Tag: Music
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Two solo shows in Durham
It’s always nice when friends come through town and ask you to open for them. I’ll be at Perfect Lovers on April 15th, tomorrow, with Roman Angelos and Scivic Rivers Then I’ll be at the Pinhook in Durham on April 30th opening for LAKE and Joyero After that no shows planned as I’ll be working…
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Folk Implosion East Coast and Midwest Dates now finalized…
Well, it’s been a while….I don’t think we ever did a tour quite this consistent actually. Come on out! There are ticket links to all the dates that still have tickets in the shows and events page of this website – except St Louis, which I can’t find a link for as yet. The room…
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Love in the Time of Capital vinyl now available through Bandcamp
If you would like to support your local brick and mortar record store great! You will be able to get this there starting in August but for now advance copies are available only on my Bandcamp page and at live shows. Green Red and White Allright!
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Top 40 Over 40.34: Cecil Taylor Live in Berlin 1988
There are many impressive creative accomplishments in this series on artists making first rate albums over 40. But no one will ever match what Cecil Taylor did in 1989,at age 59: put out 11 incredible albums recorded the year before. Now granted, they are all live sets from a one month long festival recorded in…
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Listening to.2: While Whirling by Frantz Loriot
The viola is a beautiful instrument but not often a surprising one. Not so here. I know very little about this record, but I do know that it explores the viola in ways that are unusual but aesthetically successful and fully developed. It reminds me of textures from electronic music, which it may be influenced…
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Gnawing on the Bone now available!
The upcoming releases section of this website has felt a bit like a closet in need of cleaning out. That load has lightened as of yesterday with the digital release on Bandcamp of Gnawing on the Bone. This is an instrumental project that was written in Watertown MA in 2011 in one sitting as a…
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Top 40 Over 40.25: Wise Intelligent
Even rarer than artists making great records after 40 is those who are able to do so in quick succession. Back when I was high school, Hüsker Dü released New Day Rising and Flip Your Wig only 8 months apart. It’s hard to imagine young bands doing that in today’s post-internet crash music economy, let…
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Band that Rocked the Cradle
You can see video of 7 songs from the debut set of the live line up of John Davis & The Cicadas here. This show took place on August 3rd 2015 at Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro, NC. Our next show at the moment is booked for October 24th at Union Hall in Brooklyn, NYC. I…
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Live on Radio Tomorrow Night @ 8
Brice Randall Bickford and I will be having a joint appearance on WXYC 89.3 FM in Chapel Hill tomorrow night, (August 2nd) from 8 – 9 pm. We’ll both play 20 minute live solo sets and chat with the DJ for 20 more in advance of our double bill at Cat’s Cradle on Monday 8/3.…
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