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| Happenins 1-15-08 This Crabgrass Tour Note by Silvertongue |
| Oh Howdy, Now that I’m thoroughly sick of listening to the same 13 songs over and over, “TROUBLE” my first solo CD is finally down getting pressed in New Jersey. In about two weeks, I’m gonna have a thousand Christmas ornaments in boxes in my porch. If you’re on Myspace right now, check a couple of the tunes out on the home page. If you’re on Crabgrassmusic, then get on over there and check em out. The Crabgrassmusic website will get a revamp in about two weeks and will have information about where to get CD’s, but you’ll still be able to check archives for the old Crabgrass stuff.
Old broke dick me gets to go down to Portland later today for the Portland Old Time Gathering. An unruly mob of Alaskans are converging down there too. Jack Fontanella, Tom Paul, Sergei (vigo) mortensen, Erik Chadwell, Nicole Lantz, Scotty Meyers, Forrest Gibson and I’m sure Im forgettin somebody. Andy Freakin Ferguson might even be there too! Should be awesome. I’ll have fiddle tunes in my head for a week. Kinda like string tinnitus. Check out www.bubbaguitar.com for schedule info. Festival starts tonight (1-15-08) at the Alberta Street Pub and ends Sunday night at the Moon & Sixpence. You’ll have to consult bubbaguitar for all the in between.
Keep in touch, lots of good live music on the horizon and this is where you’ll find out about it. Keep in touch, and don’t do anything I wouldn’t do, which shouldn’t be hard. What’d that mean?
Ciao
Sean T
Pizza Time in Portland  http://www.myspace.com/seanetracey |
| HOLIDAY GIGGIN' 12-30-08 This Crabgrass Tour Note by Silvertongue |
| Sean Tracey here, thanks for checkin’ in. Feeling good this fine Sunday morning after a killer weekend at the Rendezvous (formerly known as the “Rondavomit” as per C. Scott Fry.) playin the blues with Sammy Burrous. If you came out hollerin and dancing well thanks a lot. Playing acoustic style as a duo with Sammy might be more fun than with the whole Vaporizer band, but that’s a tough call. Sammy and I are playing again at the Rendezvous as an opener for Wisconsin Slim on New Year’s eve ’07-’08 (that’s tomorrow for you regulars). See you there? Has anybody noticed we’re in a band slump in Juneau this winter? It happens around here. Comes and goes. Musicians are a fickle lot it appears, or maybe they’re all just stoned. A lot of musicians tend to leave town during the fall also, some will be back soon for the winter. Maybe somethin will spark off. Mastered music for my album is on the way back from Louisiana as we speak and then it’s a matter of a little artwork implementation and we’re done! More news on that as it comes. All set to hit the Portland Old-Time Gathering in a couple weeks…that’s January 16-20. 5 days of all the fiddle music you can handle, that’s why Dog made beer. It’s a great crew down there in P-Town, they always roll out the red carpet. Also this coming Saturday, January 5th, my lovely bride Maridon Boario and I will perform for the Gold Street Concert Series. I’m not sure of the order, but I know Buddy Tabor and Riley Woodford are playin it too that night. Gold Streets in the past have started up around 730pm and are held at Resurrection Lutheran Church on 10th. This is temporary until they rebuild the Church of the Holy Trinity which burned down about a year and a half ago. Oh what a room that was. I hope they rebuild with class. Thanks for checkin in once again…’ve always got somethin on the fire around here, and I’ll be keeping you posted. Ciaoder
~silvertongue
"If you can't stay on your fee, you can't stay in my bar." http://www.myspace.com/seanetracey |
| NEW CD FROM SILVERTONGUE! This Crabgrass Tour Note by Silvertongue |
| Howdy Folks & thanks for checkin’ in. You may have noticed a lull in the gig schedule and I’m here to tell you why. I’ve been spendin’ my "spare time" in the dungeon at Skatebottom Studios with soundsmith Albert McDonnell, finishing up my first solo record, and it is damn close to bein’ done, finally. I’m gonna lay down my song assignment from Caleb Klauder (“Thinkin’ bout Drinkin’) later today with Maridon and Junior Kane to make a total of 14 tracks. All the other ones are laid down and mixed, ready to send off to the masterer. Should be sending the final mixes off to Dirk Powell in Louisiana by Wednesday! STOKED! Young Mitch Watley from here in Juneau is about done with the cover art that I hope you’ll like when you see it, and I’ll list the killer line up of super pickers that I am lucky enough to have on the album.
Bob Banghart: Fiddle
Maridon Boario: All Bass, Vocals
Andrew Heist: Mandolin
Kris Eli Jones: Electric Guitar
Jeremy Kane: Banjo
Caleb Klauder: Mandolin, Guitar
John Knight: Pedal Steel
Sammy Lind: Fiddle, Guitar
Dale MacFarland: Snare
Albert McDonnell: Bass, Snare
Ari Rome: Dobro
Sean Tracey: Vocals, harmonica, guitar
Beer Chorus:
Maridon, Sammy, Caleb, Marin, Albert, Hazel, Collette Costa
Better times a comin’, friends. You’ll be hearing about it when I get my big ol’ box of Christmas ornaments from Dismakers, I guarantee it! We’re gonna party and dance all night, which can make for a long bender during winter up here in Alaska. Thanks for stopping by, catch you on the rebound, clowns
ST
http://www.myspace.com/seanetracey |
| 2 WEEKS, 4 THOUSAND MILES This Crabgrass Tour Note by Silvertongue |
| Ohhhh what a November, and it's not over yet. It all started way back on the 5th of November when I flew up to Anchorage to meet Visa Quest elders and surrogate uncles Mr. Eric Graves and Bob-O Bell. (No mister for Bob-O). Juneau's first (and hopefully not last) big dump of the winter delayed my flight by 5 hours and therefore our planned drive to Homer until the next day. This allowed for some pickin' at Danny C.'s house with the likes of us 3, Danny, Meg and Kim. The beery penthouse suite at the Captain Cook (gratis thanks to an anonymous donor) coddled our weary bones that night, and we power charged it on down to Homer where we had "breakfast" at Uncle Knut Micheal Tonga's house every morning for the next three days. Breakfast included; Breakfast, Beer, Herbal Meds, and plenty of tunes. Unparalelled hospitality from Stever and Karen at HBC (Homer Brewing Company) left us feeling pretty damn spoiled, and happy to be mere steps from the birth spring of my favorite beer. Needless to say, we were elbow deep in it by the time the bus arrived, and they showed no mercy on us. Picking til 4 am became the norm for the next 3 nights, on one of which I sprained a party muscle and spent a lot of the next day asleep on the bus. Missing my red-eye to Portland was my next trick, which almost screwed me out leg two of this epic journey. Sometimes, a good old-fashioned fuck up can produce good results, and my new flight ended up routing me through Juneau where I was able to kiss the wife, exchange stinky duds for freshies, and have a home-made lunch before continuing on down to Portland. I'd been looking forward to these trips for so long that I can't beleive I am now merely reminiscing about them. The Portland section of the trip kicked of big and just got bigger the whole time I was there. One Sammy Lind picked me up at the airport where we were whisked swiftly away to the residence of the MAN, Caleb Klauder, whose CD release party you may remember here in Juneau last Summer. I've been spinnin this record for months, and was treated to the whole studio band ripping CAN I GO HOME WITH YOU? live in the livingroom. Out came the harps and we're off to the races. The very next day was spent with recently arrived guests of the Foghorn Stringband; Dirk Powell, Riley Baugus, and Tim Ericson who were there to play a show with the boys that very night at Mississippi Studios in North Portland. This was a killer venue with a sound man that we all dubbed "The Weiner", becuase he was one. Thanks to the crew for guest listing us. The show was spectacular and we all headed to the Moon & Sixpence afterward for some drinkin' and pickin'. I'll just say right now that that session, and the follow-up jam on Sunday were definite highlights of my music playin' life. I'll tell ya that sitting between Betse Ellis, Dirk and Riley, and Foghorn, this harmonica player was fighting wood the whole time. Johnny "Box" Connoly pulled out the accordion for a few and we were flyin'. And then there was Friday Night, just when I though it couldn't get better. The mission theater in Downtown Portland is an old movie house, equipped with table seating, a restaurant and bar. They used to have live music there way back when but shut er down for a while. They're back up and running, and Friday night's marquis read
THE BOURNE SUPREMACY &
CALEB KLAUDER
What a place! This cool old building was enough to induce stagefright in this blogger but it went away about two bars into my first song. Caleb, fueled by a kickass love machine in the form of a huge underground country music scene in the Northwest and beyond, rose up and put in almost 3 hours non-stop with a whole slew of local guest musicians and the solid-ass band that recorded his album. I got to spend a good hour up there betwixt Sammy and Betse, (see new photos) and was just in heaven and stoked for Caleb. Give him a visit and if you don't already have it, get that record (Dangerous Me s & Poisonous You s) With a day off on Saturday, Sammy and Malin hosted a big ol cookout and pickin' party, which of course culminated with me being the last one standing 'cause I just don't want to miss anything. Sunday was rough, but we toughed 'er on through with a lot of help from young Miss Kitty who took it upon herself to feed our lame-asses, breakfast and dinner, which made the aforementioned Sunday Jam at the Moon pretty much unforgettable. Once again, I looked up from my harps and noticed that there were only a handful of us left in the pub and that I should probly go home which I did. I slept my ass of Monday and flew (that's right, First Class) back home on Tuesday, happier than a fat cat at the seafood store, although fairly wrecked. Not gettin' any younger I guess. Thanks for checkin' in, I've got lots of gigs and projects lined up for the winter so stay tuned. Ciaoder, ST Sorry so long, friends. Thanks for checkin' back. myspace.com/seanetracey |
| Headin' Out 6-30-07 This Crabgrass Tour Note by Silvertongue |
| It's gettin' down to the wire here, friends. Departure to the high seas is imminent and once again, I'm not ready for it but too bad. This website will be fairly inactive until it changes up in the fall to represent our new publishing, producing conglomerate...CrabgrassMusic. Meanwhile, I'll be updating the Myspace page periodically from the grounds while trying to tap out some new songs and I'll be sending in my Well-Strung columns to the Juneau Empire/Hooligan from out there too. Next one due out July 19th. In the meantime, keep an eye on JuneauMusic.com for what's happening this summer. Word has it that there's a lot of good music coming up this summer so make sure you get out and support. Thanks for checkin' in as always. Watch the Myspace page for what's up with CRABGRASSMUSIC, link below. Ciao, S.T. Myspace!? Who'd a thunk it? http://www.myspace.com/seanetracey |
| Headin This Crabgrass Tour Note by Silvertongue |
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