Episodes
Monday Dec 25, 2017
Lo, How A Rose - RLC11
Monday Dec 25, 2017
Monday Dec 25, 2017
Another orphaned RLC track has found a home.
Monday Dec 25, 2017
Santa Rides Alone - RLC11
Monday Dec 25, 2017
Monday Dec 25, 2017
This song from 2000 has finally found a home.
Monday Dec 25, 2017
There's Always Tomorrow - RLC11
Monday Dec 25, 2017
Monday Dec 25, 2017
Clarice sings this one to Rudolph.
Sunday Dec 24, 2017
New Year's Resolution - RLC11
Sunday Dec 24, 2017
Sunday Dec 24, 2017
A great little tune written by my father, Howard Holmes, many moons ago. Brought to snappy fruition by my long-time friend, Wade Mathias, and sung by me.
My Dad, Howard Holmes, sang this song to me in the car as we traveled from ORF to NC at Christmas in 1998, telling me it might work on one of my RLC albums, which he had contributed to since the 4th one. Two weeks later, he didn't know when he was. He had recently been diagnosed with bone cancer, and it ultimately contributed to his passing in May of '99. That year, when I was caring for him for a month and just before the passed (he thought I was Hank Williams for a time, but finally came around to accepting me as his son), I showed him the words to the song and asked him to sign the paper for me. He seemed surprised that I knew and had written down a song he'd (to him) just recently written. He had regressed in his mind to about 1958 and stayed there. My memory of the tune and the words fortunately stuck with me. The actual musical structure of the song eluded me, as my brain doesn't hear much in the way of pitch or song structure (as the oddity of some of my tunes makes plain). I mentioned this song to Wade, as we'd been working on "God Rest Ye" for some time, and he said he'd see if he could build a framework it. I believe he hit the mark!
Hmm... hang on a sec. Actually what Wade said was "Whatever I can do to help you realize this I will do." Let me pause here to give Wade some big props for his work and devotion to his contributions to this year's album; above and beyond don't come close. We bounced emails and tracks back and forth, tweaking, suggesting, and generally working together towards something I had in my head. Wade was able to find that place and make me sit up straight, and we got this version of the song you now have.
I'm sure my Dad would dig it.
Notes from the "RLC 11" website:
http://silvertoneworld.net/rlc11/
Saturday Dec 23, 2017
Runnin' With The Reindeer - RLC11
Saturday Dec 23, 2017
Saturday Dec 23, 2017
A parody of the familiar rock tune from nearly 40 years ago, with the Pan-MIDIrian Orchestra joining a squeaky-voiced me and my daughters.
Saturday Dec 23, 2017
Winter Carol - RLC11
Saturday Dec 23, 2017
Saturday Dec 23, 2017
Listen past the lo-fi digital technology of yore and enjoy my sister's voice in this recently found take of this lovely traditional tune. I've restored it as best I could, but if the signal ain't there, you can't tease it out. "Winter Carol" for RLC11.
Saturday Dec 23, 2017
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - RLC11
Saturday Dec 23, 2017
Saturday Dec 23, 2017
Wade Mathias (of Tidewater's essential 80s New Wave band, the X-Raves) has put together a simply incredible surf-rock-powered version of the centuries old Christmas standard for us to enjoy on this year's RLC effort. Turn it up and hang ten!
Saturday Dec 23, 2017
Lonesome Christmas Blues - RLC11
Saturday Dec 23, 2017
Saturday Dec 23, 2017
Paul Johnson (of Norfolk's great Waxing Poetics) and I breathe some new life into an old Blind Blake blues.
Saturday Dec 23, 2017
Christmas Day - RLC11
Saturday Dec 23, 2017
Saturday Dec 23, 2017
Nofolk's rock unit The CAZZ join me on Paul Unger's re-working of an old Detroit Junior tune.
Yeah, we're feelin' OK, on this Christmas Day.
CAZZ members: Paul Unger, Denise Lawrence Brown, Dickie Fulcher
Saturday Dec 23, 2017
Wishbook (Turn the Page) - RLC11
Saturday Dec 23, 2017
Saturday Dec 23, 2017
Paul Johnson (of Norfolk's great Waxing Poetics) and I get together for a quiet Christmas tune that takes you from early childhood days through heartache and joy to the expectations of the now.