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The Space Willies! Everything about this cover is fantastic.
Ace Double D-315, The Space Willies by Eric Frank Russell. Cover artist uncredited and unknown, 1958.
A sequel to “The Cosmic Heebie-Jeebies”.
Prequel to “The Galactic Creeps.”
This is actually a really good comic sci-fi story! It was re-published under the name Next of Kin. Definitely worth a read, if you can find it.
Help out the ACLU with CHE
You've probably heard that Bandcamp is donating profits from all sales made today to the ACLU. Sounds like a good idea to us. The digital download of East of Western is only $5 on Bandcamp, and if anyone buys a copy today, we'll throw our proceeds to the ACLU as well.
https://cathairensemble.bandcamp.com
i honestly love cat hair ensemble so much they need 2 reunite and come to stockholm
Wow, this was a nice surprise to stumble upon while lazily scrolling through Tumblr at an hour when I should probably be sleeping instead! I’d love to play in Stockholm (and then stock up on Swedish folk albums…that stuff is amazing). I’m still in contact with most of the people from the band, so there’s a chance we could get back together sometime in the future. Now I just need to find a wealthy patron who can fly us to Sweden…
In the meantime, I put a bunch of demos and live recordings up on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/mrcathair/sets/cat-hair-ensemble-unreleased-scraps
This happened.
In this week’s episode (co-written by Roderick Cumming https://soundcloud.com/mrcathair)we learn the inspiring life story of our favorite musical cockroach, Scuttles, the leader of The Cockroach Quart
I co-wrote this episode of the Odious Ari podcast! Your favorite centenarian Vaudevillian converses with a cockroach, strolls down memory lane to Sinatra’s house, and gets some musical therapy from the all-lady band The Bush Administration.
RIYL: variety shows, comedy, despair, @tanglefootcomic, vermin, banjos, tubas, old people, the poor, booze.
Jack and Misty have entertained the masses since the sixties. Lets give back as they are in need of help to handle an unexpected relocation expense.
These retired musicians are about to lose their home: the land their mobile home is parked on was sold, and they’re too broke to relocate. They have less than a month before the whole place is bulldozed. There’s only 4 days left in the campaign and they’re not even halfway to their goal…please, if you can spare a little, help out Misty and Jack.
CHE is pretty much on permanent hiatus at this point. I'm still writing songs, though, and I made really rough demos of a bunch of them. Check them out and feel free to download and share.
Here's a demo of a new song. Dorian Wood came up with the title.
Here's a rough rehearsal recording of "From the Odessa Jail." The band at this time was Roderick Cumming - guitar; Grant Lovelace - electric bass; Spencer Savage - drums; Andrew Duncan - trumpet; Julie Carpenter - violin; Leah Harmon - accordion.
Here's the demo that eventually turned into the song "Me and the Rats." I came up with a bunch of chords and Clint wrote a lovely through-composed melody. After I wrote lyrics and a new melody, Clint's part became the guitar solo. And it was sped up ridiculously. Check out how well he coped with my a-hole move:
http://cathairensemble.bandcamp.com/track/me-and-the-rats
Playing Pelo de Pero at the Thirsty Crow. Photo by Julie Carpenter.
Look at these pioneering jagoffs.
Been listening to Spiers & Boden for the last few days - Songs and Vagabond. Both are excellent albums. I always complain about how most modern folk bands get all of their rhythmic cues from rock music (and shitty rock music, at that), so it's great to hear these guys play with a different sensibility. The stomping and the way the melodeon is played really propel the music. Instead of making the music sound simpler, it opens things up for more interesting and complex arrangements. Or maybe they just play the way I want to hear this stuff played.
Here's an old live version of "Napoleon of Regret" recorded at Bordello. The band for this show was as follows:
Roderick Cumming - accordion, vocals; Ego Plum - bass; Spencer Savage - drums; Grant Lovelace - pedal steel guitar; Andrew Duncan - trumpet; Joe Tepperman - trombone
It was Ego's idea to play the song in the style of The Specials' "Ghost Town."
Just saw a great Stephen Sondheim quote: “There will always be a public for the past. The problem is to attract one for the future.” As a writer of music inspired by older styles, I sometimes need to remind myself that I’m alive now, not then, and that my obligation is to me and the present, not to the musicians who came before me. I think “getting it wrong” is a virtue.
A short tune for my grandmother.
