Lowlands: “Can’t Face the Distance” (with Richard Hunter and David Henry)
The sound of 1978: Gentile, Hunter, Dunlap, and French live in Woods Hole
Working with our friends Nancy and Jim Van der Pyle to put on a community dance party, in February of 1978 I performed at the Woods Hole Community Hall with a band consisting of myself on keys and harmonica, Phil Gentile on guitar and vocals,…
How I recorded “Put The Lever Down” (2017 version)
Where “Put the Lever Down” came from I wrote the lick and harmony on which “Put the Lever Down” is based while I was hanging out in my car at one of my daughter’s skating meets around 1981, playing with a Dorian Minor tuned diatonic…
How I recorded the big harmonicas that light up “Make the Noiseâ€
Sometimes it takes years to write a song. I wrote the first draft of some of the lyrics to “Make the Noise,†the leadoff song on my record “The Lucky One,†15 or so years ago for a piece called “In the Time of Your…
How I Recorded “Vivid”
“Vivid (Hurt and Far)” is the only piece on “The Lucky One” that uses nothing more than reverb and delay on the harmonica, and while there are three harmonica parts on the record, they’re all performed using the same (uneffected) chromatic harmonica in C (a…
How I Recorded “The Lucky One”
I’m planning to do a series of posts describing the specific sounds and techniques I used to record every song on “The Lucky One,” and I thought I’d start out by laying out the overall process that took this record from idea to finished recording.
Recording for the “The Lucky One” is Set for September in Philly
I’ve been hard at work writing songs and recording demos for the upcoming record sessions. The tentative title for this project is “The Lucky One.” We’ve set the date for the sessions in late September, and we’ve got guitarist Mike “Slo-Mo” Brenner, who I’ve played…
Chris Cacavas/Ed Abbiatti “Me and the Devil” is Released in the USA!
Just picked this up off Ed Abbiati’s Facebook page. The record Ed did last year with Chris Cacavas of Green on Red, “Me and the Devil,” which features yours truly playing harmonica on two tracks, has been released in the USA by Burnside Distribution. Let…
Video of the Day 1 April 2015: Lowlands Unplugged
The Photo Gallery
Pictures from the sessions for “The Lucky One” at 1935 Studio, Philadelphia, PA on Sep 18 2016. (Photos by Patty Sagalyn) Musicians: Richard Hunter, harmonica and vocals Mike “SloMo” Brenner, lap steel John Cunningham, bass Mark Schreiber, drums Peter Rydberg, engineer AND here’s the record…
