The new album.
Very solo acoustic.
Very slide-guitar forward.
VERY political.
Only available now via Bandcamp:
preacherboy.bandcamp.com/album/ice-ma...
and preacherboy.com
Releases to all streaming platforms May 8.
#slideguitar #AltBlues #acousticblues #countryblues #protestsongs
Very pleased to share that the 244-page lyric booklet for "Strange Birds" is now available via Kindle! (you can also get a free PDF download from preacherboy.com).
KINDLE: a.co/d/0gHRpUPf
PDF: preacherboy.com/lyrics
#Songbook #Lyrics
The new Preacher Boy album, "Ice Man Blues," now available exclusively via preacherboy.com and the Coast Road Records Bandcamp store.
Very solo acoustic. Very slide-guitar forward. Very political.
#ProtestSongs #SlideGuitar #NationalResophonic #AltBlues #CountryBlues #ContemporaryBlues
Surprise! Released a new album. Described by the Rock and Roll Manifesto as "Protest songs, the Preacher Boy way." Exclusive pre-release available now:
Direct: preacherboy.com/ice-man-blues
Bandcamp: preacherboy.bandcamp.com/album/ice-ma...
Writing the companion book for Ghost Notes was a much bigger endeavor than I initially expected. My dad actually described it as "an autobiography in music."
Most reviewers focused on the music, but Blues in Britain reviewed the book, too, calling it "a real artistic statement and achievement.
Dear John,
I already miss you so much. For as long as I’ve been alive, there has been … John Hammond, Jr.
This has been a consoling truth for a very long time.
It’s a little harder to be consoled tonight.
medium.com/no-wrong-not...
#JohnHammond
The Alternative Zen Blues Trial, in action.
Well, if one has to change strings before a gig, I 'spose this ain't a bad place to do it ...
The Moleskine notebook where the lyrics to "New Red Cedar Blues" (from Ghost Notes) were first penned.
#Writing #Songwriting #MoleskineNotebook #SpacePen #Lyrics
Miles Davis - Round About Midnight (Full Album)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i96...
"Because The Night"
Patti Smith
1977
youtu.be/x_ksSEONVyc?...
Sunday morning coffee
John Coltrane Quartet - Ballads
#MusicSky #VinylSky #VinylCommunity #NowSpinning
Old Skool #Audio Stack. #Audiophile
2/5 of these tracks are in my #Top10 most played #PianoImprov pieces
Check them out on #BandcampFriday
3 hours and counting, and then you can purchase—for one day only—the new 10-volume, 96-song Preacher Boy release, and name your own price! As low as $9.60! (reg: $96).
preacherboy.bandcamp.com/album/strang...
Let's do this #bandcampfriday thing, and celebrate some independent music!
This is gonna be fun
Miles Davis - The Complete Live At The Plugged Nickel 1965
#Music #MusicSky #VinylSky #VinylCommunity #VinylCollectors #VinylRecords #NowPlaying #NowSpinning
Captain Beefheart. Huge hero of mine. "Captain's Orders"—on Volume 9 of the new Strange Birds release—was very much written with him in mind. Beefheart aficionados should recognize many of the lyrical references. Stream the track anywhere; here's a Pandora link: www.pandora.com/artist/preac...
Who needs new tricks, when you've got old dogs?
All I'm sayin', is that if any music from Sinners wins a goddamn Grammy, somebody better send the real Preacher Boy over here a lil' ol' statuette. It's the least they could do ...
#TheRealPreacherBoy
Here's a formula: For every $150 you spend on an effect pedal, you should spend $150 less on the guitar, because the more pedals you have, the less the guitar matters to the actual sound.
You can stream it anywhere you get your digital music; I’ve included the Spotify link below:
open.spotify.com/track/37ZP9g...
One song did make its way out into the world, albeit initially not on a Preacher Boy album.
That song was “This Is New York,” and it was included on the soundtrack of “Approaching Union Square,” the debut film from Marc Myers. It’s now part of “Strange Birds” as well, included on Volume IV.
My missus and I were living in Brooklyn when “Demanding to be Next” was recorded, and I was writing up a storm at the time, both at home and on the road. Many of those songs are only now seeing the light of day as part of the “Strange Birds: 25 Years of Demos, Outtakes, and Album Rarities” release.
As part of the tour for the new album, I spent a month on the road as the support act for Charlie Musselwhite—an honor I will always treasure. The picture in this post is a shot of Charlie and I taken at Buddy Guy’s Legends in July of that year.
2004 was a pretty noteworthy year in the ol’ Preacher Boy chronicles.
That year, I released “Demanding to be Next,” which was my first solo acoustic record. It was also debut of my own record label, Coast Road Records, which, at the time, was distributed by RedEye.
If you choose to stay away, I support you. If you choose to come and share in music with me, I welcome you.
This is THE WORK, in the sense of it being part of what it means to try and find the right side of history and stand there in defense of the goodness of people, and in defense of the right of good people to exist in safety and peace.
I know it's a day of "no work," but to me, performing these songs is not work in the sense of it being a job.
and the grotesquely anti-human policies, practices, and institutions they create, leverage, and weaponize.
