Thomas Kalb's Album

Everybody Wants to Be Dave McKean

Jacqueline likes to ask me questions that she already knows--or "knows"--the answer to. So when she asks me, "What kind of cat is Jet?" (who, yes, is black, and who is named after the Paul McCartney song), if I say something like, "She's a Kitty Cat Cat!" (since I know nothing about kinds of cats) she will act aggravated with me and hiss, "No, she a black halloWEEN cat!" After she'd done this bit a few times, the phrase stuck in my head, and, like a lot of phrases, it turned itself into a piece of a song. Unlike most other phrases that turn into songs in my head, though, it turned into a trumpet song.

Other pieces came into being, and I began to realize that I was writing an album. 

And yesterday I finished it. I think. I'm still hearing some things in my head that didn't make it onto the recordings, but sometimes you just have to say enough is enough, y'know? So I thought I would share it with anybody who wants to share it. And thanks to SoundCloud I am able to do that.

Thomas of Louisville

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