Liza Constable

Music:
Howie says put the music stuff first. Ok ok.
Just came back from a weekend in Ballston Spa, NY. A fun festival called the “Gotta Get Gone”. Saw lots of folks there, Larry Unger and Eden McAdam-Somer. She can really sing that gypsy music, man, I was transfixed. And Larry can really play those blues, write […]

The Music:
Rumblestrip is working on a new album, we’re almost in the studio, but taking our time with rehearsals. Recording our ideas via Nat’s mac, critiquing them, redoing them. Then eating Nat’s great food, laughing and having a few beers…
Swing a Cat is heavily into rehearsing as well, our first gigs are coming up, and […]

3 cords of wood to stack. The wood was unfortunately dumped at the in-laws down the hill, the dump truck couldn’t get up our icy driveway. Usually the dumped wood sits for weeks. But to maintain the family relationship, besides really needing them for child care sometimes, I am working harder than ever to stack […]

We’re leaving for a week tour, south of this cold weather, with all of us in the ford, and I mean a full house: 3 adults, 2 girls under the age of 10, 2 guitars, 1 banjo, 1 fiddle, 1 uke, bags of doodads and wires etc. Three duffles, hot sauce, books, cds to sell, […]

WHERE WAS I when this song came out a year ago? Driving to the Beaudoin gig in St Johnsbury VT yesterday, I heard this on the radio. Man, I thought, she sure sounds like a carbon copy of Rickie Lee Jones. And this groove is funky, rough, old time swing, something I oughta know?… turns […]