Preacher Boy

Dear John Hammond Jr. A different kind of “Dear John” letter

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Dear John,

I already miss you so much. For as long as I’ve been alive, there has been … John Hammond, Jr.

This has been a consoling truth for a very long time.

It’s a little harder to be consoled tonight.

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#JohnHammond

The Alternative Zen Blues Trial, in action.

Well, if one has to change strings before a gig, I 'spose this ain't a bad place to do it ...

The Moleskine notebook where the lyrics to "New Red Cedar Blues" (from Ghost Notes) were first penned.

#Writing #Songwriting #MoleskineNotebook #SpacePen #Lyrics

Miles Davis - Round About Midnight (Full Album)
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YouTube video by Polydor 1000 Patti Smith - Because The Night (1978)

"Because The Night"
Patti Smith
1977

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Sunday morning coffee

John Coltrane Quartet - Ballads

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Old Skool #Audio Stack. #Audiophile

Jaydn (opus 1 - 5), by Stan Stewart (aka @muz4now) 5 track album

2/5 of these tracks are in my #Top10 most played #PianoImprov pieces
Check them out on #BandcampFriday

3 hours and counting, and then you can purchase—for one day only—the new 10-volume, 96-song Preacher Boy release, and name your own price! As low as $9.60! (reg: $96).

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Let's do this #bandcampfriday thing, and celebrate some independent music!

This is gonna be fun

Miles Davis - The Complete Live At The Plugged Nickel 1965

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Captain Beefheart. Huge hero of mine. "Captain's Orders"—on Volume 9 of the new Strange Birds release—was very much written with him in mind. Beefheart aficionados should recognize many of the lyrical references. Stream the track anywhere; here's a Pandora link: www.pandora.com/artist/preac...

Who needs new tricks, when you've got old dogs?

All I'm sayin', is that if any music from Sinners wins a goddamn Grammy, somebody better send the real Preacher Boy over here a lil' ol' statuette. It's the least they could do ...

#TheRealPreacherBoy

Here's a formula: For every $150 you spend on an effect pedal, you should spend $150 less on the guitar, because the more pedals you have, the less the guitar matters to the actual sound.

You can stream it anywhere you get your digital music; I’ve included the Spotify link below:

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One song did make its way out into the world, albeit initially not on a Preacher Boy album.

That song was “This Is New York,” and it was included on the soundtrack of “Approaching Union Square,” the debut film from Marc Myers. It’s now part of “Strange Birds” as well, included on Volume IV.

My missus and I were living in Brooklyn when “Demanding to be Next” was recorded, and I was writing up a storm at the time, both at home and on the road. Many of those songs are only now seeing the light of day as part of the “Strange Birds: 25 Years of Demos, Outtakes, and Album Rarities” release.

As part of the tour for the new album, I spent a month on the road as the support act for Charlie Musselwhite—an honor I will always treasure. The picture in this post is a shot of Charlie and I taken at Buddy Guy’s Legends in July of that year.

2004 was a pretty noteworthy year in the ol’ Preacher Boy chronicles.

That year, I released “Demanding to be Next,” which was my first solo acoustic record. It was also debut of my own record label, Coast Road Records, which, at the time, was distributed by RedEye.

If you choose to stay away, I support you. If you choose to come and share in music with me, I welcome you.

This is THE WORK, in the sense of it being part of what it means to try and find the right side of history and stand there in defense of the goodness of people, and in defense of the right of good people to exist in safety and peace.

I know it's a day of "no work," but to me, performing these songs is not work in the sense of it being a job.

and the grotesquely anti-human policies, practices, and institutions they create, leverage, and weaponize.

I believe the songs I perform have always stood for peace, for standing up to oppression, and for siding with good people against the wickedness of profit-addicted, power-addled fascists, authoritarians, dictators, oligarchs,

I will be performing tonight, because I believe in being with people, I believe in sharing music with people, and I believe in music's ability to raise awareness and call attention both to the goodness inside us, and to the evil that walks among us.

I respect and support the nationwide protests happening today.

I believe in the people, and in the people's right to demonstrate humanity, solidarity, and empathy in the face of craven profiteering, theft, lying, violence, murder, and more.

If you do your streaming on Tidal, this one's for you: "Trampoline," from Volume 6 of "Strange Birds: 25 Years of Demos, Outtakes, and Album Rarities."

This one was recorded in Chicago, and it's an outtake from the Estate Bottled Blues release. Listen on!

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Turns out, people WERE listening. Just, over on Apple Music instead. Over there, the lead track "The Damned (So Many More of Us Than Them)" is the 3rd most streamed Preacher Boy song ever. Go figure.

Well, to the Apple Music peeps, I say, thank you!