NEW SINGLE - JUNE 7
On June 7 Lonesome Ace will be releasing our cover of The Band's 1971 hit “Stage Fright”…it will be up on all the streaming services!
CAMPS!
I'll be teaching at four camps this summer. They are Old School Bluegrass Camp (Ontario, July 3-7), Ossipee String Camp (Maine, July 21-25), Kenosee Lake Kitchen Party (Saskatchewan, August 12-16), Sweetgrass Music Camp (Montana, September 18-22). I hope to see you at one of them!
NEW LONESOME ACE ALBUM
I'm very excited to announce the release of the 6th Lonesome Ace album! “Try to Make it Fly” is our first all-original release and features twelve new songs and tunes.
We've, thus far, released four singles from the album - Crossing the Junction/Deer River, Smoke on the Shoulder, Sweeter Sound, and Praying for Rain. If you haven't heard them or seen the videos yet, click here to get up to speed.
COVID ALBUMS!
Me and Showman kept pretty darn busy through the COVID-times. We actually collaborated on three albums - “Much Further Out Than Inevitable” (a John Hartford tribute), “Afield” (fiddle and banjo duets), and “Adeline” (weird old-time jam band madness). I also put out a solo album of original songs entitled “The Old Man and the C Chord”. If you haven't checked them out already, you can do so here!
John Hartford's Windows Revealed!
When we recorded the Adeline album, we wrote in the liner notes that we had loosely followed John Hartford's "Windows" method of backing up fiddle music. It seemed like lots of folks didn't know what we were talking about, so when a British publication called "The Old-Time News" asked me to write an article to explain it a little bit, I was happy to get the chance.
I was lucky enough to get to talk to my friend Bob Carlin a bit about his time with John and even got permission to use some of John's own words to help explain. If you'd like to read it, click here.
