Nat Myers - update and entry

 NEWS from the Wards

Nat says:

"Since yall seemed to dig here’s some more lines of Red Devil Blues. I’ma laughing-to-keep-from-crying by nature, so when my hair fell out, I thought about who had the same size head as me & give me a wig.

But truth told I wasn’t alone. I had so many hands to help me. My friend Carol quit her job cuz God told her to come tend to me. She held my hand in the hospital every day, and when the ifosfomade nearly drove me crazy & I wanted to pull the needle out of my port & jump out window, she kept me calm as much she could. I am strangely nostalgic now for how the light poured into that hospital room as she played solitaire while I tried to work thru blind boy fuller’s songs. Whenever I hear fuller I’m taken immediately back to that room. With her there I thought the eyes of god was on me. And so many friends and family. I am alive because I had yall.

Lately my sickbed ain’t been kind to me. I been riding my pain like a bull leaper, but when I try to duck, it catches me low, when I try to jump it knows how high. Pain surrounds me like a circle round the sun. I can do bout nothing but take it. When pain is constant you have to ride it like a swell. And try to get to livin in between the hurt. So I continue to heal, too slow for my preference, but heal all the same, schemin like the young artist in my loneliness, exile, and cunning. My birthday is the day after Black Friday. Turning 36. I was born in the year of horse, beneath the stars of the centaur sign. Life was always gonna be movin fast for me.

What yall think, Maybe I should release this joint?

Be well. I’m slow to respond these days but I read bout everything and can’t thank all yall enough for the encouragement"

Nat’s Facebook page here ya hear

Love this and young Nat is so strong and full of life . . .do check him and his struggles out when you can and especially if you dig that sound as much as I do!