits the wayfaring typewriter with the porch steps ideal for the Empire 45. It’s small, and the red barn is gone, but the upstairs window is a ringer. Wood rambled through Iowa country so do we always in EXTREME mode. Photo: LSK #americangothichouse

I AM NOT A VETERAN BUT I HELP VETERANS TELL THEIR STORIES. A program I started enabled Veterans to do that. We wrote songs about what was important to them. For 5 Years no Veteran in the group was lost to suicide & their songs live on. If you have not heard them all, stop by.

MAN ITS GOING TO BE QUIET AROUND THIS CITY. I CAN’T THINK OF ANYONE IN MY CIRCLE that escaped the attention of Tony Glover, Dave Ray, and John Koerner. The reason why is that they were so open to every songwriter and music whether their musical tastes or not.

“Robert Capa Goes To Iowa” opens; “The Lincoln Highway runs coast to coast/But your camera knows the shot and here’s your story/Roll up the driveway park under the trees/It’s an Iowa-80 farm and here’s the family” (Mello-Jamin Music-All Rights Reserved) #iowafarm #magazine #1940s

“TYPEWRITER TUESDAY”: “Platen Stories”—Created on typewriters (Antares Parva) with thought-provoking adventures of the greats #188. Portrait Photo: David Scherman/LIFE/June 7, 1944/Weymouth, England #lifemagazine #DDay #robertcapa #photojournalism #photojournalists

“TYPEWRITER TUESDAY”: “Platen Stories”—Created on typewriters (Hermes “Baby”) with thought-provoking adventures of the greats #187. Portrait Photo: Painting by Charles Gogin/National Portrait Gallery/London

“TYPEWRITER TUESDAY”: “Platen Stories”—Created on typewriters (Hermes “Baby”) with thought-provoking adventures of the greats #186. Portrait Photo: Tribute Archive 🇨🇦 #Novelist #canadian #victoriabc #idajohnson #truestory #britishcolumbia

“#EXTREMETYPING. ARE YOU #ANOUTDOORTYPE After #TROUTTYPING in Toronto (they showed up) with Jon Finkelstein I went back across the border in ‘22 where I grew up. Now the fields are someone else’s and my favorite creek hideout is overgrown, but all I dreamed there happened.

#EXTREMETYPING ARE YOU #ANOUTDOORTYPE Predating Stonehenge, Jeffers Petroglyphs—a sacred site (No closeups shown) on prairie rise above a road. Wind blown blades of grass seem to point out the drawings in the rock. The People who made them seem to have just left— Photo: LSK

“TYPEWRITER TUESDAY”: “Platen Stories”—Created on typewriters (Antares Parva) with thought-provoking adventures of the greats #185. Portrait Photo: Rob Verhorst/Redferns #csny #Byrds #woodenships #harmony #teachyourchildrenwell #laurelcanyon #california