Welcome to the website! (Especially if you're new around here.)

What? Didja just meet Sid the other night?

Were we hangin' together with my guitar at H.I. New York Thursday night?

Did you just Google "That Guitar Man from Central Park"?

Well, either way, welcome! Gotta tell you right off the bat... if you're gonna be in or around New York City next weekend, we're movin' the whole thing indoors again for a very special night. It's the second in this new concert series in that brand new music hall on the Upper West side of Manhattan - H.I. New York Performance Hall

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H.I New York Performance Hall - Amsterdam Ave @ 103rd Street

If you are free Saturday night, March 29th, call a few friends and reserve some seats for yourselves as soon as you can. This one is gonna be something special. (Mainly because this venue and this idea is still such a baby. New stuff like this in a great city like this is always exciting.) AND if you come to the gig on the 29th, you'll get a ticket to attend the very first "What's Behind the Song" for FREE. I'll get into that in a minute!

Here... click on this thing to reserve as many seats as you want. The tickets started selling well this weekend. If you wanna reserve seats for the concert, you can do it right now. (Reserving seats this way puts your name on the list at the door!)

Okay, well... I've been talking to lots of songwriters, lots of unknown artists, a couple of famous artists and music people about surrounding this project with energy and good will, excitement and enthusiasm. Just last weekend I was kicking all the possibilities around with my friend and colleague, folk-legend Christine Lavin, and she was so excited about this gig, she decided to jump right in.

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My two musical guests, Christine Lavin and Galia - and maybe a couple of surprises.

Besides having a really wonderful new young singer/songwriter named Galia as my first musical guest, Christine's said she's on board to show up and do a couple of songs. (This is gonna be sooooo fucking cool.) Janet Kirker and David Marcus are gonna be on stage with me again. It's gonna be a blast.

"What's Behind the Song" is gonna be a 90 minute, interview/music/open-discussion show with questions from the audience all about the mysterious and wonderful Creative process of songwriting.... with various songwriters. (Who, as you know, are generally a crazy bunch of people.) This oughta be really cool. We're gonna shoot these things, edit them down and put them all on DVD.

You're invited to attend the very first one the following Friday, April 4th at H.I.N.Y.

If you come to the concert on the 29th, you'll receive a ticket to the taping the next weekend for FREE!!! My first guest is a great guy and a wonderful songwriter with a really interesting career.... Jake Holmes.

VIDEO FROM THE FIRST CONCERT AT H.I.N.Y

Click on these images to watch the videos. The first one contains the brand new verse in song that won't go away.... "Tom Cruise Scares Me". (It's dedicated to John McCain.)

Cruise... with the new McCain verse

Click on this next image to watch the opening of the very, very first concert in the new H.I New York Performance Hall.

I'm also thinkin' I'm gonna be rolling out at least 2 brand new songs of my own that night, maybe 3. One of the new tracks... well... I did a little rough, scratch track demo of the tune and it's here for you guys to listen to and let me know what you think about the subject matter. Gimme a shout, leave a comment... let me know how you feel about what the song says, okay? Man! I wrote this little song to be as fair minded and pointed as I'm capable of being.... so, it'll probably piss off everybody! Gonna be fun to try it out LIVE. Here's my phone number.

646-224-8162

Click on this logo to listen to the song.

I'm sure this song will change a little bit before I do it LIVE at H.I.N.Y. But, let me know what you think of the spirit of the track.

Very, very cool.

PODCAST TIME

HERE'S A BRAND NEW EPISODE OF THE ORIGINAL PODCAST:

"I Love the Company" (Show #363)

I'm playing a song requested by a listener... a song by a special guest artist who will be joining me on stage on March 29th.

Just click on the logo, plug in your headphones, jam in your earbuds or turn on your speakers and listen. (You can always subscribe to the show and get it automatically by hitting that itunes button over there.)

SHOW 363

Cool? My musical guest on ILTC: Galia (Click on her photo to visit her website, find out more about her, where she's playing, and how to get her music.)

Galia

I'm gonna ask you one more time to call with absolutely anything you wanna say. Use this phone number for you to call to be a part of all this... right here. Use it to chime in and leave a message for either podcast, a comment, a request, an opinion, or just say "Hey" and let me know where in the country or the world your listening.

646-224-8162

NOW... the sister-podcast to the original. This show, I'm passionate about hearing from you guys today. Here it is... the most recent installment of the more politically-minded and socially conscious podcast, "Where's the Voice".

Wrote that new song... ELECTION YEAR! It's still a work-in-progress. Really want you to call the show and have some fun! I wanna know how you feel about this song! We really do live in a pinball machine.... thing happen so fast. I wanna run that new song by you!!!! Really want you to call the show and have some fun! I wanna know how you feel about this new tune!

CLICK ON THE LOGO



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Okay... gotta get rollin'

Galia's comin' over today for a little rehearsal. Gettin' together with Dave Marcus and Janet over the weekend.

Hope I se you at the gig next weekend.

Thanks for everything.