Compilation mix CD of west mass based singer/songwriter and producer Lucy (Cooper B. Handy) sold only at a handful of shows on the Running Away From Home support tour for Cowgirl Clue and the legendary King Krule in 2023. if want taken down comment or DM.

30 Owls Perched

Sun Go Down

Strange As Can Be

Our 2023 storytelling season was epic, with themes including "Your Mother!" "Animals" "Summer Lovin'" and "What I Did For Love." These stories were recorded at The Provincetown Theater, Wellfleet Preservation Hall, and Truro Castle Hill Center for the Arts.

Animals April 22nd

What I Did For Love February 11th

The request was heard from alumni. WOCB elements (jingles, commercial, promos) are here from the station skimmer during my shifts there in the Summer of 1976. The original intent was for demo material (I’ll mercifully spare you). Since that was the purpose, not all the elements here are in their whole form but fun to hear. I’d love one more chance to do this kind of radio….in glorious mono. This took quite a few hours. Enjoy.

(215)Aircheck Bits of WOCB A-F Yarmouth, MA - Summer 1976

The Rose of Saratoga composed by Alex Brewer · Performed and Arrangement by Jim McKenna

The Rose of Saratoga · Uilleann Pipes

i wrote "cry" shortly after i recorded "open book." i felt stuck between the high emotion of that season and the responsibility i felt to be productive and successful. it all kind of culminated in the bridge where i asked the question, more to myself than to anyone else, of whether i should try to put on an air of nonchalance or maintain my authenticity. it's one i find i can always tap into the emotion of when i play it live. this is a recording of it at bread + roses in september 2023 :)

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lyrics:
i’ve been thinking a lot
not feeling as much since the zoloft
but when not everything feels like something else
you’re bound to give in

i’ve been cooking a lot
not writing as much since my last song
‘cause when all you compose feels like something else
you’re bound to give up 

i’m toeing the line
between sanity and losing my mind
and i can’t decide
at night when i'm tired
should i get my eight hours?
or lay down on the ground
and cry, and cry

i’ve been working a lot
not resting as much since manhattan
‘cause the toil is worth it for just a week
but it’s just a week

i’ve been trying a lot
not treating the world as afterthought
but my gratitude feels like a platitude
when it meets its cause

i’m toeing the line
between sanity and losing my mind
and i can’t decide
at night when I'm tired
should i get my eight hours?
or lay down on the ground
and cry, and cry

should i tell you the truth?
or would that be uncouth?
should i tell you i care?
or would that overbear?
should i tell you i think
about every last thing?
would you think that i'm great?
or would you back away?

should i tell you i try?
that i really do try
to make you feel you’re loved
to give my best shot at life
that i’m not nonchalant
though that’s all that i want
that i’ll always decide 

at night when i'm tired
just to get my eight hours
regret skipping the ground
to cry, to cry, to cry, to cry

"cry" live from bread + roses

Lux Coven’s “Tough Guys” is a blues-rooted verbal reckoning aimed at frauds who perform pain without earning it. The lyrics hit like warnings carved into stone — blunt, personal, and confrontational. Each verse calls out false strength with surgical precision, exposing those who talk loud but vanish when things get real. The repeated hook, “keep that same damn tone,” is less a chorus and more a threat. This isn’t about ego — it’s about memory, scars, and survival. If the words hit, they were meant for you.

TOUGH GUYS

“Cape Nod Anthem” is Lux Coven’s filthy, fearless gospel — a drugged-out, blood-soaked punk-rap sermon that sounds like GG Allin got baptized in the same water as Eminem, then handed a mic by ICP in a Cape Cod dive bar at 2AM. From jackknifing through PTSD-laced verses to chugging whiskey like it’s truth serum, Lux paints a portrait of coastal New England that has nothing to do with lighthouses and everything to do with addiction, betrayal, violence, and humor weaponized for survival. It’s a hometown anthem for the discarded — the Zanned-out kids, the grimy contractors, the hollow-eyed cousins who never left. With punchlines that offend, hooks that chant like war cries, and a bridge that flips the vibe into a funeral for his former self (“Used to love Cape Cod, now it’s Cape Nod”), this track isn’t just wild — it’s deliberately unhinged, walking the razor’s edge between satire and psychological collapse. Lux doesn’t want your applause — he wants your attention, and this is how the forgotten scream back.

CAPE NOD ANTHEM

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Thank You Guys! #SONGWRITER 
 Lux Coven is a songwriter and creative visionary
 whose work blends raw storytelling, cinematic intensity, and forward-thinking innovation. 
Having sharpened his voice through years of writing, performing, and experimenting across genres, Lux Coven now channels his music.

The Mosquito Story Slam is a live storytelling event and podcast in its 10th season in Cape Cod in Massachusetts. Storytellers have 5 minutes to tell a true story based on the night’s theme. Mosquito stories are told, not read. No notes or cheat sheets on stage. Storytellers picked at random during the show.

The Mosquito’s mission is to engage a diverse audience in the art and craft of storytelling, while honoring and celebrating the commonality and diversity of human experiences. Since its launch in 2014, The Mosquito has presented hundreds of stories to sold-out audiences and is expanding access to a global audience through both audio and video podcasting on SoundCloud and YouTube.

Created by: Vanessa Vartabedian
Produced by: Vanessa Vartabedian and William Mullin

Sound Engineered by:
J Hagenbuckle and Mark van Bork

Theme music by: J Hagenbuckle

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• Jim McKenna is a multi-instrumentalist & composer. 
• Members of Jim's family, Daniel McKenna and Ann Callahan, had emigrated to Boston during the Irish Famine (An Gorta Mór) in 1850 (Armagh) and 1852 (Ballygiblin, Cork) respectively.  Daniel McKenna and Ann Callahan were married in Boston (Charlestown) on October 1, 1854.  Daniel and his brother Neil were two of the five founding members of the Ancient Order of Hibernians in Boston (American Society of Hibernians) on March 17, 1857 (Incorporated March 27, 1861).  This organization was formed "for the purpose of rendering assistance to the sick and disabled members of their society, and also of providing for the decent burial of the dead".  Jim's great great uncle from Drumkeeran Ireland, Thomas McPartlin, performed traditional music on the banjo in Boston during the late 1800's. Jim great great aunt, from (Ballygiblin, Cork), Bridget married Daniel Murphy (Galway) in Boston Nov 5, 1876 at Holy Cross Cathedral, Boston.  
• November 7, 2017, Jim's performance of his composition "Lament for Bridget O'Donnel" was included in the soundtrack of the Kilkenny Famine Experience Memorial audio visual tour. 
• Composer of "Lament for the Forgotten Irish of Catholic Mount Auburn Cemetery" https://youtu.be/rJrdt-3zHmg
• Composer of "Lament for the Children of the Kilkenny Workhouse" https://youtu.be/Zj4nVq2H3wY 
• Composer of "Lament for Bridget O'Donnel: A Victim of Famine" https://youtu.be/ehhk2nMmMZU 
• Composer of "Lamento por los Niños en Jaulas" - "Lament for the Children in Cages" 
https://soundcloud.com/jimmckenna-uilleannpipes/lament-for-the-children-in-cages, et al.
• Dr. E. Moore Quinn wrote on the subject of the Irish Famine: "...a recently composed pipe lament by Jim McKenna entitled, 'Bridget O‘Donnel: A Victim of Famine'.  The latter decries the interlocking set of awful truths that existed behind the journalists' reports and images that were published in the mid-19th century about the Famine.", The Many Voices of Pilgrimages and Reconciliation, Mansfield College, Oxford University, Publisher CABI (October 27, 2017).  | Pilgrimage in Practice: Narration, Reclamation and Healing (CABI, April 2018). Death within the Text | Social, Philosophical and Aesthetic Approaches to Literature (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019).  A Human Rights Pilgrimage in Ireland: Commemorating the Doolough Tragedy in the Twenty-First Century (Inter-disciplinary Publications, Oxford, England, July 2015). 
• Jim's composition "Lament for Bridget O'Donnel" used for soundtrack in promotional ad for "The Great Famine Podcast Series" 
• Performed at the 2016, 2017, 2018 & 2019 Mother's Day Walk for Peace, Louise D. Brown Peace Institute,
Code Listen, Boston 
• 100 Thousand Poets & Musicians 2014, Exeter New Hampshire 
• Boston Celtic Music Festival (BCMFest) 2006 
• Folk Song Society of Greater Boston Annual Concerts 
• Irish Christmas Mass, St. Augustine Chapel, South Boston, Massachusetts
• Irish Connections Festival (Singers' Circle) & St. Brigid Festival, Irish Cultural Centre, Canton, Massachusetts 
• January 2, 2020; arranged & performed Alex Brewer's "The Rose of Saratoga" on Alex's album "Unquoted."

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