NEWS : AUTUMN 2011

On OCtober 23rd, I will be playing with Dave Lefever and Thomas Roue at the CHestnut Hill CAfe in Lancaster. In honor of the gathering, the three of us recorded a campfire session at my house under a full moon one early October Night. Amazing good times. This night is captured on FIELD RUST #1- its an all live, one take Song Circle. Its a free download, just click the link below.

      www.fieldrust.bandcamp.com


In other news, I was asked to compose a few songs for a script "ELIJAH THE PROPHET"



"Elijah the Prophet is the Canadian Short Screenplay Competition’s 2010/11 winning screenplay that tells the comedic story of Elijah: the pious, chummy… and alcoholic prophet, whose yearly antics have graced Jewish households for ages. Unfortunately for the childlike servant of God, not everyone understands drunk driving is, for him, a divine right, and he soon ends up in trouble with the law."

IT was really fun to read a script and write songs inspired by the words. Its a killer, smart script and the people involved have been very cool to me. THere is a KICKSTARTER campaign to get the project rolling.
You can find it here:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1312644311/elijah-the-prophet?ref=live

thanks for stopping by.
Olds





ET".

PLAINSPOKEN --- OUT NOW

                                        ---  15 tracks
                          --- free 2'x3' poster
                          ----FREE 13 track bonus album
                          ----liner notes

                           http://www.oldssleeper.bandcamp.com/

FULL INTERVIEW HERE:
 http://rnzmagazine.com/2011/09/olds-sleeper-interview-by-rev-nix/



"plainspoken is full of restraint. You can hear the raw edge of sleeper’s passion for his sounds and his subjects, in his singing and his playing, yet he holds it all back with steely discipline. There are no histrionics. There’s a sense of tired experience in the songs, of hard earned wisdom and insights dearly bought. The music conveys neither cynical disillusion nor despair, but there is a powerful streak of melancholy, and of realism. I am rarely engaged by a recording as deeply as I have been by this one, which displays the kind of mastery of its musical materials that can only be discerned in the lightness with which it is worn. Beautiful, moving, and richly layered with meanings, more of which are yielded up the more deeply you listen, this album is, nevertheless, plainspoken."

- Oliver Arditi, full review here http://oliverarditi.com/2011/10/13/olds-sleeper-plainspoken/








Thanks for tuning in. Olds.

NEWS, OCtober 2011

COMING LATE SEPTEMBER,

a Malfangled Dog, CrackerSwamp Promotions release.

Perhaps the most realized effort I ve put together,ever.


stay tuned.



Also, Nick "rev NIx" Redditt and his company,

 CRACKERSWAMP PRODUCTIONS

is helping promote the next release.I am extremely proud to be affiliated with CrackerSwamp....Nix has the same aesthetic taste as I do...we both love authentic, heartfelt, no bullshit music that cuts to your guts.

I try to record that kind of music.

CRACKER SWAMP is

Home of HUSKY BURNETTE, one of the finest blues artists Ive ever met - he plays a thick fuzzed out blues with rhythm that makes you want to break shit.  Moments of pure electric brilliance- one serious guitar player. Amazing man.

CrackerSwamp also

represents LONEWOLF OMB, one of the most unique artists youre ever likely to hear...gypsy,

southstomp, gravel throat, clawhammer One Man Band. Banjo master. Bruno Esposito's music is an inspiration. NO ONE SOUNDS LIKE LONEWOLF.

CLick on the Cracker Swamp Link at the right to check out the site.

CIGARBOX GUITARS
I am proud to say that I have a Darren Brown Cigarbox guitar, he is the owner, operator and Nova Scotian luthier wizard of DB CUSTOM CIGARBOX GUITARS.

http://dbrowncustoms.blogspot.com/

There will be a permanent link on the right of this blog to Darren's work. You can custom order almost anything from Darren and be guaranteed a great sounding instrument that will inspire you to play more.
He made the neck of my guitar from a piece of driftwood he found on the Nova Scotian shore. Its a pleasure to play. Plus, he's one of the nicest dudes, ever. No lie.

ONe last thing, if you did not read the review of "I WILL FOLLOW YOU TO JAIL" written over at http://www.savingcountrymusic.com/

I think you should check it out.

Not only did Triggerman give me props, but he managed to describe my music and my approach

in an inspiringly articulate way.

more soon.

olds

plainspoken

from the upcoming album, "Plainspoken", Sept. 2011

SUMMER RELEASE

http://www.oldssleeper.bandcamp.com/