Black Paintings X

My band, The Jaywalkers, are recording this summer… we’ve got a Tumblr blog to keep you updated with photos, recordings, etc. http://coldwargiants.tumblr.com/

I’ve had a few people write and ask about guitar lessons, or various music classes, and I thought I’d post this info here for those interested. I do teach privately at The Studios at Eastside Guitars. And while I focus mainly on songwriting, folk, gypsy-jazz, and improvisation, there are many teachers there – some focus [...]

Indeed.

Alas, someone (brilliant) has taken the parody of the now infamous Trololo Man (in which they overdub themselves singing horribly and refer to it as “Trololo Man Without Autotune”) – and put the actual parody through autotune, with harmonies, and synths. Very surreal. I like it.

I found this old film while rummaging through archival footage – it’s interesting how the film shows segregated schools, integrated schools, rural, urban, etc. When I was in elementary school, the school lunch program was pretty much the same as it is shown here. By the time I hit high-school, the meal plans had drastically [...]

This is something short I did for my friend, Buddy Zapata (who is amazing!) – featuring his song, “Father’s Son”, from his album Turo. Go buy it. CONVEYOR

As this song plays, I can positively smell the autumn air from a small southern town – at a college, of which I was a non-student for a short time – in and out of love, searching, and hiding things I’m still trying to find. In went a serum, and out came a darkness that [...]

At odd moments. During hard times. We’re all a little crazier than we let on. Here I stand beside The Bitterman at the end of a recent show, wondering what happened to the ten year old Niel that tried to eat a nerf football. [perhaps I would have been as tall as The Bitterman?] Best [...]