Tag: baltimore
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Welcome to my blog. I am excited to announce that I’m working on a new solo recording project that will be released in the summer 2017. The working title of the project is Heart and Home. The album will feature new songs and tunes that include stories of the heart and tales from Baltimore. Sign…
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January 2016 Early January usually has me thinking about the year ahead for Jeni & Billy, which tea to drink, my high school friend Cotton who’s birthday is on January 7th, and stringing up instruments with new strings. This year is no exception. Jeni and I headed to Florida on January 14 to play seven…
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The year was nineteen seventy-one. A former mailman from Illinois released an album on Atlantic records, self-titled, John Prine. The songs were narrative — filled with empathy for his characters. Sam Stone, the drug addicted veteran; Hello In There, a song about aging; and Paradise, the town that was taken away by the coal company.…
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I read on my Baltimore Sun app this morning that Al “Madman” Baitch died on March 24th at the age of 89. He was one of the great Baltimore club and concert musicians who played for nearly seventy years. His instrument was the saxophone. I had to call my Dad to let him know because…
Billy Kemp 