| Music |
| I love music. Can't say it enough. I played violin as a youngster and have been teaching myself to play guitar for the last three years. I am still learning, writing some stuff from time to time. Most importantly, I love to listen to music, especially live music. I'm sharing with you some of my favorite musicians, some of whom I've had the actual pleasure of meeting! Go figure. Someday, I might even add pictures. Spiffy, eh? |
| Michael Kelsey This musician out of Lafayette, In., has to be the most amazing performer I've had the pleasure of seeing. If you live near one of his shows, it's worth the drive to see one of the coolest shows you will ever see and hear. And although I once drove three hours in the hot BLAZING noon time sun from Erie, Pa., to Cleveland just to hear him, my 7 hour trip with my mother in a truck with no radio and a nasty suspension to his CD release party beats the left arm sunburn and the "gee, I'm really sorry and won't ever do it again officer," ticket I avoided outside of Cleveland. He defies categorization (what I like to call phunkadellic), he's cool as hell and has developed some bizarre aversion to stages. My cousin's husband says he's a performance artist, I think that's true. Buy his CDs. The Academical Village People Well, these guys aren't exactly "Indy musicians." But they are good, and they're a talented, if not slightly strange and warped group of a capella singing guys who just recently came out with their, um, 5th CD. Pretty soon I'll even put up a page with the pictures I took of them that ran in a Lifestyles section after I left the Daily Progress to become a proud, healthy (and sane!) member of the Daily Progress Alumni Association. The personal descriptions on their web site are funnier once you've met these guys. Buy their CDs. The Danny Morris Band Danny is without a doubt one of the funnest live shows, second only to Michael Kelsey. (The other) DMB just recently (August 2001) released their third CD featuring yet another lineup. Danny works out of the Washington D.C. area, but plays gigs up and down the east coast. Danny is what I would call a Stevie Ray Vaughan meets the Beach Boys style that others call surfer blues, even if you don't like the blues, Danny is a blast. Buy their CDs. The Toddlers Okay, so it's a band my sister and her husband are in. So sue me. But they're a lot of fun, have some quirky stuff that's really catchy (I've hummed 'The Creeps' more times standing in lines than I can count). The Toddlers perform sporadically and recently came out with a new CD. The website is fun to wonder around in. Did I tell you my brother-in-law is a genius? He is. If I could sell you "The Monster in the Berry Patch" CD I would, it's genius, golden, unbelievable. Buy their CDs. Martin Sexton Okay, perhaps the guy isn't quite Indy anymore, but he is cool. On a recent road trip to Richmond, Virginia, I made a quick stop in Charlottesville. As I was walking University Avenue on my quest for a Four Cheese sub from Littlejohn's, I saw a flyer proclaiming that Martin Sexton was coming to town. ARRRRRRGH!!!! I live there for two years, and nobody I know comes to town until after I leave. Gee. Thanks. Buy his CDs. They rule. The ultimate message in all of this is: BUY THEIR CDs!!!!!! THEY'RE GOOD!!!! No need for subliminal advertising here, uh-uh. BUY THEIR CDs!!!!!!!! |