My band Gourd Splitter kickin' some boogie
Ray Peterson - bass
Kenny Margolis - Hammond organ, piano
Eric Halverson - drums
Gideon Freudmann - cello
John Kruth - Mandocello, harmonica

Cannonball 3-6-17

Janine Nichols - vocal, Tibetan prayer bowl
John Kruth - banjo

The New Fangled Banner

A track from my new up coming The Drunken Wind of Life - songs based on the poetry of Tin Ujevic, the great bard of Croatia -featuring Samantha Parton, Miroslav and Gordana Evacic,  Dave Dreiwitz 

Frailty

this world/funk/jazzy was completely improvised on sept 12 1999 in a little nyc studio

Leopold in Mali

The Electric Chairmen play a sizzling rendition of the Afghani classic Song of the Cricket

Song Of The Cricket

03 Beatnik Vampire

Recorded in Spoleto, Italy, summer 2018 with the Cat Gang, featuring Maurizio Catarinelli on guitar, myself on vocals, flute and lyrics.

Beatnik Beach Mp3

The Dead Man's Ring... found in Croatia years ago.... a mostly true story! Recorded with the Cat Gang in Spoleto, Italy, Summer 2018. Myself on vocal, lyrics, Maurizio Catarinelli on guitar and blues harp.

Dead Man's Ring

The wonderful Janine Nichols on vocals and myself on sitar. A heartfelt improvised, flowing, this Land is Your Land.

This Land is Your Land

Always a joy to jam with Baba Israel of Soul Inscribed - laying down the groove and twisted them knobs for my electric mandocello (pictured here) and wailing blues harp

Jackhammer

A quirky remake of the Incredible String Band's 1967 smash "No Sleep Blues"

No Sleep Blues

The great producer John Simon (The Band, Leonard Cohen, Janis Joplin) wrote this song back in the ealry 70's. It originally appeared on his great album "Journey." John recently sent me a chart of it to have my way with it!

John Kruth - "Cordelia"

Here's my take on Dylan's apocalyptic parable - complete with the Face's riff - with vox and all instruments - guitar, mandolin, fiddle, bass, irish whistle, bells, by jk Mixed by the wonderful Lucas Vedel

John Kruth - Wicked Messenger_

My song "Middle of the Night" from the Villa Delirium album - with Tine Kindermann - vocal, saw, Doug Wieselman - bass clarinet, Steve Bear - percussion, Kenny Margolis - keys and JK - vocal, guitar and harmonica

Middle Of The Night

The song for these sad and terrible times by the late great Reverend Gary Davis - by way of Hot Tuna of course. JK on vocals and all instruments. Thanks to Lucas Vedel for the lovely mix!

Death Don't Have No Mercy

   John Kruth
A musician with ten solo albums to his credit, John leads the nine piece New York based world/jazz ensemble TriBeCaStan (check them out at www.tribecastan.tv). A multi-instrumentaist, (Kruth plays a variety of stringed instruments including guitar, mandolin, banjo and sitar as well as flute and harmonica) John has performed and recorded with a wide diversity of artists from Ornette Coleman, Allen Ginsberg and Sam Shepherd, to Laurie Anderson, John Cale, the Master Musicians of Jajouka, the Violent Femmes, Garth Hudson and Rick Danko (of the Band) and has worked with producers Joel Dorn and Hal Willner. A professor of music, Kruth is currently teaching at Mount Saint Vincent. Kruth’s writing has appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Progressive, Wire, Wax Poetics and Sing Out! among others. His books include the recently published Rhapsody In Black: The Life & Music of Roy Orbison (Hal Leonard/BackBeat Books - 2013), To Live’s To Fly: The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt, published by Da Capo Press in 2007 (winner of the 2008 ASCAP Deems- Taylor Award) as well as his first biography Bright Moments – The Life and Legacy of Rahsaan Roland Kirk published by Welcome Rain in 2000, (and subsequently translated into French and Japanese). He divides his time between New York City and Split, Croatia.



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