Saturday, January 15, 2022

Two Months to Go

It's a good feeling. Design, layout, proofing, and final tweaks to my new trail running guidebook are complete and it is officially off to the printers now. Release date is set for just over 2 months from now, and advance hardcopies should arrive well before that. So close now. I'm very pleased with how it came out and can't wait to share it with the local Massachusetts and regional New England running and hiking communities. 


Here is the book's Facebook page on which I plan to post a bunch of cool photos and other media in the coming months: https://www.facebook.com/TrailRunningEasternMA 
(note that this is just a "book" page, not a group or club)

Here are its pages on Amazon and at Barnes & Noble (links open in new windows).

If you're interested, please consider pre-ordering to reserve your copy today and help generate awareness and buzz around the release. You can use the links above or ask a local retailer to order and save a copy. 

Link to an earlier "teaser" post (with lots of pretty pics) from last summer: 
http://benkimballphotography.blogspot.com/2021/07/coming-soon.html 


Seventeen Songs

There’s some writing I need to finish up today, so naturally I spent some time coming up with this totally unrelated list of seventeen favorite new or new-to-me songs I heard this past year: 

YONAKA – Lose Our Heads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOPVsA6Y2-c 

SAM FENDER – Seventeen Going Under
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAifgn2Cvo8 

HOLLY HUMBERSTONE – The Walls Are Way Too Thin (live)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4_lX5bGssY 

HOLLY HUMBERSTONE – Scarlett
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=982QP-10GcE 
(great growling guitar bit)

BELLY – Human Child
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m9u4rp4afQ
(nostalgia factor 11)

GREEN DAY – Dreaming (cover)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32az2CLr6bo 
(Blondie song cover; he does one of “I Think We’re Alone Now” with his two sons, too) 

BILLY JOE ARMSTRONG – Manic Monday (cover)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5qPCKxlw2M 
(with Susannah Hoffs bouncing around like a teenager, and we all know damn well she’s no teenager)

AC/DC – Through The Mists Of Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7-bIFDMSFA 

HAZEL ENGLISH – Never Going Home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgN_OFosKzY 
(also check out "I'm fine" and "Waiting", among others)

SUNFLOWER BEAN – Moment in the Sun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij3FfnVQsWw 

ALVVAYS – Hey 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKMMc_8xaXI 
(also check out "Plimsoll Punks" and "Lollipop" from the same album)

WOLF ALICE – How Can I Make It OK? 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt_TsuBIcGY 
(love the slow build on this one)

TAYLOR SWIFT – All Too Well (10-minute version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRxrwjOtIag&t=214s 
(it’s weirdly good)

ADELE – Easy on Me 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3ASj1L6_sY
(it’s just... well damn if it isn't just really easy on the ears)

MINT JULEP – Some Feel Rain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahcjPAoPwWQ 

LORD HURON – Long Lost
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2JmQ-j0jlc 

PHOEBE BRIDGERS – Steamroller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBgpbiXMfrM 
(“you’re the feeling I get when I’m feeling fine”)