Author Archives: jk

Finally… On account of MacBook, GarageBand and iCloud availability, COVID outbreak, general distance and relentless overwork, me and the usual suspects at long last managed to get in some reasonably solid remote, pieced-together, non-live recordings over the course of the past year or two. Stay tuned for more, but here are a couple civilized numbersContinue reading ““Love My Way” (Psychedelic Furs) b/w “Brand New Friend” (Lloyd Cole)”

Really what can I say? Mount Rushmore material here. Peak Neil, from “Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere” (1969), “Tonight’s the Night” (recorded 1973) and “Comes a Time” (1978). Tried to keep these versions right over the plate. I could just go on and on…. jk “Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere” “(When You’re On) The LosingContinue reading “More Neil Young covers”

Well, some scraps it’s hard to pile up into anything particularly orderly, huh? So here’s a handful of tunes that were under consideration for playing out or recording with some configuration or other and as part of the screening process underwent the home recording test. Of the stuff I have in the chamber, these hangContinue reading “Mystery Grab-Bag: “To Love Somebody” (Bee Gees)/ “Look at Miss Ohio” (Welch-Rawlings)/ “Jackie” (Tim Easton/ Haynes Boys)”

OK, cats, here’s another batch from Fall 2019. Raw tracks for this batch knocked out with my buddy John Stackpole. Another stab at some of the classics or classic-adjacent. Hope springs eternal to get some of Stack’s quality lead guitar overdubbed on these, but figured I’d put ’em up in their current form rather thanContinue reading “Pre-COVID Covers (2): Dead, Neil, etc”

Fall 2019 I was finally getting things under control at work (yeah…. about that…) and hoping to host another little high school hootenanny up at the Harpswell Estate. Wanted to get in a playing/recording session of the usual cover material but ended up managing two separate weekends, one with one guy and one with another.Continue reading “Pre-COVID Covers (1): Blondie, Mott, Stones, Neil & Bob”

“What am I supposed to do with those tears I expect I’ll cry after reading only two sad lines: ‘My Dear Charlie- Goodbye’? I could fill a bathtub and have tears to spare, or swim home to happiness on an ocean of beer.” – Charlie Chesterman Man, we all lost out. Somehow Charlie’s been goneContinue reading “Charlie Chesterman, still the King”

[Note from the Publisher: Mothballed since latter half of 2020. Finally getting my act together? Honestly, 2020… and 2021…] Centro-Matic, late of Denton, TX. What can I say, other than that they’ve consistently been one of my favorite bands of the last 20-ish years?  Beautiful, gentle, obscure and impressionistic tunes as well as unbelievable overdrivenContinue reading “Covered: Centro-Matic: Triggers and Trash Heaps and Flashes and Cables”

[Note from the Publisher: This dang thing has been sitting around gathering dust for about a year and a half. Cripes! Heck of a ride lately…] Ah, the Byrds: Criminally underrated and one of my all-time faves.  Perhaps unusually, I dunno, my gateway was the country era rather than the chart-topping chiming-Rickenbacker jangle-pop era.  IContinue reading “Woodpile: The Byrds’ country rock”

Like their counterparts from the last posting, the start of these songs dates to the spring mud season of, what, 2016? It was a long process to completion, mostly comprised of inactivity and distraction, but I finally re-learned the songs, came up with some new idears and completed things at the tail end of goodContinue reading “Mud Season: Instrumentals”

This batch of songs was started in, no joke, spring of 2016? Then the work train went into a LOOOOOONNG tunnel. I thought it was funny when these weren’t done by later in the year, then after the subsequent mud season, and on and on. Eventually, recent history: COVID, recording hardware/software changeover, website changeover, moreContinue reading “Mud Season: Vocals”