.the black cd. (one hour and nine minutes) delta punk dobro
recorded live in harvard square sunday june 8th and sunday june 15th 2003 by joe prideaux.
CLICK A SONG TO LISTEN.....
1. wake
up and smell the coffee blues
2. yonder
comes the blues
3. what
a month i had this week
4. love
in vain
5. no way
to get along
6. already
home
7. bleeding
house
8. life's
like a railway station
9. it's
like that
10. get
some blues
11. i can't
quit you
12. in
your way
13. mother
earth
14. blues
for john miller and perri the hobo
there are a couple different versions of the cover of this, but the songs are the same.
REVIEWS OF THE CD ARE AVAILABLE HERE......(or you can go to cdbaby.com and write your own...)
for a while now, i have felt like my dobro playing has been moving at a faster pace than my ability to record it......and so i have wanted to do a live cd which is a straight ahead document of what i do when i play on the street. and that's what this cd is. i'm very happy with the way it came out. it's what i do.
if you have seen me playing on the street, or if you like blues, this is the cd for you.......
there are too many people to thank, but i will make some sort of a list here, starting with the man who recorded it, joe prideaux, who was nice enough to give up two of his sundays and come in to the square and make the magic happen. thanks joe. i'm very grateful. thanks to jon sage who mixed and mastered and even tweaked the final results. thanks to everyone who ever listened, no matter what. thanks to michael mayer, forrest and rebecca cavacco, brian mac, midas and everyone at cobra custom tattoo in plymouth mass., david johnston, blue, unclescam, ari and all street performers everywhere. thanks to belmont reality, sandy, kathy d., jean, marilyn, matt, raj, mahesh, stacey, nancy, john and margaret, joephil, and my friends at garden st., dom, the dina and eddie, paul and mary mena, ethan brown, danny exum, sean starion and everyone at WERS,.....leanne scott at the kendall and matt smith at passim......everyone who lives in the square, and all people who do not have their freedom. thanks to everyone who comes to the shows, aimee cf, amy corbett, jeanine zurkus, tsuyoshi yano, mike spellman, and everyone else who has ever come to a show......thanks to my bluegrass friends, tom, pam, gail and allen, and to the boston blues society. thanks to jon svetky and don white. all av people and all students......thanks to my dobro students, and my dobro teacher, stacy phillips, for all of his help and support. i would not be here without any of you.......so this is your record as much as it is mine. thanks to lama surya das and lama john, david zinn and mike ryan, and all old dharma dogs. thanks to the new england aquarium. dedicated to the memory of those who died this year, perri the hobo, frank mclendon, norman swanson, and john miller. with much love and respect for john fahey, son house, fred mcdowell, howlin wolf, robert johnson, hendrix, dylan, run dmc, eddie one string jones, public enemy, mike keneally, frank zappa, the germs, johnny shines, black flag, the beatles, beck, louis moondog hardin, the allman brothers, buckethead, alice in chains, rev. robert wilkins, david lindley, robert randolph, pink floyd, algia mae hinton and all the chickenheads everywhere, and so on and on and on and on...........
all songs recorded live, no overdubs.....i used two guitars, a 1929 national tricone squareneck #1316 and a 1998 gibson dobro.
i hope you enjoy this music......
ll
---the cd is available at live shows, on the street, or at cd baby.com.....