Oh Hey

Dylan is getting great reviews for his Sinatra release. I bought Peggi a $7.99 download copy for her birthday and we listened to it on the way down to Seneca Lake and then on the way back. I love hearing his voice, the slide guitar and the drummer’s brushes but some of the songs were a stretch the first time around. On second listening we were deliberately staying off the highway because of all the snow. We were traveling about twenty miles an hour on the back roads while huge snowflakes were falling. The album sounded just perfect, every song.

When I was first getting to know Rich I remember asking him what kind of music he liked. He told me something about Broadway musical soundtracks that his parents had in the house. I don’t think this is a Brian Williams kind of memory or anything. I clearly remember thinking, “that’s odd.” Well forty some years later Bar Stool Walker has new cd out. And of course that means new videos to go along with the songs. “Oh Hey Broadway” is a smash.

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How Does It Feel To Feel?

Side of yellow wooden building on Goodman Street in Rochester, New York
Side of yellow wooden building on Goodman Street in Rochester, New York

Vinyl does sound better even when it’s an mp3 file made from a 45 from 1967 and especially when the song is by The Creation.

In my reading the newest release from MX-80’s Bruce Anderson and Rich Stim, the heroic “Bar Stool Walker” nods a few times to Rochester’s Margaret Explosion. The music is lyric free, there are songs called “Happy Hour“, a video shot on the Golden Gate Bridge and “Tall Boy” and they have a clumsy drummer.

Bar Stool Walker is a multilayered project and I can’t say for sure that this is the case but we haven’t found any sax in there yet. Rich Stim taught Peggi to play sax. Her first song was “Hava Nagila.”

Rich Stim wrote a popular Personal Effects song, “So Hard.”

Many of the songs on Bar Stool Walker are already fully realized videos but it looks like we will have to wait a bit for the luscious Beach Boy cover “The Warmth of the Sun.”
Happy Hour
Calcutta Cutaway
Smoky
The Unsuspected
Major Pipe
The Bridge
Paper Hat
Hodaddy Humanoid
Tall Boy
The Warmth of the Sun
Bar Stool Walker

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