Messin’ With The Music Part 1 – It’s Gonna Be A Long Night

Time has a way of passing us all by. Blink and another year passes. Close your eyes and who knows when you’ll wake up……  I felt that I was in the creative equivalent of neutral for a few years. Lots of ideas, not a lot of execution. So at the end of 2017 we decidedContinue reading “Messin’ With The Music Part 1 – It’s Gonna Be A Long Night”

For Your Listening Pleasure

I had the pleasure of seeing The Steel Wheels at the Musikfest Cafe in Bethlehem, PA on September 9th. One of the best shows I’ve seen in a long time. The band is an amazing group of musicians playing riveting and fun Americana. I’ve always loved listening to a variety of different styles of musicContinue reading “For Your Listening Pleasure”

Strings For Spring

Well, spring isn’t here yet (at least in the northeast) but the sun was out today, it was over 40 degrees (whoooo) and daylight savings time has begun. All in all as close to nice weather as it’s been around here for quite some time. Spring turns a young persons fancy to…….acoustic instruments (it alsoContinue reading “Strings For Spring”

More Les

Leave it to Les Claypool. How many bands is that man in? He always seems to be looking for something new to do, and here’s the newest thing – Duo De Twang. A down home bass and guitar duo mining the Americana stream. So far they’ve pretty much stuck to covers, some from his bands,Continue reading “More Les”

What Do These Two Things Have In Common?

Well, if you’ve seen this title before, you know the answer – usually nothing. Anyway…. Some ‘Recent Listening’. Of course for me that doesn’t necessarily mean brand new music. I’ve taken to a lot of older ‘Americana/Rock’ lately. I love the looseness, the ’emotional content’, the space of the instrumentation, great vocals. So I wentContinue reading “What Do These Two Things Have In Common?”