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CD and DVD Poetry Cafe CD 1. Live Part 1 2. Her Journey 3. Dark Corners 4. Mind's Eye 5. Green Felt 6. Shelter 7. Turn To Blues 8. Mistress Dream 9. Zen Process 1 Natural Guitar CD Solo and accompanied guitar compositions.The Natural Guitar is the 2006 - 07 evolution. Keeping the focus on simple guitar as virtuoso composing and improvision works. The migration is from Raga Guitar to a more cool Jazz orientation. Much of these compositions are used for the Poetry Café creations. It includes percussion and drum experimentation. I expect to mature these works into a gig combo set to play out. Part of the inspiration came from Concerto #2 for guitar Blue Sun CD The long awaited blues album. The idea had been around a long time. I had jammed, heard, and respected a lot of the local (known and unknown) blues guys. My songs were always quirky. I had thought too quirky to ever gain any general acceptance. However Peter Lowery and Robby Casey offered to produce an album. Peter had produced a lot for his Last Trix Label. My voice was burnt and I was self conscious. Everyone said it didn't matter for the blues, but I felt it was week and put it off. Then there was a shift in the focus of the music. Anyway finally when visiting my family in Texas, my niece suggested I do it and call it "Blue Sun." So now I'm putting it together. Songs: Blue Sun Break It My Baby Doggy Brain Bourbon Street Saturday Turn To The Blues About You How I feel Butterfly Stoned World Wide Blues Hot Pants B3 Retrospective CD There were many musicians and bands around the New Paltz area at that time. Little Elliott Lloyd, Pete Rose, Steve Kats, and Jr. Johnny were just a few of the blues players. Mike Mitchell, Roberta Casey, Kurt Henry, Hally Hammer, were on the folk scene doing the save the mountain album. I was jamming with Joe Ruff, and John Wheeler, and who ever I could find to do 3 part harmony. On the Retro 1B album, Flash Fools, and Insufficient Funds came out of the Ruff / Wheeler association. Much later Kurt Henry helped out with Guitar and Bass on Long way home. Big Joe Fitz played harp. My dog Dair also has a vocal track. Dair often liked to sing with me. He can also be heard on Howling, and Doggy Brain Blues. I don’t remember when this version of Doggy Brain Blues was done, but the inspiration came out of the band house in High Falls. We had been jamming late and I woke up around noon the following day. I was on the floor and John’s dog, a black Lab was licking my face. Through the blur of my hangover I realized that the dog had the highest functioning brain in the house. I decided I would have to change my ways. The Madonna V3 song was written while I was hanging with Mike Mitchell. Mike was a singer / songwriter –philosopher and whirling dervish of counter establishment thinkers. He was steeped in Emanuel Velikovsky, Wilhelm Reich, Bucky Fuller, and media gurus. I had referred to my guitar as The Scarred Madonna. A world weary muse, relentless in the faithful delivery of truth. I was working on the Johnny Rainbow group of songs as a rock opera. Along with Madonna V3, were Beggars, Crazy, One Brother, Tribe, Hero, Years later at the Boiceville cottage Joe Ruff sat in on a session laying down drums for Palm. There were a shortage of players so I used a MIDI set up to fill out the instruments and multi-tracked my own vocals for backup. Bourbon Street was a solo effort. Again there were no players available so I ended up playing all the instruments. Beggars, Curtain, One Brother, Hero, My Baby, Queen, They were all sketches I’d hoped to use in putting together a band for the Johnny Rainbow rock opera. Old Time friends was a look back after Mike cashed in his chips. Raga Job was recorded in the farm in Pennsylvania. It was part of a group for the unfinished River Rock album. Songs including supporting musicians. Hearts CD This was my "Studio" album I finished my apprentice ship on. Don Elliot was the studio owner and a wealth of wisdom. Messenger Hydra Silence Butterfly Rose Marie Intellectual Blues Morning Hard Games Good Night Johnny Rainbow Special Thanks To: Kurt Henry, Kim Carol, Amy Glavner, Gaetana Ciarlante, Lisa Abbatomarco, Susan McClean, Big Joe Fitz, Joe Ruff, John Wheeler when the night rolls back it's curtain when dark turns into day when the light comes out for certain it's the dawning of your age Easy Street They Say That Love Conformity Crazy Hoochie Coochie Hero Crossroads Beggars Tribe Friend Ethera Ethera 2 Flash Fools Doggy Brain Blues Far Away Your Age Raga Guitar CD A collection of acoustic guitar compositions. Over the years I had been influenced by eastern music, and the reverberation it effected in American artists. Ravi Shankar was the star in the east, but Greek, Moroccan, Chinese and Japanese music opened doorways to exotic emotional depiction. Here at home Buffy Saint Marie’s D modal tuning used in songs like Codeine demonstrated the effective personal expression of resonant harmonics. I did not want to re-tune my guitar but develop a way of playing standard tuning with that attitude. Re-discovering chord structure within the middle of the instrument range seemed to get a base for this system of play. The other major factor on my guitar development was the Spanish influence. Andrés Segovia and Carlos Montoya were the masters who stood alone as models of excellence with the acoustic guitar. There was also a respect for passion I felt was necessary for the mix. There is a peculiarity about my rhythm I should clarify. My meter in music is periodically disrupted. I believe dyslexia plays a part in this. However, there is also the fact that I was influenced at an early age by the music I heard in Greece as a child. My father’s job located the family there for several years, and I got an ear-full. Jazz and eastern drummers seem to accept my eccentricities far easier than pop & rock drummers. The way this effects the composition is that I feel comfortable in loosing the rhythm to express emotion. In guitar my adaptation of the Flamenco strum is disunited into a flat-picking single note accentuation which I feel is expressive of my emotional vision. I don’t think of my music as an evolution of these influences, but rather a child born out of passionate love unrestrained by convention. Folk CD A collection of contemporary songs. One man, one guitar ETHERA Audio Cassette and CD ETHERA was an album of electronic music. It originated from MIDI songs I imported into an original voice group. Experimentation continued with the excitement of hearing original sounds. This was in contrast to the little cabin in the woods, courtesy of Robie Casey, “Rose.” no running water except for the Esopus river just outside the door. ETHERA is the mythic Spirit Guide from Johnny Rainbow.It has been used by several choreographers for ballet in addition to several movies and the Johnny Rainbow Musical drama. Thus Spoke ETHERA CD A collection of Spoken Word (lessons of life) as told to Johnny Rainbow Band and Gig CD Solo and accompanied compositions. Sketches and live recordings. The "what's happening" CD Available @ Gigs