12/29/22
Working Gal Rock and Roll Poet: I'll Bed On Me
Working Gal Rock and Roll Poet: I'll Bed On Me: I don’t make my bed in the morning and tend to wake after eleven well, when it darkens on the outside and inside as I stall turning on...
12/13/22
new poem at Working Gal Rock and Roll Poet: Everybody
Working Gal Rock and Roll Poet: Everybody: my stepmom organized diminished leftovers so bowls of all sizes found melting and melding with her stews and sauces of veggies and...
12/11/22
Kathy Zimmer’s “Extremist” on All Streaming Video
Kathy Zimmer’s song and music video “Extremist” is out on all streaming media including on
The digital link for “Extremist” streaming on platforms like Amazon, Apple, Spotify is https://bit.ly/3VBPCi3.
Bandcamp fans can listen and download
“Extremist” at kathyzimmer.bandcamp.com/track/extremist.
The song, which declares, "You make me happy AND depressed," is about the love and hate in relationships. "I was looking for a simple way to bring different visual extremes together in one video," says Kathy, "and we opted for the day-night quick edits that you see. Kind of a stark difference to go from bright daylight right into moonlight, and back again. It may even be a little disorienting, which is exactly right! The video was filmed on my rooftop on the lower east side of Manhattan."
The production was helmed by cinematographer Alex Levin, who has worked with major brands including Nike, Conde Nast, RedBull, NatGeo. He says, “I believe a good story deserves to be told no matter the scale.”Kai and Victoria Vallas-Cullen edited “Extremist.”
Kathy’s an indie-pop-singer-songwriter for fans of artists like Kacey Musgraves, Phoebe Bridgers, Weyes Blood, Maggie Rogers…. A resident of New York City, Kathy Zimmer is a native of rural Nebraska. Her original love of acoustic guitars and tight vocal harmonies was the product of being raised in a large musical family. In school, Zimmer studied classical music, her education culminating in a master's degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music.
Rock n’ Reel Magazine has declared Kathy as the “latter day Joan Baez.” The Roots Music Report proclaims, “At various turns enchanting, haunting and soothing—and at times a bit of all of these—Ms. Zimmer’s sophisticated song crafting never fails to charm.”
EXTREMIST
Everybody
needs a little balance
A kiss from heaven, kick from hell
A proper love and a shadowy dalliance
A swimming pool, and a deep dark well
All things in moderation
Sweet and sour, this and that
A little virtue, salacious temptation
A puffed-up ego and a trip and fall flat
But you make me happy and depressed
You are nothing in the middle
My own personal extremist
One moment, I’m on top of the world
Tightrope walking, I can see for miles and miles
Next minute, cut me down to size
A wrecking ball
You capsize me
Night is dark and day is light
Don’t know to expect love or a fight
I open up to snap back shut
I can’t figure out, what do you want?
C 2022/2023 by Kathy Zimmer, BMI, Zimmer, Katherine Louise, All Rights Reserved
*www.kathyzimmermusic.com* ~cosmopolitan folk in your ears~
12/8/22
Jann Klose & Alicia Madison - Love You The Most (Official Music Video)
One of the songs I'm promoting this week. #LoveYouTheMost #JannKlose #AliciaMadison
#PopMusic #LoveSong #NewMusic #Anthem #Duet
12/2/22
“Harry Chapin,” the Song by Doctor Fish
Appearing on the Forthcoming Renaissance Records Debut, “The Last Troubadour” Produced by David Kershenbaum
The
song is the first single off Doctor Fish’s album, The Last Troubadour which
will be released this February 2023.
Harry Chapin” is a story song about young Doctor Fish singing a weekly gig at a folk music club. Each night, Cathy the waitress badgers him to sing a Harry song. When he finally asks, “what she hears in Chapin's tunes,” Cathy responds, “you’ve got it backwards, kid. It’s what I hear in you.”
Indeed, Doctor Fish has similarities in his voice to the late activist songwriter. Like Harry, he pens story songs. Harry’s son Jason calls the song a “great tribute” to his father. Jen Chapin, Harry's daughter, and a singer-songwriter herself, will share mass media interviews with Doctor Fish in support of Harry’s birthday this December.
Superstar producer David Kershenbaum (Joan Baez, Tracy Chapman, Tori Amos, Joe Jackson) produced The Last Troubadour. The album features bassist Leland Sklar (James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Carole King), drummer Denny Fongheiser (Heart, Counting Crows, Shawn Colvin), and top studio musicians from around the world.
Doctor Fish is a real doctor, with a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from the University of Michigan who created a thriving program of study for students of popular music at CATAWBA College, in Salisbury, North Carolina. Now living in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Triangle of NC, Doctor Fish is pursuing his interrupted dream as a storytelling folk-rock singer-songwriter.
Doctor
Fish grew up playing saxophone in Tucson, Arizona, and pursued jazz through
college at Western Michigan University. As a saxophonist, he backed legends
including Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, and Cher. Somewhere along the way,
the doctor picked up a guitar and began writing and singing songs.
11/24/22
Conduit
One of the songs I'm plugging this coming week is Andrew Alling's "Conduit." I'm thankful for redemption and doing the work. https://youtu.be/i6UCdYApnJs via @YouTube #jamband
11/18/22
Fall 2022 Playlist for Covers, Syncs, Radio
I chose Look Around by the Slambovian Circus of Dreams, because it feels like the good people that gave up on public service years ago are looking around, and getting together to work on solutions that will make a difference. This folk rock band is fronted by Joziah Longo. The band has an incredible time at Cropredy this past Summer, and came out as the Festival Favorite.
Dan Berggren, who was my radio teacher at SUNY Fredonia, is celebrating 55 years on the radio. This veteran songwriter's "Free to Read" is midtempo folk with a marching beat, acoustic guitar, bass male vocals, "We need to be free to read." He sings a list of books that have been banned: To Kill a Mockingbird, Beloved, American Psycho, Harry Potter, Diary of Anne Frank.....
danberggren.bandcamp.com/track/free-to-read
I Cry For You by Tony Moore is about Tony's emotional struggle as his mom went through dementia, Sounding a little like Yes' Jon Anderson, the symphonic pop-rock song shares his memories of her both during and before the diagnosis. The former Cutting Crew keyboardist recently co-wrote "Love Never Dies" with Julian Lennon on Julian's new album, JUDE. Tony is currently working on his critically acclaimed one man show and album called AWAKE.
Extremist by Kathy Zimmer is an upbeat & layered indie pop, female vocal about finding balance within the love and hate of a close, person relationship. Her rich alto sings, "You make me happy and depressed" kathyzimmer.bandcamp.com/track/extremist
Robin Lane's new album, "Dirt Road to Heaven" has Americana and Folk stylings. She's been performing this music sincethe 1990s. "Woman Like That" combines Native American roots and British and New England folk stylings, and is about being stalked. Woman Like That | Robin Lane (bandcamp.com)
You Hold My Soul, by Nicole Bacher, explores themes of gratitude and dedication towards her partner for their journey together ... He helped her fight depression. "You made me whole let me be bold you hold my soul." One of my Toastmasters' buddies is a corporate headhunter and wrote, "Great energy and you can tell they are working together so well as a team" and "The song is great."
“Take Your Medicine" by electric violinist/vocalist/prog rocker Joe Deninzon & Stratospheerius deals with hypocrisy. The song confronts a liar and watches him run away "You can never win, take your medicine" A live version of this song is available for radio programmers as it appears on the group's upcoming double CD/DVD/Blu Ray "Behind the Curtain: Live At ProgStock."
11/17/22
Look Around
One of the songs I'm working this week. The Slambovian Circus of Dreams
The story of people coming back from hiding to make things right. #Listen
#ForFansOf Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Elliott Murphy, #ElectricGuitar #TheWaterboys #Americana #SleepyHollow #Cropredy #Americana #syncs #musiccovers
11/12/22
From Anne Leighton PR_New Robeone Album “Dream Suite” 11_2_22
One of my favorite interviews from Newclevelandradio is with Robeone (aka Robert Schindler). They talk about Robeone's new album "Dream Suite" and the The Bob Moog Foundation's work with children. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Izn53ep0LTs New Robeone Album “Dream Suite” 11_2_22 #keyboard #moog #synthesizer #Mellotron, #Kurzweil, #Yamaha, #Roland, #Korg, #Ensonic #RoliSeaboard, #EMU, #AshunSoundMachine
11/11/22
New Robeone Album “Dream Suite”
All Sales Go to the Bob Moog Foundation to Help Educate Children
Robeone, “the Patron Saint for the Bob Moog
Foundation” is releasing a new album, “Dream Suite,” on Transglobal
Records / Orchard/Sony. He’s making it available
only through the Moog Foundation’s website at
bobmoogfoundation.myshopify.com/collections/music. Note well that 100% of all the album’s sales
will go to the Bob Moog Foundation.
“I wanted to pay tribute to my biggest musical
influences--Keith Emerson, Jon Lord and Brian Auger and other creative
masters,” says Robeone, whose real name is Robert Schindler.
The album, “Dream Suite” defines Robeone’s
style that grows from dynamic musical genres as wide-ranging a mix of
progressive rock, new age, jazz fusion, and cinematic genres. “Hollow,”
with its Keith Emerson soaring synth, was inspired by “great film scores.” “All
That Razz” sounds like Gershwin fell in love with artsy electric string
players, and was influenced by both Robert’s father (who loved jazz) and his
favorite contemporary electric violinist Joe Deninzon. The late Swedish Hammond organist/guitarist
Bo Hansson inspired the flowing “Levels.”
“M is for Moog”
is Robert’s “tribute to Moog and all Bob Moog gave to the world. The
composition is all Moog synthesizer,” Robeone says, and he cites the late
Japanese synthesist Isao Tomita, a Moog devotee, for influence on the
recording. Brian Auger and Keith Emerson influence the frisky “Jazzmorphis.” The album ends with an epic musical journey,
“Dream Suite,” with moving symphonic organ parts inspired by Deep
Purple’s Jon Lord.
In addition to the Moog, Robeone uses a range of only
keyboards on the “Dream Suite” album-- Mellotron, Kurzweil, Yamaha,
Roland, Korg, Ensonic Roli Seaboard, EMU, and the Ashun Sound Machine.
Robeone/Robert has been recording since the early
1970s. He’s worked with notables Ronnie Spector and for Johnny Nash when “I Can
See Clearly Now” was a hit. He played
with progressive rockers Mayson on Bearsville Records, pop rock acts The States
on Chrysalis and Boardwalk Records. He’s in the progressive rock group ZOOM
with Paul Landry on New Age Music Planet Records. Recently he recorded with two
different Melodic Revolution Records’ artists Tony Romero’s Vortex and Joe
Mac’s American Garage. He’s played live at a number of Festivals—most recently
ProgStock and RosFest. Robert also worked on the award-winning soundtrack to
"The Fiery Narrows - Following the Path of John Charles Fremont."
Located in Asheville, North Carolina, The Bob Moog
Foundation is an independent 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to
preserving the legacy of Bob Moog by inspiring others through science, music,
and innovation. The Foundation is providing much needed innovative and
effective educational opportunities to children — youth who will become
tomorrow’s generation of thinkers and problem solvers.
“Dream Suite” Track listing:
Hollow
All That Razz
Levels
M is for Moog
Jazzmorphis
Dream Suite
Physical copies of “Dream Suite” are available at
bobmoogfoundation.myshopify.com/products/robeone-dream-suite
Digital at bobmoogfoundation.bandcamp.com/
11/10/22
You Hold My Soul - Nicole Bacher
You Hold My Soul - Nicole Bacher
One of the songs I’m plugging this week. “You Hold My Soul” #Depression #Gratitudes #SouthAfrican #YouMakeMeWhole #piano #ballad
11/3/22
Soldier in the Army of Love
One of the songs I'm plugging this week. "Soldier In The Army of Love" from Blue Largo's Relix Radio / jam band charting album, "Got To Believe."
10/25/22
An Evening with Robin Lane: Songs & Stories at The Beacon Restaurant & Warwick Cinema in Marblehead, MA, Thursday Nov. 17
Join us for an evening of songs and stories from legendary singer and songwriter Robin Lane at the beautiful Beacon Restaurant Live Music Venue and Warwick Cinema in Marblehead, MA on Thursday November 17.
The evening begins at 6 pm with Robin at a meet & greet, complete with appetizers. At 7 pm, the highly acclaimed documentary about Robin Lane, “When Things Go Wrong” will be shown. The Film’s Director (and Chartbusters’ drummer) Tim Jackson, will be on hand to offer his insights.
At 8:30 pm, Robin performs a set of her classic hits and music from her new album, “Dirt Road to Heaven.” Her band this evening features Marblehead's own John Pfister (bass), Peter Hoffman (guitar), Jim Treacy (cajon, drums).
The Beacon Marblehead
is located at 123 Pleasant Street, in Marblehead, MA
01945. On location parking is readily available.
Admission is $25 at the door.
The website is Thebeaconmarblehead.com.
The venue phone is 781-631-0180.
facebook.com/thebeaconmarblehead
From her days growing up in LA with a father who was songwriter and pianist for Dean Martin, to mixing with folk rock stars of the late 1960s and ‘70s like Neil Young, and marriage to Andy Summers, Robin moved to Massachusetts built a band and went on record 3 albums on Warner Bros. as Robin Lane and The Chartbusters. Videos on the new MTV during those years and into the early ‘80s helped launch the band nationally. Robin has championed women’s trauma healing with her Songbird Sings Organization. Motherhood, along with decades of writing and performing have brought Robin to this point in her amazing life. So many stories, so many insights learned and healing shared, so much more to come… This unique evening will fill you with the songs, the stories and opportunity to get to know Robin Lane.
Robin’s new album, “Dirt Road to Heaven” on Boston’s Red On Red Records, has received praises from all over the world. Germany’s MusikReviews says the album’s “songwriting impresses with high quality, the musical implementation is unreservedly enjoyable.” Alternate Root’s Lee Zimmerman cites the album’s “confidence and assurance conveyed through the effort overall.”
British Columbia’s “Go” writes “There is a lot
of life in the songs… a couple of ballads that hit you down deep.” Locally,
Metronome’s Drew McManus calls “Dirt Road to Heaven” “a collection of
American music that rivals Brandi Carlile and Joan Baez.” While Boston Herald’s
Brett Milano says that Robin Lane is ‘still the musical friend who’ll join you
walking that dirt road” or in Marblehead on November 17.
10/20/22
#49 Joe Deninzon — Violin | Know When to Lead and When to Follow
Coincidence? I think not.
Today, as I was watching the video of Joe and Eddie go over their parts in a Renaissance rehearsal, I was thinking about how incredible a band member he is and how much that helps him with his leadership skills. It appears from the description on YouTube that's one of the lessons Dan Spencer brings out in his Best Music Coach interview with the one-and-only band leader and member, Joe Deninzon, who is everywhere!!
10/13/22
Chick Corea’s “Spain,” Live by Joe Deninzon, Rachel Flowers, Alex Skolnick
A live version of Chick Corea’s “Spain”
featuring Joe Deninzon, Rachel Flowers, and Testament’s Alex Skolnick is now on
all streaming media. “Spain” is one of 16 live songs that will be on the
upcoming Joe Deninzon & Stratospheerius “Behind the Curtain: Live at
ProgStock” box set out November 18. (There will be a streaming
digital release of just the live music on October 28.)
The performance will be on video on Friday,
October 14 at 9 PM ET/6 PM PT/ 3 AM Amsterdam time on YouTube at https://youtu.be/t6JPN4FELKc.
The performances on the live release took place
in 2019 and 2021. “Spain” was taken from the ’21 performance. Joe says it was a
spontaneous decision to play “Spain” with his friends, “One of the perks of
being a jazz musician is that you can walk into a room anywhere in the world,
jump on stage with people you’ve never met who may or may not speak your
language, and weave together a spontaneous concert based on a shared musical
language.”
On October 2nd, 2021, when the late great John
Goodsall from Brand X fell ill, Stratospheerius was asked last minute to
headline ProgStock, the biggest prog rock festival in the Northeastern U.S.
Preceding Stratospheerius’ set was the amazing multi-instrumentalist Rachel
Flowers, who recently contributed her talents to the band’s single, “Storm
Surge.” Later that night bassist Percy Jones had a set, which included
guitarist Alex Skolnick, a former member of Stratospheerius. Joe says, “We
decided to play Chick Corea’s ‘Spain,’ a song we all knew well.” Without
any rehearsal, and Alex and Rachel meeting each other for the first time on
stage, they created magic.
Led by electric violinist/vocalist Joe Deninzon,
who has been called “The Jimi Hendrix of the electric
violin,”Stratospheerius have showcased their “frenzied mélange of
progressive rock, jazz fusion and funkabilly” throughout the world. Band
members are: Joe Deninzon-electric violin/vocals (Bruce Springsteen,
Renaissance, The Who, Ritchie Blackmore, Trans-Siberian Orchestra),
Jason Gianni-drums (The Ultimate Queen Celebration, Trans-Siberian
Orchestra, Rock of Ages, Neal Morse Band), Michaelangelo Quirinale-guitar
(Thrilldriver), and Paul Ranieri-bass (Mark Wood, Circuline, Rock This Town).
Their last album, Guilty of Innocence hit
number 4 on the Relix/Jamband radio charts, 72 on the European Indy charts.
Their music has received over 3 million plays online, and the band has opened
for John5, Martin Barre, Gary Hoey, The Levin Brothers (Tony and Pete), Tim
Reynolds, Mickey Hart, Mark Wood, and John
Scofield. Stratospheerius was a winner of the John
Lennon International Songwriting Competition, and the Musician’s Atlas
Independent Music Awards.
10/8/22
Elliott Murphy New Album: “Wonder” Autumn 2022
“Wonder” - the newest album by internationally acclaimed American rock singer-songwriter (and long-time Paris resident) Elliott Murphy – is available now on all streaming platforms (Spotify, Deezer etc.) as well as a limited edition of CDs. “Wonder” marks Elliott’s first studio album of all new original songs since “Prodigal Son” (2017) and contains a truly inspired collection of 12 musically eclectic songs accompanied by that endangered breed of stylish lyrics (urban, poetic, personal, literary …) that have been associated with Murphy’s work for nearly 50 years.
“Wonder” was
primarily written during the forced period of introspection brought on by the
COVID confinement. It was produced by Elliott’s son Gaspard Murphy (a successful
producer in the French music world in his own right) in Paris at Question de
Son and Murmure Studios. The album features Elliott’s long time guitar virtuoso
musical partner Olivier Durand as well as Australian Melissa Cox (violin) and
Alan Fatras (drums) along with an impressive list of guest musicians and
singers.
Elliott, himself, takes
stock of where “Wonder” fits into his nearly half century career: “If my
early albums can be described as expressions of youthful energy, hope and
dreams, I would have to say that as I enter this later chapter of my career, as
evidenced in the songs on ‘Wonder,’ my words now tend to incorporate
buried memories that rise to the surface of my consciousness like once sunken
ships, crewed by musical references that even surprise me: Little Richard,
Robert Johnson, Tina Turner – even the iconic American TV talk show host Johnny
Carson. All these ghosts (and more) make appearances on ‘Wonder’ as well
as assorted pop cultural references that baffle me such as ‘My Own Private
Idaho,’ which, of course, was a B52s’ hit in the 1980s. But since a
troubadour’s job is to spread the news, you can even hear a mention of Better
Call Saul a favorite TV series of mine. Musically, you might say that these
days my inspiration is all over the map; although I’m still faithful to those
folk-rock sounds and chord progressions which shaped me at the time of my first
album ‘Aquashow’ (1973). I also think there’s an undeniable bit of
French chanson and even Steely Dan type jazz-rock on ‘Wonder.’
Rhythmically, I decided early on that I wanted a strong percussion element and
thus you’ll hear congas, maracas and a host of other percussion instruments
grounding the songs and giving cool flight to the lyrics. And with all the
Motown I listen to, it’s not surprising that ‘Something Consequential’ might
recall an almost Marvin Gaye-like romanticism of which he was truly the master
and I am, at best, his earnest student.”
As most of these songs
were born during the dark opening days of the COVID pandemic when confinement
became an enforced reality we had never before experienced, loneliness naturally
is a pervasive sub-theme of “Wonder,” reflected in various
manifestations not only in the titles of songs such as “Lonely” and “The Lonely
King.” Elliott uses “Loneliness as a kind of existential meteorologic metaphor
in “Raindrops” and “Hailstones,” referencing when the Corona virus seemed as
unstoppable as a hurricane.
Despite the life
challenges, Elliott’s approach to writing is still optimistic, “But inevitably
there is hope to be found in our fragile yet resilient human condition not only
in ‘Hope (In Your Eyes)’ but also in the afore-mentioned ‘Something
Consequential’ where romance springs eternal. ‘Sunlight Keeps Falling’ may be
the only fully pre pandemic song on the album as it was written as the theme
song for an as-yet unmade film about a beautiful girl who jumps from the Eiffel
Tower right into the arms of a guitar maker.
“So, as I sing in “A
Lack of Perspective” (perhaps my own favorite off “Wonder”), I’m going
back in time to find what I’m looking for… Thanks so much for accompanying me
on this musical journey!”
ELLIOTT MURPHY - WONDER
(MURPHYLAND ML0011CD)
1. Hope (In Your Eyes)
(Murphy)
2. Sunlight Keeps
Falling On Me (Murphy / Durand)
3. Bystanders (Murphy /
Durand)
4. That's The Scene
(Murphy)
5. Children of Children
(Murphy)
6. Raindrops (Murphy /
Murphy)
7. Something
Consequential (Murphy / Durand)
8. Lack of Perspective
(Murphy)
9. Lonely (Murphy /
Durand)
10. Hailstones (Murphy)
11. Lonely King
(Murphy)
12. I Know There's A
Place (Murphy)
10/5/22
“Stance” by Tabi Haly Singer-Songwriter, Motivator, Disability Rights Advocate
“I’ll be out of luck if I choose defeat, so I'll keep fighting for me," sings Tabi Haly in her song “Change Coming my Way” on her new album, “Stance.” She is a singer-songwriter, motivator, and advocate for disability rights. The Tribeca Citizen wrote “I am not sure I have met anyone quite as driven as Tabi Haly.” Dealing with muscular dystrophy since she was a child, the 38-year-old singer-songwriter embodies Winston Churchill’s famous quote, “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
From advocacy and asking for help to creating music, Tabi’s telling stories of her triumphs and challenges. Her songs, especially, include her reflections of living with M.D. on “Stance,” the follow up to her 2019 release “I Wrote Life.” “Stance” will be on all streaming media and digital stores on October 15. That’s the 10-year anniversary of her first show ever, which was in downtown New York City. Tabi will be performing on Tuesday, October 18, at 6:30 PM, at Bar 135 in Tribeca, downtown NYC!
“Each and every song is about standing up for myself and yourself in different ways,” she says. The title cut is about standing up for yourself in a toxic relationship, as is “Ain’t Got Nothin.” The jazzy “Elements,” was inspired by her priority of standing up for her values during the covid pandemic.
“Threshold” and “My Story” share the people on her side. “Move A Muscle,” which is about the power of collaboration, “I invite you to take part and do what you can Move a muscle with me, or watch ‘til you understand that I can do anything.” Tabi’s eclectic range of empowering songs runs from the blissful jazz “It’s Right” and the R&B chords on “Live It Up.”
“It is because you take the feeling of being an outcast and wanting to help others.” Tabi’s song, “I’m a Child” will resonate in different ways to people that have contended with able-ism and exclusion. New Jersey rock band Corevalay’s leadsinger Phil Barbetta is a touring musician in a powerchair. He and Tabi duet on her love song, “Except to You” with the lyric, “It always hurts to be different except to you.”
Born in Houston, TX to a Filipino-American parents, Tabi’s father introduced her to music at age 3. She started singing to keep her lungs healthy, and by high school was writing songs. After moving to the New York City/Putnam County area at age 17, Tabi studied music and mathematics at Pace University, and graduated summa cum laude. She found work as a software engineer at JP Morgan.
She’s always been in a wheelchair and now is barely able to move her hands. To write, Tabi uses a mouse, track pad and music software to compose, and sing into a microphone. After her demo is ready, she collaborates with one of her musicians (Fabian Caballero, Miles Machon, Michael Bunin, and Austin Deyo), until the songs are produced with Russell Castiglione.
Tabi belts and then croons her songs.
Her style spans many genres: R&B, pop, rock, folk, jazz, blues,
country, and dance. In addition to introspective and sometimes “cut-to-the
heart” emotional lyrics, and wide vocal ranges. All of these help Tabi
write about her experiences on all kinds of love, and her life, as well as what
it’s been like to be different.
10/1/22
Robin Lane “Dirt Road To Heaven”
“No one forgets the first time they heard Robin Lane; it's like losing your virginity,” writes Peter Felcknor, a long-time superfan, upon hearing Robin’s new album, Dirt Road to Heaven, out today-August 12, on Red on Red Records. The album’s theme, writes Boston Herald’s Brett Milano “is she’s still the musical friend who’ll join you walking that dirt road.” He loves the album’s inspirational range of music: “Country on ‘Rodeo Clown,’ rockabilly on ‘Hard Life,’ full-throttle Byrds on ‘Sunshine Blue Skies.’ There’s also a couple of shiver-inducing ballads that show her ever-increasing warmth and range….(and) a few helpings of sly humor (see ‘Last Cute Minute’)."
CBS TV/Sirius XM’s Bill Flanagan told Robin, “I think it might be the best record you’ve ever made.”
“All I’ll Ever Need” is the album’s music video. It features couples being happy together while Robin sings in the recording studio with her band and in New England’s beautiful outdoors.
Dirt Road To Heaven is a collection of Americana music that sounds great alongside artists such as Brandi Carlile and Joan Baez. Robin’s motto of “Music is my healing tool” has paved her uniquely uplifting “dirt road to heaven” process from the get-go. Her journey has become even more effective and powerful, locally and globally, this century.
Peter is one of many fans that have been into Robin Lane since “we saw this petite blonde live in a NYC punk club” when she was touring behind her rock EP, When Things Go Wrong in the early 1980s.
The daughter of Ken Lane, who wrote songs for Dean Martin, and a mother who was a fashion model, Robin grew up in Los Angeles. She was part of the music community in the late 1960s. In Laurel Canyon she collaborated with members of Crazy Horse and sang with Neil Young on "Round and Round (It Won't Be Long)" on his album Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere.
After a
two-year marriage with future Police guitarist Andy Summers, in the late 1970s
Robin left LA behind, and moved to Boston. She formed Robin Lane and the
Chartbusters, integrating punk and new wave with West Coast folk, and East
Coast rock. Their three albums for Warner Bros. were Robin Lane and the
Chartbusters (1980), the live EP 5 Live, and Imitation
Life (1981). The rock radio-charting song “When Things Go Wrong”
became the 11th music video played on MTV on its first broadcast day in
1981.
In 1985, Robin
started performing solo, at European festivals and opening for artists
including Warren Zevon, John Hiatt, Taj Mahal, Tim Finn, Dave Mason, Steve
Earle, T-Bone Burnett, Richard Thompson. She accepted the Boston
Music Award for Outstanding Female Vocalist in 1988. In 1990 Susanna Hoffs (The
Bangles) recorded Robin's song "Wishing on Telstar" for her first
solo album, When You're a Boy. Robin also sang on the album.
In 1996, Robin released the album Cat Bird Seat, which showed her evolution into a subdued and (at times) “country-fied” sound that her super fan describes as “the angry machine that was the Chartbusters.”
After a 2003 reunion Chartbusters’ album, Piece of Mind, Robin released solo albums: Out of the Ashes (2011), The Sweet Candy Collection (2011), and A Woman’s Voice (2013). In 2010 Robin founded Songbird Sings, a Shelburne Falls, MA-based organization dedicated to helping people work through and recover from traumatic experiences by writing and recording their own songs.
In late
2021, Robin signed with Boston’s indie label Red on Red Records, which supports
strong women creators. Label owner Justine Covault is honored Robin’s with the
roster, “Robin writes unflinchingly honest songs that reflect the light and the
dark in the world. Her voice is distinctive and gorgeous. When she plays and
sings, the audience is spellbound.”
9/29/22
Lack of perspective
One of the songs I'm plugging this week. Uptempo. #TimeTravel #Perspective #Honesty #Courage #FutureShinesBright #ALotToLearn #Discern
9/22/22
9/19/22
The We Remembers to Stream Caffe Lena Concert Sept. 22 through Sept. 29
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9/13/22
Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 Joe Deninzon & Stratospheerius Plays The Ganja Grail Festival
Joe Deninzon & Stratospheerius return to Harry’s Hill for two shows at the Ganja Grail Festival, in Starks, ME.
On September 30, at 7 PM, the group plays the main stage.
Then, on Saturday, October 1, the group performs at
“high” noon!
Harry’s Hill is at 45 Abijah Hill Rd., in Starks.
Weekend tickets $150 plus service charges. When the
Festival starts, tickets will be $175.
$80 Day Tickets are also available online / $100 Day Of
Show.
All tickets include free parking, camping and drinking water.
All Ages.
For more information, please visit www.HarrysHill.net/Ganja-Grail or call: 970-209-1224.
Led by electric violinist/vocalist Joe Deninzon, who has been called “The Jimi Hendrix of the violin,” Stratospheerius have showcased their “frenzied mélange of progressive rock, jazz fusion and funkabilly” throughout the world. Band members are: Joe Deninzon-electric violin/vocals (Bruce Springsteen, Renaissance, The Who, 50Cent, Trans-Siberian Orchestra), Jason Gianni-drums (The Ultimate Queen Celebration, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Rock of Ages, Neil Morse Band), Michaelangelo Quirinale-guitar (Thrilldriver), and Paul Ranieri-bass (Mark Wood, Circuline, Riot Act). The group’s latest release is the live single,“The Prism” on YouTube and all streaming music media, and will be on their CD/Blu Ray, Behind the Curtain: Live from ProgStock due this fall on Melodic Revolution Records.
The group’s recent album, “Guilty of Innocence” (also on Melodic Revolution) broke the top 5 on the Relix/Jam Band Radio Charts, and hit 72 on the European Indie music charts.
Joe Deninzon & Stratospheerius Tourdates Fall 2022
9/30/22 - 10/01/22 Starks, ME Ganja Grail Two performances; Friday Night Sept 30th @7 PM and Saturday October 1st @12 PM.
10/01/22 Newmarket, NH The Stone Church w/ Dark Beauty and Dreadnaught
10/12/22 Kennet Square, PA Kennett Flash opening for District 97
11/05/22 Baltimore, MD Orion Sound with our Melodic Revolution label mates, Kinetic Element.
9/8/22
Fall 2022 Dedicated to Greta Thunberg & Pete Seeger Songs of Leadership
Free To Read Dan Berggren
Dan Berggren’s “Free to Read” is a midtempo acoustic folk song with a marching beat. It celebrates the freedom to read and the value of open access to information. In his comforting bass voice, Dan sings the titles of banned books. The chorus: “The books you choose are someone else’s walking shoes. We need to be free to read."
Launched in 1982, banned books week is honoring its 40th Anniversary this Sept. 18-24 with the theme “Books Unite Us. Censorship Divides Us.” Visit bannedbooksweek.org
danberggren.bandcamp.com/track/free-to-read
Dean Friedman’s upbeat “Ridin’ With Biden” uses
traffic and car honks as part of the instrumental part adorning his cool jazz delivery
of President Biden’s history, and why Dean-himself-- loves to be Ridin' with
Biden" rhymes like "sleepy joe,” and “more decency in his toe than
you know--Honk!!!” Dean’s playing his
first New York City show in FIVE years on October 8 at Chelsea Stage + Table.
What’s a Place Like This Doing in a Girl Like Me? *Val Kinzler’s “What’s a Place Like This Doing in a Girl Like Me,” a finalist in the Open Space songwriting contest, is a “Rocky Horror”-esque women-in-the-workplace survival anthem.
Save the Monarch John Hall & Dar Williams Male & female duet on this hymn-like singer-songwriter song guitar/bass/drums, environment, Monarch, emperor, queen, king--animals with royal names that are endangered species."Save them from us"
What the Fuck is Going On Elliott Murphy Note: Live Recording Rock
Troubadour Energetic and Angry hook, Pounding electric guitar, hand claps in
time to the music, tempo like "one bourbon, one scotch, one beer":
“What the fuck is going on.” song is about the economy. good for the greed
factor. dream of a better world There's one big ponzi scheme all over the
world. They (politicians) must think we're stupid; well maybe we
are" "Mother Earth" Vocals: Tom Waits Lou Reed, Bruce
Springsteen But Jesus Christ, if he was here today, I think
he’d be mad as hell.”
Game of Chicken Joe Deninzon & Stratospheerius Electric violin-driven hard rock. Dream Theater meets Rush meets Styx. "we're heating up as we run out of time." People are deliberately daring one another to play with risk. We're busy bickering while the planet is losing it.
April Fools Michael Veitch singer songwriter,
male tenor, upbeat folk-rock with electric guitar, with pretty eagles-y
harmonies being fooled by leadership in
a most rainy month “behind the curtain lies another strong man. Pick a corrupt event when you have crazy
leaders. *Michael Veitch’s “April Fools” shows the foolishness
a political troublemakers.
Michael and his fellow songwriters from PBS’s “We
Remember: Songs of Survivors” will share stories about writing songs with Holocaust
survivors at New York City’s Cutting Room on September 18 and Saratoga’s Caffe
Lena on the 22.
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