Inspired By Vintage Late Night Country Radio; My New EP

[Kevin Macneil Brown]

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/ ... music.html


ATMOSPHERIC SKIP AND AM COUNTRY MUSIC DREAMS

As I finish up recording and mixing THREE MILE BRIDGE-- an EP, I guess, not quite an album-- of my most recent country songs, I realize that I've never let go of an obsessive memory from my teenage years. It's that of late night/early morning radio, coming up on WWVA from Wheeling, West Virginia in the 1970s.
On Saturday nights I'd stay up all night, transistor radio under the pillow, to listen up close-- as close as I could, anyway, through all the static, the distance and drift. Live music with steel guitars and fiddles; singers, some well-known, others obscure; Coffee-and twang-fueled truck driving songs from the Jamboree.
I liked the voices, the stories; the sense of something timeless reaching through those late nights and early mornings; across the plains, up the Blue Ridge Mountains, or from who-knows-where; sounding in the gray-blue pre-dawn of my New Hampshire mountain home.
I can't let go of the yearning and joy those sounds brought to life inside me. So I keep coming back to my own imagination of them; in my own way. Most of these new songs are about places close to home here in Central Vermont.
-kmb
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[Susan Alcorn]

Wonderful music, Kevin, and quite a nice contrast. "Three Mile Bridge" raw, organic, tinged with nostalgia - a first-person journey through life and its dramas. "Cloud Morning Journal" subtle, mysterious, and profound - that kind of slow movement or perhaps stillness from dawn until the day takes on a motion of its own. Please forgive the adjectives and metaphors;

your work continues to astound.

[Kevin Macneil Brown]

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