A week or so ago my old school buddy Jeff was in Seattle for a few days and brought over a DIY CD by fellow classmate Marla Sgro. It’s been years since Marla and I graduated high school in West Virginia; we were both involved in the school’s musical theatre program (she played Maria, I played Max Detweiler — ah, nevermind).

Turns out Marla is still around and has been busy recently. She’s putting out her first CD “A Pocketful Of Nails” via CafePress, has opened for Elton John and John Mellencamp, and even did some music for Nickelodeon. She’s sort of carving out a niche as the local KT Tunstall-meets-Sheryl Crow of the Three Rivers area, which is awesome.

But mostly I was blown away by the serendipity. I kept turning Marla’s CD over and over in my hands — a CD not much physically different from those first 50 or so copies of Where I’ve Been that I burned, printed and assembled in my basement — thinking NO WAY!

You can listen to some audio samples at Marla’s MySpace page.

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