anyone who’s been waiting for the iTunes link before making their purchase of “A Moose Supreme” by Evan & The Modern Human Show …

wait no longer, here it is:

http://ax.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?i=281401774&id=281401757&s=143441

I’m playing slide on “Sloppy Guitar Player” and “Electric Chair”,

but I so totally suggest you listen to “Crazy Chick” first…

VISIT
John Norwood

So there’s this little green record, and it’s been making me really happy.

I’ve been wanting to write about it for a while, but I wasn’t sure what to say about it.

I still don’t know what to say about it, except that I really like it, a lot.

The little green record is by TOMMY SANTEE KLAWS, and it seems to be called Apathetic Dental Technician 7″

Side A either has two songs or two titles, and they are: “Dead Leaves & Bumblebees” / “Crack & Chants”

Side B has one: “Methantiphon”

I think I’ve been listening to side B more … The music is slow and blissful, ethereal and also acoustically grounded. The human singing voices are unusual but lovely. The melodies are strong, timeless, and strangely un/familiar. The music reminds me of a way I’ve never felt. The vinyl format (and the green color!!) just add to to the vibration (I like to know something sizable is spinning rapidly while I listen … A CD doesn’t cut it, and mp3s don’t move no way nohow) …

This is one of the coolest things I’ve ever got from a band with whom I happened to be sharing a bill (Amanda Jo opened for them at the Highland Park Legion Hall). (Other extremely cool things from people I know would have to include Spleek Speaks by Marc Cantlin and anything by Matthew O’Neill)

To get your own copy of the Apathetic Dental Technician 7″, please investigate this link:

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=99224827&blogId=484609492

did I mention I was in a Dave Matthews video? as a guitar-playing extra… it doesn’t embed, but here’s the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD9CrZODlNA

you can see me for about half a second roughly 3 minutes and fifteen seconds into the video. Enjoy!

Good morning!!

Today I am officially releasing a cd. In truth, I sold one and gave one away as far back as last week … and a pre-mastered edition made it to Vermont over a year ago… But for most of you, I have held off until the time was utterly, utterly ripe. Here it is:

“BACKATCHA, POD PEOPLE!!” was recorded in Echo Park, Los Angeles, California, Earth, in a big empty house in the spring of 2008. The emphasis of this disc is on songs and singing, and also on what may be my oldest love, loud and gnarly guitar sounds.* The songs were mainly current to the time of the recording, but some of them also dip back a bit in my catalog: “Floating Around” and “Lummi” and “Toad” were all written in, um, 2000? I think?

More recent tunes on “Pod People!!” include “Blues For Horselover Fat“, “Texas”, “Hot Potato Pie”, and “It Could Be Time”.

Besides the analog-tape-and-tube driven tone and the lyrical and melodic spotlight, this disc is about at-odds-ness with one’s surroundings.

So far people seem to be responding well to this music, and I hope you enjoy it, too. More is always on the way.

Love,
5

*In the Rudy Rucker sense of the word “gnarl”