Inundation Records

27/07/2024

Durham/Trianglites! Come see Folk Implosion at the Pinhook in Durham tonight! We start at 7 pm with three song solo sets from both of us and then go directly into a couple hours of FI from 1993 to the present day.

28/06/2024

Let's Talk Durham and Let's Talk New York posted an interview with me today in which I talked about some topics close to my heart. Such as: the implosive nature of life under the oldest constitution in the world, love in the time of capital, why I left in 2000, and my commitment to working with the Durham Association of Educators to put our shoulder to the wheel of the movement.

Let’s Talk Durham, is an independent, slightly satirical, stream of interviews with artists, entertainers and culture changers in North Carolina and around the world. We commission local artists to illustrate and photograph for us, thus directly contributing to the local community, especially its ...

28/06/2024

The new Folk Implosion album came out today. For those of you who knew my dad Eric, the second song on the album, The Day You Died, is about his passing. For those of you who share my political interests re critiquing US Empire, you might like the video for the song Bobblehead Doll and the lyrics of the track Water Torture, which is about torture and extraordinary rendition. The label thinks Water Torture sounds the most like the Kids soundtrack, and it is my BFF Dennis Callaci's favorite song on the album. Kudos to Scott Solter for the production, and to Elizabeth Adams for the cover art. https://thefolkimplosion.lnk.to/walkthrume?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR3mONoGQL5EbFk57aj3_Zy1683RrvFUvEUHdMJ8zz9JGFAz9-0-4Juu9tU_aem_fLvoKuqK2pM6vsonns2yVw

Listen to Walk Thru Me by The Folk Implosion.

09/06/2024

I updated my website with links to all the still-available ticket pages for the tour I could find in one place here... Tina Dunn I couldn't find a link for St. Louis?

Hey Folks, Solo shows September 22nd 3 Magnets Brewing Company, Olympia WA. Free show! Folk Implosion shows links are to sites where you can get advance tickets: July 15th Tubby’s in Kingston NY se…

04/06/2024

Some NYC friends have asked me how to get tickets for the Folk Implosion show with The Mona Passage at TV Eye in July. You have to scroll down a ways on the TV Eye website to get tickets this far out, but here's that link in case you wanna make sure and get yours in June. This will be show #6 on our first tour since the 1990's, and it will be an electric duo affair with mixed instrumentation. Hope to see you there!

Looking for Folk Implosion, The Mona Passage on July 21, 2024 with Folk Implosion, The Mona Passage

04/06/2024

Durham friends! Come see my band Folk Implosion play our first ever Durham show on July 27th. This will be the last show of the first leg of our first tour since the 1990's. So we should be in a groove by then after making our way through the beast coast, from Portland Maine to Atlanta and back up to Bull City.

“How the f**k are we going to turn this into a song?” That’s the questionLou Barlow and John Davis have asked themselves since co-founding the FolkImplosion in the early 1990s. Beginning with improvised jams featuringBarlow on bass and Davis on drums, the duo develop their beat-driven popcolla...

21/04/2024

Inundation #008, the long delayed vinyl release of Love in the Time of Capital, has finally arrived at our office. It won't hit stores until August, but you can order it on Bandcamp or pick it up in person at a show this Tuesday in Raleigh! It's John Davis opening for Early Day Miners at Ruby Deluxe, come on out.

07/04/2024

For years, I've had the Emily Dickinson quote "I'm nobody - who are you?" on my profile here. Today I got an email from Christopher Titmuss's list serv addressed to musicians that captures why.

He recommends 5 practical steps to handling the stress that can come along with performing music, and of special interest to me are #2 - "Develop interest in other formations of the self - house cleaner, shopper, friends, family, pilgrimages to the coffee shop, park, trees" - and #5 "Regard everything you do during the day as important as playing the piano."

He goes on to say that "This is the preparation so the role of the musician shrinks in size ... When the view of the self matters less, and your view of the audience, including musicians with whom you play, shrinks, you can experience the full engagement with the art of playing. The playing matters - not the player, nor the listeners, nor colleagues."

Rather than a moral position, to me this is self protection from the trouble I've seen in myself and other musical peers, which can be weirdly acute at times. (Think Chris Bell frantically erasing the master tapes to the first Big Star record after it tanked at the box office.)

The ego highs and lows that come from others regard or lack of interest or disregard of things we musicians do are inherently unstable and can make you feel unstable if you identify with them. Putting those experiences on the same level of importance as non-musical experiences has been a big help to me when I've been able to do it. That's why I rarely mention what I do as a musician in my daily life as a schoolteacher, and why I appreciate the general lack of interest students have in my musical life.

10/03/2024

New York Friends! Playing a solo show on March 27th at Branded Saloon in Brooklyn. Set time is 8 pm for me.

07/01/2024

One week from tonight I'll be playing at Permanent Records Roadhouse in Los Angeles, in the middle of a bill with LAKE and Nic Hessler. Really looking to seeing some old friends and playing songs from my new album Love in the Time of Capital with the folks who played on it. We will also play Jeep Cherokee from Blue Mountains and Spiderweb Butterfly from Take a Look Inside the Folk Implosion, according to our current set list.