monastery studio

07/10/2024

it's nice to be included. Hamilton Public Library

(and certainly an honor to stand with so many friends and folks i've worked with over the years. Kate Wakefield Linford Detweiler Karin Bergquist Rob Fetters The National et al.)

06/18/2024

05/25/2024

really honored to contribute some guitar playing on this record. i’m thrilled to see fred armisen is enjoying the record. big fan! thanks so much to for inviting me to play on this album.

screen grabs from the lovely video of fred listening to the vinyl by micah gardner.

01/02/2024

“Last year, foolish monk/
this year/
no change”

Taigu Ryokan (1758-1831)

here’s to a delightful, kind, peaceful, ridiculous and musical new year.

11/14/2023

ready to rumble? 11/21. w FREE 8-10pm

10/27/2023

working her musical vocal magic on some new songs. (w very special guest.)

10/15/2023

fun night w and Aaron Jacobs. thanks for packing the house and making us feel so welcomed!

10/10/2023

hey! i’m coming in from the garden to play some music this saturday night w Aaron Jacobs and a very special guest vocalist! sets at 7pm and 9pm!

07/13/2023

taking the old GS to the Great Smoky Mountains for few days. first time w the hitch. so convenient and only adds about 50lbs to our Dog and Pony Show. how is it i’m here when and and are all out of town?

06/13/2023

06/05/2023

photo

05/09/2023

05/08/2023

#1176

05/05/2023

03/13/2023

session w in feb. photo by

03/03/2023

I always say that i'm not gonna jump on the bandwagon, memorializing dead rock musicians. And every one I know is sad at losing Wayne Shorter. I never met him and he had a good run and a good end (so it goes.) But today we lost a lithe spirit, a sprightly monster of a player.

David Lindley will probably be best remembered for his expressive lap steel playing with Jackson Browne. He played the outro solo of "Stay" and most people don't know that he sang the high falsetto part at the end. We played a show or two together and he and I spent a day tooling around Cincinnati together with his road manager, Kong (another story, another time). We hit the music shops but he was most excited to visit House Of Adam, where he could stock up on his trademark polyester suits and pointy shoes. Man! he loved that store!

He told me so many secrets! some i won't share, but a couple of them still make me smile. We shared a love a weird, modified instruments (we neither of us have the gene for respecting "vintage" instruments too much. we'd change parts to make things playable, but he'd shout in a passable Jamaican accent "NO RUININ', NOW, none of that!" He told me that he used a Magnatone Lapteel on the Stay solo (people think otherwise) and that his tweed deluxe has the silver vox ac-30 speaker that we both loved. My favorite memory was him saying" Now, when you go to a guitar show, what you do, grab an empty case and make sure your wife sees you leave with it. Now, when you come home, it might be full, but she'll never know!"

then he'd flash a most impish grin.

we'll not see his like again. I hardly knew him and still I miss him.

farewell my friend.

02/21/2023

a day in the life #1176 #

05/10/2022