hide my mood in the bright and blue

Yet another triumph for the good folks at American Laundromat: Joe announces that the Sisters are releasing Say It With Fire on iTunes, including a whale of a bonus track -- a rereleased, remastered, remixed, re-whatevered version of the greatest song in the universe, "First Bridge of Summer." Peter Katis is doing the production honors at Tarquin Studios, just like in the old school Caulfields days. So you know it'll be good.

I've already explained in all-too-exhaustive detail why I love this song so much, so let's just say this news makes me happier than Dick Cheney armed with a loaded double-ought and a bellyful of Maker's Mark.

Hey, while we're plundering the Caulfields archives, any chance we'll ever see "Shackleton" again?

In separate (though, I hope, not totally unrelated) news, Laundromat is doing another of those cover-compilation thingies -- Cinnamon Girl, featuring women doing Neil Young songs. No idea if the Sisters will get involved, but right now my imagination is going wild thinking of Cindy's voice on "The Needle and the Damage Done." (I can also envision the Sisters doing a wild version of "Rockin' in the Free World" or "Crime in the City," but the list doesn't include anything after 1979.) Naturally, there's a MySpace page for all this.

No idea when either of these projects will see the light of day, but I'm hoping they'll come out before the nuclear war.