03.11.10: Ghost Train Orchestra record in the can

I've recently finished mixing the debut Ghost Train Orchestra album with producer Danny Blume (Klezmatics, Sex Mob).  The album is called "Hothouse Stomp".  New arrangements of dance music from 1929 Harlem and Chicago.  I formed this band when Heather Kuhn, a programmer for the Regent Theater, a historic vaudeville theater in Boston, hired me as musical director for the theater's 90th anniversary.  I was interested in 1929 in particular, that being a transitional year for jazz, and so I went...

02.15.10: Boy From Black Mountain wins IMA for Best Alt/Country Album

Boy From Black Mountain won the 9th Independent Music Award for Best Alt/Country Album. This year's judges included Tom Waits, Ricky Skaggs, Aimee Mann, Judy Collins, and Suzanne Vega. See the winners in all the categories here....