This guy Aaron and Nick Chaput, the gods of Dana St. Roasters, took great care of us tonight - a really enjoyable show in a room that really is made for music. Standing and watching him roast beans and discuss their crackling journey was a lot like being in church. These guys are the real […]
You could check out the Claremont Folk Music Center, Niki, the cool gal who interviewed us, and her videos/blog here: http://nikispeoplemap.blogspot.com .It's nice to see people doing things like this!
Here you are outside the lovely forest studio where we spent the day recording tracks with our lovely protagonist Pete Coates for some kora and guitar tunes for the new record, toasting our poor pea-brains with the effort! It was delightful. The other night we had a good show at Steve Key's songwriters at play […]
This is part of the backstage in one of the coolest buildings we've yet had the honor to play. I began to hyperventilate the moment we entered the Folk Music Center and saw the walls covered with glorious and strange instruments - Pipas, cornemuses, koras, about everything your imagination could handle. Char said the sensory […]
Turns out it was in Kingman all along!
LA bound. As the sun was leaving us in the dust today near El Malpais (West of Grants), we found a little moment of solace with the moon. The kind of solace you need as a human even if you don't know what hurts. Char played the pipes by the empty roadside and I walked […]
I was feeling mildly guilty/furtive as I unloaded the gravel I raked out of my garden into an arroyo - too cheap to dump it, plus it just seemed wrong to cram a landfill with rocks! This sky was a gift for the dawn traveler on a surreptitious mission. I'm feeling the pangs of gig-booking […]
A cool showcase in SLO hosted by Steve Key - really felt the crowd and the community in the Steynberg Gallery. Affirming to hear some great songwriters and share our stuff - here was a fun one. Thanks to the amazing Inga Swearingen for the video.