Here are a few tunes I recorded last year while living out of the country.
Two of them were available on a digital-only EP called The Seeker that is no longer available.
The other two are Dylan covers, which I still want to make a whole record of. That’s Anna Foster singing in the background. One of these days, we’ll get back to working on that stuff.
Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues (Dylan)
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Mississippi (Dylan)
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No Surrender (Springsteen)
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Tower of Song (Cohen)
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Photo by Anna Foster (Taken at Yee-Haw Industries)
“My friend, we been had.” – Chip Robinson
Chip and I rolled into the Knoxville Visitor’s Center expecting that we’d both be able to slump down in our respective chairs and hide behind a couple of microphones, like any other radio gig. Dead wrong.
The Blue Plate Special is a show. Like a real, live, in-front-of-people show. Families, working folks on their lunch break, folks who just wandered in for lunch, folks who attend these gigs religiously and, presumably (given the location), visitors. And then there’s me and Chip: two surly, groggy dudes, glassy eyed and slugging down coffee like it was Gatorade.
It wasn’t pretty.
So, that’s how it looked. Here’s how it sounded.
Live at WDVX :: Knoxville, TN :: April 19, 2010
01. Don’t Look Back
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02. Bellingham Blues
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03. I Was A Photograph
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These tunes were recorded in hotel rooms across the country over the course of the last few months. I hope you dig ‘em.
01. Mutineer (Warren Zevon)
Recorded March 25, 2010 at the Quality Inn in Bellingham, Washington.
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02. In A Razor Town (Jason Isbell)
Recorded during one very late night (April 18/19, 2010) trading tunes with Chip in Nashville.
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03. Bring On the Dancing Horses
Recorded April 12, 2010 at the Hotel San Jose in Austin, TX.
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Listen to tunes from Dead Roses, The Reckoning, Way Out West, and Nowhere Nights here.
Almost all of my favorite records came to me by way of suggestion from a friend. It remains my favorite way to discover new music. If you found your way here, I’m assuming that you’ve likely had a similar experience, being as my face isn’t splashed across the cover of Rolling Stone and my tunes aren’t burning up the weekend countdown charts of the local Entercom station on your FM dial.
So, if you’ve stumbled upon my tunes and think they’re worth sharing, I’d like you to do just that. If you’ve got a few friends who you think would dig my tunes, I’m happy to send you a free, four-song digital sampler.
Here’s all you have to do:
- Choose any four songs you like, from any of my records.
- Send an email with the subject line “Sampler” to nowherenights[at]gmail.com, and include your four choices in the body of the email.
That’s it. Once your email has been received, you’ll receive a replay containing a download link for your custom sampler. After that, you can forward the link to friends, burn CD’s for them, share the tunes however you’d like. Feel free to direct them here, as well, and they can create their own sampler.
(This idea was originated by a phenomenal songwriter named Joe Pug. If you aren’t already listening to Joe, you should be.)
Thanks for listening, and thanks for your help.
- KA
