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"In My Shoes", Nippertown's got it covered!
Read all about the Michael's newest CD release and Caffe Lena performance on Nippertown.com!
Album Review
Concert Review
Five Firsts
"In My Shoes" is now available online! |
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Check out Michael's feature on Pete Seeger's iconic
banjo and 12-string guitar in the Fall 2009 issue
of Fretboard Journal magazine.
www.fretboardjournal.com
In
addition to his occasional solo dates, Michael
is busy, busy, busy playing old-time, good-time
stuff with Ramblin Jug Stompers and Lost Radio
Rounders. He plays mandolin, jug, dobro, ukulele,
tenor guitar, resonator guitar, jaw harp and
the kitchen sink.
Find
both bands on the web at:
www.jugstompers.com
www.lostradiorounders.com
Find
Michael on Youtube by searching for Michael
Eck and Ramblin Jug Stompers.
Click
here to check out Michael's paintings
of classic American blues, folk and jazz musicians. |
| July
1978. Newly 14, wet behind the ears,
"Because the Night'' roaring out of summer
radios. "Horses" in the house, spinning
black, "the boy looked at Johnny...,"
and so on. The 27th finally came, the holy hour,
Patti Smith at the Palace Theatre. Rock as church.
Patti once said, "my belief in rock'n'roll
gave me a kind of strength that other religions
couldn't come close to." I knew what she
meant that night. She changed my life, I became
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| April
2005. Just days before my 41st year.
The 16th, in a church, Emanuel Baptist. St. Patti
and I spend the afternoon rehearsing, laughing,
performing. Every moment spent alone in my room,
guitar in hand -- redeemed. I am high on rebellion..."i've
broken through and I'm free and could dig into
eternity riding the wave and the realm of the
E." We play, we sing. We offer "People
Have the Power" as a prayer. It is one of
the rawest, purest moments of my life. Forever.
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"In
art and dream may you proceed with abandon.
In life may you proceed with balance and
stealth."
~Patti
Smith
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