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Thursday, March 17, 2011

"May your home always be too small to hold all your friends.."

Happy St Patrick's Day.



















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                      Warren Zevon
                      

Steve,
Brooklyn via Belfast

Steve, <br> Brooklyn via Belfast
Journalist for 25 years
Music lover for life

Briefly...

A while ago, I'd been out of work for a while, so I went busking on the New York City subway for three months. I used this blog to write about doing it and about the musicians I met along the way. That story starts here.

Now, I post about music I hear, gigs I see and musicians I enjoy.

Listen to this...

  • Bruce Springsteen - "Candy's Room" (2009)
  • El Tri - "Cuando Tu No Estas"
  • Rams' Pocket Radio - "Love Is A Bitter Thing"
  • The Vainglorious - "Tender Trees"
  • Graham Parker and the Rumour - "Hold Back The Night"

Muck Rack Daily


* Archive of the last three weeks

* MuckRack Blog

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While Print Still Exists

Here's a few of my favorite music books (scroll down)

And this is what I'm reading right now:

"Magic In The Night - The Words and Music of Bruce Springsteen" by Rob Kirkpatrick.


Subway Musicians

  • Mecca Bodega
  • The Ebony Hillbillies
  • The Meetles
  • Annette Taylor
  • Michael Shulman
  • One Leg Chuck
  • Tao Qi
  • Agua Clara
  • Raices Group
  • Mike Alaska
  • Natalia Paruz 'The Saw Lady'
  • Joel Mac
  • Neysa Malone
If you'd like to contact any of the subway musicians featured on this blog, send me an email and I'll try to put you in touch with them.

Signs of the Times

  • Click here to run a slideshow of pictures I took at the stations where I busked
  • Click here for some great images of the Subway through history from the NYT archive

Station To Station

  • Brooklyn Bridge
  • 66th Street/Lincoln Center
  • W4th/34th/57th/116th
  • 72nd Street
  • Houston Street
  • 50th Street
  • 42nd Street/Bryant Park (3)
  • DeKalb Avenue
  • Fulton Street
  • Grand Central
  • Ditmas Avenue, Brooklyn
  • Bleecker Street
  • 116th Street
  • Prince Street
  • Bowling Green
  • 96th Street
  • Grand Army Plaza
  • East Broadway
  • 8th Street/NYU
  • 59th Street/Columbus Circle
  • Smith & 9th Streets, Brooklyn
  • 42nd Street/Bryant Park (2)
  • 42nd Street/Bryant Park
  • 77th Street
  • Lex and 53rd
  • Fifth Avenue
  • July 4th, Pennsylvania
  • 34th Street
  • Wall Street
  • 57th Street
  • Canal Street (2)
  • Atlantic Avenue/Pacific Street
  • 2nd Avenue
  • 125th Street/Apollo Theater
  • E. Tremont Ave/Bronx Zoo
  • Hunter's Point Avenue
  • Coney Island
  • Steinway St, Queens
  • 81st St/Museum of Natural History
  • 62nd Street, Brooklyn
  • 47-50 St/Rockefeller Center
  • Christopher St/Sheridan Sq
  • Astor Place
  • Canal Street
  • 15th St - Prospect Park
  • West 4th Street
  • 28th Street
  • 14th Street

I gave the money I raised to these guys..

New York City

  • NYC Subway Map
  • New York Public Library
  • Village Voice
  • EardrumNYC
  • Time Out New York
  • The New Yorker
  • Gothamist
  • NewYorkology.com
  • Overheard in NY
  • NY Restrooms
  • New York Observer
  • WFUV 90.7
  • New York Times
  • NYC.gov
  • MTA Info
  • NYCSubway.org
  • New York Mets
  • Brooklyn Cyclones

Venues

  • The Bell House, Gowanus
  • BB King's
  • Joe's Pub
  • The Bowery Presents
  • Highline Ballroom
  • The Living Room

Guitar Stuff

  • Play A Little Guitar
  • Acoustic Guitar magazine
  • I Heart Guitar
  • Martin Guitars
  • New York Guitar Festival
  • Sam Ash
  • Matt Umanov Guitars
  • Guitar Center
  • Lyric Server
  • Chord Chart
  • Ultimate Tabs

Good Playing

  • David Rawlings
  • Richard Thompson
  • Peter Bradley Adams
  • John Hiatt
  • Joe Purdy
  • Buddy Miller
  • Bruce Hornsby
  • Monte Montgomery
  • Ben Glover
  • Carlos Vamos
  • Ezio
  • John Wesley Harding
  • Marc Cohn
  • Billy Bragg
  • Foy Vance
  • Indigo Girls
  • Mark Knopfler
  • Seth Lakeman
  • Kate Rusby
  • Andy Irvine
  • Neil Young
  • Tom Petty
  • Catie Curtis
  • Warren Zevon
  • Jackson Browne
  • Mark Erelli
  • Paul Brady
  • Bruce Springsteen

Good Writing

  • Brooklyn Vegan
  • Cover Lay Down
  • Ick Music
  • No Depression
  • Brooklyn Rocks
  • Rolling Stone
  • Uncut
  • The Word
  • Mojo
  • fRoots
  • Spin
  • Billboard
  • Paste
  • NYT Artsbeat

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Mentioned In Dispatches

  • All Things Digital
  • The Compleat Traveller
  • Bloggasm
  • Gawker
  • BuzzMachine
  • Wolfe Reports
  • The Denver Bibliophile
  • sageComm
  • BusinessJournalism.org
  • Shadowplays
  • Colored Opinions

Contact

Email me here

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My YouTube channel is here


And always remember...

And always remember...
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