Pondering Minds

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Ask yourself: but how the heck did it get this way? </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Pondering Minds</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is the multifaceted weird and genre-transcending brainchild of New York-born Austin-based musician and poet Paul Clancy. At once a tale of his travails hitchhiking across the United States in the late 1970s and a chronicle of late-night subway rides away from ten dollar rooms in Hoboken Clancy's memoirs reveal a cross-section of American life and love at the tail end of a freewheeling era. This unique collection of fifty years of songs poems art and original journal entries exchanges the grit of the road for backyard encounters with squirrels opinions about rocks and an exposition on the Problem of Stupid Heads today. Whether you too were a hippie now in search of nostalgia for bygone days or are a budding songwriter or poet looking for inspiration </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Pondering Minds</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> will leave you asking of a former world hidden just a scratch beneath the surface where the heck did it go?</span></p><p></p>