Nov
4
or: I learn to channel my inner Marilyn
For the third year in a row, I’m going to be the Artist Wrangler/Associate Producer for the Bubbles in the Think Tank record about records for Record Store Day 2014.
Oct
25
As a “thank you” for donating to the band’s Pledge Music campaign to help fund their album, Shawn from Golden Bloom created this Valet-icized “Thank-o-Lantern” and posted it on Instagram.
There’s still plenty of time to donate to their project – check out the campaign and consider giving – who knows, maybe you’ll get a “Thanks(for)giving Turkey” next month!
Oct
22
photo by Rich Borden
This one is long over-due. Back at the end of August we took the Philharmonette on the road to the Hudson Valley in New York for shows at two of our favorite venues out that way, the Peint O’Gwrw Tafran, a Welsh tavern in Chatham, and Musica, a musical instrument store in Hudson.
Our good friends Denise & Rich setup the shows so that we could meet a very special man, George D Brantley, who was in the area for about a week. George recorded two singles with his brother Billy back in 1968 under the name “Van & Titus” – George was “Van”/Billy was “Titus”. One of the four songs they released is a fantastic number called “Cry Baby Cry”, which came to Chandler’s attention by way of Christine Ohlman, “The Beehive Queen”, who found the record in a yard sale (or thrift store or something like that) and re-recorded the song as a duet with Dion on her album “The Deep End“. We’ve been performing the song off & on for several years now, and I just love singing it.
Apr
5
I’m the Associate Producer and Artist Wrangler for the second annual Record about Records for Record Store Day to be produced by the ever-embiggening staff over at Bubbles in the Think Tank. This year’s edition is “Eponymously Entitled” and we just started taking advance orders for the record over at love.bubblesinthethinktank.com
That’s right … “record” … real vinyl … 7 inches of it, in fact. Last year we made a purple record, “The Petite 7 Inch Record.” This year we did something completely different. We made a clear record.
Oct
18
Just weeks after getting a chance to sing with the fabulous Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby at a house party concert in Woods Hole (they asked me to sing some harmony vocals on “Goin’ Back” to close the evening’s entertainment), I got to sing with another great songwriter & performer, Ray Mason. My friend Belinda of Bubbles in the Think Tank captured us on video:
If you get a chance to see any of these fabulous performers in concert or buy their albums … DO IT!
Oh, and please invite me along.
Jan
10
Ever since I found out that Tom Ardolino died, about 1am Friday night/Saturday morning, I’ve been trying to come up with words that convey my appreciation and love for the man.
Tell Me About It!