Early August Update: Transitions/Tour Dates/New Songs
Sweltering summer greetings to you– It’s been a productive time, and a time of transition around here–new songs starting to show themselves loud and proud, and a new era around the household begins soon as our daughter Charlotte, 17, starts college in NY this Fall, moving there on the 15th. A time for many many […]
KG and the RNC, NYC 2004
I figure it’s a good time to let go of a small dark secret, now that it’s twelve years later. In the past few days I’ve seen social media hotheads go off on former SNL bandleader/guitarist G.E. Smith for playing at the current Republican National Convention. Some voices of sanity have finally risen above the shaming, calls […]
Meeting Scotty Moore / Big Week of Shows Coming Up
Scotty Moore He passed away this past Tuesday, one of the chief architects of rock n’ roll. I only met him once, after he, Keith Richards, Levon Helm, and others cut a song I wrote with Gwil Owen called Deuce and a Quarter, in the summer of 1996, and released on “All the King’s Men” […]
Posting from back in the back
room, where it’s about 80% chaos. Guitars, amps, records, books, stuff that doesn’t work anymore “but might be worth something” . . . my version of the man cave/storage unit/writing room, as of now. Been fooling around back here late at night, (not) writing songs, recording some covers very informally (we’re talking cell phone voice memos […]