This video explains why an Everett musician such as Jeremy From-Steel Beans that is way more interesting and innovative, and simply better than people getting way more attention locally, don’t get that automatic cool kid hipster cred. Well they do if they can continue long enough to no longer need it. Because they eventually get the co-sign. …
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Have you ever been around me when a song came to me? Do you remember which song. It usually starts weeks or months or years earlier. Someone says something and a seed is planted. For me yesterday, I remember Eric Struthers had told me about some instrumental gospel songs he recorded. I held this old giant Gretsch …
How do I write some novels, and make them truly come to life? I just take my Staxx Brothers albums, which are already sequenced cinematically, and breath life into characters in those songs. The narrative voices are already there. Every song is already a story. The videos are already my little movies – a literary …
Last night I went to see The Oracle. I took Eric Struthers to see the Troll, because since he hadn’t, he had to. I sat down with him right before this with hot coffee, and the mists of Autumn about us. He gave me sage advice and approved of one of my ideas that will change the …
You might want to come see me at The SeaMonster Lounge Saturday. It’s the end of an era. I can honestly say I tried as hard as I could and maybe harder than I should. Things are good. In some ways amazing. But it’s also time to move in a new direction. Trying to something over and …
I won’t share personal messages, but this thought I just sent to Anthony Cameron AKA Anthony Red Rose, is an exception. This was my reply tonight. I have had this song that came to me on guitar in 2009 that was this African sounding hybrid. It was like an expression of a style that did not yet exist …
So nice to spend a couple hours in the studio with Stingshark Sting. We were working on vocals for ‘Going South’, a track I brought to Hold in Fyah inspired by the fact that MAGA is a collection of fervently half witted anti-American Trash Pandas. But you can dance to it! Antony Su was on hand to document the …
What did you think was going to happen when you elected a White Supremacist president? Did you think his biggest fans weren’t going to be emboldened to shoot up synagogues, send politicians bombs, and slash throats on Portland trains. I am even more concerned how much support Trump has from law enforcement. Because White Supremacy …
It’s just one of those things. It’s a challenge to make sure people get the jist that one of the top guitar players in New Orleans is going to play with The Staxx Brothers on Nov 3rd at The SeaMonster Lounge. It’s no longer an era where you send a press release to The Seattle PI or The …
I got this video of the DJs in Tobago playing ‘Free Your Mind’ and giving me love along with Anthony Cameron, Sly Dunbar‘s, and last night’s award winning ASCAP composer Lenky Marsden, then I ran my 3rd 5k in 34:25 through Forest Park without losing too much breath. I stay ready. You know you ain’t in the White …
I got to work with Lenky Marsden on my song ‘Free Your Mind’. He won another ASCAP award. He’s already a dancehall legend for crossover success with Sean Paul. But this song with DJ Snake and Beebs was the most performed song of the year. There is a reason I call Anthony Cameron ‘Fadda’ and big up Sly Dunbar any chance …
Greenwood has been under the strangest fog all day. As I rolled in a 3 pm, fog was rolling down the street like a British ghost. My first thought was, “why hasn’t the fog burned off? Where is Watson when I need him?” In Everett the air and sky was crisp and cool. My budtending …
I am trying to read more, run more, practice more. It’s time to slow down the process and study, even as my life speeds up to a velocity I have never known. There is little time, but it’s the time you find and how much value you can give these quiet moments. Alone. Pretending you …
The lessons after threats drive a black legislator to quit BENNINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Voters in this very liberal, very white state made Kiah Morris a pioneer when in 2014 they elected her as its first black female legislator. Two years later, another Vermont surfaced: racist threats that eventually forced her to leave office in …
During the entire feverish national walking Zombie nightmare that was Kavanaugh’s inevitable Supreme Court nomination, I heard one phrophetic song on loop. I heard Wu Tang Clan’s ‘C.R.E.A.M.’ Cash does rule everything around me. The Billionaires have the money. Dollar dollar bill yall. The Confirmation was over before it started. The votes were already counted …
Donald Trump proved that in America, if you have enough money and absolutely no decency, there is no Rock Bottom. Mark Zuckerberg reflects that as well. Real decency is not just about four letter words and nip slips. It more about tearing your country apart for what amounts to loose change in a vast social …
Check out my latest recording session for West Indian Rock. This my first attempt at nailing vocals for my collaboration with Jamaican Mento musicians in Port Antonio. This song came to me when I was in Mantis Gardens in Arlington pulling giant fan leaves of marijuana plants that loomed above me. I had returned from my first …
Studio time with Mell Dettmer includes a history lesson on the richest man in history, Mansu Musa of Mali. His wealth in today’s dollars was like…47 Trillion? His road trip to Mecca was inconceivable. Malian history is rich man. I am not going to disregard Dead White Men. Many did fine work. But there is a much …
Last night I heard the rough mix of the Mento song I wrote, and then recorded with Joseph Whitmore and members of the current Jolly Boys line up. The Jolly Boys are the original kings of Mento, legendary in small part among many because their biggest fan Errol Flynn gave them that name. The song, ‘Go Tell …
You are paying rent for your own body, to experience indifference… – DMS Correct me if I am wrong but back in the Reagan era, when people shouted at homeless people to get a job, what that person was truly saying was that they should get an entry level position and pay rent. But many …
I had ‘Free Your Mind’ removed from Spotify and all the digital stores, because a label you know is going re-release and distribute the song worldwide. ‘Free Your Mind’ will always be a Sick Donkey Records release much like this unsaid label was connected with Island Records. I say too much. But when I sign this paper …
A dear friend of mine made a heart felt post asking what he could do to be a better ally to women after Kavanaugh became a lock as Supreme Court justice today. It’s an important question, but so is this f☆cking question, …Because I want to be an ally, but a majority of White Women …
This is what happens when you don’t vote. This is what happens when you say both candidates are the exact same. You lose THE SUPREME COURT. For most probably the rest of your lives. Oh you thought you won Gay marriage and the fight about those bathrooms. You just lost abortion. …and you are as …
This is me as a manchild in 1994-1995. I am starting to look like him again. This kid was trying to dunk. He was damn close. ‘Free Your Mind‘ is heading up the charts again starting this weekend in the Caribbean thanks to the Godfathers. One thing music taught me was patience. The other thing …
Right now I am writing a song with Mykal Rose from Black Uruhu. Well to be more specific I am driving up to Bellingham as I listen to a track Reggae Powerhouse Band sent me called ‘Freedom’ that the band produced with the intention of matching me up with the first of a number of greats. The …
So yeah…I am joining a band in Kingston, Jamaica called Reggae Powerhouse Band. They wanted to add a lead singer that could write, front a band like Mick Jagger, and just flip the script a bit. They asked me to shoot a phone video to announce to share, so here you go. They want me to …
☆ Last week the church I grew up in shut down forever because not enough people go anymore. There were no more kids, they couldn’t cover the mortgage. They did vote to welcome gays and allow Women to be Pastors, so they did go out with class man. Lord knows they tried. ☆ I sang …
I didn’t want to do it, but I had to do it. The call is coming for me to go back to Jamaica to play some actual shows. I needed a better phone. The second trip I was balling on such a tight budget I had to bring this entry level Samsung, after rocking an …
Dinner with folks in Mays Pond. Read a few tales from this book, before this night cap of sweet port that tastes like Communion, and an episode of The Crown at present. The Scandinavians sure had a strange obsession with evil trolls murdering you on Christmas Eve. Christmas was their Halloween in terms of being …
Would 53% of White women still vote for Trump after the Kavanaugh hearings? I am afraid to know the answer. Why? Because 53% of White women voted for Trump after hearing the Pussy grabbing tape and learning much worse. I can pretend like the Christian conservative women who sat next to me on all these …