Michael Hill Michael's most recent CD is "Vanishing Season" ~ NKD sings harmony on 4 songs :-)
Clive Gregson Breaking News: The long awaited reissue of Gregson & Collister's classic recording "Home & Away"
Clive's most recent CD is "Long Story Short" out on Gadfly
Suze Spencer Marshall Suze's NEW CD: "Tall Boots: Rare Gems of America's Western Music Pioneers" ~ Nancy got to sing on this one!
John A Nelson John's brand new CD is "Tengo Ranchito" featuring 13 original songs & a cover of "Satisfied Mind" ~ Guest appearances by Jon Parry, Orville Johnson, Chris Leighton, Jeff Simmons, Paul Elliott & Alice Stuart.
Jeff Simmons Former Zappa sideman's long awaited new recording!! Check "Blue Universe" Breaking News!! Re-Release of Jeff Simmons LPs - "Naked Angels" & "Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up".
Dble CD, £18.00 (World In Sound Records - WIS-1035/36) www.freakemporium.com
This 2CD set presents the Straight label years of Zappa´s multi-talented "sideman", Jeff Simmons. In 1968 in Seattle Herb Cohen and Frank Zappa was in the audience after his sound check,
and was listening to "Easy Chair", Jeff´s group. Fascinated by his talent, he was signed for Straight records.
Both albums, "Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up" and "Naked Angels" were recorded in 1969.CD #1 The Lucille album was produced by by Chris Huston (Led Zeppelin II, Undertakers, Young Rascals)
and Frank Zappa under the synonym "La Marr Bruister", who wrote the title track, played lead guitar on two tracks and co-wrote "Wonderful Wino". Lucille contains 10 catchy
and heavy Blues-Rock and Folk, Jeff is "playing a hard-driven and groovy bass, piano, organ and accordion and singing in a style similar to that of Jack Bruce with Cream.
Simmons presented a brace of strong, harmonically sophisticated songs that have some of the explosive, multi-hued impact of the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
(Ben Watson, excerpted from Frank Zappa: "The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play")... "No one knows it... not even him... but someday that kid's gonna be a great R&B singer" (Frank Zappa).
Jeff was in the Mothers of Invention at the time of 200 Motels, Jeff also played rhythm guitar
on Waka/Jawaka and clown about with Frank and George Duke on Roxy & Elsewhere.CD #2 Naked Angels, a soundtrack for
a biker movie is a sequence of mostly instrumentals that combine melody and fuzz guitar; heavy, psychedelicate surf-rock. This
2 CD-set presents in a 20p. booklet with all original artwork, lots of memorabilia from Jeff´s vaults (posters,
plus 2 bonustracks. Lucille was rated in Mojo Magazine as the 2nd best release on Straight Records.
Kevin Welch Kevin's new album with Kieran Kane and Fats Kaplan "Long John Dean" is #1 the Americana Charts. Don't miss 'em if they come to your town.
Blue Rose Family For all things BRC including the CD and DVD of "Blue Rose Cafe: A Reunion and Tribute to Pat Long". Be sure to check out the BRC Blue Rose Cafe website by web-goddess Colette of Write in Style.
Doug's Page "Doug loved music"... that says it all. Doug made us laugh, brought us together and warmed our hearts - we miss him very much.
Texacali Horns New MySpace Friends from the City of Angels! Joe Sublett and Darrell Leonard have played with everyone from Stevie Ray Vaughan to Bono to B.B.King to the Rolling
Stones.
Mescal Sheiks More new Friends ~ these guys make wonderful music!! Their CD is "This World Is Not My Home" and it ROCKS!
Whole Wheat Radio Internet radio from the wilds of Talkeetna, AK. Once a Wheathead, always a Wheathead. Check out their redesigned site! Tell Jim and Esther "Hello!".
Clay Eals ~ Steve Goodman Biography Clay Eals' new book, Steve Goodman: Facing The Music is a wonderful, informative & detailed ride! Alongside the story of Steve Goodman's life, Eals explores the intriguing
themes of living life to the absolute fullest with death at your doorstep and the plight of
certain extremely talented musicians who somehow escape the notice of the main stream.
songspace.net Here's where to go for all things relating to Seattle's performing songwriter scene.
The brainchild of Seattle songwriter Richard Middleton, SongSpace is a calendar and clearinghouse devoted exclusively to Seattle area singer-songwriters.
Please check it out and follow the links to some of my favorite Seattle songwriters such as Rachel Harrington, Matt Price, MJ Bishop, Thornton Bowman, Scott Adams,
Sean Bendickson, Scott Katz, Joy Mills, Larry Murante, Steve Wacker, Eva Tree, Brad Warren, Christie Aitken, Charlie Spring, Andrew Ratshin, Anna Coogan, Ron Dalton,
Rory Corbin, Peter Spencer and, oh so many more... what a wealth of riches!
uk friends
Ian Lang I found Ian’s music on MySpace... His album ‘Blood On A Pale Moon’ released late 2003 is a
classic of Anglo-Americana... Warmth, grit & grace woven into 12 fab songs...
Gavin Sutherland Secret music from Scotland: acoustic music to soothe the troubled soul
Any Trouble Breaking News: Clive's rock 'n' roll band reform to make a new album and play some select UK gigs.
Contributing to the new, as yet untitled, album are original members CLIVE GREGSON (Vocals, Guitar,
Keyboards), CHRIS PARKS (Guitar) MARTIN HUGHES (Drums, Percussion), plus bass player MARK GRIFFITHS (Plainsong).
Reg Meuross Bard of Somerset visits Seattle with his wonderful songs & kicks some serious butt
