Would you like to own a completely original ‘one-off’ piece of art? For only £31 you can pre book a date in July and I will do a drawing especially for you on that day.
I am aiming to get all the dates booked in order to go ahead! And since launching on Facebook last night, nearly half the dates have already gone!
How to take part…
1. Reply to this email with your preferred date (see availability below) – if you don’t mind, just say any!
This will be a challenge but one I am very much looking forward to. I will be posting updates whenever I can about it on Facebook, during the month of July. There may even be some live videos of me drawing!
“Remembering The Future” is slated for a mid to late summer release featuring eight tracks. What makes this album unique is that the songs were originally written and demos were recorded between 1988 and 1992 for a future release, Blake felt that the time had come to revisit these gems, more on that below. Blake has spent 100’s of hours refining the details of each track, recording mixing and mastering the final product.
“Remembering The Future” will be released as a Limited Edition Cassette Tape the album features the singles Color Blind and The Downfall
Vocals, Keyboards, and Programming – Blake Recorded at Retromatic Studios in Florence, Alabama
About “Remembering The Future” There are many questions we ask ourselves as we get older. Have things changed? Have we made for ourselves the future we wanted when we were young? Is the world a better place? Did we make a difference? The answers, for some, are rarely what we want them to be but we continue on, hopefully still striving for that future we wanted when we were kids.
The hard part is not letting it get you down. I use music to keep the sadness at bay but it doesn’t always work and I fall into deep holes of blackness for a while and give up only to hear the right song at the right time and get pulled back out again to strive some more.
“Remembering The Future” is essentially a trip back in time, remembering my thoughts about the future. Where I wanted to be ten, fifteen, even twenty years from then. Remembering the wants and needs of every passing day from loves to come and loves had and lost, what will become of everyone’s future, and fighting for what you believe in, the divides that we have in the world, and the future of the planet. What would all this look like in the future?
Described by Shindig Magazine as, ‘lyrically astute and melodically inventive,’ Elfin Bow’s pastoral pysch-folk holds imagery that that blends her twin passions of music and art.
A strict 1970’s church upbringing that frowned upon any kind of pop music, was the catalyst for her ‘quiet rebellion,’ and she saved her pocket money to buy her own radios to listen to covertly under the covers. The discovery of trailblazers like PJ Harvey, Tori Amos and Bjork flung the door wide open for her to find her own voice.
Two successful crowdfunding campaigns enabled the release of her debut album, launched with a live session on BBC Radio Wales and a single with the Fruits de Mer Record label, recorded with the Scottish Session Symphony Orchestra. After signing to Peacock Sunrise Records, and prior to starting work on her follow up album, Elfin released her EP, Rainbows & Gallows.
In stage outfits that interpret her lyrics, Elfin invites moments of musical magic in venues big and small; a tin shed, living rooms, art galleries and bookshops have been no less memorable than Theatr Clwyd, The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the Epstein Theatre and the Bridgewater Hall.
She has performed alongside folk legends, Bonnie Dobson, Robin Williamson and Chris Wood and had airplay on BBC 6 Music (Gideon Coe) and BBC Radio Wales (Wynne Evans, Adam Walton.)
This Friday, Elfin will perform a ‘lockdown’ live performance for the Tin Shed Facebook group. A ‘tip-jar’ gig, where you can donate what you can, she will be donating half of the proceeds to a new project to create a CD compilation of music from all musicians who have performed at the Tin Shed since it began. The profits from the sales of this CD will go towards CARE UK – RENEW, a charity that supports refugees living in the camps of Greece.
On Monday, May 25th at 8 PM Central Time, Hotel Vegas will premiere our first music video from the upcoming album!
This is the kind of thing that we’d typically do live at one of our beloved music venues in Austin. The times, however, are not typical, and we’re looking for creative ways to adapt and continue to support each other. Right now, if you want to help keep the legendary #HOTELVEGASTEXAS alive, you can order curbside TO-GO:
You’re invited to our psychedelic pre-release listening party!
The Sheverb tribe has prepared a most unique live listening experience of our soon-to-be-released album, Once Upon a Time in Bombay Beach. Hear the complete new concept album, while watching a curated medley of scenes from vintage acid western films, in real-time, with us. A brief intro with the band will kick off the festivities at 10:30 PM Central. Join us, and please help spread the word!
When: Saturday, May 23, 2020, 10:30 PM Central Time Where: ( HERE )
This event will not be recorded and will take place on Twitch. You do not need a Twitch account to watch/listen; however, if you have one, you’ll be able to participate in the chat.
Put on your glad rags, top hats, flower crowns, space rock, psych folk, party frocks, flares and funky boots and join me on Sunday at 3pm, right here, for a celebration of all that makes us creative, colourful, human beings!
It’s taken time to get a hold of my health issues enough to finally schedule my first Elfin Bow live lockdown concert and I’m really excited to announce that it will also be the launch of my Patreon page (more about that on Sunday).
I may have been quiet but I have certainly not been idle! Join me to hear songs old and new and find out what I have been cooking in the creative oven, especially for you!
I’ll be joined by the superstar that is my lovely husband and captive guitarist, Gary Edward Jones.
AUSTIN, TX – This past February, Sheverb set out to do something extraordinary. For one month, the tribe dropped out of the daily grind in Austin, TX to live together in a semi-abandoned seaside resort town in the Southern California desert. Once there, they built a pop-up studio, wrote an album, and recorded it. They had just returned home when the COVID-19 shelter-in-place orders began. Now, instead of the initially planned high-production roll out package, the band is going digital and using their revenue-generating potential to make jobs instead of things.
“It feels ridiculous to press vinyl or print a new line of merch when so many of us in the music community are not sure how we’re going to afford rent or food next month,” says Sheverb guitarist Betty Benedeadly. “Instead of producing physical goods, we’d like to hire people to take on digital projects with us, such as creating music videos and perhaps a documentary with the content we captured in Bombay Beach.”
The tracking is complete. The mixing is underway, and the band is fundraising to cover post-production costs. Additionally, they’re hopeful that they can raise additional funds to pay more freelancers to collaborate on digital projects. Every dollar donated will go towards paying working creatives. Sheverb is accepting donations on Venmo at @sheverb and PayPal at Sheverbtheband@gmail.com. While any amount is appreciated, there is a limited time, discounted offer: To be listed as Executive Producer on the Sheverb in Bombay Beach album, donate $500 $250 before midnight May 31, 2020.
The Making of Sheverb’s Once Upon a Time in Bombay Beach
Sheverb’s journey to Bombay Beach was a cooperative music-making experiment that blurred the boundaries of life, art, and dreams. For one month, the gang lived communally in a retro trailer, sleeping in bunk beds, cooking group meals, and sharing a single bathroom. They immersed themselves in the local community with late night explorations of abandoned structures and lunchtime picnics on the Salton Sea, a body of water with a complex history. Largely developed in the 1950s, Bombay Beach enjoyed many years of thriving tourism, but water-related environmental issues eventually drove many away. According to the 2010 census, the town’s population had dwindled to 295, but in this past decade, the town has seen an art-driven revival of sorts, with an increasing number of creatives flocking to the area to revel in graffiti-covered buildings and surreal sculptural installations. Sheverb’s goal was to soak in the energy of this unique place and create a sound to match.
The band played music 6-8 hours per day, often publicly and for free, and what resulted is an instrumental concept album that takes the listener through a distinctly Bombay Beach psychedelic adventure. They collectively wrote 9 surf-infused, desert-fueled rock & roll tracks and captured field recordings in town, which are layered into the album. They accumulated found objects (railroad spikes and fish bones, for example), which were transformed into percussion tracks. More than a collection of songs, this holistic album is a time capsule that speaks to the experience of 5 Texan musicians embedded in a bizarre landscape.
To see some behind the scenes footage from this adventure, check out this video on Sheverb’s YouTube channel.
Sheverb is a womxn-led psychedelic desert rock collective based in Austin, TX. While we have a larger network of wild souls contributing to this project, the lineup for the Bombay Beach album is:
Betty Benedeadly | Guitar, railroad spikes
Xina Ocasio | Drums, wooden frog
Lainey Smith | Bass
James Ruthless Mescall | Trumpet, flute, percussion
Braden Guess | Guitar, synth, fish bones
Special thanks to the Bombay Beach Arts & Culture Center for hosting us and providing the studio space, and our beloved audio engineer and spirit animal, Buck AE Down, for the professional assistance.
Recently, I was told that my lyrics were poetic, rather than conversational.
He actually said that my songs were rich with metaphors and alliteration, which made me smile as I have always loved reading and literature, since the early days of my childhood, snuggling up with my duvet, a good book, a biscuit or ten and a dictionary – for the hard words I didn’t know.
Finding just the right words to express experience is a craft and one that I am always honing. When I am in the creative flow, often they come to me, as if from somewhere else entirely.
I am often inspired by songwriters who provoke thought. They don’t lay it all out in an obvious way but create rich imagery that draws you in, often with many potential interpretations of the meaning.
Sandy Denny was one such songwriter – some would say unparalleled in her prolific output, rich with words, musicality, and a beautiful, distinctive voice.
The version of one of her most well-known songs, Who Knows Where the Time Goes, that I created with Gary Lloyd and the Scottish Session Orchestra, was an opportunity to write a love letter to her and to share her beautiful words with the world.
At the heart of this song is a connection with nature. An acknowledgment of the inmate wisdom and timing of the natural world.
When things seem too much for our human bodies, emotions, and minds, we can trust that there is a time for everything. That when the time is right, we will know.
Like that magical moment when the birds know when it is time for their great journey across continents, we too can surrender to our own inner wisdom, intuition, and knowing.
I haven’t listened to this song for a while, but when I was thinking of a song to share with you right now, this was the one that was in my heart. I hope it resonates with you.
Tell me what inspires you to create, to write, to sing, sway, to tap your foot. I’d love to know. Until next time,
Slo Rider will be released as a limited edition CD Single soon with Bring on the Night as the B-side, both tracks are radio edits from the upcoming Debut album Bullet Train which is due out later this year.
Slo Ryde Performed by
Chris Elliott Lead guitar
Al Macre Harp & keys
Joe Macre Lead vocal, Bass/Drums, guitars, and additional keyboards. Vince Guarnere Backing Vocals
Bring on the Night Performed by
Vince Guarnere Lead and backing vocals.
Chris Elliott Lead and rhythm guitars
Al Macre Hammond B3, Harmonica.
Jerry Oxendine Drums.
Joe Macre Bass.
(Note: Jeff Adams and Rick Witkowski’s solos not included in this single).
Both Tracks Written, arranged, recorded, and produced by
Joe Macre at Garage Studios. Part of Chris Elliott’s guitar was recorded at Studio E, Westminster, Md.
Joe would like to Thank Eric Dee at Studio E Westminster, Maryland.
Art Direction Nick Katona at Revolution Studios Florida
Who is Joe Mac”s American Garage?
Joe is known as the bassist for the progressive rock band “Crack The Sky” best known for achieving debut album of the year in Rolling Stone Magazine. Joe was a member of Crack The Sky from 1975–1980. Joe has also worked with The B. E. Taylor Group, Wild Cherry, King Friday, and the KINGS’s. Joe is not just a world-class bassist, producer, engineer, and founder of Cuppa Joe Music, which produces various artists, and compose’s custom scores and sound design for film and TV.
After relocating to New York, Joe became an engineer and studio musician and performed with artists such as Jim Croce, David Sanborn, The Brecker Brothers, Marie Osmond, Keith Green, Clint Brown, and others. As Joe’s career expanded into television, he began scoring and engineering for national clients Pepsi, Burger King, McDonald’s, Ford, Nickelodeon, Showtime, Bud Light, Corona Extra, ADR Director/Engineer for Walker Texas Ranger. Sr. Engineer/Sound Designer at Post Op-Editorial in Dallas Texas, Joe is one of the country’s most sought-after mixing engineers. Award-winning credits in films include Monster in Law, House of D, and Fire Down Below. His “Cuppa Joe Music” Library and Sound Design are chosen for many national spots, including the award-winning Super Bowl Tabasco’s “Mosquito”, Corona’s “Ship in a Bottle”, Nickelodeon, Showtime, Ford, McDonald’s, Corona, Hyundai, and Oprah Winfrey.
Joe has served as an Instructor of Post Production Audio and Music Producing/Composing at Mediatech Institute in Dallas Texas. He also served in the capacity of Director of Career Services, placing students in full-time audio positions. He exceeded government and state placement quotas of 70% in each graduating class. He was recently inducted into the board of directors for SPARS (Society of Professional Audio Recording Services) with Leslie Ann Jones, Audio Director at Skywalker Sound, Kevin Mills at Larrabee West Studios, Tim Butler at Chicago Recording (CRC), Jeff Greenberg at The Village Recorder and Steve Davis at Crawford Communications Atlanta. Joe is an active member of AES and the American Federation of Musicians.
2016 Joe started work on his latest project Joe Mac’s American Garage with a debut album to be released in 2020 with a cast of up and coming musicians and superstars including Grammy Award Artist MadukwuChinwah, Steve Major (King Friday), Victor Tasson (Unified Past), David Kowalski, John Palumbo (Crack The Sky), Phil Naro (DDrive), Vinni de Paul (Crack The Sky), Robert Schindler (Johnny Nash), Scott Osterloh, Pete Hewllett (Billy Joel), Cory Holland (KING’s), Andy Timmons (Danger Danger), Trai’D & Tom Braxton.
According to Joe. American Garage represents the ideology that bands and music are born in a garage.
Sheverb just dropped a short documentary episode about our trip to Bombay Beach. In the background you can hear one of the tunes off the new album, it is called Burn the Breeze
This past February, Sheverb set out to do something extraordinary. For one month, the tribe dropped out of the daily grind in Austin, TX to live together in a semi-abandoned seaside resort town in the Southern California desert and embark on an immersive song-writing adventure. What resulted is a full-length, location-inspired concept album with elements of surf, psych, and desert rock, to name a few. Our journey to Bombay Beach was a cooperative music-making experiment that blurred the boundaries of life, art, and dreams, and we’re ready to share this story with you.
ALBUM UPDATE: The tracking is complete. The mixing is underway, and we’re currently raising funds to complete post-production costs. If you’re interested in supporting this project, contact sheverbtheband@gmail.com or venmo @sheverb.
*Special thanks to the Bombay Beach Arts & Culture Center’s Artist Residency Program for helping us bring this dream to life.
*** Sheverb is a womxn-led, collectively run, psychedelic rock & roll band based in Austin, TX. Armed with their instruments, this tribe is out to challenge our understanding of the romanticized Wild West with their desert-fueled, surf-infused sound. The core of this collective consists of a Betty Benedeadly, Xina Ocasio, Lainey Smith, James Mescall, and Braden Guess, who bring together the guitar twang of spaghetti westerns, the driving rhythms of krautrock and the panoramic aesthetic of the big screen.
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