In the end of January, I’ll be doing some out of town solo shows with mah bros from other mos, Up the Chain.
1/26: Clementine Cafe - Harrisonburg, VA w/ Up the Chain and Dogs on Main Street.
and! a show in one of my favorite towns to play music in:
No such thing as “selling out” anymore kids. Maybe it was easier to turn down Mayonnaise commercials when you got handed a million dollar record contract, but hey! those…don’t…exist…anymore. Liked this interview with The Black Keys talking about licensing their songs for commercial use. Change with the times, take what you can get. An true artist that came from nothing can never sell out. Don’t we want the real ones to weed out the crap? Can’t do that by maintaining a voluntary low profile for the sake of bullshit indie cred.
John Vettese of WXPN had me come on the air and do a guest DJ spot that aired tonight. (thanksgiving!) Basically made a playlist of some of my favorite Philly related artists (no way I could’ve gotten them all in). If you didn’t listen to the show I still think you should take a listen to these tracks if you haven’t heard any of them.
1.) Billie Holiday - “Love Me or Leave Me”
2.) Dr. Dog - “The World May Never Know”
3.) TJ Kong & The Atomic Bomb - “The Trail of a Lonesome Hobo”
4.) Leon Redbone - “Lazybones”
5.) Thom McCarthy - “Soul Singer”
6.) Jordan Hull - “Better Judgment”
7.) Levee Drivers - “Tennessee Girl”
8.) Chris Kasper - “Every Now and Then”
9.) Up the Chain - “Here I Haven Meet”
10.) Hezekiah Jones - “Mind Malaise”
11.) The Walkmen - “Louisianna”
12.) Hoots & Hellmouth - “You and All of Us”
13.) Skip James - “Devil Got My Woman”
Enjoy! And thanks to John for having me. Hope everyone had a great thanksgiving.
Photos: Backroads to DC Weekend Adventure.
World Cafe Live. 11/6. Photo: Sarah Hardy.
CAMPING. me, ali, tim and bob singing songs round the fire.
Gene Shay Show. 11/6. with Phil D’Agostino, Kevin Killen, Hezekiah Jones, Brad Hinton, Bethany Brooks, Brittany Ann and Kiley Ryan.
heading to dutch country today with billiam for the second session of songmaking for the next toy soldiers record. last week was awesome, ended up being a free-flow bandification of some new songs i’ve been working on the past few weeks. haven’t ever been this excited to make a new record. long overdue. the band is where it always needed to be and this one feels like it’s gonna be the first toy soldiers record all over again.
the plan is to get a collection of 20 songs or so to fully track, produce, mix, master, and then piece together the record plus any additional mini-records from the songs. recording will start in december and last through january (farewell for a while! this will be a for real hibernation period)
