Now with funny jokes!

I treat the podcasters who play my music the same way I engage the spectators who unwittingly find themselves in the places where I choose to perform.

You’ll take what I give you and like it! is my message. It’s not like there are any other musicians around to entertain you!

As a result, well-trained hosts such as Steve Wheatley of Dalecast were thrilled when I salvaged five songs from my November set at Bill’s Records, the celebrated Dallas retail and concert venue, and dumped them into the Podsafe Music Network. Continue reading

Posted in: New Stuff at 4:53 am Thu, Dec 25, 2008.

Some of my favorite People I Know

Steve Wheatley might be the most voracious client of the Podsafe Music Network, grabbing dozens of new tracks for his daily Dalecast.

Now, People I Know, introduced recently on Steve’s U.K.-based power pop program, isn’t exactly new. My brother-in-law, John, produced the track during two Terre Haute recording sessions that spanned some five months, concluding in fall of 2006.

People I Know is a family project. I sing lead and play guitar, John sings and plays bass, guitar and keyboards and my niece Morgan and my mom add background vocals. Continue reading

Posted in: New Stuff at 1:30 am Fri, Apr 4, 2008.

Noogie Man sabotages new tune

Chris Wilkinson writes songs the way other people breathe. He’s like one of those special people — savants, I think they’re called  — with remarkable, unexplained talents for mathematics or painting or getting elected president.

For example, I left town for a few weeks’ vacation, and when I returned, Chris greeted me with Whatever Happened To Ken Turetzky and Hello Ken (You’re Back Again). And they were good songs! Better than anything Paul McCartney has written in two years! Continue reading

Posted in: New Stuff at 4:25 pm Wed, Jan 30, 2008.

Jerry swings with Fly Me

I love Jerry Lewis, a comedy genius with a social conscience who recently reminded us that illiterate fags are people, too. Will we see Bart’s son Jesse on the cover of Parade Magazine next Labor Day?

Watch me entertain!

What I wanna say is, Jerry’s still in there swingin’, Vegas style, speaking to the farshluggineh noodnick in all of us. He’s not afraid to let go of inhibitions, make a funny face, dance a little step, light a cigarette with a four-foot tower of flame or shove a water glass in his face. Continue reading

Posted in: New Stuff at 2:22 pm Thu, Oct 4, 2007.

I’ll Get Old And Die breaks on KMCC

Brandon Higgins had been bugging me to come down to Waco (that’s in Texas) and record some tracks in his spacious garage apartment, and so the infamous G-1 Sessions occurred in January 2007.

Among the semi-completed songs was a live, raw mix of my uptempo protest song, I’ll Get Old And Die, featuring Brandon on drums and me on vocals and guitar.

My better judgment told me to stash the song with the rest of the half-finished compositions on my hard drive. Instead, in a fit of ego, I gave the song to Tyrone Kahn. Continue reading

Posted in: New Stuff at 7:20 pm Wed, Jul 11, 2007.