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Read The Lyrics I Ride Alone Brand New Too Late Too Much Too Many One Dream Love Brings Me Down Silver Earrings Ballad Of The Voice Man Passing Through You Got Me Hooked Down To A Line John Henry's Farm Ocean Colors Johnny Chrome Engine Forgotten Thought Remembered Jack Rabbit All Day Long Commercial Art A Way Away Hey Baby |
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Hey Baby is a compilation of live recordings taken from 1990 thru
1994. It is from four different performances done at two venues. Tony's
New Yorker Lounge in Tempe was a blues club turned variety showcase lounge.
It closed in 1994. Just before it closed I was able to perform and record
there. The recordings were done live to high fi VHS. There were two
shows recorded one in late 1993 and one in early 1994. Jason Montero
jammed with me there and we, later, started The Woodband. Two tracks here
feature the beginning of that band. "Commercial Art" & "Too Late Too Much
Too Many". I play acoustic guitar on the later... plugged into an
overdrive . The other two shows were recorded in San Francisco at The Great American Music Hall. One show was in 1990. Here I opened for David Bromberg. The two tracks featured on this recording were taken from cassette. These songs are "Down To A Line" & "Brand New". The other Music Hall show was in 1993 opening for Peter Rowen. This show was recorded on a DAT machine... thanks to Mario Desio who just happened to have one on him. Probably the most popular of these songs is "Jack Rabbit". I was just starting to realize that you could do more than one kind of song in a short set. My favorite from that show is "Love Brings Me Down". I hadn't played a piano in years and I was really nervous. This tape, at the time I write this which is the end of 1996, has very few songs from other recordings. If I was to record a live recording intentionally I would look for more ideal situations to record. I would also only record my really popular songs and since I have no really popular songs this group has to suffice. Some of these I will probably record again in a more controlled setting. Many are performed by other local artists. The title was not my idea and either was the cover. I said okay ...and so it is my fault... but it was not my idea. This just goes to show what can happen when you let those close to you represent you. The song "Hey Baby" was written the day before it was recorded and I read it off a notebook. I have not memorized it and I don't think I have played it since. So this is it....one hour of under produced songs. Once again I stress that it is the performance and not the production that is being presented here. In some of these songs the performance is better than it could have been anywhere else. "I Ride Alone" is the best it has ever been done as far as I can tell.. by me anyway.
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