Author: steve

It’s good to be typing this at present, and I’m acutely aware of how long it’s been since I’ve done this. As we emerge out of this pandemic (hopefully), I’m grateful to still be here and to be doing what I do. As live performance bookings/calendars/schedules are slowly but steadily being rebuilt, I will endeavour to keep the public performances pages updated more frequently.

Also, say hello to Winnifred:

The new Ken Clark Organ Trio album, “Funk Side Jazz Side” drops Friday 10/25/2019, w/ release concert @ The Extended Play Sessions!

From their website:

Ken Clark and his trio are Fallout Shelter favorites for a reason. Ken is one of New England’s most renowned keyboardists and is truly exceptional on the Hammond B3. His trio is rounded out by the exquisite talents of Mike Mele on guitar and Steve Chaggaris on drums. This will be a special evening celebrating the release of their new Funk/Jazz CD. If you’ve not seen these guys before, you’re in for a real treat. And if that’s not enough – the great percussionist Bobby Hickman and the amazing Myanna on sax will be joining them! Too good to miss!!!

The Curse: https://youtu.be/gYX40dlRrq4

Forty Six: https://youtu.be/6qrn5_25YbI

Our doors open at 6, music and live-streaming start promptly at 7. The music is followed by an always fascinating interview and we have a wine & beer bar for your drinking pleasure.

New Record, “Dream Girl” out November 16th on BFD/Sony RED/The Orchard!

So pleased this album is out in the world now.    It was an honor playing on this, tracking with Ducky Carlisle behind the board – and the legendary Dean Cassell on bass.

From Juliet’s website:

Making transitions is never easy, and the way Juliet Simmons Dinallo expresses the ups and downs of the human process of moving, changing and growing older is the joy of listening to Dream Girl.  There’s tension here, and unresolved matters of the heart and soul:  “I don’t have all the answers,” goes one song, and another finds the narrator driving from Nashville to Memphis, accompanied by a groove that evokes the sweet-and-sour styles of both cities.  Juliet Simmons Dinallo and Michael Dinallo, who collaborated on three of the songs here (Juliet wrote the rest)  sound as though they’re in love with the music of the South, but they’re also in love with the possibilities of transition that soul music has always laid out so eloquently.   The terse, direct music supports Juliet’s songs, which acknowledge the blues but make room for the pleasure of the everyday, the quotidian.  Some of the pleasures of Dream Girl lie in the interplay of elegantly restrained string arrangements, just-right, gritty guitar solos, and Juliet’s soulfully gliding vocals.   Producers Michael Dinallo and Ducky Carlisle bring the bite of soul music to the enterprise, and Dream Girl glides over rough terrain with sure feet.  It’s a record that both digs deeply into the dream world of change and the real world that never stays the same.

​​-Edd Hurt, Nashville