my friends and myself. the astral slide guitar, weissenborn, trumpet, occasional ukelele, regular boring old guitar, poorly controlled voice, whatever the hell else
Influences
Family, friends, kung fu movies, the mars volta, j dimenna, miles davis, daniel lanois, jimi hendrix, cat power, billy holliday, arvo part, led zeppelin, keith and mer and jar-e, nick drake, Gogol Bordello, howe gelb, david bowie, blonde redhead, hank roberts, coltrane, erik satie, robert johnson, radiohead, omar rodriguez lopez, juan, walter strauss, mingus, tom waits, django reinhart, iron and wine, callexico, v. m. bhatt, gillian welch, john frusciante, mr. heller, m. ward, tashi, waltzes (bloody obsessed w/ waltzes), the desert, lightning hopkins, ben harper in his raw days, the bicycle, thelonius monk, tom walbank, fugazi, maintenance, elvin jones, etc.
"serpentine slide and lap steel"--My Old Kentucky Blog
"aching slide guitar"--HARP Magazine
"ghostly"--Allmusic.com
I work. I love. I play lots of good pretty dirty music in this city presently cold cold cold, and not even a snow cover to soften. I play and compose my own music, as well as accompany others in bands and such, performing and recording whenever the opportunity arises. At the moment I am performing mostly with Saint Bernadette and soon a very nice fellow named gabriel miller phillips (check both these acts out down below in my world of friends), and hopefully soon mr j dimenna will be back in action for i do so love playing his music. The following is a recent discography:
Saint Bernadette www.myspace.com/saintbernadette
*2008 "I wanna tell you something"
*2007 "In the ballroom"
The Priestess and the Fool www.myspace.com/thepriestessandthefool
*2008 "A minor work"
Howe Gelb www.myspace.com/howegelb
*2007 "Upside down home 2007"
J Dimenna www.myspace.com/jdimenna
*2007 "If he could speak now"
*2006 "Akward Buildings"
Jar-e www.myspace.com/jare
*2007 "War songs and the muse"
Brian Grosz www.myspace.com/grosz
*2007 "Bedlam nights"
Greg Loumeau http://www.dreamco.com/eotbh/eotbh_collab.cfm
*2006 "Eyes of the bicycle horse"
PS here’s a video of the song pieces with saint bernadette
my cat brandy spilled water all over my phone and it died. i'm getting a new one on may first when my upgrade comes through. if you need to get in touch you can email me or send me a smoke signal or a carrier pigeon. i will have the same phone number on the new phone but no contacts so call me on thursday so have your number.
Joe!!! I need spiritual counseling..I'm feeling lipid (did I use it right?) and your phone number, and a salad, working tonight and tomorrow...come visit me!!!
I somehow ended up with a piano from 1914, here in my front room. I guess it's time for it to be all about music, so, if you ever set this way, again, lend us your talents, here in this livingroom. Cake.
i am trying to get out to see my favorite people (and cats) of brooklyn sometime this march. and i will finally be able to get you back for those wine bottles you got me this summer when i had $45 in my checking account :)
really good to meet you joe - been enjoying these discs, some really powerful stuff on the saint bernadette album outta you. hope to hear you again soon, perhaps even on stage. though I'd probably prefer the solo dobro anyway.
hope y'all are enjoying the first days of the new year. - mp
I n the 1400's a law was set forth that a man was not allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb. Hence we have "the rule of thumb".
