The tragic gentrification of Brooklyn.

My take on Mose Allison.

Listen to Gary discuss Cadillac on Art Music Coffeehouse and play Cadillac by Gary Newton. It was late summer in 1970 up in the Pocono Mountains, and I had some music to play. There was an inpromptu jam going on in the small park next to the high school at the end of Main Street,…

Humbug

It’s not Groundhog Day when we’re all waiting on the sun. Not Saint Valentine’s Day to spend with your lovely one. It’s not Arbor Day don’t have to plant no trees. Not Armistice Day I never served overseas. Not turkey day with a full menu. Not Saint Paddy’s day when you gotta hoist a few.…

This is a recording from a boom box at rehearsal at Roxy Studios. The girls had just reunited and were doing original, 80s-type tunes. I met them in Washington Square Park one summer night shortly after i moved into a Hell’s Kitchen railroad apartment with a leaky flush box above the toilet, a thousand roaches,…