My friend Rozz Nash and I wrote this parody of one of our favorite hometown songs.  Hope you enjoy.

I Want A Cookie

"Happy Chrisma-Hanna-Kwanza-Rama-Krishna" by Andrew Vladeck. The New Yorker writes, "It’s a modern-day holiday standard for our gorgeous, multi-cultural city."

Happy Chrisma-Hanna-Kwanza-Rama-Krishna

Here's a medley of some favorite old tunes taught to me by Eric Muller of Gainesville, FL.

Medley: Flop-Eared Mule, Miss McClouds Reel, Sugar in the Gourd

Here's a medley of some favorite old tunes I learned from Todd Wright at his home in Nashville, TN. 

Medley: New Five Cents, Forked Deer

Here's a medley of some favorite old tunes taught to me by Alan Friend in the Gowanus Heights of Brooklyn, NY.

Medley: Soldier's Joy, Mississippi Sawyer

Classic writing chops combine with idiosyncratic impulses to the the create sharp, lyric-driven New Wave Folk song on New York singer-songwriter Andrew Vladeck’s upcoming single, “You’ll Get Yours” – produced by Boston’s Sam Kassirer (Lake Street Dive/Josh Ritter) with the company of multi-instrumentalist Sean Trischka. 

“You’ll Get Yours” is a protest song, and hopefully, what a good rock song should be – cathartic. Andrew writes, “it’s for those liars and manipulators who only increase human misery in the world." Andrew tries to honor Chuck D.'s (Public Enemy) advice on topical songwriting, to the effect of, "if you teach the class you must rock the boulevard." 

The accompanying music video is a Bauhaus homage filmed on the Day of Totality by award-winning filmmaker David Doobinin.

Vladeck’s last record, released under his “Fireships” moniker, features classic songwriting with contemporary folk-rock orchestration, with finger-picked electric guitar and songs that recalled great NYC songwriters Lou Reed and Paul Simon. Voted Best of 2016 by The New York Music Daily, calling it “imaginatively arranged Americana rock and chamber pop with a fearlessly aware, Dylanesque, populist lyricism.”  Fireships was lauded in The Huffington Post, Guitar World, Daytrotter, charted on college radio, and toured across the US and Europe. Contributors included legendary composer David Amram, Sydney Wayser (Clara Nova), Adam Levy and others. 

Vladeck has been a fixture on the New York music scene since the early 1990s. He has released four albums followed by US and European tours. He has opened for or shared bills with The National, Andrew Bird, Norah Jones, Jeff Buckley, Ani DiFranco, Soulive, Marah, Beth Orton, Moe, Alejandro Escovedo, and many more.  He’s won First Place in the International Songwriting Competition and received awards from Billboard, the Independent Music Awards, and was named The Deli Magazine's NYC Artist of the Month. Vladeck is also a founding member of The Honey Brothers (which released four albums, played the national festival circuit, and toured four continents), and the banjo player for “epic, barnyard folk” band Balthrop, Alabama.

2018 brings plans for releasing various singles followed by an LP that integrates work with several different producers of renown, including Grammy Winner Malcolm Burn, Grammy Nominee Felix McTeigue, Roger Greenawalt, and Kaia Fischer. Tour dates in the US and Europe to follow.