Hey Fast Heart Mart fans! I hope this message finds you well! If not, blame whoever downgraded the term "fan" to a pejorative term. I find "fan" to be a term of endearment and I'm very grateful to all of you who are still on my mailing list :)
Touch Of Grey
Well, as we all know, Bob Weir of The Grateful Dead has passed on musical heaven. I've been playing "Touch Of Grey" on my banjo since the pandemic started. It is a song that has gotten me through many a rough times. For real, this song has been a salve to my most deepest wounds and I am very "grateful" for it.
Florida Trip Feb. 4-17 
I'm heading down to Southern Florida for a couple weeks. If you have any connections to places for me to play in the Florida Keys, please let me know. I'm really only lacking one date, Friday Feb. 13th, but I am open to cramming in some other gigs on the dates I already have booked. Go to www.fastheartmart.com/shows to see all the shows I have lined up so far.
Gigs This Week 
Some of you will be relieved to see that my blue banjo is back in action. I painted it white for the holidays, but now it's time to get back to the blue.I did the "Touch Of Grey" video two days before painting my banjo back to blue, so that's why I'm playing a white banjo in that video.
All gigs are here: www.fastheartmart.com/shows
Podcast/Livestream Ep 96: Dry January
In case you missed my last livestream/podcast, it about observing Dry January; when you abstain from alcohol or weed or anything else during the month of January. I slipped up twice so far, but I had good excuses for that, as you'll hear on the livestream, but for the most part I am doing very well. I like to detox a few months out of the year.
Anyways, that's it for now.
"Fast Heart"
San Diego, CA
Jan. 23, 2026
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