me, plus GUESTS Will McFarlane (geetars, Bonnie Raitt 74-80) Richard Bowden (fiddle-Austin Lounge Lizards, Terry Allen) Lee Kirby, keys Ed Root Drums (Milagro Saints) and my lovely wife Karen Delahunty some vocals
Influences
Bob Dylan's outakes, and the songs that didn't get on the Basement Tapes,Levon Helm's voice, JD Salinger, Tarkovsky's 'Mirror', Van Morrison's first 6 albums, Nick Drake's 'Northern Sky' John Martyn's 'Solid Air' Joni Mitchell's 'Car on a Hill' Neil Young's 'Will to Love' Nina Simone's Dylan covers, all the long Russian Novels of the 19th Century.
Hey, this is the story I tell myself....I've been singing and songwriting since I was 15, performing in upstairs rooms of english pubs, got involved in a pop band situation in Art School, got signed to an NYC label, toured the whole US nation, came here (NC)...stayed-
formed another band (Milagro Saints) ...highlights playing the Woody Guthrie Folk Fest,-
singing to the dead ghost of Kerouac in Lowell Mass, working with guitar impresario Will
McFarlane, (one of those Muscle Shoals guys), releasing 4 CD's, singing 'Goodnight Irene'
on a crowded stage with Arlo Guthrie...
My music is coming from a place I don't know where but I can't help it
