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Mark Nomad’s music has been shaped Brothers Band and I got a chance to hang next record that came out Again, I love the electric end, but they are by personal experience coupled to decades with him and have a long discussion. I had which was his big comeback record. Johnny two completely different worlds. There’s of playing in the live arena. Whether he’s backstage access and he was the only Winter produced it. On that record, he put a whole different set of chops going from manifesting a dolorous cry with a bottleneck one in the Green room. He had a rider, that song on. Johnny probably suggested it, electric guitar, where you have a rhythm on the fretboard of his or champagne and chicken livers (laughs). but I thought that was so cool. section and you’re bending strings and leading his energized electric band with a That was his rider. I also got to hang with such, to going to an acoustic thing. There’s , Nomad is a player of He was so magnanimous. Almost all of and a I cover one of his tunes. So yes, it’s a completely different approach, with the aptitude and substance. the masters were. They were very secure. my homage to the bluesmen, and I’ve been right hand especially, on these instruments. Mark began his musical journey playing They had nothing to prove. So we got to playing these songs now going on forty Just because you’re warmed up from one, the blues in the 1960’s and by the 1970’s, talkin’ and I said, Muddy I’ve been doing years. doesn’t mean you’re going to be warmed up was sharing concert stages with some “Can’t Be Satisfied.” How come you never METRONOME: Would you say it’s all for the other. of the biggest names in the business that do that song? of your musical upbringing coming full METRONOME: They’re two different include , John Lee Hooker, “Oh, I gots the arthritis,” he said. His circle? animals... John Hammond and others. The really are, both of them, and I need For his tenth release, Live From both of them in my life. I’m happy when it’s Somewhere, Nomad pays tribute to those about 50/50. musical legends with an filled with METRONOME: I really dug your rendition their spirit and pioneering sounds. Armed of ’ “The Last Time.” with a Martin D-35 acoustic, a Style 1 You did a great job with it. Was that a , a and his telling song you’ve been playing for a while? voice, Mark brings the past roaring in to the The funny thing is, I’m a creature of habit. here-and-now with resolute conviction... I tell my guitar students, When you learn a song, it’s like a gold nugget. Invest wisely. METRONOME:​ You have really embraced Some of these songs you may be playing playing solo blues. Is that intentional? for a long time. “The Last Time” is funny Mark Nomad: Here’s the thing... my new for me because I did that in my first band CD Live From Somewhere was recorded a during the 1960s. We tried to do it as close few years back, but I sat on it. I had done to the Stones as we could. My appreciation a performance and the soundman, without of the Rolling Stones has increased over the my knowledge, handed, me two CDs, one years. I think they’re just a brilliant band. of each set that I had played. I culled Live ... God bless him. From Somewhere from that. I wanted to do So my first band use to play it. In the something that I had never released before 1970s, I gave it a break. In the 1980s, I did and do my homage to Delta Blues. This is a reggae version of it which was very cool. my only cover record. A great song can be interpreted so many Lately, 60% off my gigs are solo acoustic different ways. For the last ten years, I’ve and 40% are electric. Out of the 40%, only been playing it the way it is on this record. 20% of my band plays. I’m also a member Occasionally, I’ll do a punk version of it of a funk band that plays out every once in electrically, which is a bit of a rave up. That awhile. songs works. METRONOME:​ What’s the name of the METRONOME: Mississippi Fred band? McDowell seems to be a big influence for Perfect Company. you. How did you discover him? METRONOME: On Live From Somewhere, I started playing acoustic blues in the early you did pay respect to all the Delta 1970s. I learned about open G tuning, in fact, greats. Is that material part of your show I got a chance to talk to John Hammond these days? about this. I said, Thank you John, because I felt that my originals and some of my he had done an interview with Guitar Player other covers had already been released Magazine in the early 1970s and he talked before. Why would I keep releasing them? about the DGDGBD tuning for open G. I was So I said, Let me put something out that fairly familiar with open E tuning because I I’ve never released. In the case of Muddy had met Duane Allman and was playing a Waters’ “Can’t Be Satisfied” which is the lot of electric slide. That open E tuning is a opening track, I actually got to talk to Muddy given. It’s the first thing most people play, about that song when he was alive. That’s but the G tuning is deep. It’s primitive and one of the first Delta blues songs I learned. very Delta. In the 1970s, my band Little Village came The first song I learned was “Write Me close to the big time. We had opened for A Few Lines.” Fred McDowell just blew my Muddy. Then he was on tour with the Allman mind. I think he’s my favorite of all time. When you talk about and had the full program. I told him, to the best Skip James and all these brilliant Delta blues of my knowledge, the songs I wanted. He’s guys, its’ hard to pick a favorite, but there’s great at what he does. He was probably something about Fred McDowell that just easier for him to master #9, my last album, grabbed me. Oddly enough, it was also the than it was to do this one (laughs). first time I had heard of Bonnie Raitt. She METRONOME: The new song that you does this Fred McDowell medley on her sent me is a band tune. It’s very different Live From Ann Arbor Blues Festival album. I than anything I’ve heard you play before. said, Who the heck is this? Back then, very Where are you going with that? few women were and playing guitar I can’t be limited to a genre. I retired, the way she did. my girlfriend and I bought a house together, I probably play a half dozen Fred McDowell and my father passed away. These are all tunes because he kind of invented that hill huge things. So I was not writing. If anything country sound. Then R.L. Burnside and was trying to come through, I would slam Junior Kimbrough and even the Black Keys the door on it. started playing that style. Because I have a lot of songs that I’ve METRONOME: What did you use written, I’m hoping my next record to be a for the recording? rock & roll album of songs I never released. Oddly enough, there’s only one true One day, a few months back, I was in my resonator song on the album. Most of the studio playing my Tele through a Big Muff songs, as it turns out, were played on my and my Vox AC15 and this song came Martin D-35. I through. The used to bring 3 opening lick guitars to a gig. wouldn’t go Now, I only bring away. two. The Martin Right around is semi-retired. this time, I heard I got this shiny this phrase “fix resonator that’s it” twice in one on the back cover week. I was of the album. I working on the bought that from song and now I the guys at The knew what the Minor Chord. I use name was going that along with my to be. J-45. I want this When that song to speak for Martin is in open itself. I have been G... several people deeply troubled have mistaken it with current for a resonator. politics so I had METRONOME: to channel these When you play in grave concerns open G, do you that I have. So plan your set list to include other songs let’s start with love. What’s happened to in G as well? love? So I wrote “Fix It.” It’s a rocker. It’s two Yeah. I use to play open D on a resonator, and a half minutes long. We’ve got to fix it! standard tuning on the Gibson and then I I’m talking to a few people right now would pick up my Martin which was in G about doing a compilation album of protest tuning. Now what I do is start in open D with songs. I think that would be very cool. my Style 1 resonator. That’s a 2004. Then I METRONOME: Very cool and timely. I do the standard tuning. believe the country, much like during the METRONOME: Where did you clean 1960s, is ripe for a revolution of some up the tracks and master Live From sort, but it has to come from the young Somewhere? people. I spent a lot of time with this CD. I I worry too. That’s an excellent point. licensed all these songs. You have to do the The pendulum has swung the other way. right thing. I would want that done for me. It’s going to take some time to get back to I sent the original CDs to Jim Chapdelaine center. We’re living in very interesting times and he had to work very hard. He called it right now. We’re all God’s children... we’ve “heavy lifting.” The soundman was mixing it got to fix this thing. I have to figure out what for a room. Jim had to mix it for CD. He had to do with this compilation, but I believe it to export the songs and master each one would be a worthy project. separately. But it’s real. METRONOME: Do you have other METRONOME: Did you give him more musicians interested in the project? than the eleven songs that are on the Yes. There’s a lot of interest from people album and then choose form there? who want to contribute songs. That’s my He must have had three dozen songs. He story and I’m sticking to it. Hearings by Doug Sloan, Alex Gecko or Brian M. Owens

the beautifully orchestrated “Safe In The include the fine album opener “Waited • MY SHIP Arms,” the Gospel infused “Keep On,” A Long Time” and the cleverly rowdy Top 5 for • LET’S SING AGAIN Ross’s radio friendly hit “Call Me” and the “Bourbon Hangover.” Good stuff! [D.S.] March 2018 uplifting salute to music, “Let’s Sing Again.” Contact-- www.powderhouseband.com (In NO Particular Order) Jacksonville, native Jamison Catch Jamison Ross live when he comes to Ross is a stellar drummer who just happens Sculler’s on March 22nd. [B.M.O.] to be an equally gifted singer. In 2012, he Contact-- www.jamisonrossmusic.com LIZ BILLS • won the Thelonius Monk International Jazz 4-SONG CD • Vandenberg’s Moonkings Competition for drums, which led him to the • Terry Kitchen release of his first album for the Concord POWDERHOUSE • BORN TO WANDER Jazz label simply titled, Jamison, in 2015. SPARK • MY MAN • Chris Paine & The Lettertrain That record was nominated for a GRAMMY 5-SONG CD • BOMB SONG • Liz Bills award. • WEREWOLF ______On his sophomore effort, All For One, • WAITED A LONG TIME Ross delivers a refreshing collection of • COOL PLACES Liz Bills’ debut album is just as provocative JAMISON ROSS tunes that range from swing • SOMETHING MORE and compelling as the record’s front cover ALL FOR ONE and steamy jazz, to gospel inflected sweet • UNBREAKABLE photo would imply. This naturally talented 13-SONG CD sounding soul. Penning seven of the • BOURBON HANGOVER gal boasts an outstanding voice that’s pitch album’s tracks with veteran proficiency, perfect even when she’s wailing emotive • A MELLOW GOOD TIME Ross also visits songwriting masters like 5-piece Boston based band, (which she does with ease from song to • UNSPOKEN Alan Toussaint, Mose Allison, Ira Gershwin, Powderhouse, fronted by singer-songwriter song). Joined by bandmates Benjamin • DON’T GO TO STRANGERS Gus Kahn & Jimmy McHugh, Willie Tee (aka Teresa Mastrorilli, return with their 4th Goldbaum on guitar & and Eric • AWAY Turbinton) and Redd Evans, serving up his album, a well-penned 5-song offering aptly Simpson on djembe, Liz and company slay • EVERYBODY’S CRYIN’ MERCY own beautifully stylistic renditions of those titled Spark. Joined by bandmates, singer- these three tunes with a musical mastery • SAFE IN THE ARMS OF LOVE artists’ tunes. bassist Ray Boyce, guitarist Fred Pickard, that’s far beyond anything you may hear • TEARS AND QUESTIONS Songs of favor include the funky keyboardist Art Deprato and drummer locally (or nationally). • KEEP ON Toussaint penned opening track “A Mellow Stephen McDonough, Teresa and company “Born To Wander” is a well played, funky • ALL FOR ONE Good Time,” the gorgeously introspective keeps things light and bouncing musically folk number that gives Liz plenty of room to • CALL ME sentiment of Ross’s “Away,” the flawless with taut rhythms, whirring keyboards and stretch out vocally. “My Man” is a playful • TRUE LOVE syncopation of “Everybody’s Cryin’ Mercy,” sterling guitar licks. Radio friendly songs number that most likely resonates deeply

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Visit citymusiconline.com and click on “Annex” to order or stop by and check one out. with Liz on a personal level. The chiming their debut album released in 2014. mandolin work of Goldbaum and Liz’s sweet He returns with his latest offering, MKII, Solo Artists, Bands & Record Labels are welcome vocals fills “Bomb Song” with inventive pop that features bandmates Jan Hoving on to send CDs and DVDs for review along with candy, gum, glory. “Werewolf” runs in deeper waters, vocals, Sem Christoffel on bass and Mart decals, t-shirts, promo pins, mugs and other cool stuff to: putting Liz’s vocal prowess front and center. Nijenes on drums. This is a well rehearsed, This tune just may be my favorite (and rockin’ outfit that displays hints of ‘80s yours). Make sure to check out this gifted hard rock while bringing that musical era METRONOME MAGAZINE, gal and her fine band. They’re going to be well placed into the 21st century. At 64 famous one day. [B.M.O.] years young, Vandenberg rocks with fierce P.O. BOX 921, BILLERICA, MA. 01821 Contact-- www.lizbills.com abandon spilling blazing single note runs with fury while his band rocks with equal vengeance. Hoving’s vocals are second • IT’S OKAY TO BE AFRAID , Sam Dechenne on , Don VANDENBERG’S MOONKINGS to none (ironically reminding us of David • THE BAR HARBOR FULL SAIL Barry on upright bass and Chris Peeler on MKII Coverdale) while Christofell and Nijenes are DOWNEAST ACADIA WINDJAMMER drums, Kitchen brings together a beautifully 12-SONG CD as potent as any rhythm section on record. SUNSET CRUISE textured collection of songs that appeal This is a great band delivering an • LET YOUR WILD WINDS BLOW to young and old alike. Catch him live at • TIGHTROPE impressive sophomore album that should • THE LAST LAUGH his official CD release show on Saturday, • REPUTATION be heard by everyone who loves hard rock. • JERICHO March 10th at Amazing Things Art Center in • ANGEL IN BLACK Good stuff! [B.M.O.] Framingham. [B.M.O.] • THE FIRE Contact-- Singer-songwriter-guitarist Terry Kitchen Contact-- www.terrykitchen.com • WALK AWAY www.vandenbergsmoonkings.com returns with a poignant body of work that • ALL OR NOTHING touches down on everything from mortality • WHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU (“Enjoy It While It Lasts”), parenthood (“Half GWAR • READY FOR THE TAKING TERRY KITCHEN You Half Me”), life’s ironies (“Bar Harbor THE BLOOD OF GODS • NEW DAY THE QUIET PLACES Full Sail”), being human (“Jericho”) and 12-SONG CD • HARD WAY 12-SONG CD communicating with fairer sex (“The Quiet • LOVE RUNS OUT Places”), as well as a superb rendition of • WAR ON GWAR • IF YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE HEAT • ENJOY IT WHILE IT LASTS Randy ’s hit, “Nature’s Way.” • VIKING DEATH MACHINE • SEEDS Joined by an army of musical friend that • EL PRESIDENTE Dutch rock guitarist Adrian Vandenberg is • THE QUIET PLACES include singers Mara Levine, Ruby Bird, Amy • I’LL BE YOUR MONSTER best known for his time in the 1980s as lead • NATURE’S WAY Malkoff, Rebecca Lynch, Brice Buchanan, • AUROCH guitarist for the super group, . • SHE’S ALREADY CRIED Bob Vivona and Deede Bergeron, Bob • SWARM In 2013, Adrian formed a new band, • THE KID BEHIND THE WALL Harris on mandolin, Leslie Bryant on , Vandenberg’s MoonKings and recorded • HALF YOU HALF ME Roger Williams on , Barry Singer on Continued on next page >>> Hearings continued

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In fact, this may be the best ups the tempo considerably and shakes • DIGGING MY GRAVE from a musical sense with the zesty garage record Gwar has released, ever. Seattle to the roots from the other side of the • BUGS ON MY BACK riff, a gang vocal chorus and the organ for On The Blood Of Gods, rocks planet. This is Cobain without the childlike • THE MESS I’M IN extra sugarcoating. Absolutely delicious. with a fierce vengeance as new lead singer emotional side, but the Curt who rocked • 300 POUNDS Some band theme tunes can be a drag, but The Berserker Blothar breathes flames of till it hurt. “Stuck On You” starts achieving • AIN’T IT HARD “T-R-A-S-H-B-O-N-E-S” not only show they fury in to track after glorious track. In the anthemic qualities on the choruses, thought • WHY CAN’T WE BE SATELLITERS can spell, but also sounds like a bucketful meantime, BälSäc continues his carnage verses are a bit monotone even when • COYOTE of fun at the end of a sweaty set. on lead guitar, Beefcake the Mighty holds moving at breakneck speed. • TELLING LIES I’m not going to pretend liking Evel’s down the bottom end with his molten bass “Salvation” then has a sing-song vocal • GOTTA LEAVE TOWN voice, but I can affirm that this has easily work, JiZMak da Gusha beats the drums amidst a cool riff with a bit more space in • FRIED CHICKEN LEGS been one of the best-played neo-60s record like a jackhammer, and Pustulus Maximus the mix which makes it the most endearing • I LOST MY MIND since the Cynics or the Pandoras back in wails supreme on the guitar. Gwar has come track so far. “The Biggest Sound” maintains • T-R-A-S-H-B-O-N-E-S the 1980s. I imagine this also works well along way musically since their early days of a similar momentum, yet rocks a bit harder live where the stage antics and persona stage theatrics and comedic imagery. Fans by removing the sweetening. An element Somewhere in lost valley of mountainous complement the vocals. [Gecko] of hard rock and metal will be trippin’ out on of frantic can be felt on the chorus parts Austria, time has stood still since 1964 Contact-- www.wildevelandthetrashbones. this outstanding new record. [B.M.O.] of “Big Town” which roars to a convincing in order for these reprobates to properly bandcamp.com Contact-- www.gwar.net finale. Without being tuneful, “Brain Out” compost and ferment. 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Kirsten Manville is a gifted singer. Once Damsky, who plays on the CD. She in Lynn, Massachusetts. I run an open mic on the line,” is really because in the summer, you hear her voice, you’re immediately and I do some gigs together. It’s really fun to there at the Walnut Street Cafe. For my day I love hanging my laundry outside on the captivated by her natural ability, command play with her. We’ve been playing together job, I work at First Church in Cambridge, a line (laughs). I was taking them off the line of emotion and pure essence. She’s a for years. church which has a huge homeless ministry. and started humming and putting words to talented songstress as well and can capture METRONOME: Isn’t it nice to have That’s right in Harvard Square. it. That’s where that song started. I just take life’s moments with resounding clarity. We someone riding shotgun with you? METRONOME: You’ve been working bits of life. Some turn in to songs and some spoke in December 2017 and talked about It is. Even just to have the company. I there for a while? turn in to fragments of songs that I end up the making of her new album, Some People remember the show I played up in Maine. I have. It’s a great job for me. It’s very not using. Sing, and how she’s grown as an artist... I performed with other people, but I didn’t flexible and has a lot of autonomy if I need METRONOME: I really liked your song “... know them. It was a songwriter’s in the to leave to go to a gig. It’s really the perfect but Down.” What inspired that? METRONOME:​ How long was your new round. I stayed over and drove back the next day job. Plus, I like the job a lot. That actually is not my personal story. album, Some People Sing, in the making? day. Once everyone left the show and it was METRONOME: You’ve hosted the Walnut A friend of mine had a very close friend Kirsten Manville: If you count the just me, I thought, Yep, this is the glamorous Street Cafe open mic for a long time as who had been married for years and years. writing, probably a good three years. The life of a singer-songwriter. It’s good to have well? Suddenly, one day, her husband blind sided actual production of the album started last someone for the company and the drive. Yeah, I really enjoy that. The great thing her and came home and said, “He was February 2017. leaving because he had met someone else.” METRONOME: Did it take three years to That was the end of it. She was devastated. write the tunes? To her, it came out of nowhere. The genesis It took three years to get the collection of of that song came from that idea that one tunes together because I was so busy with day, you’re flying up in the sky soaring and performing, and there were certainly a lot of suddenly the next day you crash landed. songs I started and threw away (laughs). To METRONOME: You talked about “Hard get the ten together that I wanted, it took Town,” but was there a particular about that long. instance that spawned the writing of that I had a period after the first album where I tune? just wasn’t writing much at all. I was refilling The whole first verse about, “the needles the creative well after getting the first album on the playground...” at the church, one of out and then started writing again. It took a the first things my custodial staff does in little while. the morning is look at the playground and METRONOME: Did you have more than sweep it for needles because we find them. just the ten songs written? The specific instance that sparked that Yeah. I don’t know the exact number, but verse is that I had a new custodian come in it was somewhere around twenty that I was the first time he found some. He came in to able to go through and decide which ones my office and he was a little freaked out by I wanted on the album and which ones fit it. He said, “I can’t believe I just found these together. out there. They were on the playground.” So METRONOME: That’s prolific to be able that’s where that first verse came from and it to write twenty or more tunes in a three went on from there. years period... METRONOME: “Jesus and Me” was a I feel like I’m a slow writer compared to wonderful tune. Tell us about writing that. other people I know. I spend a lot of time I actually started that song a long on them. time ago when I was living in Nashville. METRONOME: How did the last album, Nashville is the home of the Southern Come With Me, do for you? Baptists convention. Socially, one of the I had some really nice things happen first questions people ask you in Nashville, from that last album. It definitely brought me along with, where do you live and what do to a different level. I was able to do more you do for work is, where do you attend performing outside of Massachusetts. I METRONOME: What inspired the about that open mic is that it’s all ages. We church? That struck me that they’re making went to upstate , Maine, and down songwriting on Some People Sing? have fourteen and fifteen year olds come in, a judgement or forming an opinion about to Rhode Island. It got some nice radio play Well, I did go through a breakup, so that people in their sixties and seventies, and all you depending on where you say you attend too. I had a couple of songs chart on some inspired some of the songs. The title track different walks of life. It’s a fun atmosphere. church. That’s where the basic idea for that internet radio stations. It definitely made my “Some People Sing” is just acknowledging METRONOME: Were the majority of the song came from. music more familiar to more people. That the fact that I use music and songwriting to songs culled from your breakup? That one actually took me the longest was a nice stepping stone to this album. process my emotions and to try to make No. “Hard Town” came from the Lynn to write. It took a long time to put all the METRONOME: When you perform, are sense of what’s going on around me in the and Cambridge experience. “Jesus and pieces together. I think of that song as an you with a band or do you play solo? world. Some of the songs came from that Me” came from just observing life and some unassuming request for religious tolerance. It really depends on the gig. Sometimes perspective too. are just fun. “A Little Bit of Heaven,” which We’re all doing our thing and trying to do it’s just me, but sometimes I bring Jackie For “Hard Town,” I spend a lot of time starts out with the lyrics, “I hung our sheets the best we can. We all have our own ideas about God and as long as you’re not hurting Plus, all my family is up here. I missed them. you. I wanted electric guitar on it. For some unbelievable. anyone else, let people be. The very first Once I got back here and delved back reason, that’s where I was at that time. I METRONOME: You seem to have a good kernel of inspiration came from way back into the music scene, I was able to take thought it served those songs too. I had a working relationship with Brian Maes? in Nashville and then the pieces came what I had learned in Nashville and meld straight-ahead rock song on that album. I I do. I can’t say enough good about together. it together with what was going on here. remember when I wrote “You’re Wrong” for Brian. He is just the right balance of making METRONOME: How long did you live in I really think it helped shape my musical the first album. When I finished it, I went to suggestions, helping out, and backing off Nashville? sensibilities. the computer and emailed a friend and said, when I don’t want to go in a certain direction. Six and a half years. METRONOME: “Might As Well” had a I think I wrote a rock song. I don’t know He really wants to serve the song. METRONOME: Did you feel like you found nice honky tonk feel to it. It was a great what’s wrong with me (laughs). That’s not METRONOME: Have you had a CD yourself musically after living there? song. Was that Nashville inspired some usually how I write. release party yet? I moved down there to see if I could how? This album felt more like I came back Yes, I had one on December 6th at make it in Nashville. I was 22, and honestly, I That actually started as a songwriting to the Country/Americana feel. I made the Breakaway in Danvers. We had a full band. would do it again. It was a great experience exercise and challenge to myself. The decision not to have any electric guitar on It was a lot of fun. in so many ways. Partly it was life learning. I challenge was to write a song full of cliches it. I wanted it to sound more rootsy. For this METRONOME: Have you shot any videos moved down and had to get a job and figure or familiar phrases. The whole idea of, “If I album I came back to who I really am. for the album? out how to open a bank account. Musically, didn’t have bad luck, I wouldn’t have any METRONOME: I imagine these songs I did do a lyric video for the title track, it was all those little clubs with songwriters luck at all,” and “no room at the inn.” That’s translate well with just your voice and an “Some People Sing.” That was a lot of work in smoky bars pouring their hearts out. where that started. I worked on it and it’s acoustic guitar? (laughs). I did it all myself. I also shot a live Observing and listening was a huge obviously not a song full of cliches anymore, Yes, they do. action video. We just finished editing it and learning opportunity and it was the first time but that’s where it started. For the chord METRONOME: When you perform live, it should be out by the time this story hits in my life I was around other songwriters progression I thought, let me try something do you play an entire evening or just one the streets. I‘m really excited about it. who were as passionate about it as I was that’s a little bluesy and jazzy. Let’s use set? METRONOME: Where can people go on and wanted to talk about it all the time. It felt some 7th chords and see what happens. I can play an entire evening. It just the internet to find out more about you like coming home in that sense. METRONOME: I don’t remember the depends on what the performance is. I and buy your CDs? METRONOME: It must have been bitter last album sounding as country flavored play mostly originals, but I will throw some My CD is available on Bandcamp, CDBaby, sweet for you to move back here? as this one. Is that something that you covers in. I do a cover of “Jolene” by Dolly iTunes, , Amazon and all the Yeah, it was. It was definitely bitter sweet. developed since the last record? Parton. Everyone always likes to hear that. I normal places. Of course they can get them One of the downsides of Nashville is that I feel like I’ve always had a country will throw covers in, but they may be covers from me at shows. My web site is www. it’s a very transitory city because so many leaning and I agree with you about your that aren’t always familiar to everyone. I’m kirstenmanville.com and my facebook page people come and say, I’ll give it a year. If I assessment of the first album. For whatever still really excited about discovering other is facebook.com/kirstenmanvillemusic. haven’t become a star in a year, I’m going reason, when I was writing for that album, female singer-songwriters. to leave. I felt like I was making new friends I think the country part of it got minimized. METRONOME: Who are some of your every two years. I didn’t have a sense of METRONOME: Why? musical influences and idols? steady community. That was one reason. I’m not really sure to be honest with For me, the very first person was Barbara Mandrell. She had a show on TV with her sisters. As soon as I was introduced to that show, I didn’t miss a night of it for as long as it was on. I just thought it was fantastic. I wanted to do what they did. They also played instruments. They were rockin’ their instruments. I thought, Wow, that looks really exciting. I want to try to do that. METRONOME: Did the country thing hit you as far back as then? Yeah. METRONOME: How did you feel about Ann & Nancy Wilson, Pat Benatar, Joan Jett and those gals that took rock & roll to a whole new level? That’s the other music that I was listening to. I was listening to ‘80s pop radio and Pat Benatar and Heart and Madonna. Vocally, listening to Heart just seeped in to me. From a writing perspective, I would sit with my Madonna vinyl record and look at who was writing the songs. I saw that she did. That was one of the first times I thought about “All the songs vibrate with beautiful sentiment [and] unique wit.” where the songs on the radio came from. – Metronome Then Debbie Gibson, same thing. She got “Highly entertaining, written with wit and performed with verve.” all the accolades for not only writing, but – The Noise producing when she was a teenage girl. That made an impression on me too. Here were people that I was listening to who were Appearing Saturday, March 10 at Amazing Things Arts Center, Framingham, MA involved in all aspects of the music. From a bluegrass and country perspective, I was a big fan of Alison Krauss and a big www.MarkStepakoff.com fan of Marty Stuart. His musicianship is The Time Machine Boston Photo circa: 1976 Band Members: (bass), (vocals), John “Sib” Hashian (drums), (guitar & keyboards), Barry Goodreau (guitar). Musical Achievements: Band architect Tom Scholz joined the band Freehold, where he met and drummer Jim Masdea. Singer Brad Delp was added in 1970. Scholz built a in his basement, and early demos were recorded with Delp on vocals, Goudreau on guitar, Masdea on drums, and Scholz on guitar, bass and keyboards. From those early [1974/1975] tapes came future Boston hits, “,” “Peace of Mind” and “ Band.” The demo attracted promoters Paul Ahern and Charlie McKenzie who started to get label interest for the group. Scholz and Delp signed a deal with in 1976. Before the deal could be finalized though, the band had to do a live audition for the record company. They recruited Goudreau on guitar, bassist Fran Sheehan and drummer to create a performing unit. The showcase was a success. Their debut, Boston, was released on August 25, 1976, selling over 17 million copies. It peaked at #3 on the Billboard 200 and remained on the charts for over 2-1/2 years. Lawsuits and other distractions dissolved the original lineup in 1980. Where are they now?: Tom Scholz continues to perform with his band Boston. Brad Delp died in March of 2007 at his home in New Hampshire. Sib Hashian died while playing on a cruise ship in March of 2017. Barry Goodreau formed a new band called Barry Goodreau’s Engine Room and recently released their debut Full Steam Ahead. Fran Sheehan still performs professionally.

Mark Stepakoff by Brian M. Owens

With a humorous songwriting edge, from title ideas where it will be a phrase that wonderful song. What spawned that one? some good ideas about. I was very happy coupled to an unwavering traditional folk sparks the rest of the song. I find I don’t When I wrote that, I had it in mind from how that recording came out. delivery, Mark Stepakoff never fails to do very well when I try to write abstractly. I the beginning as the lead track for the CD. METRONOME: What was it that made entertain his listening audience. Displaying needs some sort of a concrete idea. It wasn’t written with any specific person in you realize the duet wasn’t going to work an uncanny knack for capturing the intricate I’m always thinking of titles and then see mind, but I think we all know people that may for the song? nuances of life and love, he is truly an if I can develop that, especially if the title be quiet, and they may seem unassuming, It was Rose. She recorded “April Fools” original voice in the New England folk arena. idea lends itself to rhymes. If it lends itself but they have a real fire burning inside of with me which was a duet and I had this one Riding the crest of his latest album, Any Port to rhymes, the song can almost write itself. them. I was really trying to convey a female in mind for that too. Rose is so wonderful In A Storm, Stepakoff took time out of his That always feels good when that happens. character that had those qualities with the and came in brimming with ideas for the busy schedule to weigh in on the making of METRONOME: “Memory Museum” was idea that if you had that quality inside you, songs. Inevitably, they were better ideas the new CD... than I had. She said, “I don’t think this should be a duet so much as I should just METRONOME:​ Your new album, Any be in the background.” We tried it that Port In A Storm, sounds great. The way, and of course, she was right. songwriting is very clever. How long METRONOME: What inspired the was it in the making? writing and the idea for the duet with Mark Stepakoff: This CD took upwards Rose for “April Fools?” to two years to complete. We worked on I didn’t have Rose in mind at the it in fits and starts. My prior CD,The Story time I wrote the song. Part of what I was Behind The Story, came out in 2014. I going for in that tune was a relationship took a little time off between CDs, but it song that was hopeful and romantic and was about two years in the making. hearkening back a little bit to the great METRONOME: How did the last album American songbook. I knew right away do for you? that it would lend itself to being a duet. I I played locally behind it particularly in tried to give a little thought to who might listening rooms. I felt like it did well. I got be a good work partner on it. It was some real nice reviews and it got a lot of literally within a few weeks of writing it airplay on folk radio. That felt good. that I happened to see Rose perform. METRONOME: When did you start We go back a while and as soon as penning the songs for Any Port in A I heard her, it clicked with me that she Storm? would be a great person to sing this song I’m always writing. I always try to have with me. Of course she’s so wonderful some songs in the hopper. I try to do it and such a great singer. That night, I in an assembly line method where I have chatted with her for a few minutes and two or three songs that I’m working on raised the idea of her singing with me. at once. If it turns out that I’m not making one of my favorite tunes on the album. it’s going to manifest itself. She was very willing to do that. It all worked progress on a song I move it off line and Did you cull the idea from your own I wrote that in a minor key and it’s the only out very nicely. start working on another one. memories? minor key song on the record. I tried to get METRONOME: Did you purposely want Some of the ideas I had even before I That song was probably more personal to an acoustic feel to it. It’s a song to keep this album sparse vocally and not started writing for the record. The first one me than a lot of the songs where I write more that I really like and it seemed to work as the have a lot of harmonies and background I can remember having fully developed in character. I find, the older I get, my old lead track for the album. singers? for the album was the song “Memory recollections around. I almost feel like METRONOME: Your prose for Probably more so as compared to my Museum.” I remember having that one prior I’m in a place that I used to be from time to “Rottweilers” was highly inventive. What other CDs. I was looking for more of a sparse to my last record. That was sitting around time. If you know the book Slaughterhouse was that song about? feel with fewer musicians. My other CDs for a while. I had it about 95% percent done Five where the Billy Pilgrim character gets The idea for that song was the flip side of tended to have a wider range of musicians. and developed it a little further. unstuck in time and jumps around from “Memory Museum” in that we all have parts I wanted this CD to be a little more intimate. Some of the songs were written after period to period, sometimes I have a vague of ourselves that we don’t necessarily show METRONOME: This album had some I really started recording the record, for sense of that. That was really the impetus to the world. I tried to do it a little tongue-in- joyous moments, but it also sounded example the song, “I Didn’t Come This Far for the song. cheek with the idea that your heart or soul is a little more somber than your past (To Only Come This Far).” That was the last I think it’s true for everybody. You have surrounded by dangerous things and if you releases. Why? one I wrote for the record. For most of them certain recollections of experiences that are get too close, you might be in trouble. That I’m always trying to have a mix of though, I had the seeds before I started unique to you and no matter how close you was the idea for the song. It had a more humorous material and more poignant devoting my attention to the recording are to somebody, nobody can really ever serious point to make, but I tried to do it in a material on every CD. The balance on this process. fully know what you’ve been through. Those tongue-in-cheek way. one was a little bit toward the more serious METRONOME: How do the ideas for your experiences make you the individual that I had conceived it as a duet and did material, and there are some songs that songs come to you? you are and there’s a lot of value to that. another duet on the CD with Rose Polenzani. are a little sadder or bitter sweet like “Talk I’m in the car a lot (laughs). I get a lot That’s really what I was trying to convey. It wound up more being Rose singing some About The Weather,” and “They’re Not of ideas while driving. I tend to write a lot METRONOME: “Fires Gotta Burn” is a background vocals which she really had Making Love Like That Anymore.” Those are songs that depict the end of a relationship have a title song for. None of the song titles on the recording. Tim was recording at the I didn’t know this, but Chris is a really good or a deteriorating relationship. really worked as the title for the album. studio and Doug and I had been talking artist as well as a musician, so I talked to METRONOME: “I Didn’t Come This Far All my CDs tend to be phrases that I about adding some fiddle to the song, him about whether he would take a shot at (To Only Come This Far)” was a clever say conversationally and that have meaning “Sausage Factory.” Everything worked drawing something for the CD. He sent me tune. What fueled the writing for that to me. It basically means that when you’re serendipitously, because as we were talking something with a note saying, “I’m not sure song? looking for refuge, almost anywhere will about it, Tim happened to be there. He did this is what you’re looking for,” but it really I had the phrase and immediately do. That’s something I say conversationally a great job. was exactly what I was looking for. He really realized it could be a song. I wanted it to be from time to time. It seemed to lend itself to METRONOME: How did you get Adam captured the overall feel of the record. A lot inspirational. The song is vaguely influenced the overall feel of the record. Rothberg to play mandolin and sing on of people have complimented the artwork by gospel music. Lines like, “I’m not where METRONOME: Did it come after you “Bad Memory?” for the record and that was really all Chris. I want to be/I’m not where I’m going to be” made the track list? Adam and our friend Esther Friedman He did a great job. came from, in the back of my mind, gospel Yes. The title came pretty late. co-wrote that with me. That’s the first song METRONOME: Have you had a CD music. Then, there’s a line in the song about, METRONOME: How did you connect on any of my CDs that was a co-write. release party yet? “the last mile of the way,” which of course is with Doug Kwartler to record and mix the The original idea for the song was Esther’s Yes. I had a CD release show at Passim a song by Sam Cooke & The Soul Stirrers. album? and she and I had been working on it for which was fantastic. It was really a wonderful I certainly wouldn’t call it a gospel song in I’ve known Doug for a long time. We go a while. I really got to know Adam through night. I’m playing again March 10th at any way, but at least that’s what was in the back a long way. When his partner Susan Esther. He’s an amazing musician and a Amazing Things Art Center in Framingham back of my mind. Levine was looking for someone to produce great songwriter in his own right. He’s really where I’m sharing the night with my friend METRONOME: Were you listening to some tracks for her, I was the one that become one of my favorite musicians in Terry Kitchen. That’s his official CD release Sam Cooke and he seeped in to your recommended him to her. It just seemed like the area. Because we had written a song show. songwriting? a natural fit. together, it seemed like a natural fit to have METRONOME: Do you still host an open I love Sam Cooke. I think he’s the METRONOME: Have you ever done a CD him come in and play on it. He’s a fantastic mic night? greatest singer that ever lived. You wouldn’t with him before? mandolin player in addition to playing other Yes. For many years I’ve hosted the open know it by listening to my music, but I’ve No. This is the first one I’ve done with instruments. mic night at TCAN in Natick. I’d say for always been heavily influenced by Soul him. Doug is a good producer. METRONOME: Who did the artwork for about ten years. music. A few ago I had a song that METRONOME: How did you get Tim the album? METRONOME: When do you do that? paid tribute to the great soul singer, Mighty Roper involved playing fiddle on the CD? The cover drawing was done by someone It’s generally twice a month on Tuesday Sam McClain. I just love that kind of music. Tim has played with me before. He’s called Chris LaVancher who is actually nights. You can get the exact dates on the METRONOME: How did you come up another guy I go way back with. That Esther Friedman’s husband. He’s also a very TCAN web site which is www.natickarts.org. with the name for the album, Any Port In day, Tim was in the studio laying down fine singer-songwriter. I really didn’t have a I’m also part of an informal songwriting A Storm? some tracks for Rob Siegel, a fine singer- firm concept of what I was looking forin group that gets together every month or so. I try to give a lot of thought to the titles of songwriter that I know. He was working on a terms of the cover art. I wanted some sort It’s a nice way to try new material and jam a my CDs. This was really the first CD I didn’t new CD with Doug and he had a lot of fiddle of a drawing that would depict the title idea. bit. That’s been helpful to me. Metronome Madness

Happy month of March friends of Metronome Davenport on drums. “I hope the fans will McLaughlin and the 4th Dimension across and welcome to the Madness column. Lots enjoy the fireworks that the three of us came the country for over 5 weeks before winding of happenings to tell you about, so grab a up with during our tour of Europe last year,” up on December 9th at a sold out UCLA’s frosty and do read on... Mayall says. “We opted for recording in East Royce Hall in , CA. The tour was has set a March 9, 2018 release date for The Germany purely as a convenience and a collaboration with one of McLaughlin’s High Cost Of Low Living, the label debut by availability of a recording company. They favorite musicians, American guitarist Jimmy The Nick Moss Band featuring Dennis specialize in live recordings and I must say Herring, who joined the Maestro with his own Gruenling. The album is a tour de force of they captured the energy that took place band, Jimmy Herring and the Invisible the classic blues ensemble sound onstage. I hope listeners will enjoy the Whip. Mud Morganfield, son of the that world class guitarist/vocalist Moss and performances that capture a new chapter in legendary blues icon, Muddy Waters master harmonicist/vocalist Gruenling know, my live shows.” Mayall has been utilizing the announced a March 9 release for his new live and love. The High Cost Of Low Living current trio format for over a year. Long-time album, They Call Me Mud. Produced by Mud is no recycling of old songs. Moss wrote eight followers of the legendary and Rick Kreher (who also plays guitar on memorable new originals and Gruenling master know to expect the unexpected from the CD), They Call Me Mud was recorded at wrote two, all deeply rooted in the blues Mayall, who always likes to keep his sound Joyride Studios in in Mud’s hometown of tradition with a touch of old school rock & fresh, both in terms of musical ideas and in Chicago. Morganfield penned 10 of the roll. Produced by guitarist Kid Andersen and the band members he’s utilized throughout & Keb’ Mo’ album’s 12 songs, with two others coming Moss and recorded at Rancho de Rhythm his 50-plus year career. “I’ve been using the win GRAMMY for TajMo from his illustrious father’s catalog, “Howling in Elgin, , the album is a blast of pure trio format for our live shows for a year Wolf” and “Can’t Get No Grinding.” A stellar blues power. With the release of The High already,” he states, “and the reason for that new territory. Kristin Hersh will tour with cast of Chicago area musicians adds some Cost Of Low Living, The Nick Moss Band came about quite accidentally when my Grant Lee Phillips for dates in 12 cities, authentic, downhome blues touches to the featuring Dennis Gruenling will do what guitarist Rocky Athas wasn’t able to make preceded by three exclusive shows with recording, including Billy Flynn on guitar, they do best: barnstorm the globe, bringing a festival gig due to airline cancellations. step-sister and fellow Throwing Muses Studebaker John on harmonica and backing their muscular, high-energy show to clubs, Since then, I found that the interplay and member Tanya Donelly on March 9, 10 and vocals, Sumito Ariyo Ariyoshi on piano, E.G. concert halls, roadhouses and festival stages dynamics have created a more personal 11 at Boston’s City Winery. She will perform McDaniel on bass and Melvin “Pookie Stix” night after night. It is a show that is not to be upfront sound in my live performances. I can’t songs from her latest release, Wyatt at the Carlisle on drums. Special guests include missed. According to Moss, “I’m a shy speak highly enough of bass player Greg Coyote Palace as well as other offerings on harmonica, Mike Wheeler person, but when the band and I get on Rzab and drummer Jay Davenport, who from her longtime career. pioneer on guitar and Mud’s daughter, Lashunda stage, the music takes over. We can’t hold have been my bandmates for the last ten John McLaughlin, won a GRAMMY award Williams, who joins her dad on the loving back and the energy just comes pouring out. years or more. Their Chicago roots are to the for Best Improvised Jazz Solo for the live duet, “Who Loves You,’”where Mud gets to We get carried away and the audience gets fore every time we get onstage together.” Taj track “Miles Beyond” from his album Live stretch out on some of his R&B grooves. carried away with us.” Blues Hall of Mahal and Keb’ Mo’s first ever album as a at Ronnie Scott’s. John said of the honor, There’s also a section featured on Famer/“Godfather of British Blues” John duo, TajMo, won a GRAMMY in the category “Winning a Grammy is a wonderful several tunes, and Mud, himself, plays bass Mayall will release an album of live recordings of Best Contemporary Blues Album at the experience, but to win it for improvisation is on three tracks. “I think it’s the some of the titled Three for the Road on February 23 via 60th Annual GRAMMY Awards ceremony the jewel in the crown. Thank you.” This best work I’ve ever done yet,” Mud the Forty Below Records label. Produced by held January 28th at ’s marks the first solo win for the legendary Morganfieldproclaimed about the new CD. and Forty Below Records Madison Square Garden. TajMo, was guitarist (John was included with Chick “I feel that with the variety of material I have president Eric Corne, the new album was released on May 5, 2017 via Concord Corea in a 2009 win for Five Peace Band). on here, people will get a chance to hear the recorded live in Dresden and Stuttgart, Records, and marks a once-in-a-lifetime This also marks the first Grammy Win for other sides of my music: everything from soul Germany, in March of 2017. The nine tracks convergence of the talents of two unique McLaughlin’s label, Abstract Logix, home and R&B to jazz and, of course, the blues. on Three for the Road include fan and American artists who’ve already built to genre bending composers and creators. I’m so proud to a have my youngest daughter, personal song favorites played by his trio: significant individual legacies that have In tribute to his nearly 50-year career, Lashunda, sing with me on this album. She’s John Mayall on vocals, keyboard, and consistently expanded and extended McLaughlin recently finished his final U.S. a natural, and regularly sings gospel at harmonica, Greg Rzab on bass and Jay American blues traditions into astonishing tour. The Meeting of the Spirits Tour took home.” Lynyrd Skynyrd announced they will You Break... Private Music Lessons We Study with College trained teachers (Berklee & U-Mass Lowell) MISC and professional musicians in our private lesson rooms Fix! Learn how to play... We repair: Guitars, Amps, Keyboards, Effects, Stereos, Guitar ~ Piano ~ Drums ~ Voice VCR/DVD players, D.J. Gear, Recorders & more! Saxophone ~ Flute ~ Clarinet ~ SERVICE CENTER 4 Haviland Street • Boston 1269 Main Street Across from (617) 247-0525 Tewksbury, MA. 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Rossington said. “I’m certain they are local high school students with an experience Victoria Damone told The Associated Press www.facebook.com/metronomemagazineboston looking down from above, amazed that the of a live performance for free. A portion from in a phone interview that her father died music has touched so many.” Singer (and this program will support free tickets for local Sunday at a Beach hospital from Ronnie’s brother) Johnny Van Zant added, youth youth musicians, and to help foster complications of a respiratory illness. “We’ve been blessed by these great songs and further develop the UMass Dartmouth Damone’s easy-listening romantic ballads and the messages they carry to the fans. It’s Music Department. The Somerville brought him million-selling records and been a true honor to try and fill in my brother’s Songwriter Sessions at the Armory Cafe sustained a half-century career in recordings, footsteps for the past 31 years, keeping the presents a concert on Saturday March 3 with movies and nightclub, concert and television music and his spirit alive.” The tour will begin Boston singer-songwriter Alice Howe, Cape appearances. His hit singles included on May 4 at the Coral Sky Amphitheatre in Cod singer/songwriter Kim Moberg, and “Again,” ‘’You’re Breaking My Heart,” ‘’My West Palm Beach, Fla., and conclude Sept. Wakefield singer/songwriter Kirsten Heart Cries for You,” ‘’On the Street Where 1 at the at Lakewood Manville. The concert will feature a solo set You Live” and, in 1957, the title song of the in . Catch the band one more time on by each artist, followed by a round robin song Cary Grant film “An Affair to Remember”; Guitar, Bass & Amp July 20th at the Xfinity Center in Mansfield, swap. The show begins at 7:30 pm with an Legendary South African jazz musician and MA. Throughout the tour, Skynyrd will share open mic. For more information call (617) anti-apartheid activist Hugh Masekela has Repair the stage with their friends that include 718-2191 or visit artsatthearmory.org. died at the age of 78 after a decade-long fight Kid Over 30 years professional experience Rock, Bad Company, Marshall Tucker PASSING NOTES: , lead with cancer, on Tuesday, January 23, 2018. Unsurpassed quality and reputation. Band, .38 Special, Hank Williams Jr., singer of ’s famed vocal group The Often called the “Father of South African Charlie Daniels Band, Blackfoot and Temptations, died Thursday, February 1, jazz,” Masekela died in Johannesburg after Beverly, MA. Blackberry Smoke. Guitarist Gary 2018, in Chicago at age 74, two days before what his family said was a “protracted and Rossington has been suffering from serious he would have turned 75. Edwards replaced courageous battle with prostate cancer.” (978) 927-3498 health problems recently. Last November, the David Ruffin as of The Masekela was a rare artist who succeeded PR22:29 FIXT band canceled two shows due to a medical Temptations in 1968. He brought soulful lead in fusing politics with his music, making his emergency, and he suffered a heart attack in vocals to the band’s psychedelic, funk, and songs and performances compelling and October 2015, which also sidelined the band disco era of the late 1960s and 1970s. The timeless. VIDEO PICKS OF THE MONTH: for many months.In conjunction with the tour, group’s song lyrics also shifted during this Schitt’s Creek- Season 4 picks up where Lynyrd Skynyrd will release a single called era to address social issues. Hits during that Season 3 left off with bizarre comedy and “The Last of the Street Survivors.” Six time included “Cloud Nine,” “I Can’t Get Next cutting edge story lines. The brainchild of String Music Company and Good Night Rider to You,” “Ball of Confusion (That’s What the Eugene Levy and his son Daniel Levy the Productions presents: An Evening of World is Today),” and “Papa Was a Rollin’ cast includes Catherine O’Hara as Eugene’s Conversation and Music with Mike Stern, Stone.” He left the band in 1977, but returned wife Moira, a formerly successful soap star. Thursday, March 29, 2018, at 8:00 pm at the for several reunion albums and tours during The family loses their fortune when their University of Massachusetts Dartmouth the 1980s. As a solo artist Edwards scored business manager fails to pay their taxes. campus auditorium. It’s not very often you a hit with “Don’t Look Any Further,” that Forced to rebuild their lives with their sole get the chance to listen to the music of one reached #2 on the R&B charts in 1984. He remaining asset: a small town named Schitt’s of the greatest guitarists of our time, and the was briefly married to Ruth Pointer, of The Creek which they had bought their son as a opportunity to hear him tell his personal Pointer Sisters, in the 1970s. The couple joke birthday gift years before, the series musical story. Mike Stern is a six-time had a daughter, Issa Pointer. Edwards was revolves around the family’s life living in two Grammy-nominated American jazz guitarist. inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of adjacent rooms of a rundown motel with their pampered thirtysomething adult children, David and Alexis. Actors Annie Murphy, Sarah Levy, Chris Elliott, Jennifer Robertson and Emily Hampshire round out the laughs; : The 1970s Review- Filmmakers create a collage of fascinating insight, observation, and critique from some of the world’s most notable journalists, interpolating their screen time with archival footage of Clapton himself, both on and off stage. The 150-minute documentary spans the Grammy-winning guitarist’s first decade as a bona fide solo artist. An absolute must see. Well, that’s all the space we have for this month ladies and gents. Happy St. Patrick’s Day to one and all. Stay safe and have fun. Until next issue, keep on making, listening & supporting beautiful music. HAPPY BIRTHDAY PISCES, YOU FISHY YOU. Catch you all next month. Lynyrd Skynyrd Announces Their Final Tour This Summer Thanks for reading. --Compiled by Brian O. Trust Me Not by Brian M. Owens

METRONOME: How long has Trust Me Not scene in the late 1990s/early 2000s. I met Gina and Steely Dan to try to learn how to write a good struggling with an album name and concept. I been together? in a class and already knew Anthony from a song. knew exactly what this album was and it came Ryan Patterson: We’ve been playing music few circles. She invited me to play with them METRONOME: Tell us about your album together so well, I just didn’t have imagery for it. together for 15 years. We all met at Northeastern one night, and eventually we ended up getting called I Love You This Much. You claim to On my way home I stopped off at this really University and started playing together as together as a band. have recorded it the last time you all played great oddities/antique store in Somerville looking Babareef in 2002. We went through a few drummers and searched together? for inspiration. I poked around for a while and We gigged around Boston and then eventually for quite a while until we found the perfect fit with Ryan: This album was the result of the last found this little statue of a cherub looking guy NYC, Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire for a Josh. The second we played with him, we knew time we all got together for one of our music with his arms spread wide and the words “I Love few years, playing originals which were a blend he was our drummer. He came from Berklee and weekends, about two years ago. Tony and I had You This Much.” I thought it was the perfect fit of funk/jam/rock songs. Eventually the band had jazz roots. I don’t think any of us had ever recorded the demos for most of the songs and for the songs. members moved back to places like New Jersey, heard or played with a drummer like Josh before. shared them with the rest of the band ahead of METRONOME: Where did you record it? New York and Rhode Island. Matt [Crema] and I METRONOME: How did you come up with the time, and we all got together and tracked most of Ryan: The album was all recorded in my remained in Boston. name Trust Me Not? it live together in the basement of my old house basement on my basic ProTools setup. The We stopped playing live, but still made a point to Ryan: It is really hard to come up with a band in Woburn. If you look at the new songs and rest was done in either my basement or Tony’s get together once in a while for music weekends. name that’s not already taken. While we were compare them against the stuff we were doing 15 basement. Lots of basements. Anthony [Crema] and I would constantly email making the record, I started to feel like Babareef years ago as Babareef, you can hear the themes METRONOME: Are all the tracks live? each other little musical ideas, sending them just wasn’t what we were anymore. When we maturing over the years. They also feel like they Ryan: Most of them were tracked live, which back and forth and adding each time, until we finished having the album mixed, After hundreds came out of a bedroom at 3 in the morning vs. a was a challenge since we were all in one room had the shell of a song. We’d bring those ideas of group texts and terrible ideas, we just threw live gathering of vibes. with the amps off to various bathrooms and other to the music weekends, and would often record Trust Me Not out there and said, “It’s better than As we’ve all grown through our lives, we’ve areas to stay as far away from the drum mics as them live in my basement. possible. Then we overdubbed most of the vocals After we tracked everything live, we’d spend and harmonies and other guitar and synth parts. countless hours adding tracks on our own and METRONOME: Who engineered the project? emailing them back and forth to each other, Ryan: In terms of recording, I was the lucky which resulted in this really lush, experimental one that got stuck with engineering duties. The sound that is definitely much different and more person that really brought it all together and even introspective than the vibe we had when we ended up doing some of the production was Nick played out. Zampiello at New Alliance East in Cambridge. He We renamed ourselves, Trust Me Not, for this really understood the songs right away and had a album because we were never sure what the lot of good ideas. heck Babareef meant, and we felt as our music Anthony: Ryan is real good with this recording matured, we’d find a new name. stuff. He taught me enough to set up a mic and Anthony Crema: Trust Me Not is the next hit record on Protools. This is what allowed us evolution of going towards creating unique to do this record. We knew when recording in a songs. A lot of that has to do with us being busy basement, that Ryan would be able to make it and living throughout the Northeast. Focusing work. on recording seemed like the only way to keep METRONOME: Who’s the principal songwriter it going. for Trust Me Not? METRONOME: Who’s in the band and what Ryan: Tony and I wrote most of the music for instruments do they play? this album, and I write all of the lyrics, though I Ryan: I sing and write most of the lyrics. I also hope next time around we get some others on play rhythm guitar and some of the synth stuff/ the writing duties. production.Tony plays most of the guitars and Anthony: Ryan sends me a few chords and a other strings on the record, and composes many vocal melody to build on, or I send him a rhythm of the musical elements. Matt Crema plays piano track to work on and we start from there. Songs and keyboards and adds vocals. Gina Rebelo anything else.” I’d say it’s a riff on “She Loves Me gone through some bad splits, started families, definitely go into different directions, but that’s plays bass and sings and Josh Saloio plays Not,” but throws a bit of irony in there. It’s like dealt with extreme highs and lows, loved a lot and the fun of it. drums and other rhythm instruments. your conscious saying “Trust me, I got this,” but lost a lot. The songs all course through that same METRONOME: How does the songwriting Anthony: Lets just say I play the guitar. I then reneging at the end. journey of life, and land us where we are today, all process work for you? was into playing mandolin when we recorded METRONOME: Who are some of the band’s in our late 30s/early 40s and still feeling like we’re Ryan: Music or melody first, always. The “Springtime” and I got a Baglama right before musical heroes/influences? 20 something wondering when we’re officially songs usually start with gibberish words that just Ryan sent me “When You Wake Up.” Ryan used Ryan: For me, the newer influences are definitely “grown ups.” These songs are definitely the most come along with the melody, and tend to sound his engineering skills to bury these songs into the Phosphorescent, My Morning Jacket, Bon Iver, personal and raw songs I’ve ever been a part of. the way I want them to. Then I go back and think background which is obviously for the best. LCD Soundsystem and Neko Case. Across many Anthony: This was an interesting way of about the vibe of the song and develop the lyrics. Gina has been in a bunch of bands over the of us are influential bands like the Talking Heads, recording. It started with just me and Ryan I’ve always admired storytellers who can craft years. All a lot different. Her bands varied from , Grateful Dead, Dylan, The Band, The sending tracks back and forth. It was very cool to fictional songs that have great narrative like Dylan Wrench, which was a rock band, to the Bocks, Beatles, , , , The see how the tracks progressed from something or Robertson. For me though, it’s always very which called themselves power pop, and Meters, , Bootsy Collins, Vulfpeck, real simple to a full on sound. None of the songs introspective and personal at the core. Three Day Threshold, which was its own thing and D’angelo. ended up like I thought they would. Once we had METRONOME: Did you have any musical altogether. She now plays with Trapped in Static, Anthony: For me, it was always funk and a base for the songs, we got everyone together guests on I Love You This Much? a rock band out of New York. jamband stuff- Soulive, Deep Banana, The Slip to round out the sounds and give it some energy. Ryan: Yes. Matt Caranante played guitar on METRONOME: How did you all meet? (Barr brothers are awesome), Miracle Orchestra METRONOME: How did you come up with the “Floating.” He played in Conductor’s Groove Ryan: Anthony, Gina and Matt played in a band and . I always liked indie rock stuff too, like title for the CD? and is Matt and Anthony’s cousin. We’re always called Conductor’s Groove, which was part of a Modest Mouse, Primus and Jane’s Addiction. Ryan: I just left the final mixing session with trying to get him to play more guitar with us. great group of bands around the Northeastern When recording, I was listening to the National Nick at New Alliance East. I told him we were Anthony: Matt’s a beast on guitar. I need to keep working on getting him out of the house. on the good or bad decisions I make. In the light and focuses on the inevitability of time moving wanting to protect him as he grows and learns, METRONOME: The band has a strong pop- hearted spirit of that song, it was all about bad forward. You can either get stuck on that and get absorb his pain for him when he gets hurt, and rock sound. How did that develop? decisions and self medicating as a defense from distracted and miss the whole point of living, or always be with him even when I’m not physically Ryan: Our sound developed very organically, the everyday worries and overthinking we tend to you can look to help shape somebody or leave here anymore. Give him a little piece of me to feel and I think it’s safe to say you can almost always get caught up in. “I Got Rolled” is kind of obtuse, something positive behind. It can be really easy like he’s being watched over by something as he hear right away if it’s a “Babareef” or Trust Me but I guess refers to the attempt to party it all to get caught up in the progression of time, and ventures out into the world and finds new ways to Not song. Many friends will say, oh that’s such a away, but how that never works out in the long also a tremendous waste of time and energy to become his own person. Babareef song, nobody knows what that genre is, run. try and slow it down. METRONOME: What kind of guitars and but they all know when they hear it. Anthony: This is the only song that all of the This song is about learning to move with the tide amplifiers did you use to record the album? A lot of it is Tony’s light-hearted floating guitars music was recorded live with the whole band and enjoy the ride we’re on as much as possible, Ryan: Anthony played a Strat through a Fender and harmonies, Matt’s deep piano parts, Gina’s together with no overdubs. Matt rips it up during while hopefully leaving a little something of us Deluxe Reverb. We both have always really liked funky bass lines, and Josh’s intricate and never his keyboard solo. behind in the people we touch and the things we the spring verb from the Fender tube amps. I play boring drums. The thing I love about why we METRONOME: “Silver If Not Gold” has a do every day. a Taylor acoustic and my Grandfather’s old Martin sound the way we do, is because it all comes from unique cadence. How did that tune develop Anthony: This was the biggest surprise for me. from the 80s, which has this really deep bass for our diverse and deep musical influences. Where and who wrote it? When Ryan sends me a song, you can tell how a guitar of it’s size. Tony also plays a mandolin that comes from is all having parents who were Ryan: Anthony sent it to me and I was the song is gonna be and you can see that it’s a and a Baglama, which adds some interesting heavily influenced by music and shared those immediately intrigued. It’s in 7 for most of it good song that we can only ruin so much. With ‘60s psychedelic vibes to “When You Wake Up.” influences with us at a very early age. We were and builds on a looping vibe that feels like your this song, I sent him a a track that was all over the Matt played a lot on the Fender Rhodes Suitcase all well exposed to music from the time we were edging closer to something, but you aren’t sure place. The song switches from 7 to 4/4 and ends I have along with some Midi stuff for various very little. It’s nice to hear it all come together so where you’re headed. That really builds a sense with 3/4. I got into Fela Kuti for a while and tried synths. Gina plays a P-Bass through a Mesa naturally when we play together. of unplaced urgency. He was listening to a lot to do something with just a heavy groove. I didn’t Boogie head. Anthony: It never really intended to be a pop of Fela Kuti at the time and that was his try at really expect much out of it, but when he sent it METRONOME: Where can people go to find rock album, but I guess it happened. Ryan knows playing guitar like a horn section. back, I was amazed that he figured out how to out more about Trust Me Not on the internet? how to reel us in from getting too jammy, probably Sometimes when Tony sends me a new song, make it work. Ryan: We have a Facebook and bandcamp page because he wrote such great songs that didn’t the melody and theme hit me immediately and I After that, it took Josh maybe three takes to set up, and a website, www.trustmenotband. call for it and we were happy to build on them. just start going. For “Silver,” I really struggled to put the drums down It was amazing watching him com. Our music is also available to stream on METRONOME: What inspired the writing for “I come up with something. I tried it hundreds of figure out the song and nail it immediately. It really Bandcamp, , iTunes, etc. Got Rolled?” ways. Do I sing over it? Under it? Try to flow along tied the song together. METRONOME: Is there anything you’d like to Ryan: I had that riff floating around in my head. with it? I spent weeks struggling with it because I METRONOME: “In My Arms” is a great tune. add before we close out? I was playing a lot with the Spring reverb on my really loved it, but it was so unconventional. What is that song about? Ryan: Speaking for myself, music has always , looking for a Buddy Holly type One night I said screw it, I’m locking myself Ryan: I wrote this song while my wife was been great therapy, and I feel lucky to have met feel. Although it was always intended to be a light- downstairs with a bottle of Rye and I’m not pregnant with our first son, Will. She was pretty a bunch of great people that just musically click hearted kind of rock all night long and burn out coming up until I get this. I put it on repeat and far along, and I started getting really antsy to together. Anyone that’s every played in a band quick thing, the lyrics did develop into something just kept going and going and then finally it meet this guy. We’d talk to him all the time. I’d knows that feeling when it just works. It’s a meaningful. The whole idea around the song is clicked. The words came flowing in soon after I sing to him and play guitar and he’d be kicking magical thing that can be very hard to describe, attempting to have a “live for the now” mentality, had the melody. away. This song was me saying if I could just hold but when you’re playing all together in the and to try and worry less about what will happen The lyrics also have a strong sense of you in my arms. moment, and the energy of the music starts to with my soul or other judgmental outcomes based urgency that is common in several of our songs, As the song plays out, that idea of always move you, there’s nothing better. Classifieds

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