Next Wednesday I am driving due North to Hambone Wilson‘s farm to start preproduction on my song ‘Winston’ that I wrote furiously on a break in the wake of The Neo Nazis marching on Charlottesville. Hambone has a pretty incredible vision of casting the song in light evoking the great Anti-Fascists, Pink Floyd. Roger Waters not …
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This 600 second break song came to me as we were wrapping up last night listening to Simon & Garfunkel LIVE 1969. I hear as Latin in that Incan way that Paul used those indigenous sounding flutes on ‘Duncan’ and another greatest hit I can’t think of right now. I am going change the hook …
It happened. Our very own genuine American buffoon stood before the world’s leaders doing his same routine that our American village idiots and quasi Christians eat up like old tainted seafood at a mid western buffet. And the leaders of the world just laughed. As they should. It’s comedy. The joke is on us. When …
I have a $100 budget. Who is ready to make a memorable show poster out of this image of Eric Struthers to celebrate his first show in Seattle with The Staxx Brothers? The show is Saturday Nov 3rd. We did some standout posters for the nights Ras Jones (Jonezy) came to visit us from England and when Matt Fink (Dr. Fink) rocked …
Greg Roth is going to have a pretty nifty announcement about how I am going to be involved in his debut film. I am excited to do my part to help this beautiful story find its audience. There are a lot of great names there. Bubba Jones, Jason Tang, Michael A Wansley, and Andrew D.B. Joslyn. Great names involved in …
I have no photo of me in my brand new jeans because this sweeeeeet old lady that was helping me was being a sweet old lady and accidentally took a photo of herself. She apologized, but I told Elizabeth that this was a much cooler photo than a vainglorious photo of me saying, “Look at …
These videos of me singing as customers come are pretty funny. This is my favorite. I was practicing ‘Amazing Grace’ for the last service of all time at Light of the Cross Lutheran Church, Bothell, WA, that is happening this Sunday. …then a very nice Snohomish local walks in. Then this happened. ☆also are a …
I finally got Barbara J Mitchell all the important links to help me with some PR for ‘Free Your Mind’. I am one of those artists that has never had a push from KEXP. I have a gift of gab and words come easy to me, but I can’t really explain how much it would mean right now …
☆ Happy birthday to Eric Struthers. He’s one of New Orleans’ own livin’ and breathin’ true as blue guitar greats. If don’t catch him with Dr. John or playing with one of the Nevilles, you might want to catch him Nov 3rd at The SeaMonster Lounge. He’s flying up to play with The Staxx Brothers and few other artists …
This is pretty much what it’s like recording in Kingston. If I get to cut an album with Reggae Powerhouse Band it’s going to be WILDFIRE. I got bucket of hooks, songs, ideas for a Jamaican album that could be a really hot mix of what Jamaican session musicians are gonna do, and what I am gonna …
I finally get to tell you that Band in Seattle is switching to KING 5! I had to keep that under wraps for a while. This is so big for that show. An NBC affiliate. Conrad Denke has put his heart and soul into that show, and working with him has been one of the experiences of my career in …
I had to go the top of Snoqualmie Pass to meet up with the TV drama legend Jim Charleston to discuss shooting my video for ‘Casino Road’ before I head back to Jamaica. Jim believes in me as much as anybody, save my Viking father Bruce. He said “get 2 g’s and we’ll make my last great …
What do you think about this sneak peak at my latest song out of Jamaica? I took this back to MY Roots. I have yet to try to sound Jamaican. I don’t see the point. I just have common influences. I feel the African diaspora in my blood. Even if my DNA didn’t come up …
I wonder how the people working full time living in tents feel about our amazing American economy. We should ask them.As well as questions such as, “are you optimistic that in 2019 you will progress financially to living in a car?” Socialism is the oil in the engine of Capitalism. You can deny it, but …
Going back to that magic place Thursday. I am recording with Mell Dettmer. She captured and crafted some of my greatest vocal performances, particularly in the last year or so. Listen to the vocals on ‘Jack The Ripper’, my Dennis Brown cover of ‘How Could I Leave’, ‘I Don’t Want to Leave’, ‘Free Your Mind’, …
This Thursday, I am recording on a Sly & Robbie Riddim for the Reggae Powerhouse Band‘s debut album. I gotta do what I do, because I hear this riddim the way I hear it: Listen Mamacita, You can call me papi Second coming of Daniel Santos, embodies The Rebel spirit, my blood is Taino a loyal …
Of course the walls are closing in on Trump. He is incapable of thinking 3 steps ahead. He is just reacting. He’s a rich idiot. He’s 3 steps behind and all of his enablers and water (gate) boys are flipping on him. Because Trump is a low budget criminal Billionaire. Lawyer from the worst law …
NEW SONG ALERT: I trying to get to Adam Kutchman‘s place in one hour to cut this song at his house before work. I know we’re all busy. I have just never been this busy. I know it’s just a moment, a grind. At some point it looks like I am heading out on tour with Reggae …
It dawned on me that we’ve been choking on the incinerated corpses of giant life forms that died horrific deaths. No wonder everyone had headaches. Not to be a tree hugger. Because yeah, yeah, yeah, trees need to burn; it’s the savage and brutal circle of life. Watch an Orca munch on a baby seal. …
This post apocalyptic Seattle smoke hellscape is deeply concerning and will have grave consequences. But healthwise I am fine. All my friends have headaches, bleeding sores, mutations, cholera. But I hit the sauna. I am both a Shark and a Jet. I am a hybrid. I will survive. But can we really survive the demise …
Stingshark is part of the actual backbone of the Seattle music industry. It takes players, it takes songwriters, it takes engineers, it takes seasoned veterans to pass on knowledge and opportunities to the younger versions of themselves. Stingshark is frankly among only a small handful of Seattle artists that is doing all of these things. …
To be honest, making hot records make me fear less the hands of time and the strangeness of aging. There are old men, and then there are old men with hot records. There are guys like Willie Nelson you wouldn’t even recognize before they were 40. Well maybe there is just Willie Nelson. But as …
My word, KEXP really scored when they hired Eva Walker as the new host of Audioasis. This woman is a mega talent and I absolutely adore her long view and careful study of history. It makes her music and performances hit so much harder than what a Hipster might do scratching the surface with same the chord …
‘FUNKY KINGSTON’ is sounding nice with Hold in Fyah at rehearsal. I am coming on stage to this Maytals anthem on September 12th at Nectar when we open for Israel Vibration & The Roots Radics at Nectar Lounge. Big show and a song that I want to make a part of my sets as my album West Indian Rock come …
Check out Sly Dunbar and Anthony Red Rose discussing the making of ‘Free Your Mind’. Thank you Enriek Thomas for shooting this, Mike Martin for editing, and Roy Roy Ce for embracing the unique challenge of sending this footage to America via the series of tubes we call the Internet. Davin’s new song has been released and has become a global earworm …
This is Shawn Lambert. He is a fellow American that invited me to HIS session where I got my big break at Sly & Robbie‘s studio in Kingston. This was a magic moment as he took a break from working on his stellar Michelle Obama inspired Hip Hop / Dancehall track with Sly and company to talk about how …
The sun sets. Appreciate every gig. This is Tom Wilkinson‘s last gig with us until after his baby arrives. Every time The Staxx Brothers hit the stage, it’s all kind of a minor miracle that my friends and I built this tradition that is so many albums and unbelievable stories deep, that I have been able to sing …
I think the difference between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans that emerged from Africa about 40,000 years can be summed up so: Neanderthals today were at best capable of providing links to articles they read that reinforce their own basic-ness, as not quite men who live in caves. They also loooooove memes but don’t understand …
I have so many wonderful things to say about Rick Beato and his Rick Beato – Everything Music series on youtube. This guy is everything about why some youtube creators are delivering even more valuable content than most television producers. He is hitting a real audience. His peers. Rick is talking about music news, theory, production, business and songwriting …
Do people still listen to albums ever so still, tracing every word and phrase, unlocking the mystery of every rhythm? When I was a kid an album had a real value. $19.99 was over $30 then. That inevitable scratch was a tragedy. Sure, it was a safe bet when we could leave our collection at …