• February 4th, 2010
Here’s an interview with my dear friend Sam Bush from 30A radio and our new community radio friend Claire Bannerman. The station is 107.1 if you’re in the area anywhere between Destin and Panama City. Sam plays and talks about Emmylou Harris, The Grammys, Dread Clampett, John Hartford, the Gulf in all of it’s glory and our song “Circles Around Me”, the title track to his new album which we wrote together. Listen for the prophetic joke about the little boy who tells his mother what he wants to be when he grows up about midway into the interview. The 30A songwriter festival set the standard for it’s first time out and I can’t wait to get back down there to see my friends.
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• February 2nd, 2010
On a snowy night in December of 2009 a small but mighty crowd of fearless fans ventured out River Road west of Nashville and we gathered in the basement hall of the world famous Norm’s River Roadhouse for a rough and tumble little show and left the world behind for a few hours. This is part I. “Libertine”, “Plow Through The Mystic”, “Circles Around Me”, “All Right Now”, “Avalon” and “Good Old Days” make up this, the latest installment of Black Tuesdays. Warts and all. Thanks for listening.
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• January 12th, 2010
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2006 The Valley I was visiting the website for Jeff Black, my favorite singer/songwriter, when I noticed he had a couple of new songs up on the radio portion. The last song, The Valley, isn’t listed. I hadn’t paid much attention to it previously.
I’m about to make some significant changes in the most important areas of my life. I’m jumping with no visible net. I’m feeling mighty scared, without much faith. As is usual for the big U, the lyrics provided just the words I needed to hear. Particularly, the chorus. Lawd knows Broccoli Spears can’t put my soul at ease quite like this artist.
Pardon yet another cheese dick moment by Demandra, but ya gotta love this song. We’ve all been “in the valley,” doubting ourselves at some point. Finding courage sometimes means just letting go and moving forward with arms wide open.
The Valley by Jeff Black
as i walk down through the valley i breathe in the angel mist with nothing to protect me from this place that the devil blessed i walk with arms wide open and i dream where the wild winds blow faith will give me shelter and time my own reward
Chorus: my soul is alive and these dreams are real i will not let fear rule my life or how i feel inside my heart all the rest of my days on the wings of a dove carry me away
to the left i feel the joker tug and pull there at my coat to the right i feel the thieves choke and dagger at my throat stumbling through the darkness like a drifter in the night shaking off the violence until the fall of the morning light
you see they put it in the papers around the world and on the air they run it down the wire baby until we’re tired and we just don’t care i know we can make it we can make it if we try we can rise above this mess and fly in a clear blue sky
i know when the light falls on me there ain’t nothing i can’t overthrow there ain’t nothing i can’t overcome or come to know so lay your heavy load down on me strip everything i have away i am not your prisoner i am not afraid POSTED BY DEMANDRA AT 10:55 PM
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• January 6th, 2010
20th Century redux plus 2 new songs… From what seems like a million years ago recorded in a little studio in the back of Warner Chappell down on the row in Nashville. Thought I’d pass along some semi-rough obscure takes to kick off the year.
I always loved a rocky and dusty old road. I love highways and being an outlaw. “Two Days Of Desert To Run” I wrote after I heard about the death of Louis L’Amour. “Fancy” is about an old shetland pony I rode as a child at my Aunt and Uncle’s farm. “Jesse James” is a linear dream song. He was born 9 miles from my little town. I wrote “You Are Loved” for the kids a while back and “Immigrant Song” to settle any foolish fears about the end of the world about week ago. Some things never change. I’m always on my way home. Thanks for listening and Happy New Year…
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• December 17th, 2009
This complete download of “Christmas Sunshine” is absolutely free to sponsors of the music and season pass holders. Happy Holidays!
CHRISTMAS SUNSHINE
I Saw Three Ships traditional Santa Claus words from an anonymous poem cir.1880 music by Jeff Black We Three Kings written by Reverend John Henry Hopkins, Jr. 1857 Christmas Toys words from an anonymous poem cir. 1800’s music by Jeff Black Away In A Manger verses 1 and 2 anonymous music James Murray 1887 Curoo Curoo (Carol Of The Birds) traditional Irish Carol 18th century It Came Upon A Midnight Clear words and music by Edmund Sears 1849 Jingle Bells words and music by James Lord Pierpont 1857 Silent Night words by Josef Mohr music by Franz Zavier Gruber 1818 We Wish You A Merry Christmas traditional 16th century Auld Lang Syne words by Robert Burns 1788 music traditional
Produced By Jeff Black Zuzu sang “Jingle Bells” Emerson sang “Silent Night” Zuzu and Emerson sang “We Wish You A Merry Christmas” Nick Nguyens played the fiddle on “I Saw Three Ships” Jeff sang, and played the guitar, piano, banjo, bass, buttons and bells
Recorded December 2009 at Alvie’s Old Barn Mastering engineer Alex McCollough “Santa Claus” music and arrangement copyright 2009 Lotos Nile Music BMI “Christmas Toys” music and arrangement copyright 2009 Lotos Nile Music BMI “Christmas Sunshine” illustration Mcloughlin Bros. New York 1907
All arrangements 2009 Jeff Black Lotos Nile Music BMI
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• December 1st, 2009
In this the 2nd Black Tuesdays Christmas Special, we’re bringing in the season with music from the vault that is becoming “Christmas Sunshine”, the new holiday release from Jeff Black.
The happiest of times to you one and all!
Songs in this episode of Black Tuesadays “The Christmas Special” include “Curoo Curoo”, “Once In Royal David’s City”, “Christmas Toys”, “Jingle Bells”, “Silent Night” and, by special request, “Winter Wonderland”. Exit music is “Banjo and Harmonica Song”. May the close of this year bring the opening of everything new and good. Thanks for listening…
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• November 3rd, 2009
“Laughing at yourself is radical forgiveness in it’s purest form”
Songs in this episode of Black Tuesdays include “Plow Through The Mystic”, “Big Revival”, a live version of “Ravanna” from the world famous “Norm’s River Roadhouse” and a reprise of “Happiness”. Keep those cards and letters coming. Thanks for listening.
My hat is off to the ones who make music a big part of their lives. The ones who never let them shake the magic dust off of what it means to dance or sit still listening to a picture that makes them feel good. Keep on keep on.
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• September 29th, 2009
I’ve had to push back the recording of the new record a few weeks. In any studio, time is money and that’s where it starts after the song is written. We’ve been blessed with the beginnings through the supporters of “Black Tuesdays” and the involvement of sponsors directly. I am a lucky man. We’re getting closer.
If you know someone who would like to be involved in the process of helping to build this CD, It would be a good turn, to turn them on. It’s an exchange of music and belief. Simple. Let it be known that I am not blind to the current state of the dollar and all the twists that go into making things work. My hat is off to the ones who make music a big part of their lives. The ones who never let them shake the magic dust off of what it means to dance or sit still listening to a picture that makes us feel good.
It is certainly not something for nothing though. Subscriptions, catalogs of music, Michael Wilson prints, private concerts, good karma, and even a shot at my 1983 Dodge Ram should calm any skeptics. Pass it on…
And thank you
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• September 29th, 2009
Black Tuesdays October 2009
“The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.”
John Lee Hooker
Songs in this edition “Pistol”, “Rescue Station”, “This Town”, ” World In Repair”, “Virgil’s Blues” and “After The War”.
Thanks For Listening.
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