Show with Will Taylor tomorrow, then Abra Moore the follwing night. A few days ago i drummed on a new single for Patty Griffin.
Played with Pine Top Perkins last night. . He is about 93 years old and still pumping the blues like a boogie woogie Jelly Roll. Pine Top was the piano man with Muddy Waters , Sonny Boy Williamson and other blues legends.
Got a call to fill in for a Will Taylor strings attached Zeppelin tribute gig at Thredagills this saturday- Oh Boy I get to try and learn 20 Zep tunes in two days.
Happy newest year.
Stayed busy throughout the holidays building tracks for a Tony Levin solo record, drumming with Phil Brown, cooking, cleaning and being Santa dad.
Markus is coming over in a couple weeks and we will finalize the details of our new Tuner record. BTW would you like to drum on a Tuner tune ? The crazy idea is: before we actually release our new record we post a drum less track for interested folks to add drums too, whatchathink? more info soon.
Some upcoming shows:
SATURDAY JANUARY 13TH
7:30 AND 10:00 PM AUSTIN TEXAS
Will Taylor and Strings Attached team up with guitarist/songwriter Phil Brown, Nakia and Rodney Connell to present a one-night-only concert tribute to the songwriting and musical genius of Jimi Hendrix.
More info here:
www.stringsattached.org/shows.php
and meet Phil here:
Then off to Finland for songwriting and a few shows with Kimmo Pohjonen and Trey Gunn:
Jan 29 Tavastia Helsinki, Finland
Jan 30 Klubi Tampere, Finland
Jan 31Lutakko Jyvaskyla, Finland
. . . also doing a few more casual thursday night gigs with Phil Brown and Natalie Zoe. 7-9 at Woody's in south austin.
