Posts by author: Lyle

Friends of Mine

I’m posting one of the new songs from “Five” for y’all.
I do hope you like!

My new album “Five” just arrived! Such a nice surprise to see it a week early. The official release date is May 22nd for itunes, amazon and all the digital outlets.
I hope y’all like!

I’m a lingering procrastinator of epic proportions when it comes to this album.
I finished the mix and mastering, with the magnificent Mark Dann’s masterful mastering skills, in November 2011.
It just didn’t seem ripe enough. We all know there is nothing worse than a semi ripe anything!
(Insert Rodin’s “Thinker” pose….)
Good fortune has it that I met the fabulous Patti Rothberg during this period.
Patti was kind enough to add her sparkling harmonies to five songs on “Five”
Now the album feels complete!
Art work is nearly ready and off to press it goes!
I expect a late May 2012 release date.

Inside spread for "My Brothers Banned" Five

Our friend Kasey Chernyshova interviewed me recently and published this….

http://kasey-cassidy.tumblr.com/post/12642604427/my-brothers-banned-new-york-based-indie-rock-with

I have been focusing on some sound crafting in the vein of “yeah, that feels like…..”
Y’all know I end every album with an instrumental.
I thought it would be fun to have a one stop destination for these moods.
The process is moving along.
I am posting here the last album’s instrumental “Jay Street”
Jay Street

We had a really wickedly great time at this years Falcon Ridge Folk Festival.
Many new friends made under an intense summer sun. The fields were filled with a sea of attentive and kind people. We set up camp, had a last minute rehearsal next to the performer’s porta-potty and bowed in reverence to the extremely organized volunteers. The Emerging Artist stage was so well run, and on time!
Many thanks to Lori for her photos, as usual I neglected to bring a camera…….

We are very excited to have been selected to perform at this summers Falcon Ridge Folk Festival on July 22nd. You can get tickets at the festival site, Falcon Ridge Folk Festival.
We might be a little loud for this festival, but we shall wear our stomp’n boots and aim our harmonies high.
The event is 3 days of music, food and camping. Located south east of Albany NY, not far from where I grew up. The nights are cool for comfortable sleeping, if the opportunity presents itself……
Look for hair and I’m sure you will find us meandering or playing music with new friends.
I have heard the food is amazing, and we all like to eat!
See Y’all in the hills of central NY!

We recently had a fun review from Leicester Bangs in the UK.
I am very grateful to the good folks at this fine site!
They pointed out that I have no clue as to what category of music I play.
I had made mailing stickers for all the promotional CD’s I sent out of “Meet me in the Park” calling our music “quirky alternative rock with melodic harmony”. Zoikes! I hadn’t realized how off I was. I was unaware how acutely compartmentalized and sub categorized classifying music is. I think I need a chart with graphic explanations. In my glorified view of MBB, I see a touch of the hillbilly I deeply wish I were, a touch of the cowboy my foot wear suggests I am, a touch of loud as per my hair, and a touch pretty folk song melody that my apparent hippie free spirited soul is.
I wish I had the ability to aim when I write. My songs, blogs and stories seem to drift like larval squid. They can swim strait, but the world is so big and it takes us to unexpected places. I admit I love this more than a falafel with hot sauce, more than potato chips with hot sauce and even more than guacamole (with hot sauce).
I think y’all should help. I’d love to hear your view of how to classify this here music I make.
Careful though, I am sensitive. I am a pisces after all!
The best response gets a free “Meet me in the Park” CD mailed to them.

An tangent is a tangent.....

We sure hope Y’all like it!

It’s time! After a year since the release of “Banned Wagon” we are ready.
This release will have a CD pressed and a limited number of posters. Of course, we will have a full digital release on itunes, amazon and the rest of the oh so convenient music suppliers. The CD’s will be available directly through us, CD baby, and Amazon.
“Meet me in the Park” is a lil’ louder and edgier, while the melodic harmonies still rule the day. Course louder harmonies can still be melodic, eh?
I’d love to press vinyl, perhaps we shall try this summer when things settle down.