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Nov 23, 2018

GRATITUDE: SUPER SUMMER 2018

Pausing now at this Weekend of Thankfulness to look back on the massively musical summer of 2018. Unprecedented in terms of gigs played, geography covered and variety of venues. This summer brought many sweet musical moments with the Maine bands,…

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Aug 2, 2018

Jane's Great Dane / West Coast Dates

Dear music fans: 

Next Tuesday, August 7, 2018 Jane's Great Dane will be performing at the Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, California (2020 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA) backing up the great troubadour Dan Bern. Quoting the Washington Post: "Dan Bern…

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Apr 25, 2017

Swinging at Sunset Now On Sale

The new A Team Band CD, Swinging at Sunset, is now on sale at the Store page of this site. It sounds good, looks good and will provide many hours of happiness (if not enlightenment) !

Apr 6, 2017

Swinging at Sunset

The new A Team Band CD is Swinging at Sunset and it is almost ready for prime time. The music itself is "in the can," all mixed and mastered by Ducky Carlisle. The artwork and copy is getting a final…Read more

Mar 3, 2017

photo by Steve Edson

                                                .... for the inner panel of the new A Team Band CD, Swinging at Sunset.
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Feb 21, 2017

Jane's Great Dane / Reason to Leave

Jane's Great Dane, fresh from a recent gig at Thunder Road in Somerville, has released a follow-up to its first recording, Ramon. The new tune is Jon Plaut's Reason to Leave, engineered lovingly by Steve Ferrara, who also provided…Read more
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Dec 19, 2016

doing what you love / making money

I'm a big fan of Derek Sivers, founder and former owner of CD Baby, musician, writer, and generally interesting guy.
His latest article is about how to do what you love and fulfilling the need to make money. I don't…Read more
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Dec 10, 2016

Three in the can

The A Team band has been busy recording at The Pond, and I now have rough mixes for three tunes, with final mixes scheduled after Christmas. As always, these tunes are stylistically very different --- a fairly uptempo swing blues…Read more
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Oct 25, 2016

KING RO SESSION

I can't exactly say how long it's been going, but it's four or five years, anyway. In the small town of Rond Pond, Maine, down aways on the Pemaquid Peninsula, in front of the King Ro Market (the only grocery/beer/supply…Read more