Going to Lexington this Friday morning for a session. It’s time to stop with the bluegrass and try my hand at a couple of not-remotely bluegrass tunes, including, I think, the new “Slave’s Day Off” tune. Look for more posting later today.
Most amateur songwriters have one fear (or hope) in common: that somebody is going to steal their songs and make a ton of money with them.
Michael T., LIR’s producer, got back to Lexington on June 12 and emailed me, requesting the next opportunity to record. We settled on June 16. I put “Railroad Man” and “Year Of The Comet” on the docket.
In between scheduling a recording, I got in a couple of jam/practices, which helped keep my fingers working. The […]
I made another trip to Lexington to talk with Wil Freebody and Michael Thomas and flesh out the operational details of the upcoming venture. Wil wound up spending his morning with a potential student and his parents, so I talked with Michael Thomas, gave him a CD of seventeen songs I had recorded some four […]
After we had been playing “Somebody’s Walking On My Grave” for several months and found that the other musicians who had begun to come around liked the song, I decided I needed to document the song - record it. As it happened, the owner of the Lexington School of Recording Arts / Long Island Recording […]
It all started with a walk through a 19th Century family cemetery in the eastern part of Jefferson County, Kentucky. In the middle of the cemetery was a concrete pad holding parts of a half-dozen or so tombstones that had been scattered by a tornado that struck the area in April, 1974. The added inscription […]
Michael Price and I have been getting together once or twice a week for nearly two years to play music. At 55, Michael had decided to learn to play the acoustic bass in order to be able to jam with his musical friends. He had given up on trying to get us to play with […]