Crying Like A Man

Having just booked seats to see Joseph Arthur at the City Winery in New York this March (during our first trip to NY/America from the UK), I decided to check out his official site to see what's happening in the world of Arthur.  There's no news on there of the new solo album that's coming out at some point this year, but there was this link to some awesome live videos recorded recently for KEXP at the Tiple Door in Seattle.

During his recent West Coast solo dates he has been joined on stage by Peter Buck of REM and Ben Harper, but the most special thing about these shows has been how he has been supporting the relief efforts in Haiti.  At each show he has been painting live on stage and auctioning the painting off at the end of the show with all proceeds going to the victims of the earthquake in Haiti.  Bids have been starting at $500 and a painting has sold every night.

Here's a video of one of these live paintings.  I would have loved to have seen this live, I never expected him to be singing and painting at the same time.  Roll on March and the City Winery show.