MUMBO JUMBO – April 2013
April 2013
AHHH! SOL SEARCHING ARRIVES ON APRIL 20!
There are two experiences in life I’ve heard equated with the joy and pain of childbirth, creating a CD and kidney stones. After living through both, I can personally attest that the angst, joy and anticipation of the former are far preferable to the agony of the latter. However, the one common emotion to both processes is an abject sense of relief!!! Consequently I was able to spend a relaxing Sunday chasing Hemingway’s ghost and Blue Marlin in the deep blue waters of the gulfstream knowing my CD master was safely in a jet flying from Colorado to Nashville to be pressed!
As a result of the incredible work of Lew London and Jim Tullio, the engineers at Airshow Mastering in Boulder, Colorado, and the good folks at CRT Custom Products, my seventh CD, Sol Searching will be available as scheduled on April 20. Simply go to my web site at scottkirby.com and click on STORE to order your copy and of course we will have them at all our shows on the tour which begins in New Hampshire on the same day.
Although my name is on the cover, the recording process is very much a team effort and I owe a debt of gratitude to Lew London and Jim Tullio and all the incredible musicians who joined me. I know many of you are interested in the musicians involved so we have included all those details in our press release at the bottom of this month’s Mumbo Jumbo. What an amazing group of people!
APRIL-MAY TOUR and SCOTT KIRBY BAND AT RAM’S HEAD ON STAGE! APRIL 29!
We begin the spring tour in my native New Hampshire on April 20 and work our way south to Virginia, before making a hard right turn towards the Midwest and Louisville for the Kentucky Derby! Either guitarists Mike McAdam (who played on the new CD) or Dave Edmisten will accompany me on this leg before I venture west for solo shows through May 18 in Arizona. After some time off, I ‘ll resume the tour in Tucson on June13 and then head to Southern California, before making a gradual turn to the north and points east!
One of my favorite venues in the country is The Ram’s Head in Annapolis, Maryland, where we perform on Monday, April 29. Joining me will be Sol Searching producer Lew London on fiddle, Gabriel Donohue on piano and both Dave Edmisten and Mike McAdam on acoustic and electric guitar, two of the finest guitarists you’ll ever see on the same stage, so get your tickets while they are still available!
Here are the rest of the April-May dates:
April 17 – Smokin’ Tuna Saloon; Key West, FL
April 18 – Smokin’ Tuna Saloon; Key West, FL
April 20 – Lakes Region Casino; Belmont, NH *This show is sold out!
April 21 – Thirsty Moose Taphouse; Portsmouth, NH *only a few tickets left!
April 24 – Baja Brother’s Sandbar Grill; Taunton, MA
April 25 – Madison Beach Hotel; Madison, CT
April 26 – “Spring Phling” at Keenan’s Irish Pub; Wildwood, NJ
April 27 – Sunset Grille; Kiptopeke, VA
April 29 – Rams Head On Stage!; Annapolis, MD
April 30 – Ashland Coffee & Tea; Ashland, VA
May 1 – Molly’s Malone’s Irish Pub; Covington, KY
May 2 – The Brewery Restaurant & Bar; Louisville, KY
May 3 – Kentucky Derby Party; Churchill Downs
May 8 – Tropical Escape Tiki Bar & Grill; Edwardsville, IL
May 9 – Graham’s Grill & Bayou Bar; Kirkwood, MO
May 10 – Knuckleheads Saloon; Kansas City, MO
May 11 – Firewater Grille; Omaha, NE
May 14 – Red Dirt Dancehall & Saloon; Tulsa, OK
May 17 – “Phins to the West” Avi Resort & Casino; Laughlin, NV
May 18 – Private Event; Mesa, AZ
Check the website for more dates! Visit often, as new performances are being added frequently!
FACEBOOK UPDATE
As some of you know, my facebook page has been maxed out at 5000 friends for months. I’ve consulted with social media consultants from MIT to Stanford in an effort to fix it. We’ve tried changing my name from everything from “Scott Kirby Songwriter” to “Scott Kirby Scum Sucking Toad” in an effort to break the code to no avail, as dealing with Facebook is like dealing with the Vatican! But finally our SMOKIN’ TUNA consultant cracked the Dementia Code and I have been re-invented as SCOTTKIRBY with no space which seems appropriate as I live in a tiny house in Key West and travel the country in a van!! Thank you Dani Holliday! Who knew?
NEW BOOKINGS: CONTACT TERRY LEDERER
Terry@scottkirby.com – 703-476-0268
Over the years, my able assistant, Terry Lederer and I have worked together on booking the summer tour, but as of April 1, I have completely turned this important part of the business over to her! In the past, people have called or emailed me directly or spoken to me after a show about performing at a venue in their area and about half the time I misplace the information or it ends up on crumpled notes in my pocket. Terry has worked for Peter Mayer and me for nearly fourteen years and does a great job so I promise to have her business cards with me at all times and will put you directly in touch with her so I don’t foul things up!! Please contact her directly with any booking requests or questions.
PRESS RELEASE FROM LITTLE FLOCK MUSIC – SCOTT KIRBY RELEASES NEW CD
SOL SEARCHING TO BE RELEASED APRIL 20th
Singer/ songwriter and Little Flock Music recording artist Scott Kirby will debut SOL SEARCHING, his seventh recording on compact disc on April 20. The CD features ten new songs and an array of stellar musicians, some familiar to Little Flock listeners and some new faces, plus a few tracks from three amazing student musicians at The CharterTech School for The Performing Arts in Somers Point, New Jersey, where the CD was recorded.
Kirby wrote the words and music for most of the songs for SOL SEARCHING over the past two years in a series of writing sessions in a couple of old cottages perched on the rocky shores of Maine and New Hampshire, so it’s little wonder his latest work has a bit more taste of his native New England coast than some of the Key West resident’s previous recordings. In fact, the title track, Sol Searching, was inspired by a northern friend’s desperate mid winter desire to finally feel some sol, the Spanish word for sun.
The majority of the recording was engineered and produced by Lew London, a Grammy nominated producer and multi-instrumentalist with nearly four decades of performing and recording his own music, as well as backing such iconic artists as Steve Goodman and David Bromberg. After recording at the CharterTech Studio, where he teaches music and recording, London went on to mix the CD at Butcher Boy Studios in Chicago with long time friend and musical colleague Jim Tullio; a composer, musician and producer who has worked with many illustrious artists such as Mavis Staples, Levon Helm, Los Lonely Boys, Bonnie Rait, John Prine, Richie Havens and John Martyn. He won two Grammys for his work with Steve Goodman and founded Blue Phantom Records with the Rolling Stones Keith Richards.
The most familiar voice on the CD –other than Kirby’s- is that of friend and fellow Little Flock artist and occasional songwriting collaborator Peter Mayer, who arranged and sang most of the backing vocals with the help of his son Brendan, who recently joined the two on tour. Mayer also contributed lead and rhythm guitar tracks on one song. In addition to releasing over a dozen of his own albums, Mayer has recorded and toured with Jimmy Buffett’s Coral Reefer Band since 1989.
The remainder of the lead guitar work was done by Nashville veteran Mike McAdam. An incredibly versatile musician and phenomenal slide player, Mike has toured and recorded with artists such as Mary Chapin Carpenter, Radney Foster, Steve Earle and many others. Irishman Gabriel Donohue, another superb multi-instrumentalist, producer and veteran of multiple Chieftains’ tours and longstanding collaborator of Kirby’s played piano, Bill McGrady added Keyboards, and Howard Issacson played flute and saxophone and Kirby’s fellow New Hampshire native Gary Green played harmonica.
In addition to engineering and producing, Lew London also contributed tracks on fiddle, mandolin and guitar and veteran Atlantic City session players Jim McConnell, Andy Lalasis and Jason Carol held down the rhythm section on drums, bass and percussion. In addition, CharterTech students Johnny Zappas and Brandon Ireland graced the project with some great guitar tracks and Hein Kim, a phenomenal young musician rounded out the project with some amazing work on cello.
One cut on the CD, Guys Like Us, was produced and recorded in Los Angeles by legendary drummer Russ Kunkel and mixed by his son Nathaniel. Russ also performed on the song along with bassist Leland Sklar, guitarist Dean Parks and keyboardist Jay Oliver with backing vocals provided Sweet Pea Atchinson and Harry Bowen.
“I’m obviously thankful beyond words to all the incredibly talented people who lent their skills and decades of experience to SOL SEARCHING,“ said Kirby. “As a pretty simple self- taught guitarist and musical story teller, I honestly feel like I simply sketched out some ideas in pencil on a canvas and everyone else filled in the colors! It was a warm and wonderful experience to work with Lew London and some of the students at The Charter Tech School and I’m indebted beyond words to he and Jim Tullio for all their work. I am truly lucky enough!
SOL SEARCHING will be available through scottkirby.com and littleflockmusic.com on April 20 on compact disc, the same day Kirby begins his upcoming five month tour. The first leg opens in New Hampshire and takes him to Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, Ohio, Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Nevada and ends in Arizona on May 18. The disc will soon be available on CDBaby.com. The iTunes and European release of this project will be July 1.
So once again, thank you so much for listening and I hope you enjoy “Sol Searching! “ And just so you don’t think I’m relaxing too much here in my hard life of ease, I leave Key West this week for a five month US-Canada tour, a few weeks in Eastern Europe, and the song, Chasing Hemingway’s Ghost is half finished and sounds like a good title for the next CD!
Scott Kirby
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