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Category Archives: Americana
Just a Couple of Kids
he youngest smallest smartest kid in my High School classes was tough. In the middle of 1st grade, they moved me to 2nd grade in the little 2-room country school I attended. Volga and Range both had 2-room school houses, … Continue reading
What if the Light at the End of the Tunnel is Just the Headlamp of an Oncoming Train?
fter repeated listenings to Cream’s Born Under a Bad Sign a few years ago I went to my music room to play around on my bass. Rather than trying to copy Jack Bruce’s bass line, I played what it made … Continue reading
The Voice of the Story
he first time I watched Princess Bride I didn’t enjoy the song over the closing credits. Somewhere around the eleventh viewing I realised I was humming it through the whole movie. Mark Knopfler knows how to compose a soundtrack, eh?
Posted in Americana, blues
Tagged Mark Knopfler, William Elliott Whitmore, Willy DeVille
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Standing in the Lonely Light of the Silver Moon
usic tends to be visceral, skipping past our filters, needling its way to the real stuff inside. Michael Nesmith does this to me more than most musicians. Listening to ‘Silver Moon’ right now I am struck, once again, by how completely his early solo work affected my perception of music. To this day, nearly all my songwriting is aimed at crafting my own Joanne or Silver Moon. Continue reading
Middle Cyclone and the Mockingbird
npredictability seems to be Neko Case’s goal. Middle Cyclone is a cohesive package, no worries there, but until the last song rolls by, you cannot know what’s coming next, sometimes even in the same song.Mockingbird to the Morning is the song that gets stuck in my head; especially the moment in the second verse where she leaps to a note a full octave higher than you expected, then again coming out of the instrumental break. Continue reading
Brand New from Old Lost John: Broken
ave a listen to Old Lost John’s Broken.Love love love the horn, the saw; the whole arrangement. This sounds like that time I thought I was dreaming, then I thought I woke up, but I wasn’t sure either time. Continue reading
FAWM Over. We Win.
ebruary Album Writing Month is officially over for 2009. And I officially won.Which means I wrote or co-wrote at least 14 songs during the 28 days of February. (You’ll see on my FAWM profile that it lists 19; it’s actually only 18 because one is listed twice but I don’t want to lose the comments on my original post.) Continue reading
Posted in Americana, blues, country, folk, jazz, rock, rockabilly, swing
Tagged Joel D Canfield
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Handmade & Homespun
nd speaking of the ubiquity of independent music, I’ve teamed up with 13 fellow singer/songwriters I met at FAWM and we’ve just released Handmade & Homespun—Premium Quality Americana. Handmade&HomespunPremiumQualityAmericana$10Direct from the Artist Handmade & Homespun is a collection of 14 songs by 14 artists covering slices of Americana from almost traditional folk tunes to fairly assertive rock with stops nearly everywhere in between. Continue reading
