Thanks to Joshua James Huff for filming and editing.
Watch and follow the whole series at The Solar Cabin Sessions with Pat Kearns on YouTube. If you dig it, please share widely.
A conversation with Gabriel Hart is an explosion of ideas over a few minutes. His mind is quick and creative. And with his seven piece rock band, Jail Weddings, and as a "reknowned" author - as I call him in this interview - he puts it to use for our enjoyment, as well as to exorcise his own demons. I wish we spent more time talking about his twin novella, Virgins in Reverse/The Intrusion. But in under five minutes, we touch on camping in the desert, urban-ex-patriotism, gentrification's effect on music clubs, and Jail Weddings recent shows with Tav Falco, who also wrote the forward to the twin novella.
Thanks to Joshua James Huff for filming and editing. Watch and follow the whole series at The Solar Cabin Sessions with Pat Kearns on YouTube. If you dig it, please share widely. I'm excited to bring Seattle's Loose Wing out to the little pub in the sand for a very special Tuesday night performance. Step Jayne is not to be missed in the middle slot and I'll be kicking things off this evening.
Seattle band Loose Wing’s sound is a swirling blend of psychedelic Americana and old-school college rock, dark and sometimes ominous yet rooted in indie-pop tradition. Songs are written by Claire Tucker, whom you may recognize as guitarist and vocalist from local psychgaze mainstays Black Nite Crash. Claire is joined by her husband Jack Peters (Mindie Lind, Battle Hymns) on bass, and the lineup is filled out by local greats Jason Merculief (Jesse Sykes, Sera Cahoone, J. Tillman, Caitlin Sherman) on drums, and Bill Patton (Fleet Foxes, J. Tillman, Gold Leaves) on pedal steel and guitar. JD Rudometkin is an American musician, film maker, and performance artist. His musical project, Step Jayne, is a touring, progressive rock band whose award winning video “Send Out the Call” from the album, Here Come the Humans garnered the Jury Prize at the Sacramento Film and Music Festival. Step Jayne floats effortlessly somewhere between indie, punk-influenced dark wave and ominous art rock. The sound is often filtered through theatrical broodings, psychedelia, noise, ambient refrains and folk while exhibiting wide-ranging influences - from ecstatic a cappella Slavic ancestral music, to poetic troubadours such as Nick Cave and Tom Waits. Pat Kearns is an American record producer and engineer and singer songwriter. His credits include Guitar Romantic by The Exploding Hearts, By The Time Your Rocket Gets to Mars by Jerry Joseph, Changes by The Reverberations and A Thousand Guitars by Terry & Louie. Pat Kearns fronted the acclaimed powerpop group, Blue Skies For Black Hearts. In 2016, he released his debut solo album, So Long City and left Portland for the Mojave Desert. Down In The Wash was recorded and mixed using solar powered electricity in the Kearns' 550 square foot homestead cabin. Joshua James Huff is my great friend and collaborator in art (and in trouble). This past year we filmed nine different performances at my Solar Powered Cabin in the Mojave Desert (pictured above) and put them up on YouTube and Facebook for your enjoyment. Each episode has a short interview and a then the artist plays a song. Everything is live - there are no overdubs. As we filmed additional episodes, I became more comfortable with interviewing. The questions became more pointed and the discussions went deeper and longer than our format fit. But not to fear! We are releasing extended versions of the interviews for several of the episodes, starting with John Bardy. John and I discuss the origins of his song, Justice Peach, which was inspired by the news of John's uncle's death in a highway murder incident which he heard along with his mother over the radio. The song, Justice Peach, is amazing and will be on John's forthcoming album. Watch the episode below. And be sure to check out other episodes of The Solar Cabin Sessions with Pat Kearns on our YouTube Channel. If you dig it, please like us and share the episodes widely. And take a moment to look at my Listen/Watch page, where you will also find links to episodes of The Solar Cabin Sessions as well as my other videos. Gallery 62's annual Highway 62 Art Tours opens tomorrow. It's the first of three weekends in the high desert that artists open their home studios to the public. Susan Kearns, my wife, is showing at Labonetto Studio (Studio #98), sculptor Eric Banas's studio, this weekend only with Denise Tanguay, Eric Saks, Eric Conroy, and Suzen Smallwood. Susan is displaying ten paintings that were inspired by the songs from my album, Down In The Wash. She is also displaying a few other paintings including a self portrait (of both of us, pictured above) and one from her buffalo series (Saint Buffalo). All of the paintings are for sale. She is also selling Down In The Wash - The Eleven Card Set and Down In The Wash CDs. And on Saturday, I will be performing at Studio #98 throughout the day in order to enhance your viewing. A few of our friends are going to drop by as well to play a few songs. Heck, if you're reading this and plan on coming by, bring your guitar - I'll plug you in and we would love to hear a few songs.
Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and Canned Heat Meet Up at Bearsville Studios in 1969 = Down In The Wash10/3/2019 I'm falling in love with Google translator. Here's a review in German at Cool Tourist giving my latest album, Down In The Wash, high praise. They recommend Mojave Moonlight or Low Wind Howling as a place to start. I've posted the translation below.
"What would have happened if the Angie-Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and Canned Heat made an appointment in 1969 for an unplugged session at Woodstock's Bearsville Studios? Maybe a little bit the sound picture that fifty years later presents Pat Kearns from California. The CD "Down In The Wash" is not only an acoustic retro experience but also the product of a big change. In 2016, Pat and his wife Susan "So Long City" (as well as the title of his first solo album), left the orderly life as a music producer and hair studio owner in Portland, Oregon, settling in a small cabin the Californian Mojave Desert. There life in the middle of nature is characterized by solar power and little water, from the reflection on the essentials. But with selected equipment and a few friends off-celeb can also make (and record) relaxed music that soaks up the landscape ambience. Kearns has selected ten of his own compositions and a Stones classic ("No Expectations") and thus conjured unmistakably the burrito spirit of Gram Parsons. Wife Susan plays the double bass (and has the cover drawn!), Tim Chinnock plays relaxed drums, Joe Garcia and Luke Dawson create with guitars and pedal steel the spacey country-rock sound of the 70s, which helped the Byrds at the time of his breakthrough. If you do not have the opportunity to travel to the US west coast in the near future to test the atmosphere on-site, you should start your journey with the introductory tips "Low Wind Howling" or "Mojave Moonlight"." |
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