Costa Rica: Dear “-”, thanks for the birthday wishes

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 …

Costa Rica: Dear “-”, thanks for the birthday wishes Read More »

NY state: Border Woes, and One Irish Father You Don’t Want to Mess With: Anais Mitchell and Sarazin Blake tour

12/3/09 Dear Mike, It was great to see you, Ruthy, and Will last week. After we split up, the tour took a turn for the weird. Anais and I missed our gig on Sunday night because of some insane DUI checkpoint at the border, coupled with Sunday night holiday weekend traffic, coupled with a Bills …

NY state: Border Woes, and One Irish Father You Don’t Want to Mess With: Anais Mitchell and Sarazin Blake tour Read More »

Barbara Ellen – acoustic demo #1

[gplayer href=”https://www.jeffersonhamer.com/audio/barbaraellendemo.mp3″ ] Barbara Ellen [/gplayer] 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 …

Barbara Ellen – acoustic demo #1 Read More »

Scroll to Top