Thanks to Joelle Jaffe for shooting and editing this clip from the Freight and Salvage, March 2009. We’re going into the studio today to make Laura’s new record.
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I do. He’s sleeping upstairs, but not for long. He’s also my stepfather, so I feel a certain license to go play my fiddle in his bedroom if he’s not up and ready by 5:15. Anyway, my point is that I’ve been spending a lot of time over this Christmas Break (can I still call it that even though I’m not in school?) working on this website. Wordpress makes it easier, but there’s still been lots to learn. I’m looking forward to having it to a level of completion which allows me to stop thinking about for a bit, rest easy knowing that it’s up, functional, and not embarrassing, and get back to the dirty business of making music, which is hard enough. Then again, maybe I’ll switch careers and become a professional blogger. That’s an easy road, paved with gold bricks, right? I like this poem. It’s like a sexy sea shanty. O Best of All Nights, Return and Return Again How she let her long hair down over her shoulders, making a Beginning on Jan. 3, I’m going into the studio to record Laura Cortese’s new album. I can’t wait to record with her. She’s a powerful musician, a dear friend, and one of my closest musical collaboraters. Over the last year, we’ve played shows in the Northeast, California, the Pacific Northwest, the U.K., and Denmark. This recording will highlight some of the music we’ve been playing during that time, as well as some new material. I’ll write more as I know more, but the in-studio band is going to be superb. Jake Silver is the bass player. I first met Jake at the 2007 High Sierra festival when he was playing with the Mammals. More recently, I’ve played with him in the Tao-Rodriguiez Seeger band, and on the demo recordings of Danish singer Lukas Graham. His musical feel, arrangement ideas, tonal sensibility, and technique are superb. He’s also a pretty righteous dude. We’ll also be playing with legendary drummer Dave Mattacks. I don’t even want to list his resume in this post, because it would be grossly incomplete (let someone else do the research), and would open be up to accusations of shameless name-dropping. I will say that Dave was the drummer for the late-60’s / early-70’s Fairport Convention albums Liege and Lief and Full House, as well as much of Richard Thompson’s catalogue. Wow. I can’t wait. Share:
allo -, thanks for sending me birthday wishes. your Hanukkah candles warmed my Gentile heart. I had a border-crossing birthday. I went to an organic food store, bought a really nice bottle of wine, some Humboldt Fog, some French yellow-blue, some Dubliner Irish Cheddar, some Keifer semi-cultured goat’s milk, some olives, some sourdough, some wine glasses, a wine key, some organic uncured pepperoni, some organic uncured ham, some 87% cocoa Dagoba chocolate, and we had a picnic on the ferry to Victoria, BC. PATRICE, HECTOR, and I have become good friends, and we talked about love and sex and music and swindlery and relationships and great-expectations unmet and low-expectations exceeded. They once had a love affair, and I find it interesting to watch how old lovers take certain liberties with each other, like snuggling. HECTOR was hogging my snuggles. That’s OK though, because PATRICE and I have a purely professional way of interacting and snuggles would just complicate things. Plus, she’s married. Since you and I aren’t really in a band, it would be OK for us to snuggle sometime. Remember when you showed me your sexy underwear? I’m in Costa Rica. People down here take forever to do anything, and internet is hard to come by. The only way to live is to show up with a pile of money and plan on spending it all on booze, drugs, and yoga. FLORENTINO and I were commissioned to play a party and this guy- PLINY, who was born with a golden spoon shoved up his ass and is completely clueless about most things- didn’t have an amp for us. We were out of ideas until the day before the party, PLINY told us he looked into the sky and saw a gleaming cross sillouhetted against the hot afternoon sun. He heard the sound of electric guitar, and knew that God had sent him to this church at this time to find the only guitar amp in the province. He showed up the next day with another full PA system (we already had one, but still no amp). He acted surprised that we were surprised. He served his guests peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and put out a tip jar for the musicians. This guy is worth about $20 million USD. 12/3/09 The next day, Sarazin and I drove to Olean, NY, where we played a gig at a Mexican restaurant, apparently renown for their shark tacos (menu says: ‘that’s right… it’s shark!’). I didn’t try them. Anyway, the promoter for the gig was a 15-year old girl named ELLA who met Sarazin on MySpace and set up the gig for us. We were supposed to stay with her boyfriend, but it turns out he’s 27 years old and when her dad found out about this whole affair he threatened to kill the guy. It also turns out that her dad spent 15 years in a Belfast prison under charges of conspiring with the IRA in some kind of paramilitary activity, so the boyfriend was probably wise not to show up at the gig, even though his teenage girlfriend was playing an opening set, and it probably broke her heart that he wasn’t there. Anyway, Blake and I decided against spending the night with a wanted man, and went to the local bed and breakfast. We were the only occupants. We talked them down to a half price rate, ditched our bags, grabbed our guitars, and had a lovely evening drinking free whiskey and singing Irish songs at the local pub, where, it turns out, ELLA’s dad works as a bartender. Share:
Barabara Ellen – solo acoustic demo
Here’s my version of the classic ballad “Barbara Ellen.” I recorded this at my Brooklyn apartment using a Neumann-Gefell M582 microphone with an M7 capsule for the vocals, and an RFT Gefell PM-750 for the acoustic guitar. A Grace Design Lunatec V3 preamp and DA converter was used into Pro-Tools. Reverb is supplied via a standalone Fender ‘62 Spring Reverb tank. Thanks to my friend Ryan McGiver for helping me record this song. Share:
http://www.bouldertheater.com/event_detail.php?id=1224 Here is the description from the Boulder Theater website: ERIK DEUTSCH “HUSH MONEY” CD RELEASE PARTY Pianist, composer, arranger, teacher, producer—these are some of the faces Erik Deutsch has shown the world. An intensely creative and talented player, he has the ability to lend his sound to an impressive array of musical endeavors. Guitarist, singer, and songwriter Jefferson Hamer started out on the Colorado and West Coast festival circuits, first with the original acoustic trio Single Malt Band, and later in the electric country outfit Great American Taxi. In 2008 he moved to Brooklyn, NY, and now plays with an A-list of folk, pop, and traditional artists including Anais Mitchell, Tao Rodriguez-Seeger, Reed Foehl, and Laura Cortese. His solo shows are typically performed on electric guitar, lending an explosive, full-spectrum sound to his original songs. Jefferson’s only solo release, 2004’s Left Wing Sweetheart, earned a 4-star review from Marquee Music Magazine, who wrote it “sounds like a forgotten Gram Parsons release suddenly discovered.” Best known as a member of both DeVotchKa and the Denver Gentlemen, accordionist/violinist Tom Hagerman recently released his first solo album, The Breakfast Playground. Named for a children’s playground at a Denver mall, the album showcases Hagerman’s diverse talents through original instrumentals performed almost entirely on his own. Like the music of DeVotchKa, Hagerman’s songs have a dramatic, cinematic quality, inviting listeners on a journey. |
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