August 2009
9 posts
BFF
The good people over at the Boston Folk Festival have posted my bio and photo up on their site. I may have written the bio myself. It may include the title of my new record. I may be more interested in this information than anyone else.
rough neighborhood
Did I see The Wallflowers a week ago and forget/not get a chance to write about it? Yes, yes I did. “The Wallflowers are still around?” you ask. “Is this a new band that took that old band’s name?” “Do you mean you spent last Friday night at an awkward high school dance?”
Get some education, kid. The Wallflowers are still going, and that fact poses...
An interview with Gillian Welch from July 11, 2009. Very conversational but very interesting. Best part: Gillian reveals that she and David completed a David Rawlings Machine record last month and began work on a Gillian Welch record.
if Shelburne Falls, I'll pick it up
Do you love small towns? The kind with closed down gift shops and dying street lights that buzz over a sparsely populated downtown? Do you love quiet? Then Shelburne Falls is the place for you.
This is not meant to disparage Shelburne Falls, by the way: what once was a tourist stop on the Mohawk Trail seems to have become a quaint Berkshires town that this past Saturday hosted me at one of its...