Tuesday, January 05, 2010

The Poster on My Refrigerator





This past summer good friends Claudia Russell, Bruce Kaplan and Mark Petrella (The Folk Unlimited Orchestra) played a concert at the famous Freight & Salvage in Berkley with special guest Dan Navarro of Lowen & NavarroThe show was fittingly a benefit for ALS, aka Lou Gehrig's Disease.  The illness that has afflicted Eric Lowen. 

Now Claudia and Bruce are responsible for turning me onto some really good music (besides their own) that I have to admit I was unaware of before making their acquaintance several years ago.

Lowen & Navarro blew me away much like Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer did when Claudia introduced me to them.  L&N's newest CD (2008) is "Learning to Fall"  a wonderful 11 song collection whose title cut is available as a free download off their website, but don't cheat yourself buy the CD!  I would also encourage any reader of this goofy blog of mine to witness the making of this song on you-tube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeaO6TvGX4w You won't be the same after you've seen it. 

Again, I am reminded "So much music...so little time".

Nuff said.

2 comments:

Dave Schipper said...

Wow thanks... I had no idea... I have a few of their Cd's... I'll give them a shout out on my blog too.

Peace, and have a great new year.

Dave

Bruce Kaplan said...

Thanks for the post, Tom. Eric and Dan are inspirational people, as well as really consummate musicians and songwriters.

I have posted 7 or eight videos(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCV0eLk-54U) from the Freight show on YouTube, and this one shows Claudia and the rest of the band having fun, backing up Dan on the L&N song "Cold Outside."

From there or the Claudia Russell web site, you can find the rest of the clips from that show. The video and sound quality is really nice, and best of all, you can see our long time friend Carl Byron on piano. He plays a lot of shows with us in our home state of California, but not so often on tour, as he is a very in demand musician.