20 August, 2014
19 August, 2014
16 August, 2014
Memory on a Loss
For
O captain my captain
That eternal rest pains my eyes
O captain my captain
I cannot seem to lay the swell that has played my heart so well
O captain my captain
May the wind come swift and gentle
So that my soul may feel its hand
O captain my captain
On this summer evening how quick had you lost hope
O captain my captain
Oh how the dark must've felt
With its cold gravelly hands
And its rank breathe to which the smell was displeasing to say the least
O captain my captain
How could you not see the warm?
O captain my captain
How could you get so lost amongst loved ones and friends?
O captain my captain
My understanding of this is quite real
O captain my captain
I've done my own share of slipping under the dark,
But that cold gravelly hand i never let take hold
O captain my captain
It is profoundly deafening the sadness left within me
O captain my captain
Please find the light to where you may find your peace
O captain my captain
For sun's will set and moon's will rise
And like the waves going back and forth to shore and then back to sea
I will see you O captain my Captain
Once around the infinite eternity
O Captain my Captain
I will see again when the rains stop falling...
15 August, 2014
02 August, 2014
Jeremy Pinnell and the 55's: OH/KY
Jeremy Pinnell & The 55’s
Oh/Ky by: Moose
Jeremy Pinnell and The 55’s are a straight to the teeth, bare knuckles, pedal steeling country honky tonk band. We here in Ohio and Kentucky have the pleasure of being able to see these fellas on a regular basis. For those that do not have this opportunity, well then take the time out to run a quick search on them and it won’t take much searching to find them, and when you do you won’t be disappointed.
Jeremy is the main songwriter, along with Chris Alley on drums, Ben Franks on bass, and Cameron Cochran on pedal steel. Jeremy, Chris, and Ben started playing about 3 years ago they met Cameron soon after and asked him to play guitar. Cameron suggested they play straight country music, and Jeremy and the band have done that and they are taking country back to its roots, in a sense. Jeremy is a humble man who comes from humble beginnings and that resonates on their latest record aptly named Oh/Ky.
They have put together ten songs that from the start are honest about the life Jeremy has put behind him. He had his battle with his own demons, and that’s why he won’t speak of them he would rather sing about them. Behind the beard and tattoo’s is a man who is soft spoken and bares that past he has simply moved on from. Jeremy sings from his heart and with Cameron Cochran on pedal steel the songs become those country and honky tonk songs that have been lying in wait. They have their sound and with these songs these guys are happy to be involved in the Cincinnati music scene. To simply be able to play is good enough for them.
Jeremy and these 55’s have put together an album that ring with honest country and honky tonk ballads.I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Jeremy and he when I asked him about doing music he said “Music is all I’ve really done that I’m halfway okay at. I don’t know if it’s what I’m supposed to do, it’s just what i know how to do.” True to his humble roots and true to their sound the album plays true. Oh/Ky is the album and Jeremy Pinnell and The 55’s are the band they are simply sharing their stories and songs with us.
You can pick up the album on:
itunes, cdbaby, spotify, and on jeremy’s website jeremypinnell.com
as well as:
local music stores (yes those are still around)
shakeit records, sugar cube records, and sofaburn records
You will be able to check them out live this Saturday evening at Buckle Up
They also have a regular gig at Japp’s Honky Tonk Thursday’s
At both of these again you will be able to purchase the album.
Spirit Family Reunion
Spirit Family Reunion
by: Moose
Hailing from New York City Spirit Family Reunion bring a brand of folk music that takes you to a place where old and new come together. Where the country and city brought together and dance around each other. From banjo frailing, to sawing fiddle, and at times double percussion they keep you moving because if you stand still for too long as quickly as the song started it will have been gone. With gravelly vocals and those rolling down the line melodies they are good time to be had. They bring gospel, folk, and bluegrassy songs from being hidden and now back in your barn, bar, or subway station.
The stomping of your foot to the beat can’t be helped it’s infectious. The sway when you listen is okay also because they will take you to a place once forgotten and make it new again. A sound that was lost is now found. Spirit Family Reunion share in the experience their live show is uncanny and one that as much as they give up on that stage or street corner so will the listener. WIth two albums Spirit Family Reunion and No Separation and even a songbook they invite to enjoy the road that they have travelled and the journey that they are on simply through their brand of Americana, old timey folk styling.
They will be coming to our fair Cincinnati to play Buckle Up and with it their will be no shortage of foot stomping, clapping, sawing fiddle, banjo frailing, driving percussion, and sheer good times. They give all they got and leave it on the stage and all that heart and passion for their music strums that chord within all of us who simply enjoy music. No comparison is needed with these folks they do it their own way, and they invite you in to get lost with them.
Al Scorch & the Country Soul Ensemble
Al Scorch & the Country Soul Ensemble
by: Moose
Al Scorch and the Country Soul Ensemble call the windy city of Chicago their home and through maddening, lightning fast clawhammer banjo there is no shortage of high energy with these folks. With songs that penetrate a different way of thinking. These are original tunes that incorporate a cast of different characters. Al gets the inspiration from watching the people on the street. The most finite detail can become something in a song. The stain on a jacket, that slightly odd indifference, almost about anything Al can write it up in his head as rediscovers a way to get it out. Not one for the traditional, while those ways have been inspirational, Al doesn’t want it to be predictable. It’s the unknown that makes him “well up” or “gives him the chills.”
While Al is a student of musical history and the traditions laid before him he is not bound by them. For him his sound is sort of like, in his own words, “An Irish ghost on a gypsy pirate ship drinking beer with a cowboy. What the hell is it? Where is it coming from?” Al’s mom played banjo and his dad played guitar and piano. Through this and hearing Pete Seeger and Dolly Parton records at a young age he thought “the banjo sounds pretty cool.” He has been at this for 8 years now everywhere and anywhere and everything in between. Something he is really fond of is playing house shows. They aren’t printed in a newspaper it is a simple as a flyer goes up, phone calls are made, a facebook page is created and everyone brings their own beer, again according to Al. Who by his own right is a very do it yourself kind of artist, and very much a live performer. If he isn’t a sweating mess by the end of a show something just wasn’t right. He pours his heart into every performance to give the folks that listen something to remember him by.
With that all said Al Scorch and the Country Soul Ensemble have put together this folky, old timey, Chicagoy, cacophonous sound that takes his own characters who have lived their own rough lives and wraps them around blazing banjo licks and tearing down the rail melodies. Al and the fellas will leave all out there on that proverbial stage for our listening pleasure come this Saturday at Buckle Up and it one performance that will definitely not disappoint.
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