Canard Music

Hello again. I have finally mailed some MP3′s to my webmeister for downloading. First up is a track by Ancient Brain, a short lived band that I formed with Bruce Hamilton after Bacon Ray disbanded in 1999. This is from one of our myriad recording sessions . The song is “Two Pit Bulls Dragging a Hot Bitch to A Wizard”. The song title was derived from a tattoo parlor anectdote provided by one Travis F. Anyway, John McNeece on Bass, Bruce Hamilton on drums, Afshin Beheshti on keys. I sing and twang on the guitar. Song two is a cover from the Canard ‘Self Portrait’ sessions. It’s a George Jones tune, “The Honkytonk Downstairs”. This features Brent McNeal on Drums/Vocals, Marc Ito on Harp,vocals,bass, Jason Coleman on mandolin and I play guitar, lead vocal and lap steel.From 2003. Song three is from the aborted Newsboy Legion ‘I want to be a Service Station Attendant’ album. The album was a mish mash of leftovers and a few newer tunes at the time. Probably recorded around 1998 the song “Tim Conway = Pleasure” has Kelly Shane on drums and synth. I play guitar, bass and sing. Song four is a live session with Canard @ WVFS V89. “Annual Leave” would probably have ended up on the follow up to ‘A Pleasure to Be Around’ if there had been one. Brent McNeal on drums, vocals, Marc Ito on Bass, vocals and the Geddy.

I would like to thank you for visiting my site. As some of you may know I have been a fixture on the local music scene here in Tallahassee for about 20 years. Not sure what that says about me! After much cajoling from my friends and fans I have decided to create a place where my music can be downloaded for free. Every week I hope to have a featured download as well as more archival material. Some of this stuff will date back to 1984 so don’t be surprised if sound quality, maturity and weirdness fluctuates wildly. That’s how I am in my life and that’s how I am in my music! I will be posting blogs about whatever I feel like writing about, possibly some fiction, weird dream sequences, record reviews and biographical anectdotes for those who care. I will attempt to comment on all the Mp3′s that go up here. You can expect to hear stuff from all incarnations of the Singing Spoons, Ultraboy, Bacon Ray, Ancient Brain and Canard. Maybe some other stuff I have been involved in like the New You, Exploding Madonna,etc. I hope that you like the music and enjoy it as much as I will enjoy digging it out of my extensive beer stained archives. I will be posting ancient photos of Tallahassee band nightlife as well as old articles. Yes, the sound of tears rolling down my cheeks and into the 4 track, 8 track, 16 track and the digital domain. The sound of paper towels being typed upon by a lonesome wreck of a man. Enjoy!!!!