About 18 months ago I moved onto Main Street in Catskill, a small, blue-collar town in Upstate NY, where discarded Newport Lights cigarette packets are the garbage of choice. When we arrived, there was a sense of a town in the throws of re-imagining itself. There were art galleries, an organic chocolatier and coffee house, and a small but growing NYC ex-pat community in search of space and cheap rent. But about a year ago, that changed. Here on Main Street (unlike Wall Street) the canary started to sing rather loudly, and as the dream dissolved, so went the delightful salted caramels. So when the news broke last week that we have in fact been in a recession for the last a year, it was met with a dark and knowing chuckle. I was inspired to write my own song for the Holidays - Winter In The Catskills, a holiday recession song.

The wind may be blowing cold, and the prevailing mood one of panic, but if you live in NYC, please come take a small break from it all at Cantinero's Better For The Metaphor record release/holiday shindig:

Zebulon Cafe Concert - Monday 15th December 9PM
258 Wythe Ave, Brooklyn NY 11211

For more information or a free download of this song go to www.cantinero.com.