russia saturn

E.E. Cummings meets Bonnie Raitt

erin maeflower

the light of erin maeflower

leading light in FAWM's spyglass
clear and light a feather of glass
shadow and light on Kentucky bluegrass
inner light let the moment pass

like a house on fire; the cat's meow; more red wine—song titles, or mike's music? you decide . . .

crunch that telecaster, son!

so many guitars, so little time. we'll soar into space in zero gravity, we'll twang and squonk, it'll all be fun. join us, won't you?

so who is this charlie cheney fellow anyway?

charlie cheney plays gigs, writes songs, does voice-over work, and creates and markets indie band manager. he's started and sold five companies, recorded and released three cds, written and produced a musical in manhattan (to rave reviews in the voice), and worked as a busboy at chi-chi's.

in the past few years cheney has added "motivational speaker" and "music industry icon" to his resume, and is now a sought-after speaker for music conferences and universities (sxsw, cmj, dfest, fullsail, mpmf, deweybeachfest, bccc, bmi new york, midatlantic mmc, eat'm, and nemo among others to date). he's a veritable one-stop-shop for performing, entertaining, story-telling, songwriting, barbeque ribs, lawn care, and drinking rolling rock beer (yes, you can buy him one, thanks for asking).

frances joined us again, only this time she was conscious. we chatted about haida gwaii and played even more of her music.

singer songwriter, guitar/mandolin/dobro player mike skliar has been doing this a long time. he's good at it. he's witty and opinionated, but gently.

after endless confusion for himself and others, show host joel d canfield interviewed himself this week, and played his roger-miller-esque country rock.

bruce h. mccosar. jazz. melodic, emotional, fulfilling. instrumentals, but lyrical. this is not the kind of jazz you hear in the elevator. this is the stuff that gets stuck in your head.

this week's guest is the queen of collaboration, empress of the fora, that love child of tom lehrer and tom waits, nancy rost. she sings, she plays piano, she confuses people. listen to find out how, and perhaps why.

billy sea is converting the country to, well, country. one of the most common comments on his songs is "don't normally listen to country, but . . . " listen and find out why.

frances slept here.

yes, apparently time works differently in the frozen north, or perhaps it's just alarm clocks. frances has promised to do another show wherein she actually joins us. we have promised not to give her too hard a time about it.

her voice still makes me shiver.

our march 14th guest was errol elumir. my mother would call errol 'a card.' we pretended to be serious. we failed.

we did get to chat with frances, though, and the podcast goes on for 40 minutes. just not about music . . .

our guest on our march 7th show was ross durand. we talked about his upcoming album 'going back out—the hard rain songs vol.' which uses lines from dylan's hard rain's gonna fall as the song title and launching lyrics for each song. played a handful of 'em and chatted with ross about the project.