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I know I might be adventure deprived these days, but st. Louis was the most beautiful place in the world this weekend. You shoulda seen it … The crowes were three hours and we were second row, front and center, flirting with Chris all night. It was as advertised: an exposed acoustic set – fairly [...]

mississippi john hurt said it was alright. ‘it”ll be good for ya, son …’ or was that riley? number three in the falling out sessions. stack o’ lee blues. (i’m out of my pay grade here …)

i guess we’ll call this number two in the falling out sessions. the falling out sessions were inspired by staying up at hooch’s and writing cruel water and figuring out i could just sit down and record it on my telephone. these songs are (almost) all one takes and are rough and stumbly and (almost) [...]

had another nice conversation with riley martin the other night when i got back in town. i went over to neil’s to get my mail and was presented with a manila envelop addressed to sir kevin casper. inside, a copy of riley’s 1990 CD of original music, ‘last men standing.’ here’s a sample: that’s riley [...]

croweology … should be the blueprint for how rock bands must must must do retrospective/greatest hits/best ofs from now on. an acoustic reworking of 20-odd crowes tunes from the catalogue (and a few choice covers … gram parson’s ‘she’ … mercy.) you know the tunes, but you don’t, cause they’re new. but old. like sleeping [...]

we’re all friends here, right? good. so i can play you this song i wrote on the farm yesterday. it’s a capital D demo: 1. it was recorded at hooch’s kitchen counter on a telephone. 2. the shaker is a box of apple watermelon nerds. 3. multiple dogs are audible. 4. first takes all around. [...]

great show from friend martin this evening and, as promised, he gave me a shout out when he was doing plugs at the end of his show. riley, i appreciate it, and am honored to have you listening to my stuff and talking it up! here’s the shout out: i think it’s time we all [...]

got a great story. first the backstory. this is riley martin: check out his website for the full scope of his life’s work, but suffice it to say, i consider him one of the greatest storyteller’s alive today, a world class radio broadcaster, and an all around groovy motherfucker. the reader’s digest version is he [...]