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Boz Scaggs

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

It's so rare these days that I hear anything I want to listen to over and over and from beginning to end. So thanks a lot, Boz, for "Dig!"

8 NMMA Finalists!

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

I recently learned that "High Road" is a finalist in 8 New Mexico Music Awards categories, including Best Song (Don't Get Me Wrong), Best Producer, Best Pop CD, and Best of the Year. We'll see what happens at the awards banquet in a month!

"High Road" Boxes Here!

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The first box of our new CD "High Road" arrived yesterday! The package looks great. Hopefully it sounds good, too - I'm still in burn-out from editing and mastering and can't begin to listen yet.

Listen to High Road songs

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

I've uploaded 9 of the (15) songs from "High Road" to this site at soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/kito6/tracks and would love you to listen. Thanks.

High Road's Done

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

High Road was sent off to Oasis today. Finished the mastering with Dom Maita. Uploaded five songs to soundcloud - here's the first one (from which you can get to the other four if you want): http://soundcloud.com/kito6/05-dont-get-me-wrong

Doing Our Own Mastering

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

We've decided to go with homegrown, minimal mastering on High Road. Just seems to keep the warm, integrated, nuanced vibe better, though of course some pop gets sacrificed. The graphics are done, too, so it's off next week to Oasis for manufacture.

Thanks, Dexter Sandap

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Our new CD, "High Road," certainly has benefited from my friendship, and sometime lyrical consultations, with the redoubtable Dexter Sandap. Thanks again, Dexter!

Just Wondering

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Is there a genre called "Wagnerian pop?"

Getting There

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The seemingly endless process of making "High Road" will end soon. Dom Maita of Airshow is going to master the record maybe next week. I'll be meeting with Willy Magee the following week to put the graphics together. Had a little photo shoot yesterday with Richard Baron in the deserted Santa Fe Flying Star.

Meanwhile I've put together and sent out copies of a disc containing 15 new songs (out of the 50 I've written since we started "High Road"). Imagining the opposite of "High Road" - which is spare and almost epic in scope and sound. The next one will be more creaky and acoustic and interior. If "High Road" is a film by John Ford from a Bergman script, its successor ("Burn Down The House?") will be more Woody Allen. Should be interesting.

New Lyric - I Believe In You

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

jazzy chords
haven't recorded it yet

I Believe In You

tramping through the jungle they call your town
i watched your face while the shit went down
everyone plays solo no one’s got your back
so you hide your lonely tears from the snarling pack

i believe in you
yeah i believe in you

family is a battleground politics a war
swinging wildly we don’t notice what we’re fighting for
and you know they’ll hurt you if they get a chance
there is joy in others’ suffering at the killers’ dance

i believe in you
yeah i believe in you

i can see you struggle
but i still feel your heart
i have felt the soul shining
in you from the start

everybody needs a friend who honors what they are
if you find one loving witness that can take you far
even though destruction seems the order of the day
you could still be beautiful you could find your way

i believe in you
yeah i believe in you 2X