Old friends (bookends)

Some days I like to check in on old college friends' blogs, and so I was following Baratunde Thurston's ascent as a liberal comedian, whereupon I chanced upon a link to singer/songwriter Mieka Pauley's site. Good to see she's still singing, and apparently doing well... I met her way back in '02, when she opened for Glen Phillips (formerly of Toad the Wet Sprocket) and did this awesome version of "Angel From Montgomery". Such a talent - she's got the guitar chops of a folk singer, but she can belt it like a soul singer.

Mieka Pauley MP3s - try "The Way It Is".

Comments

Indri said…
I dated Phillips' brother for about three weeks once. He is also a musician. Somewhere around here I still probably have his demo tape--I mean, I have everything else.

He dumped me.

Then he dated my friend Yvonne for quite a bit longer (I'd introduced them) and she eventually dumped him. Ha!
27 July 2005 at 04:41
Daryl said…
You dated him for three weeks and you have everything of his? Wow.

And it's fun to see the dumpers become the dump-ed.
28 July 2005 at 01:43
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