More work with "The Trail of the Dead" , another epic tune from Conrad and the gang. For this tune Producer Mike McCarthy, assisted by Munyon, had me on another strange bastard kit... Not unlike the kit I was just recording with at home for ZeeGrass... except ZeeGrass is gentle rockabilly brushing while Trail is slamming like Questlove meets Bonham.

It also seems like all roads lead to Russia these days. Trail is heading there in couple weeks, followed by Zee, followed by Tuner (with special guest SiRenée). I'll certainly be doing the Tuner dates and possibly some ZeeGrass dates but can only lend moral support for the Trailers.

 

Check out my new myspace page for tour dates and other nuggets.



Unrehearsed live radio show on KUT at noon on Weds Feb 22 with Zeerok, the wierd and wonderful Russian Altprogrockabillie singer songwriter.

In the studio today putting drums on a track for the mesmerizing Azam Ali .

And we now have a video clip at KTU myspace site . . .more to follow.

NEW Download:

As a preview, there is an edited excerpt of a new TUNER album track called "hole in the floor".

 

Will be posting some TUNER out-takes here:

www.myspace.com/tunertunes

More soon!



Tuner workshop/gig in North Austin at ACC Northridge campus in room 4136 (the lecture hall) in the 4000 building of the Northridge campus. The campus is located on Stonehollow and Metric Blvd., just about a half mile north of the intersection of Braker and Metric, a major intersection.

Weds Feb 8th at 7pm



Been whizzing along pretty fast here in the new year.

 

Back tracking, after coming home from recording with (every drummers dream) Tony Levin I had the privilege of being joined in my home studio by the worlds most phenonmenal rollerskating brid-punching thereminist Pamelia Kurstin . Last year I met Pamelia in NYC while touring with the CGT and then months later I grabbed Pamilia off an Austin bandstand, when she came through town touring with Barbez, and we started my newest duo (tuo?), Tunisia. Yes I literally took her from the stage to my home after her gig and we recorded from about 3am till about 10 am when i returned her to the Barbez bus for there departure to the next gig, after that she moved to Europe and has recently come back to America for a few weeks. If you have not heard Barbez I can highly recommend them. Pamilia's 'sleep over session' was a good start but this past week we had 5 days together and got 6 more songs flushed out... We hope the Tunisia CD will be done by summer.

Here is a taste of our first collaboration, our untitled late night after show ditty.

A few days after Pamelia left Markus arrived for the second round of work for the next Tuner CD. Besides arriving with a suitcase (if you have been reading my site you might remember the Airlines have lost his luggage on every trip) Markus brought back incredible vocals he cut in Austria with Sirenee - its such a pleasure to edit, arrange and compose around her voice.

This Saturday Markus and I will join Laura Scarborough for a gentle gig at Café Mundi in Austin and then next weds Markus and I will do a master class at Austin Community College (don't tell the students but I’m a little nervous about doing music in an academic setting).

Also with help from Markus I launched a KTU myspace page where we hope to soon begin posting KTU videos. Check KTU here:

www.myspace.com/ktuband