On Aug. 15 I had another opportunity to jam with my good buddy Donovan Frankenreiter... if you are not hip to his music get with it on the double he is cool and a great singer songwriter... oh yeah and his band kicks butt as well!
After the set on the big stage we went over to do a live radio broadcast and started playing the song you can check out here...
The crazy part is after the intro to the song you can hear some music starting in the background and see Grundy and Me look to our right... on an adjacent stage the rap group Cyprus Hill was starting their set and it was f**king LOUD! You can see us looking at each other and laughing at the insanity of it... us with 3 acoustic guitars and MEGA BASS on all frequencies in the background... it was a great day!
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Well after 2 years of sneaking in new ...or should I say new / old material into my solo shows I've finally carved out some time to return to Nashville to start recording a new solo album. I have to say that after "1000 Miles of Life" I've got the bug and I got it bad ! I just love working down here among such gifted and talented musicans and in a community that lives and breaths music.
The theme of this recording is " the songs I loved when I was a kid " ... by that I mean stuff by Chuck Berry, Elvis, Curtis Mayfield, Ray Charles, Mississippi John Hurt and more... there will of course be a few origninal squeezed in there or I wouldn't feel right. One of the originals will be a nice surprise for all you hard core H&O fans.
The band, as usual, is stellar. I'm co - producing this with Big Mike Henderson, a legend among hard core blues fans and currently playing with the Steel Drivers ( one of my favorite bands ). Mike is one of the baddest slide [...]
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Daryl Hall:
To say that I am shocked is the ultimate understatement. T-Bone was my musical brother and losing him is like losing my right hand. It’s not if I will go on, but how. T-Bone was one of the most sensitive and good human beings that I have ever known. And, I can truly say that I loved him.
John Oates:
His character was pure and his unique and quirky personality touched everyone he encountered. His musical sensibility was peerless, any instrument that he touched resonated with a sensitivity and skill level that I have never experienced while playing with any other musician. He possessed an encyclopedic knowledge of styles and musical history which he referenced to support all the artists that he played with over the years. He became our band's musical director over time leading by example and by the deference and respect that everyone who played alongside him so rightfully accorded him. He made everyone he played with better. So many times when I'm working on a musical passage [...]
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