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Weed And Wine Intro

from Live From Memphis by Pi JACOBS

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    Los Angeles-based singer, songwriter and musician Pi Jacobs is amplifying the concert experience on Live From Memphis, an inventive new album and her first for the Blackbird Record Label that places eight original songs alongside the personal stories that shaped them.
    Recorded with a full band, LIVE at the DittyTV studios in Memphis TN, the project offers a sincere and sometimes funny look at her formative years, her family relationships, and even a few lessons she’s learned along the way.

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Weed And Wine Intro

How does a nice girl, in AP classes, band, choir and theater, who skipped two grades, end up dropping out of high school? There were a lot of reasons, but some of it was where I grew up.

As hippie kids, we saw weed getting smoked, from the time we were born.
Even though it was illegal then, it was a just part of our parent’s lifestyle, like long hair, tie-dyed clothing, communal living, nude beaches, giant pots of rice and beans, and of course, lots of amazing concerts.

So, it was natural that eventually us kids started to get high, and it was fun! Stealing our parents weed and running around the vineyards laughing and stoned in the sun.

My first inkling that weed might have a dark side, came when I started high school, and met the Pot Farm kids. They were different from us “hippie kids”. They came from the far north of Sonoma County, wore old clothes, and sometimes they looked so tired, as if they were 35 when they were really only 15. Occasionally they just stopped coming to school altogether.
A friend of mine filled me in. Their farms were not welcoming places. They had electric fences, guard dogs, and guns, LOTS of guns. Robbery was a daily concern of their lives: robbery of the pot, and robbery of the large amounts of cash that came in.

The wine kids, in contrast, were usually upper-middle class to rich, good students, and popular in school. Us hippie kids were not close with this group either. We envied them their big estates with giant gates and fancy names, and we may not have admitted it, but we also envied how “easy” they had it…. being…. you know… mainstream and all.

So, what do you do, when everyone you go to school with is supported by weed or wine? Well for one thing, it makes it really easy to party. Our parents didn’t notice their weed disappearing (they were smoking it too!). Wine was everywhere and considered “classy”.

Of course, us hippie kids had started early, and by the time we were teens, we considered ourselves experts at getting wasted. We spent our days stoned in cars, and our nights dancing around someone’s living room fueled by stolen

wine, and by 16, I had dropped out. l was on diet pills, and anything else I could get my hands on. I had screwed up all of my friendships. But the worst thing, was that I hated myself – and I was pretty sure everyone else did too. It had quit being fun.

It was a long, hard climb, but eventually, I did get my life back on track, and was even able to finish college.

Looking back, I’m not sure how I could have done it any differently:
The freedom we had, the art, the music, the smell of Sonoma dirt, buds, and fermented grapes, all made me who I am. I can’t regret anything. I love being from this unique place, a land that survives, on getting high.

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from Live From Memphis, track released August 13, 2021

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Pi Jacobs is amplifying the concert experience on Live From Memphis, an inventive new album that places eight original songs alongside the personal stories that shaped them. Recorded with a full band, live at DittyTV in Memphis, the project offers a sincere and sometimes funny look at her formative years, her family relationships, and even a few lessons she’s learned along the way. ... more

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