Hi All

Welcome to our new website and the new blog! It's exciting to have a place to share highlights from past gigs, news about upcoming gigs and more. To begin with, I want to tell you about us and our most recent performance at Hopmonk Tavern Novato.

We're not a "get the sets, memorize them, play them the same way at every show" band. We have more songs than we can possibly play at any one time, and we like them all. New tunes are constantly creeping in. So we have a challenge keeping up with ourselves! Last Saturday, we decided late in the show to pull out the Beatles' "Come Together," which we hadn't played or rehearsed in more than six months. If you know the song—if you've ever tried singing it without looking at a lyric sheet—you know that it's difficult. There is no real narrative, but just a string of bizarre and seemingly random images and phrases. Sometimes I have trouble with it even when we've planned to play it. But somehow or other, all the words came out at the right time and place. And because the song was a surprise, it felt new and fresh to us. The result was exciting. We were all smiles after, as was the audience.

Another milestone from the gig was the debut of Joni Mitchell's "That Song About the Midway." We do it more or less the way many of you probably know it: Bonnie Raitt's 1974 version. I've loved the song since I first heard it, back in the day. I worked it out in E, using my half capo—not the original tuning or arrangment in other words. We slowed it down a bit. In the end it sounds both like the original and like our own. Jean Marie sang it beautifully on Saturday. A keeper.

That's how we roll. Taking songs we love from whatever time period, by whatever artist, and somehow making them our own. And we write about a third of our songs as well. ("What's Anybody S'pose to Do?" is barely out of the box, but we had the crowd singing along on the chorus.) If we're in your neighborhood, we hope you'll check us out for yourselves. We'd love to have you experience Domestic Harmony first hand. And stop by and say hello when you do.