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Get Devi to the Crossroads Festival!

To help us get onstage with Mr. Eric Clapton, hisself, just click the photo to go to our Play the Crossroads profile. Add your name to our Supporters List and share the songs and videos we've put up on the profile on Facebook, Twitter and anywhere else you like to hang out. Oh yeah, we are doing this.

Boob-A-Palooza! March 16 in Asbury Park

DEVI and THE ASTER PHEONIX PROJECT are hitting The Wonder Bar Saturday March 16 for BOOB-A-PALOOZA – Rock for the Cure – Benefit for Avon Breast Cancer Foundation!! Facebook Invite Come rock out with Jersey’s best female-led bands as we raise money to banish breast cancer for good! Over 150 tickets have already been snapped up – this show will sell out! Tickets are $10 - PAYPAL TICKET LINK This show was organized by THE ASTER PHEONYX PROJECT and will be hosted by Jersey City poet/comedian BETH ACHENBACH. Devi and The APP are gonna jam together at the end of our set on "Runaway" and I'm accompanying Beth on a special version of Bon Jovi's "Wanted: Dead or Alive"! Doors open at 5 pm at The Wonder Bar in Asbury Park. The concert kicks off at 6 pm and goes til 1 am with a great lineup plus raffle prizes including two tattoo gift cards valued at $200 and $150, a free motorcycle riding class, 3 months worth of music lessons, a pair of Met's tickets in the SkyDelta Box, a signed bass from The Aster Pheonyx Project and more. Lineup: BONNIE BOLAND – 6 pm VIRAGO – 7 pm CHRISTINE MARTUCCI – 8 pm GOODBYE AMY – 9 pm THE ASTER PHEONYX PROJECT– 10 pm DEVI – 11 pm JON AND THE JONES – 12 pm The Wonder Bar 1213 Ocean Ave (5th and Ocean) Asbury Park, NJ 07712 (732) 502-8886

Debra Devi at Tachair Books

[caption id="attachment_3417" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="photo by Beth Bentley"][/caption]Downtown Jersey City is the most communal place I've lived since I left NYC's East Village years ago. And two of the most supportive, loveliest people in town are the mother-and-daughter owners of Tachair Bookshoppe, Carol and Aleta Valleau. I recently did a concert/reading there for The Language of the Blues and the vibe was so warm and welcoming. So were the free coffee and delicious chocolate cookies. Thanks to everyone who came and asked fascinating questions, too! Please continue to support this independent, family-owned Jersey City gem. Read all about Aleta and Carol in the JCI article Tachair Books Hoping for More Live Performances.

Why Are The Blues Called “The Blues”?

Why are the blues called "the blues" anyway? This is just one of the questions I had that compelled me to write The Language of the Blues: From Alcorub to Zuzu. Want to find out? Read my latest for The Huffington Post. "Why is blues music called "the blues"? The name of this great American music probably originated with the 17th-century English expression "the blue devils," for the intense visual hallucinations that can accompany severe alcohol withdrawal. Shortened over time to "the blues," it came to mean a state of agitation or depression. "Blue" was slang for "drunk" by the 1800s. The link between "blue" and drinking is also indicated by "blue laws" that still prohibit Sunday alcohol sales in some states..." click here to read the rest!

Just. Be. Love.

I had the most beautiful dream last night. I was desperately searching for a lost dog along a beach when a cardinal began flying alongside me. At first I ignored it but then I realized I was ignoring a miracle. I stopped and turned and the bird also stopped in mid-air and turned to face me, hovering. I held up my palms as if to bless it and incredible love and joy in the form of energy came pouring out of the center of my palms toward the bird. I could see every detail in his tiny face as I stood there and he floated in the air. His black eyes, his yellow beak, the crimson feathers laying against his head. Don't worry about the dog, the dog is fine, stop chasing whatever runs from you. Stand still, open your heart and just. be. love.