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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
Welders
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.
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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 a
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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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