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Category Archives: rockabilly
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
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
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Tagged Joel D Canfield
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Over the Moon
oke up feeling like a million bucks on Friday the 26th. Five years ago I wrote a song that featured London Bridge, sort of, so I worked it out on the guitar again and recorded it on our balcony, with the Bridge behind me. Continue reading
Met Two New Bands in Jerome
andered into the hotel’s bar during the CD release party for ‘Los Guys’ who could have a better name, but sounded like Jackopierce and the Jayhawks. Good Americana originals. They all signed the CD. Their bass player was playing a Fender Resonator bass (which, for you musical non-geeks, makes as much sense as saying he was playing Einstein’s gas-engined Mona Lisa.) I didn’t know they existed, but it turns out they made a handful five years ago. It sounded spectacular and when he let me play it it was gorgeous. Of course, the only place I can find one new it’s up to $1,000 and there are no used ones left out there. Continue reading
Little Debbie, Little Debbie
Twang should be a genre all to itself. I’m a sucker for twang. Play way back by the bridge, turn the reverb up to some kind of tape-slap setting, and it might not even matter what the words are.Of course, if the words are about oatmeal pies, pointy boots, quarters and Little Debbie, that’s just fine, too. Continue reading
Then Your Clothes
espite the fact that I still don’t own his entire catalog, I’m saddened by Jude Cole’s apparent decision to record others’ music instead of creating more of his own.This morning as I was taking Russia Saturn to work Jude put a smile on my face with my favorite track off “Start the Car”—”First Your Money (Then Your Clothes)” Continue reading
Heart Like a Train
ne thing I love about blues is that they don’t have to be sad, despite the lyrics. Continue reading
Mystery Train
ust heard the Stray Cats’ (yes, Stray Cats, not Brian Setzer) new single “Mystery Train Kept A-Rollin’”—their first new studio work in 13 years.Delirious fun. These guys not only understand what the old Sun records releases were about, they have the chops to pull ‘em off. Continue reading
Link Death
ink rot is a web phenomenon whereby links from one site to others begin to fail over time due to changes in the target sites.I’m about to introduce link assassination. Since I have to remove all my CDNow links, but haven’t had time to get all the Amazon.com links, I’m going to just kill them until I have the time. Continue reading
