Mojo Priest

You'd think that all that Idol chatter below would be enough musical nonsense for one day...but oh, you'd be so wrong...

Some backstory first... The morning after I went to Curtis' show in Portland in late April, I was up and out of my room at the Jupiter Hotel early on a Sunday morning. I think I may have had a bit too much caffeine during the drive up the previous day, so I didn't sleep long. I went into Doug Fir and it was nearly empty--just a (female) bartender and one guy sitting at the bar. I sat down to have a cup of coffee and idly flip through the current issue of Willamette Week. And it was in the WW that I spotted an ad for an upcoming show in PDX by Steven Seagal Blues Band. I swear to you that I thought it was a joke. I asked the other two (since I still felt a bit out of it), "Is this for real?" The guy laughed and said, "Yeah, it's real. I know, I had a hard time believing it, too."

So I'm surfing around today and I go by Jen Is Famous. She's been playing in Boise...and look who performed across the street from her venue. So then I just had to go by Seagal's website. As I commented on Jen's site (comment doesn't show up yet), when you're playing places like "Tractor Tavern" (as Seagal is tonight), I'm not sure I'd call it a world tour. Oh, but it gets better. Here are some photos of Seagal's trip to Japan, where he's seen carrying his man-purse, a vital accessory for any bluesman. But here's the piece de resistance: a 'press video' of Seagal with music clips and him talking about the origin of his album's name, Mojo Priest. (Mojo Priest...snort...) Is it just me, or has this man adopted a faux Louisiana accent?

You simply can't make this shit up.