Happy fall!!! At least technically. It’s still pretty hot here today. But it is the start of fall. I have no idea what that means. I’m headed to Texas this week, to the Southwest Regional Folk Alliance Conference (or SWRFA, if you’re feeling hip). It should be three days of not sleeping, playing music, hanging … [Read more…]
If Darrell Scott played guitar in your band at a club show on a Saturday night, everyone who heard it would swear he was the best guitar player they had ever heard. If he sang at that gig, they would swear he was the best singer they had ever heard. If he played his songs, … [Read more…]
Howdy all you interweb folks. I hope you and yours are having a good start to the New Year. I was traveling with my family on New Years, which was a great way to ring in 2018, and I’m just getting back to musicland this week. To start, I got to see American Aquarium at … [Read more…]
Well, either spring has sprung early or Climate Change is gonna kill us all. Maybe something in the middle…who knows. I’ve been writing songs and messing around with synching audio with video, in the hopes that I’ll be able to kick out some videos this year with higher sound quality. I’m not there yet. I … [Read more…]
Out with the old, on to the next. There’s been a lot of 2016 bashing going on, and I can’t entirely disagree. It had its shitty moments. We lost Prince, Bowie, Princess Leia, Merle Haggard and Guy Clark. To name a few. A lot of people I know and love had a tough go this … [Read more…]
Man that went quick, didn’t it? I guess it always does. Did some traveling this summer. Did some music. Did some fun summer stuff. Now the weather is getting chilly. Really, this morning was downright cool. We were out east for the first half of July, and while staying in Provincetown, at the very Eastern … [Read more…]
So it’s release day. If you didn’t know about this before landing on this post, all I can say is you are remarkably free of the disease of social media, because I did my best to get the word out. We’re doing a show tonight at Oskar Blues in Lyons. I’m hoping to see a … [Read more…]
Hey- it’s Tiny Desk Time! I’m filling the sadness at the passing of Couch by Couchwest by watching Tiny Desk videos. No idea what that is? Tiny Desk is a music series on NPR, and they have an online contest where you send in videos. It lacks the twitter fed witty banter and barroom vulgarity … [Read more…]
Whoa! This post is really by way of a great big thank you. David McIntyre, Lyons local and Americana and roots music connoisseur, was kind enough to spin a track from the record this morning at Boulder station KGNU. He played “The Ballad of Kentucky Slim” on the Morning Sound Alternative this morning. If you … [Read more…]
Here’s another song from Dirt & Heartache for you to check out. That’s John Macy making the pedal steel guitar sound so fantastic. He’s one of the few people on the record who doesn’t live in Lyons. He came all the way up from Denver to lay down these tracks. He really helped make this … [Read more…]