Eddie Pilch, Sinatra, Dean Martin, the Stones, Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, John Stanky and the Coal Miners, Jelly Roll Morton, Glen Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Louis Armstrong, Tony Bennett, Ella Fitzgerald, Flaco Jimenez, John Davidson and Matt Guza.
Sounds Like
Your grandparents telling stories. The yip-yap of a puppy who just peed as a result of overwhelming excitement. The 13th floor of a 1920s tenement house.
I've been playing the accordion (a 1960s Gretsch La Tosca) for about eight years, a little more seriously the past two years.
The old squeeze box was given to me by my grandfather, Edward Pilch, who received it as a gift from his two daughters and played it for more than three decades before injuring his shoulder. My "Dziadzi," who is now 92 and healthy as a horse, still plays the harmonica and is a major influence on my music.
I hooked up with an extremely talented guitarist/singer/songwriter named John Davidson (plays harmonica, too) and a mind-blowing percussionist named Matt Guza (washboard, bones, dulcimer, mouth harp, etc., etc.) in the summer of 2006. We call ourselves "The New Time" and have a common bond of all things old-timey.
I'm currently under the tutleage of Robert Cerminara.
A former newspaperman, I now work for a non-profit and live in Manayunk.
