Almost too cool

As I sit here on the couch typing with Val next to me, there is a band rehearsing next door; why is that so cool? Well, our next door neighbor is musician Jim Whitford, and the band rehearsing is for his house guest, Peter Case, who performs Friday, October 7, at the Sportsmen's Tavern, and who just finished singing "A Million Miles Away," and is now singing "Two Angels" from Case's recently rereleased "... Blue Guitar" CD (Whitford's former band, the Pine Dogs, covered "Two Angels"). Along with Case singing and playing harmonica and Whtiford playing bass, Mark Winsick is playing guitar and Rob Lynch is on drums.
The band has also run through several blues songs, and at this point, Val has left the couch and is now sitting in our sun room, whose windows are nearest the room the band is performing in. "Oh, wow, I don't know how I feel; this is the most voyeuristic thing I've ever done," Val, a photographer for about 20 years, just said. Yeah, but when it sounds this good ...