Upcoming Gus Stagg Album

After working for several months on the latest Gus Stagg project, we are now probably almost maybe certainly close enough to the finish line to announce his new forthcoming album, "New Songs for Old Souls"...

As a bit of a preview/teaser, here is a video of an alternate take of one of the album tracks, "My Job To Do":



Of course, the video only has fair-to-middling audio quality, having been recorded directly into the camera microphone...but it's not too bad. I should be able to post a track or two of some higher-quality bits that couldn't fit on the album - some interesting studio banter, some quasi-intellectual ramblings about the songwriting process, ditties about duct tape...maybe that knock-knock joke about Tom Waits...

We'll keep you posted!

Gus Stagg Records

I hooked up recently with my old friend Gus Stagg, who was out playing a local festival. For some inexplicable reason, Gus did not have any cd's of his music to offer the music-hungry crowd (which is always a good way to make a few extra bucks, especially since the work has already been done).

After a little while catching up, we decided to do some work together: he does the musical stuff, and I hit "Record". Since Gus does his best singing and playing (guitar and harmonica) all together live, that's what we're shooting for in these recorded versions. I've just got him set up here in the Moonroom, with a Mid-Side microphone setup to pick up the performance in stereo, and a clip-in acoustic guitar pickup for a bit of reinforcement.



Here's a video of the song "Einstein" - "He knew his 'rithmatic", indeed!