sept 28th to oct 5

friday 9/28 I am at 68 Jay st bar in Dumbo for the atrs fest playing with Mamie Minch at 7:00 then Jan Bell around 9:00
Sunday 9/30 Brunch at Superfine in Dumbo with Jan Bell then its Hank's that night
tues 10/2 Laura Bell Bundy at the Cutting Room in manhattan at 8:00
weds 10/3 Sunny's in Red Hook with Smokey's Roundup 9:30
thurs 10/4 Superfine with Smokey's Roundup 9:00

Some September gigs

Sept 12 9:30 Smokey's Roundup at Sunny’s. No cover. Sunny's is on Conover st near the Fairway in Red Hook Brooklyn.

Sept 14th Teddy Thompson at the Bowery Ballroom
Sept 15th Mamie Minch and me at 68 Jay st bar in Dumbo 10:00

Sept 16th 2:00 Jan Bell and the Cheap Dates Hudson County Fair
Then its Hank's with Sean Kershaw at 10:00

Sept 17th at The Living Room upstairs with Max Greene 8:30.

sept 19th 9:30 Smokey's Roundup at Sunny’s. No cover. Sunny's is on Conover st near the Fairway in Red Hook Brooklyn.

sept 21 Queen Esther Details to follow.
Sept 22 Mamie and me at 68 Jay st bar in Dumbo 10:00

sept 23 Hank's with Sean Kershaw at 10:00

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Tonight the 12th and a couple more

JUly 12th 2007 Tonight at 9:00 I'm playing my own supply without a demand type music at Sunny's bar in Red Hook.
Sunny's is on Conover right next to the Fairway. I have :
Dan Weiss drums
Chris Lightcap Bass
and Glen Patscha on piano

Gerald Menke will be playing steel with his new band also around 10:00.

7/14 SAt at 68 Jay st Bar in Dumbo I'll be playing a couple sets with Mammie from the Roullette Sisters. Ragtime Blues

Sunday Its Hank's !
Monday 16th I'm back at Barbes with my own band at 10:00. Miho Hatori may sing a few tunes with us. Not to be missed !

First week of July

July 1 sunday night. Well, they wanted me to stay in Boston at some fancy all expenses paid hotel making tons of money and playing with a high falutin orchestra but I had a gig at Hank's . I wouldn't want to miss those rough girls pile driving Sean Kershaw's head into the dance floor or hanging brain show and neither should you !

July 2nd I'm at Barbes with Smokey Hormel's Western Roundup at 10:00. We don't get a chance to play much this summer and this is a great place to see the band.

July 4th Smokey and the guys are at Jalopy. We should get going around 10:00.

July 6th its Drazy Hoops at The Living Room . This is a full band show.

Later that night I'm playing with Max Greene at Banjo Jim’s around midnight.

On the 7th I have a gig at 68 Jay st in Dumbo around 9:00 with J.Walter Hawks and Tim Luntzel. We will play a bunch of old standards and sub standards.

Boston Pops !

Here is a shot of the gig I played last night:

Also the JC gig at Rodeo Bar is canceled due to some sort of thing or another.

last week or so of June

Well, I guess its been a while since I updated this thing but, you know, I was busy and didn't get it together.

So anyhoo this is what is coming up:

June 21 at 10:00 Its Mamie from the Roulette sisters singing at
Superfine in Dumbo


126 Front St., Brooklyn, NY 11201
Between Jay and Pearl Sts.
718-243-9005

It will be with the guys from Smokey's Roundup. Its a great band.I'll be trying to keep up playing my old Fender Stringmaster.

June 23 I'm in Maryland playing a wedding gig.

Sunday the 24th its Hank's at 10:00. Free sausages, drunk people doing all the things drunk people do including some new tricks that you just gotta see. I saw a big sign on the building that it is a fantastic development spot for sale so I guess the rich fuckers backed out on knocking it down to put up some more piece of shit luxury condos for the time being. The luxury condo building next door went up in about a week and is made out of some prefab flimsy junk you could poke your fist through with very little effort.

June 26 and 27 Hem is playing with the Boston Pops in Boston. I'll wear a nice shirt for that bad boy !

June 28 its JC Hopkins at the Rodeo Bar . This should be a real fun show.

June 29 I'm playing with Meg from the Roulette Sisters at Sunny's in Red Hook. This is the greatest bar in the world and you get to hear Meg's tunes and meet Lucy the dog. What more could you want ?

Then we got July. Big doins coming up ! Mondays at Barbes. My own band on the 12th at Sunny's. All sorts of stuff.

May Gigs

Okay, So I have been a little remiss in my gig updates. For any of you that may be wondering I have been very busy playing the pedalsteel for the people and rocking in the proper idiomatic style depending on the particular situation. Anyhoo I am playing
may 16th at Club Europa
with Sean Kershaw and the New
Jack Ramblers. It should be a weird one in a world of weird ones. My favorite part of playing Club Europa is the complete distain the Polish babe bartenders have for any non Polish guy. If the poor dudes tip to much they get treated even worse. It will be great to see Klaus Flouride
again. I used to hang with him in San Fransisco. Now that was a fun scene !


Thursday the 17th I'm playing new country tunes for some rich kids at a Princeton dining club. I was thinking about wearing a bomb belt but decided to save it for a shot at Kenny Chesney if I ever get the chance.

Friday and saturday I'm out with Don Dilego
May 18 Lynchburg, VA @ Bull Branch
May 19 Charlotte, NC @ The Evening Muse

These are duet shows so it should be fun.

sunday the 20th if I'm not dead I'll be at Hank's .
Here is a little something for the music lovers:

The rest of April 07

4/29 Its Hank's ! Sunday night at 10:0. Catch it while you can.

4/30 at 7:30 Queen Esther, The WeDaPeoples Cabaret
Monday, April 30th
Eugene Lang College/The New School
Wollman Hall. 5th Floor
65 West 11th Street (near 6th Avenue)

then at 10:00 Its the last gig for a while for Smokey's Roundup. We are playing Barbes in Park Slope.

April 8 to 14th

The picture is of me in Texas with Herb Remington. He is a living legend.


April 8th sunday is Hank's at 10:00. Its an oasis of sorts. Country music played a little too fast. Think more gas pedal than steering wheel. Fun scene.

Monday 9th its the Knitting Factory at 10:00 with Derek Lee Bronston. Very strong players are working with this great singer songwriter. It looks like we go on around 9:30. I'll be there early to check out the other bands.

weds the 11th is Smokey's Roundup. Its a great little western swing band with some amazing players. We will be at The Lakeside Lounge on the lower east side around 9:00. Don't miss this rare chance to see this band in manhattan. The crossing of the great waters is quite a big deal for us.

Sat the 14th the mighty Hem plays a fesival of some sort in Norfolk Viginia.

After driving like a demon I will be rocking again at Hank's with Sean Kershaw on sunday the 15th. I will be crispy. But it can be better that way.




Its Easter !

March 30th into April

I haven't been updating my gig blog very much lately. I've been here and there doing a little of this and that mostly. Anyhoo:
March 30 I'm at the The Ace of Clubs on 9 Great Jones st downtown at 8:30 with Jan Bell and the Cheap Dates.

Sunday night the 1st of April I'm back at
Hank's ! We get going at 10:30. All you have heard is true about this amazing musical phenominon.

Weds night around 9:00 Smokey's roundup will be playing at Sunny's in Red Hook. I have a new cowboy hat, a fire in my heart and Lucy will be there accepting bribes.

Sunny's: 253 Conover st Brooklyn, 11231. Right next to The Fairway in Red Hook.

Thurs the 5th Smokey again. This time at Superfine . There is subway access to this fine establishment so no slakin from you slakers out there.

Sister Rosetta Tharpe and a couple gigs

I am getting ready to do some traveling so I won't be around in march much at all.

I am playing at the 169 club in Chinatown with Drazy Hoops on thurs night march 1st at 10:00

and then at Union Pool with Jan Bell and the cheap dates on march 8th. This is her Cd release party.

Feb 18th to 24

2/18 Sunday night at 10:00 its Hank's ! Don't miss it. The housing bubble monster chipped a tooth on Hank's but is coming back in all his glory to eat hank's and then crap out another flimsy luxury condo in its place any minute. Free sausages, drunk people ! Whoo Hoo ! Its a holiday weekend so it should get going pretty good.

2/19
Smokey's Western Roundup at Barbes . 10:00 no cover. Ben Perowsky is sitting on drums. This is the last gig we will do for a month or so.

2/23 Its Sean Kershaw and the New
Jack Ramblers at the Rodeo Bar . Sets start at around 10:00. No cover.

Feb 8th to 14th

Thurs the 8th Its Smokey's Roundup at The Rodeo Bar ! No cover, free peanuts and a nice scene for checking the band out at this little oasis for American music on 3rd and 27th in Manhattan.

Feb 10th its The Glaciers at
The Brooklyn Lyceum w/Elk City & The Honey Brothers
227 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, 11215


Feb 11 it Jan Bell and the Cheap Dates at Superfine in Dumbo. This is a sunday brunch gig with some good guys at a nice place.

then at 10:00 its Hank's ! Don't miss it. The housing bubble monster chipped a tooth on Hank's but is coming back in all his glory to eat hank's and then crap out another flimsy luxury condo in its place any minute. Free sausages, drunk people ! Whoo Hoo !

Feb 12th Smokey's Western Roundup at Barbes . 10:00 no cover but a powerful tip jar. This is a great listening room over in Park Slope.

Feb 14th Tone will be singing her tunes at Sunny's on Conover in Red Hook.

Feb 1st to 8th Whole lotta Smokey !

Feb 1 The Smokey Hormel Western Combo at
Superfine in Dumbo 9:00
Feb 4th Hank's Atlantic and 3rd st in Brooklyn 10:00 with Sean Kershaw.

Feb 5th Barbes With The Smokey Hormel Western Combo. 10:00

Feb 7th Smokey at Sunny's in Red Hook 9:30 253 Conover
Feb 8th Smokey at Rodeo Bar

In Smokey's Western Combo we play old western swing, early jazz and blues on period correct instruments except for Charlie Burnham's weird looking violin and a few other things. Well maybe its not so period correct and we play mostly whatever we want at the time but we do wear cowboy hats !

The rest of january 2007 so far

Well, January is on the slow side as far as live gigs go so far. Here is what I have going on for the rst of the month:

Jan 9th: Andrew Cohen at Ace of Clubs
9 Great Jones Street between Broadway and Lafayette
212.677.6963

It looks like the Brooklyn country crew makes this scene. I'm not sure what is going on but I am going to a rehearsal so I will have a head start on the tunes anyway.

Jan 12: I'm playing with The Woes at Terra Blues 149 Bleecker Street NYC. Should be a fun show.


Jan 14: Its sunday so I must be at
Hank's !

Jan 17th Smokey Hormel's Roundup is back at Sunny's in Red Hook

Jan 20th Hem is at Bowery Ballroom. This is a great band that you should check out if at all possible.

Jan 21 Hank's ! 10:00

Jan 24 Back to Sunny's with Smokey and a rock star of note siting in on drums.

Jan 28th: Man, I'm wondering what my life has come to... oh yea, I'm at Hank's again. All is well with the world.

Jan 31: Smokey at Sunny's. All you have heard about this gig is true. You will feel the power and bow down before the mighty force of this early jazz/western swing band.
Prepare yourself and be aware that we wear cowboy hats.

Dec 31 till jan 3rd 2007

I got a New Years gig ! I'll be at Hank's on Atlantic and 3rd in Brooklyn with Sean Kershaw and the whoever else couldn't get a real money gig band. It is a fun scene over there. We go on around 10:00

Then on weds the 3rd I'll be playing Sunny's in Red Hook with Meg Richardt. She is great. I'll be playing my pedal steel while she sings and plays guitar. We will go on around 10:00.
Sunny's is at 253 Conover st . It may be the greatest bar of all time.

You Tube test

I'm getting all fancy with this computer stuff !

more Fish fry

Fish fry pics

Some shots of Sunny's for you guys:

Some more dec dates

Thats Mark Brotter being attacked by some crazy little dog in the picture:


Well, I hope you didn't drive to Phila to see me with Matt Keating because I wasn't there. I was teaching upstate and then playing for the people with Jan Bell at Superfine. Its been very busy for me these days so the crazy long drive to Narrowsburg was kinda relaxing. I listened to hours of Sinatra from his capitol years. That music is so strong. I find myself coming back to it all the time. Like Beethoven's 7th with all that trancendent joy pouring into that heartbreaking adagio and then rocking out by the end.

Anyhoo..... tonight (friday 12/15) I'm in Blauvelt,NY with "The New Romans". Its near Nyack.
12/16 I'm in the studio all day making rock history with Smokey's Roundup. No gigs so watch out people, I've got a cel phone and I'm feeling social !
12/17 ItsHank's Atlantic and 3rd st in Brooklyn 10:00 with Sean Kershaw. This is geting to be a great scene.

12/18 Barbes With Smokey's Roundup. 10:00

12/19 Paul Duncan at Europa
12/20 Smokey at Sunny's. End of conover in red hook
21/21 Tone at the fish fry. I'm sorry but I can't tell you more.It just wouldn't be right to have this ancient local ritual on the internet.
12/22 Emilie Cardinaux The Living Room .