2008-04-29 - 11:56 a.m.
I was involved with a great recording project a year or so ago and haven't really said anything about it because I wasn't sure if and when it would be released. Well the recording has been released, (apparently late last year without my knowledge) and I am proud to tell you that I'm playing fiddle on a duet with Pete Seegar and Bruce Springsteen on Bruce's "The Ghost Of Tom Joad". You can go to the labels website and listen to it and/or purchase it.
http://www.appleseedrec.com/
I put together a little press release...
In celebration of their 10th Anniversary, Appleseed Recordings has released Sowing the Seeds with a special duet between Pete Seegar and Bruce Springsteen on Springsteen’s The Ghost Of Tom Joad featuring Railroad Earths Tim Carbone on violin. Also appearing on Sowing The Seeds are Billy Bragg, Steve Earle, Jackson Browne, Joan Baez, Ani DiFranco, Donovan, Roger McGuinn, Lou Reed, Judy Collins and Bruce Cockburn. Appleseed Recordings is an independent, idealistic and internationally distributed record label devoted to releasing socially conscious contemporary, folk and roots music.
I’ve worked with producer David Seitz on and off for over a decade. He produced the track as well as a benefit album for homeless musicians (I’ve been very close) called “Give Us Your Poor” . I played on a track with Michelle Shocked and the homeless musician Michael Sullivan on that collection. I spoke with Michael at the session in New York and asked him how he came to be homeless. He said,”You know as well as anyone I suppose how hard it is to make ends meet when you’re a musician. I was presented the choice of either giving up my dream to write and play my songs or having to get a job I couldn’t fathom doing and thereby not having the time or emotional space to create my music. I chose to create.” I suppose there could be another way but not for him. Bonnie Raitt, Madeleine Peyroux and John Sebastian are also on the record as well as Bruce and Pete singing Hobo’s Lullaby.
http://www.appleseedrec.com/giveusyourpoor/
