It's good to be back in the studio regularly again... Some loved ones lost, along with a bit of my musical mojo....   But, I'm back and working on my 8th solo record for release late this year, and have new tunes in the pipe...

However, this month's song is a cover; one that I have always loved...  I'm hoping to get the proper clearances, but for now, it will remain UN-downloadable, nor will it be going to my normal internet radio channels... I do not intend to profit from this is any way...  

Music biz legalese out of the way, I am pleased to offer this cover of The Motels' (Martha Davis), Only The Lonely...  The original tune reached No.9 on the Billboard Hot 100 for 1982...  Martha Davis' haunting vocals on the original have stayed with me since...  I am considered a roots artist, and  the Motels are my roots, along with many other bands...  A lovely song...

Instrumentally, this is quite different from the original version, but I hope I maintained the soulful loneliness of the Martha's beautiful lyric...


Jeff Kossack  --  Acoustic guitar, lead vocal, keyboards, drums and percussion

The OtherHand:
Chris Elliot -- Trumpets
Nick Kirgo --  Slide Guitar
Warren Sellers and 
Brooks Taylor -- Backing vocals
Leo Valenzuela -- Basses

We are all long-time friends, so our music always has a comfortable feel to it...  Many thanks, amigos...

Only The Lonely  (The Motels cover)

"Now or Never Now" by Metric remixed with "New Donk City" by Naoto Kubo, Shihi Fujii, and Koji Kondo (from the Mario Odyssey soundtrack).

Now Donk City

just an exercise, do not hound me you corporate pigs
© 2022 Dog Triumph ℗ 2022 Dog Triumph

Impossible (THIRTY DOGS LIVE RMX @THE SLUDGE DANCEHALL AND ARCADE CASINO COMPLEX)

Röyksopp - Impossible (THIRTY DOGS DECAF RMX @THE SLUDGE DANCEHALL AND ARCADE CASINO COMPLEX)

a desperate plea  that will fall on deaf ears

Song4thegreedy

Getting back into music interviews, fun.

Interview with Willie J Healey on his UK Tour. Interview was recording ahead of his date at Band on the Wall in Manchester for One Step Forward and Reform Radio. Alongside the interview we've got a couple of nice snippets from his set, what a beauty.

Listen to One Step Forward here: www.mixcloud.com/onestepforward/

Follow us on Twitter 'ere: twitter.com/osfradio

Willie J Healey - Reform Radio Tour Interview

Making music with good friends is the BEST therapy, or maybe just the best way to avoid needing it....

Eight album coming...

My studio band, the OtherHand, is around 30 players or so, changing from song to song…  One thing is sure - these are some of the best studio players in Los Angeles, and they are each and every one, a friend...  Lucky am I...   Always lotsa smiles at OtherHand...

My style of music?  Let's just say it’s rootsy, flavored heavily with British influences:  Lennon and McCartney, Del Amitri (Justin Currie), NRBQ, and Rockpile (Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds), and when I'm folky, Nick Drake...

I have many solo records to my name, and 10 other records for bands in which I play... I have produced and engineered around 20  full albums, and have produced more than 200 artists, for single song and EP projects...  I've also supplied quite a few songs for the TV show Absentia, airing on Amazon...

My email is  musicalhandz@hotmail.com,  if you'd like any information about using my tunes in media production, or talk about me participating in your own musical project, or just to comment on a song that spoke to you...  I'd love to hear from any or all of you...

And, I am    thejeffkossack  on Instagram...

I'm not particularly a pious guy, but I do hope for PEACE for all of us, always...

Be good to yourself, OK... ?   And I'll hold up my end....

Radio presenter, podcast producer, interviewer and daft playlist maker.

Interviews are taken from my radio show One Step Forward, assorted BBC Introducing shows, DIY Radio, Ne1fm, Radio Festival Radio and Metro Radio (Newcastle).

Mixes and playlists are for the dearly departed football/lifestyle magazines Spiel and FIELD. Podcast clips taken from Two Girls World Cup & Two Girls Talk Balls. Oral Histories interviews from work with the National Football Museum.

https://linktr.ee/christianmarkallen

Wowee, look at that rolling ghost glide!

They/Them (don't get it twisted)
Free Palestine!! (Anti-zionist Jew from the cradle to the grave)
Disability justice is the future!! (Spina bifida from the NICU to the nickel urn)
I like my beats crispy and my revolution permanent!! 🎶✊🏼

Roll on that bell or bubble! 🧑🏽‍🦼‍➡️🔔⚪

This is my virtual notepad to try out my ideas on different devices. It’s a log of chords, structures and tempos in a sprite that can take me around the world and in the pub to show these ideas in their embryonic stages.

If you’re somehow offended by this material I suggest your problem is with you from now on.

These are file to be kept for my children and other musicians to hear as processes of semi original songwriting. 

Some of you may like the newer ideas and want to collaborate, seeing where the idea can head. You’re welcome to contact me. If you enjoy them as they are, I’m grateful.

This site is a communication device for me to talk about elaborate and dramatic ideas. 

With musicians and audiences alike.

New tracks tagged #now wave