Folks,
Tomorrow I will publish a substack for my song Telescope. The post will include a recording of the song. If you’d care to subscribe, you may use the subscribe button around here somewhere. The cost is $5 a month.
Here’s a brief sample from the post:
Back around 2013 I collaborated with my now good friend & producer Josh Karp (aka Budo) to make an album called Roger Lion. (If you caught either of the Overcome By Happiness live shows you would have seen Josh playing trumpet, singer, playing percussion & making various electronic noises.)
Josh wrote to me out of the blue to tell me he was a big Scud Mountain Boys fan. I’ll admit I didn’t know who he was, so I googled him. At that time he was neck-deep into making music with Macklemore and other Seattle-based hip-hop artists who had no resemblance to the Scud Mountain Boys. Because I can be skeptical (putting it nicely), I figured he was breaking my balls when he said he was a fan. He’d probably lost some kind of bet, and writing a note of put-on praise to Joe Pernice was the wager. Yes, that had to be it. It was obvious…