From a podcast series I used to produce about music creators, recorded a few years back. The interview in this episode by John Gramaglia.

A Pop Diary - Bill Chadwick

Baxie talks to former member of The Fresh Young Fellows, Scott McCaughey.  Scott is currently involved with The Baseball Project--an excellent Super Group that includes Steve Wynn from The Dream Syndicate, his wife drummer Linda Pitmon, plus Peter Buck and Mike Mills from REM.  They've just released their fourth album "Grand Salami Time"...and yes, it's about baseball. Scott talks about the album, baseball, and the upcoming tour (which includes stop in Cambridge on August 19th and at the Ridgefield Playhouse in Ridgefield, Connecticut on August 20th).  But we also talk about collaborating with REM for the last 29 years and about the stroke that he recovered from in 2017! This one was a lot of fun!  Listen on Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and on the Rock102 website.

And thanks again to Z&M Home Buyers for their support!

Baxie's Musical Podcast: Scott McCaughey from The Baseball Project

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Jessica Pratt - "Back, Baby"

“Big Black Dog” 

Times are getting hard honey didn't you know
Can never really tell how the wind will blow
Seems every time I read what the papers say
Another life is stolen everyday

Don't sleep on it now
Just think for yourself
How does it feel?

There's a big black dog on the other side of town
Someday soon their gonna shoot him down

We shouldn't have to live in a state of fear
How we gonna get back every tear?
We Gotta wake the nation let them know
It's an obligation see it grow

Don't sleep on it now
Come think for yourself
How does it feel?

There's a big black dog on the other side of town
Someday soon their gonna shoot him down
Don't hold back cause we need some truth
What's it gonna take to get the fight outta you

Theres a black dog raging inside of me
If you start a revolution it’ll set you free
It's a cold war baby on a dead end street
One day soon they'll take a bite out of me
So don't hold back cause we need the truth
What's it gonna take to get the fight outta you

Recorded and mixed in the early days of 2015 at Virtue and Vice Studios in Brooklyn NY by Anthony "Rocky" Gallo. The record features Robbie Seahag Mangano from The Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger on lead guitar, Marco Argiro sings the song, plays guitar and tickles the ivory. Blaine O'Brien does his thing on the Pedal Steel Guitar
while Subodh Samudre lays down the electric bass and Peter Landi beats the ever living hell out of the drums. 



www.marcowithlove.com

Big Black Dog

Some excellent friends of mine and I, temporarily christened Sean Nelson & The Coastal Elite, made this recording to say Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence to the late, great Mr. Bowie, and to the now-staggering array of great artists and friends who died this year.

"Dead Man Walking" has been one of my favorite post-golden years Bowie numbers since I first heard the drum and bass arrangement on Earthling in 1997 and I've never understood how is has escaped being discovered as one of several lost classics in his repertoire.

The band is Eric Howk (Portugal the Man/Shelby Earl) and Lance Umble (Sloucher / bod/ Cumulus)on guitars, Jacob James (Ships, MANY others)on bass & harmonies, and Michael Lerner (Telekinesis) on drums. Can't ask for better. Michael also recorded and mixed it. (When we performed this arrangement earlier this year, Nouela O. Johnston of Bardot played keyboards and sang, so she's in the band, too, if she'll have us.)

Dead Man Walking

All parts played and written by Jessie Branch. Recorded and mixed at Orbit Audio by Joe Reineke. Mastered by Ed Brooks at Resonant Mastering. Photo by Brian Wall.

Forget Today

"In The Shade"
Lyrics and Music by Marco Argiro 
It's the second cut off Marco Argiro's LOVE LP via Outright Rock Records 2013
The song was recorded and mixed by Anthony "Rocky" Gallo at Virtue and Vice Studios, Brooklyn NY

Dave Mcnair Masters

In The Shade

Singer, writer and KEXP DJ Sean Nelson (Harvey Danger / The Long Winters) shared this cathartic version of Husker Du's Grant Hart's "Sorry Somehow." Thank you, Sean.

Sean Nelson - Sorry Somehow (Husker Du Cover) KEXP Death And Music 2017

Deviant Love

Orchestral arrangements of songs by the late, great American singer/songwriter Harry Nilsson, sung by Sean Nelson.

CREDITS: 
Engineered by Mark Nichols 
Additional Engineering by Steve Fisk
Mixed by Steve Fisk
Produced by Mark Nichols and Steve Fisk
Directed by Sean Nelson

THE PLAYERS: 
Sean Nelson: Lead and Harmony Vocals
Steve Newton: Bass
John Hollis Fleishman: Drums
Mark Nichols: Piano, Baritone Sax, Organ, Moog
Aaron Taylor: Electric Guitar
Thomas Hunter: Electric Guitar, Bass
Aidan Fay: Acoustic Guitar, Pump Organ
Julie Lewis: Backing Vocals
Mari Finch: Backing Vocals
Katy Webber: Backing Vocals
Pajama Party: Backing Vocals
Larry Golding: Violin
Jakob Breitbach: Violin
Stephen Daniels: Violin
John Osebold: Violin
Ken Wright: Violin
Evan Mosher: Trumpet
Rob Witmer: Clarinet, Saxophone, Accordion
Kevin Hinshaw: Saxophone
Sari Breznau: Trumpet
Eric Padget: Trumpet
Adrian Witherspoon: Trombone
Salamandir: Tuba
Rob Knop: Piano

Cover design by Evan Sult, from elements of the 1865 satirical novel The Loyal Man in the Moon, author/artist unknown.

Thank You:
Chandra Farnsworth, Kurt Deutsch, Johnny Sangster, Flanagan and everyone at Largo (onstage and off-), Jon Brion, John Osebold, Evan Mosher, Basil Harris, Kirk Anderson, John Ackermann, David Nixon, Rob Witmer, Kathryn Rathke, Rob Knop, Gavin Guss, Robyn Hitchcock, Emma Swift, Scott McCaughey, Peter Buck, Bill Rieflin, David Depper, Joan LeMay, Lewi Longmire, Jacob Hoffman, Kyle O’Quin, Aaron Benson, Thomas Hunter, the artists formerly known as Kay Kay and His Weathered Undergound, Erin Jorgensen, Brittain Ashford, Shane Tutmarc, Tanya Montana Coe, all the amazing Seattle musicians who played on the record and at the handful of live shows over the years, and everyone who professed an interest in hearing these recordings during the many periods when I felt like this whole project was the wrong kind of folly. 

Special Thanks: 

Mark Nichols, for your superb talent and legendary patience. Thank you for translating a kooky premise into truly inspired music. 

Steve Fisk, for throwing a lasso around a ton of unruly elements and pulling until it sounded right, as you always do.  

Shenandoah Davis, for six years of insisting this record was worth finishing and that only a fool would give up on it. 

Aaron Huffman, for all of it.

Maybe (MASTER)

Actual Sean Nelson

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