The Steel Guitar Forum

Thanks for the tip, Cal! All that is in the works.
(Nook Book will be available any day now.)

Also available in paperback print edition:



http://www.lulu.com/shop/kevin-macneil- ... 71933.html


thanks!

Thanks, Cal. Your work looks excellent.

Thank you, Gary!

A little different perhaps... My mystery novel HIGHWAY IN THE BLOOD, featuring a steel-playing protagonist, is available now for the first time on Kindle. Fans of James Lee Burke and John D. MacDonald will detect some influence, I suspect. (Caveat: Some adult themes; probably an R rating.) If you ar...

A treat to hear! Thank you!

I concur! Just saw The Wheel here in Vermont, and it was inspiring all the way. Ended up in a front row seat straight across from Eddie Rivers and his steel, so I was in heaven.

My new EP features songs and instrumentals to accompany my upcoming mystery novel. The protagonist is a steel and dobro player, so there's steel (6 string lap) or dobro on every track. This music is not straight country music, but rather a very personal take on the country music I grew up with and l...

This video-- music and art--is a liminal meditation inspired by places where water, sky, and landforms come together. The music, lap steel and laptop, is an excerpt from a longer piece, "Finding Quiet Waters". The paintings are QUIET WATERS 1-8, in acrylic and watercolor. I hope you find s...

Susan-- Graceful and powerful. I love The bloom of overtones, the vivid wholeness of sound, melody, space, harmony, gesture.
Thanks for sharing, and for the heads-up on the podcast!

Susan-- Thanks for your comments. Perhaps steel guitar, with its unique potential for complexities of intonation, and the especial way tones can resonate and bloom, helps to build the physicality that I'm so glad you experienced in listening! Daniel-- Thanks for listening and giving feedback- Glad y...

Karlis--Thank you!
I appreciate your comments. I do feel that some of these pieces brought me a bit closer to something I've been feeling towards for a while.
I'm quite honored by --and grateful for-- your generous listening.

Not traditional steel, this collection brings together my 2010 compositions inspired by connections to the landscape--shorelines, mountains, sky--of northern New England. I present it here in the spirit of quiet contemplation. You can listen as much as you'd like for free, or download for 7 bucks. h...

For any interested, here is a link to an early morning performance of a piece I made especially for the autumnal equinox back in September.

http://kevinmacneilbrown.bandcamp.com/t ... ll-equinox


Thanks for listening!

I enjoyed it, indeed, Michael. Evocative and interesting; hypnotic. Has that ringing, rippling thing that does make me think of Fahey, and further back to certain country blues guitar players. Thanks!

That's simply beautiful. Thanks for sharing it!

Hmmmm... I'm the one who wrote the offending review a few years back, and now all this has got me looking for the source I used when I credited Mooney and Burton. I'm chagrinned to say that I can't remember what/where it was. (I certainly do agree that the sounds don't always quite match what I know...

Thanks for posting these, Mike. Noel Boggs-- his sound and approach-- just always gets to me.
Nice treasure trove.

Elegant, deep, stunning. Thank you for posting this, Susan.

Thank you, Susan-- and I appreciate the adjectives and metaphors!

Here's a a recent blog post, along with a link to listen to and/or download my new EP.(Dobro on most tracks, lap steel on one.) Thanks for reading and listening! http://kmbliminal.blogspot.com/2010/03/atmospheric-skip-and-am-country-music.html ATMOSPHERIC SKIP AND AM COUNTRY MUSIC DREAMS As I finish...

For those who might like steel guitar with an experimental/ art music approach, Here's my new piece for lap steel, electronics, and spoken word:

http://kevinmacneilbrown.bandcamp.com/t ... journal-ep

You can listen for free, or download the EP for 3 bucks.
Thanks for checking it out!

I've just finished a project to make some of my long-form contemplative soundworks available for free listening and/or purchase as loss-less downloads. Definitely not traditional music, these are intended as paintings in sound. They are made with 6 string lap steel in various tunings, with varying d...

I'm pleased to announce that some of my long-form ambient/textural steel works are available as downloads now. You can listen to them in full, and/or purchase loss-less downloads here:

http://kevinmacneilbrown.bandcamp.com/

Thanks!

Just wanted to let people know that my two 2009 projects in ambient/textural/ soundscape music for lap steel are available on CD-R for on-line purchase now.
Information here:

http://kmbliminal.blogspot.com/2009/12/ ... music.html

Thanks!