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Dudley Poised for Rebirth with New Album, Beautiful Confusion: First Single, “Spellbound,” Out on the Vernal Equinox
With spring, you get Dudley, making its long-awaited return to musical action with the new, 16-track album Beautiful Confusion. Making its soft release presence known on the Vernal Equinox, March 20th this year, the album joins its older siblings Doin’ Jack, Are Our Oars Out? and Public Nudism in the family discography. Out now, the single “Spellbound,” joining the previously-released single “Sad Sad Man” in the “out there” category. The full album drops soon, in digital and CD form.
At the heart of the matter is singer-songwriter Ellen Turner, who teamed up with her pals Tom Lackner (drums), Joe Woodard (guitars) and Chris Symer (bass), when all were in Santa Barbara. Now, Symer is in the northwest and Turner the South, but mileage can’t keep them apart.
With the teaser release of its first official single “Spellbound,” Dudley is off to a rocky start. As in leaning towards the rock side of its inter-blended folk-rock-whatever personality. As Turner sings, summing it all up, “pop, light up my mind!”
(“Sad Sad Man” was released late in 2023. Some noticed relevance to Trump in its poetic lyrics.)
On the subject of prior album Doin’ Jack, Richard Singer, writing in Option, opined that the sound is “…somewhat playful, folk-tinged, soft-side-of-alternative rock… a welcome break from the self-seriousness exhibited by other female singer/songwriters… intriguing, nightmarish side that peeks out from the lyrics once in awhile…”
Links & infos:
www.householdink.com/dudley
Dropbox link (with wav and mp3 files of “Spellbound” and “Sad Sad Man”)
Spotify, Bandcamp, YouTube, Soundcloud
Singles: “Spellbound,” YouTube link, Bandcamp here
“Sad Sad Man,” YouTube link, Bandcamp here
The Press Notes
Re: past Dudley albums…
“The colorful, quirky, aqueous cover image on Doin’ Jack seems to imply that something just as beguiling lies within the CD’s jewel case. Does it deliver? You betcha… Ellen Turner’s floating vocal drawl suggests she is singing an intimate disclosure to the listener. Her voice, paired with the emotional exposure of the lyrics (“I have eyes like yours that look right into me, But mine are not so kind, what do you see in me?” from “Eyes”), conjure a Sunday morning mood: either evoking the euphoria of waking up next to the one you love, or waking up to the emotional wreckage of a lover’s revelations from the previous night…” – Deirdre Devers, Splendid e-zine
“Ellen Turner, the primary force behind Dudley, has put together a collection of pop with a relaxing folk undercurrent. Turner’s velvety, enveloping voice is reminiscent of Frente!’s Angie Hart in its sweeping sighs. In fact, many moments here recall Frente!, but without their determined quirkiness…every song on the album is quite solid, providing plenty of fine moments. Centering on the well-worn trials of finding/keeping/losing love, the often melancholy but never mawkish tunes highlight Turner’s enchanting vocals…” — rd, Splendid e-zine
Frank Warren of the San Luis Obispo Telegraph-Tribune said of the new album: “the record has moments of country warmth, off-time folk, and some of the most fragile musical moments you will ever hear on tape…this is a group of artists who paint and sculpt brilliant creations for the senses, and when you least expect it, get into your soul.”
Mark Fahey, writing in the Santa Barbara Independent, said: “even as instrumentals, these songs are beautiful, and coupled with Ellen’s voice, it is indeed a rare beauty in this time of loud is more.” In the Santa Barbara News-Press, Steve Libowitz called the album “a treasure trove of poetry and haunting images.”
Household Ink Records proudly puts forth the exciting new album by Richard “Dick” Dunlap, Confirmation.
“Confirmation” (2026) is the third release in the ongoing “Dick Dunlap Archival Liberation” project… after “Intersphere” (2024) and “Arlene Rising” (2025). Curated by Dick and Glen Dunlap.
(Cover art: Glen Dunlap)
“Confirmation” is a vintage garden of electronic delights from Richard “Dick” Dunlap, veteran keyboard/composer, visual and conceptual artist, general creative whirlwind. Its 13 tracks are culled from Dunlap’s vast archive of self-generated musical works from over many years—music which is by turns cinematic, ambient, progressive and lyrical.
The “liberation continues, on Household Ink Records
www.householdink.com/dickdunlap/
Household Ink Records presents Richard “Dick” Dunlap, Arlene Rising.
Available Digitally:
Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Bandcamp, Soundcloud,
Actual CDs:
Household Ink Products page, Amazon, Discogs
(see story in the Santa Barbara Independent here)
Arlene Rising is a vintage garden of electronic delights from Richard “Dick” Dunlap, veteran keyboard/composer, visual and conceptual artist, general creative whirlwind. Its 11 tracks are culled from Dunlap’s vast archive of self-generated musical works from over many years—music which is by turns cinematic, ambient, progressive and lyrical.
The Arlene question is Dunlap’s long-standing wife and life partner, who passed away and is paid tribute with the project. An accomplished pianist, she is also heard as pianist-composer on one tune, “Song of the Sea.” In all, the album illustrates Dunlap’s unique and painterly way of creating layered musical visions. Electronic music with an organic touch.
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Update time: Joe Woodard’s new solo guitar album, The Fine Art of Forgetting, now available on the old-schooling Compact Disc™ format, and Jazziz magazine spotlights the release in its November “Downloads” feature.
The Fine Art of Forgetting is a solo guitar record by Joe Woodard, a sophomore effort, more soft and at times darkly-toned than the guitarist’s 2022 debut solo outing, Wedding Album (On this Day).
Digitalia: bandcamp, Spotify, YouTube, Apple Music, Soundcloud .
For CDs: Discogs, Amazon, Household Ink Products page
Press Notes:
Santa Barbara Independent review, by Eric Larson, here
“…These are still waters that run deep. The tempos are mostly slow, and often loosely stretched, as in speech. The harmonies are equally free, a palette of rich and complex colors that shift from dark to light like shadows under a tree. The melodies are deceptively simple, sometimes past even before you knew they were upon you. All of these give the album a kind of floaty feel. Understated, whispering, sometimes even mumbling; never insistent.
Woodard himself calls the album “ambient dinner music,” and indeed it’s perfect for alt-holiday listening before a warm fire. But there’s a lot more to it than that, and these pieces amply reward deeper dives on repeated hearings. You may not come away humming the tunes, but the album’s wistful mood will linger long.”
–Eric Larson, Santa Barbara Independent
From Jazziz:
https://jazzizdiscovery.com/downloads/discovery-downloads-november-2025-2/
Joe Woodard, “Song With a View,” The Fine Art of Forgetting (Household Ink)
The byline “Josef Woodard” will be familiar to longtime JAZZIZ readers. Joe’s been a treasured contributor to the magazine for decades and continues to pen album reviews for our Auditions section. In addition to sharing his critical acumen and deep knowledge about jazz — he’s written books about Charles Lloyd and Charlie Haden — the Santa Barbara, California-based Woodard’s also an accomplished guitarist and composer. He released his first solo album, 2022’s Wedding Album (On This Day), which celebrated the marriage of his daughter, Claire, to her now-husband, John, and follows it up with The Fine Art of Forgetting, another set of self-penned solo pieces for guitar. In his typically deft way with words, Woodard describes the album as “a collection of compact guitar pieces both vintage and freshly cooked, connected by a loosely spun theme of inspirations drawn from dreams and memoryscapes.” However, the quietly effervescent “Song With a View” was developed more consciously, inspired by the view from Claire and John’s back patio in Pescadero, with mountains and ocean providing a beauteous backdrop. Woodard articulates emotions beyond words with his impassioned finger-picking, as he impressionistically limns the landscape and the feelings it conjured within him.
Joe Woodard, The Fine Art of Forgetting
(Household Ink Records, 2025, HI-168)
Joe Woodard; solo guitar and compositions (except “Music, Boxed,” by Claire Woodard)
Track listing: Music, Boxed, Song with a View, Palimpsest of Snow, Sweet Time, Disappearing Nightly, Thought-Gathering Mission, Convenient Memory (is a Gift from God), Fractured Valentine, Four Nights of Dreamer, Words Escape, No Point Beyond this Alcohol, Thought-Gathering Mission, Slight Re-turned, A Dream I’ve Yet to Have, Life in Progress, Music, Boxed (reprise)
links: bandcamp, Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Soundcloud…
Joe Woodard steps out of the shadows and the back lines of bands to unleash his second solo guitar album, The Fine Art of Forgetting. The newest solo guitar chapter in Woodard’s musical cabinet of wonders and oddities first went public with Wedding Album (On this Day), released in 2022 and mostly comprised of noodly pleasantries performed at the wedding of his daughter Claire and her now-husband John. Voila, Woodard, a guitarist/songwriter/sometimes singer/record company micro-mogul (Household Ink Records)/situationist embarked on a new series of albums under the “ambient dinner music” banner.
The Fine Art of Forgetting is a collection of compact guitar pieces both vintage and freshly-cooked, connected by a loosely-spun theme of inspirations drawn from dreams and memoryscapes.
Some tunes come from the mysterious creative ether. Others have more specific origin stories. “Song with a View” was written on the mountain/distant ocean-endowed back patio of Claire and John’s remote house above Pescadero, California. The view was to die for and to write about. (Claire’s conceptual handiwork is at hand with the tweaked music box bookmark tracks, Music, Boxed.”)
“Thought-Gathering Mission—” and its psychedelic doppelganger “Re-turned” track–concerns the transition phase after disorientation or lucid dreaming. “Four Nights of a Dreamer” refers to the dreamy Dostoevsky-inspired film by Robert Bresson. “Sweet Time” banks on its apparently sweet disposition. “Words Escape” bears a title which describes the sounds.
Speaking of which, never mind the words, here comes another blue plate special of “ambient dinner music.” Enjoy safely, or otherwise.
Joe Woodard’s list of bands and situations over the years has included Headless Household, flapping, Flapping, Dudley, Lucinda Lane, Tableaux Sonique, A Mother Country, a growing body of work under his own name, and other side tripping. By day, he’s also a writer/journalist, with three books out-–jazz books on Charles Lloyd and Charlie Haden, and the satirical novel Ladies who Lunch.
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The wait is over. Summer is Over is out and about.
Lucinda Lane, Santa Barbara’s premiere self-described “IndyBossaJazzTwang” band, has been whittling away on its debut album for the past year and a half, in various Santa Barbara studios and with a friendly posse of musical guests and friends. The finished 11-track product is the fruition of a story going back a dozen years, when singer Nicole Love and guitarist/songwriter Joe Woodard knocked heads and formed a new kind of hybrid style project.
Putting that style council down into album form was always part of the agenda, but interruptions–including the COVID-ized black hole–got in the way. Fast forward to now and Summer is Over, on Household Ink Records, is public item number one in the Lucinda Lane discography.
See Santa Barbara Independent story here.
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Although the veteran experimental new music entity and slightly cracked party band Headless Household (b. 1983) is presently in limbo due to health and existential circumstances, an ongoing archival-dipping project continues. The past is calling, with lots of buried archival nuggets and taste treats. Next up: a fascinating blast from the past, Headless Household Takes the El Paseo, 1988, a digital-only release of a live show in the historic Santa Barbara landmark. The recording documents the original quartet (Dick Dunlap, Tom Lackner, Chris Symer, Joe Woodard) in its stripped-down and prog rock/free jazz/aggro ambient form, before the band morphed in a more eclectic, guest-invitational outfit.
HHEP88 bio here
Headless Household
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birthed in 1983, the new music combo Headless Household slices across genres and pursues better living through eclecticism. with a slower, cooler head on the ninth album, Balladismo (2015). Guests include Julie Christensen, Glen Phillips, Nate Birkey, David Binney, Tom Buckner, pedal steelist Bill Flores, and more… Previous albums in this millennium were their double-disc album, celebrating the band’s 25th anniversary (a year late), Basemento (one disc leans “inside,” the other “outside). the expectedly eclectic Blur Joan(2005), and the slightly less eclectic post-Polka (2003), on which the departure point is the polka genre, with elements of rock, punk, funk, zappa, nino rota, charlie parker, and other flavors. another one (or two) is/are in the works presently.
Links on the interweb:
Headless Household Takes El Paseo, 1988 (2024) 
Balladismo (2015)
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post-Polka (2003)
mockhausen (2000) 
Free Associations (1999)
ITEMS (1996)
Inside/Outside USA (1993) 
Headless Household (1987)
Headless Household, “Holed & Hunkered Re(al)mix”
Santa Barbara’s hopelessly eclectic outfit Headless Household hits the dance floor again, while trying not to step on anyone’s toes. The band’s remotely recorded pandemic dance tune “Holed & Hunkered” was released in a raw, unfinished mix form in the thick of viral things, in 2021. Now, here comes the “real thing”–“Holed & Hunkered Re(al)mix.”
This mix includes all the parties who came on board, flying in their parts from hermetically sealed home studios in remote locations: saxists David Binney and Tom Buckner, drummer/studiomaestro Tom Lackner, Joe Woodard, bajo man Chris Symer, and vocalists Shelly Rudolph, Nicole Lvoff and Liz Barnitz.
listen up: bandcamp, YouTube, Spotify, soundcloud
Headless Household, “The Numbers Game” (live in 1995)
As part of a campaign to explore the vast archives of unreleased material by Headless Household, going back to the 1980s–a so-called “vault-finding mission–” Household Ink Records is embarking on a periodic series of reissues of items of interest from the vaults. Expect singles, albums, and formats of choice.
Phase one: the reissue of the previously unreleased tune “The Numbers Game,” recorded live at Center Stage Theater in Santa Barbara, December 4, 1995. The spotlight is on the mighty, and mighty lyrical, Nate Birkey, on vocal and trumpet. Have a listen, if you will, here: bandcamp, spotify, Apple Music, soundcloud, YouTube…
Joe Woodard, Wedding Album (On this Day)
(Household Ink Records, 2022, HI-157)
Wedding Album (On this Day) is an EP consisting of instrumental guitar pieces by Joe Woodard, as played at the wedding of Claire Woodard and her betrothed John Pemberton, on June 21, 2022 at Greens in San Francisco. For the occasion, Claire asked if Joe might play pieces from his large book of what he called his “pleasant, noodly” guitar instrumentals at the event. As a summer project with a cause, Woodard recorded these numbers at Would-Be Studio.
Ambient Dinner Music? Could be…
* The EP is available, in digitalia and CD forms, in a lot of the usual outlets… Bandcamp, Spotify, YouTube, Amazon, Discogs, Apple Music, iTunes, the Household Ink Records products page, and more to come.
–Read Callie Fausey’s article in the Santa Barbara Independent, 11-9-22 here
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Tableaux Sonique, the new band formed in the confabulation of singer Shelly Rudolph and guitarist Joe Woodard, forged in the smithies of studios in Portland, Santa Barbara and elsewhere, springs to recording life with its debut single, “December: Dreaming Forward,” released on December 21, 2021 (Winter Solstice). The song, written by Woodard, is an ode to the hope for hope, in uncertain times. Wintry, in its way, it also warms itself by the fire, proverbially and otherwise.
Full Sonique album to come in 2022… Please enjoy.
Links to “December: Dreaming Forward:”
Joe Woodard’s new “faux folk” album, Goleta Electric. 18 tracks in various shades of folkishness, recorded during the hunkerdown, with multiple guests flying in tracks… officially dropped on November 26, aka “Black Friday.”
CDs are in the oven, on the long-bake plan.
Links to album (so far—Spotify and its kinfolk in process):
www.householdink.com/joe-woodard
Goleta Electric bio, here.
Sample: opening track, “Falling in with the Out Crowd,” linked here, and first single, “Freedom in Kentfield” here.
Check out Charles Donelan’s review in the Independent here.
After putting out 40-plus albums (mostly CDs, plus an LP and a coupla’ cassettes) since its founding in 1987, Household Ink Records has branched out, dropped the “Records” and has released it’s first book: Josef Woodard’s debut novel,
Ladies Who Lunch–on Household Ink, the press. This satirical romp through LA in the ’90s, available in e-book, book book and soon audiobook form, can be found through the usual bookish portals, as well as its own home store page, www.ladieswholunch.me.
At long last… flapping, Flapping’s long-awaited new, and third, album seeyoutonite has been birthed. The “para-pop” and/or “rock ‘n’ droll” band’s first two albums came out in the roaring 1990sTEX (1995) and Montgomery Street (1996) and the current release has been cooking for many years, rolling through changes. Read about it in the latest HI newsletter.
Press bites:
Based in Santa Barbara and featuring journalist friend Joe Woodard, the band flapping, Flapping reemerges from a 24-year hiatus with the pop gem, seeyoutonite, on the Household Ink label head/songwriter Joe on guitars and vocals and partner Tom Lackner on drums and synthesizers (with 20 guests throughout) pop in all its old-school perfection, with 14 catchy songs, lyrics worth perusal, varietal instrumentation in support on various tracks, including accordion, pedal steel, glockenspiel, marimba, saxophones, B-3 organ. lyrics run the gamut from the perils of talk radio to asparagus running wild in the backyard plus cool instrumentals on the guitar and synth playground. seeyoutonite is a rare treat, worth tracking down.
—Dan Oullette, celebrated music journalist link
On and off for 25 years, this unusual Santa Barbara (and beyond) collective has been making thoughtful, rooted, well recorded rock music. With attractive tracks such as the wistful “Something for Nothing,” the upbeat popper “The Aim of Love” and the thudtrippin instrumental “Ruffriff,” the latest from guitarist Joe Woodard, keyboardist Tom Lackner and friends showcases the band’s virtues while softening the wit. Mature in a good way. Listen/buy here.
–Greg Burk, MetalJazz.com
clapping, Clapping for flapping, Flapping
Semi-occasional “rock ‘n’ droll” band (Woodard’s term) flapping, Flapping (his capitalization) offers a song like “Tuesday Afternoon” on its latest and third album seeyoutonite (his spacing), its horn break will make you think Beatlesque. But Woodard, no doubt, thinks of a specific Beatles moment, when he first heard it, who else has nicked it, and who arranged the charts each time. Other songs on the disc will tickle your memory receptors for bands as diverse as Steely Dan, Radiohead, Little Feat, Neil Young, Van Halen, Peter Gabriel, The Move, maybe even Terry Allen.
seeyoutonite is a total delite. (Couldn’t resist.) It’s an engaging stroll down rock and pop’s hallway of mirrors with a brilliant guide to give you only the best reflections, aided by many of the best Santa Barbara musicians, in particular the one other remaining original player in the band, drummer Tom Lackner, while the album does hold classic FM radio sound as its lodestar–”heck, I called it an album!” It also ranges far and wide for texture, nuance, grace.
–Food/culture writer George Yatchison, “George Eats” blog, link
Drawing inspiration from classic rock heavyweights such as the Band and Little Feat, and filtered through jazz’s sophisticated harmonic sensibility, the record sits comfortably alongside the work of better-known ’80s/’90s acts such as Pavement and R.E.M. Not for nothing has this creative duo of Woodard and Lackner gone to school with the world’s top improvisers; seeyoutonite sounds both fresh and timeless. The gorgeous and warmly inviting production, all of which took place at Lackner’s studio on Mountain Drive, adds mightily to the album’s sonic appeal.
In a town often touted for its resemblance to paradise, music ought to be equally divine. With the arrival of flapping, Flapping’s seeyoutonite, Santa Barbara has got the world-class rock band it deserves.
–Charles Donelan, Santa Barbara Independent, link
Links to listen to seeyoutonite:
https://soundcloud.com/flappingflapping/sets/seeyoutonite
https://flappingflapping.bandcamp.com/
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check out story on Household Ink Records’ 25th anniversary in Down Beat magazine here (download pdf)
Household Ink YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/HouseholdInk/videos
Headless Household meets Lucinda Lane, in an “alt-Viva-La-ing” show at the Mercury Lounge,
Friday, August 2, 2019
What: Headless Household and Lucinda Lane
When: Friday, August 2, at 8 p.m.
Where: Mercury Lounge, 5871 Hollister Ave., Goleta
Cost: $5
Info: 967-0907
www.householdink.com/headless.htm
HH is: Dick Dunlap, piano; Tom Lackner, drums; Joe Woodard, guitar; Nicole Lvoff and Liz Barnitz, vocals; Randy Tico, bass (and guests tba).
LL: Lvoff, Woodard, Lackner, Tico
Still buzzing from its March show at SOhO, celebrating the 25th birthday of its seminal album Inside/Outside USA by playing the whole thing in sequence, Headless Household returns–in time for Fiesta. The hopelessly eclectic, veteran SB band will share a bill with the “indiebossajazztwang” group Lucinda Lane at the Merc, for a special “Viva La-ing” gig on Fiesta Friday. Old Town Goleta style.
Headless Household’s albumography: Headless Household (1987; vinyl), Inside/Outside USA (1993), ITEMS (1995), Free Associations (1999), mockhausen (2000), post-Polka (2003), Blur Joan (2005), and Basemento (2010), Balladismo (2015), tba (2019?).
Lucinda Lane plans to birth its discography with a debut album by the beginning of 2020.
To hear Inside/Outside USA:
On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/5qBMfjevzcgYCYtH4h5W18?si=vQI98ZoSRUiYU0bhPrDCrA
Streaming/download:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/j0uswu8gwwn8uf6/HH%2C%20Inside-Outside%20USA.zip?dl=0
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Headless Household celebrates the 25th anniversary of its pivotal album Inside/Outside USA at SOhO, Wednesday, March 20
What: Headless Household, toasting the 25th birthday of Inside/Outside USA
When: Wednesday, March 20, 2019, at 7:30 p.m.
Where: SOhO, 1221 State St., Santa Barbara (upstairs)
Cost: $10
Info: (805) 962-7776, www.sohosb.com, www.householdink.com/headless.htm
Who: Dick Dunlap, piano; Tom Lackner, drums; Joe Woodard, guitar; Tom Buckner, tenor sax; Nicole Lvoff, vocals; and Randy Tico, bass (and guests tba).
Nate Birkey’s brilliant new (and tenth) album, Rome, –recorded in said city with artful Italian musicians–got a great four-star in the April 2018 issue of DownBeat magazine… link
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Headless Household returns to Center Stage Theater in CD release wingding for its new, ninth album, Balladismo, Saturday, September 12
What: Headless Household, CD release wingding for new, ninth album, Balladismo
When: Saturday, September 12, at 8 p.m.
Where: Center Stage Theater, upstairs in Santa Barbara’s Paseo Nuevo. Tickets are $17, general and $12, seniors and students. Box office: (805) 963-0408, or, web-wise, www.centerstagetheater.org.
Who: Dick Dunlap, Tom Lackner, Joe Woodard, Tom Buckner, Jim Connolly, Nicole Lvoff, Tom Ball … and ?
For album number nine, the hopelessly and mostly happily eclectic band Headless Household (born 1983, in Santa Barbara, Calif.) set out to tighten the stylistic/vibe focus knob and go the ballad route. They partially succeeded, as heard on Balladismo, a collection of tracks with balladism (or “Balladismoâ€) which settles into an easier, sometimes melancholic place and attitude, but also takes detours. Detouring is the Household way, after all.
Following the 25th anniversary double-disc album Basemento (the second in the B-title trilogy, after Blur Joan and preceding Balladismo), the group slowly got in gear for the new album. Once again, the menu ranges from jazz to rock ‘n’ avant-pop ‘n’ waltz/polka turf, free improvisation, Americana and Europeana, and then some.
read bio: WORD, PDF
buy Balladismo
After a two-year period of semi-dormancy–time spent brewing up the next batch of action as well as mulling over the meaning of label life–Household Ink Records is re-emerging with some new musical call and response factors in motion. The HI factory, founded in 1987 and now with 40 titles to its name, is back in action, whereabouts and destination semi-known.
As of May 2015, the label’s flagship band, the hopelessly eclectic outfit Headless Household, is finally releasing its ninth album, Balladismo. (Think “balladism” meets “machismo.”) The core Household foursome (Dick Dunlap, Tom Lackner, Chris Symer, Joe Woodard) is joined by familiar friends and generous cameo-makers, including singers Glen Phillips, Julie Christensen and, new to the Headless fold, Nicole Lvoff, powerhouse saxists Tom Buckner and David Binney, trumpeter/vocalist Nate Birkey, pedal steel player Bill Flores (who, like Lackner, plays in Jeff Bridges’ band), and bassist David Piltch. It is a mostly-ballads project which took many turns, expected and otherwise, in its year-and-a-half creative process. Balladismo is brought to fruition, in part, by the kindness of Kickstarter patrons. We salute you.
www.householdink.com/headless.htm
Simultaneously with the release of Balladismo comes the beginning of a proud new relationship with rising German jazz saxophonist Nicole Johaenntgen, via her new and wonderful jazz/blues/pop/etcetera album, Moncaup. She is Household Ink’s first European artist, and one steadily gaining acclaim and an international presence. We’re more than please to meet her, and introduce her to a deservingly wider Stateside audience.
www.nicolejohaenntgen.com/
Meanwhile, congrats go out to longtime Household Ink artist Nate Birkey, whose wonderful, spiritual (and spirituals-minded) album of last fall, Just a Closer Walk–his sixth album on Household Ink–received a glowing review in the April 2015 issue of Down Beat magazine (check it out here). It was the first review for Nate in that august publication, and a first, as well, for a Household Ink release.
www.natebirkey.com/
Stay tuned. We will, too. (Except when intentionally otherwise.)
info@householdink.com
www.householdink.com
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Newest Household Ink album…
After working on its latest long-playing record for the past 15 months (with various interruptions and detours), Headless Household is finally poised to release its latest album, Balladismo, the ninth in the band’s 31-year history–and its first since 2010’s double-disc Basemento. Balladry is the theme, although the distractions and seductions of the group’s built-in electicism leads the song set into the usual bewildering sonic bevvy.
Many of the band’s usual and beloved guests help make it special, including vocalist Julie Christensen (now hailing from Nashville), Glen Phillips (now hailing from Santa Barbara.. and the world), trumpeter/vocalist Nate Birkey and alto sax wizard Dave Binney from NYC, longtime HH tenor saxist Tom Buckner, pedal steeliist Bill Flores, violinist Sally Barr, bassist David Piltch and a newcomer–vocalist Nicole Lvoff, sneaking into the Headless mix, the Headless way.
Stay tuned: with luck and fairydust (and with the help of our very kind Kickstarter helpers), an April release date is in the cards…
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nate birkey, Just a Closer Walk (2014): the jazz trumpeter-vocalist of quiet intensity continues his discography with the eagerly-awaited new album, Just a Closer Walk, a unique and soul-felt treatment of spirituals and gospel-flavored material…
check out the review in the April, 2015 issue of Down Beat here…
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nate birkey’s site, nate’s myspace page
HI-143= $15 (postage paid)to buybio
(review in All About Jazz)
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HI gigs coming up in July, including CD release for NYC’s Nate Birkey’s new album:
Lucinda Lane, with Spencer & Todd’s Swingin’ Moods, @ SOhO, Wednesday, July 16, 7:30 flyer press release soho
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Nate Birkey at SOhO, Monday, July 28
presenting the CD release party for his brand new gospel-oriented album, Just a Closer Walk
Message from Nate:
Hello all,
The new album is finally here! Stepping into some familiar musical terrain, Just A Closer Walk offers Jazz infused approaches to the realm of gospel music and spirituals. These are songs I’ve known and grown up with my entire life. We recorded this album live last August when I was in Santa Barbara, CA., spending a day recording in the sanctuary of Saint Michael and All Angels Church in Isla Vista. We did it the “old school” way – putting a stereo mic in the middle of the room, positioning ourselves accordingly and then just playing. The album features Tom Buckner on tenor sax, Jamieson Trotter on piano, Jim Connolly on bass, and Peter Buck on drums. I believe we captured something special. I hope you’ll enjoy listening to it, and I look forward to seeing you at one of the upcoming release shows. (see details below) Thanks, Nate
in Denver Saturday, July 12 at 7:00 and 9:00pm 930 Lincoln St., Denver, CO.
in New York City Monday, July 21 at 7:00pm 55 Christopher St., NYC
in Ventura Wednesday, July 23 at 7:00pm 2351 E. Main St., Ventura, CA
in Santa Barbara Monday, July 28 at 8:00pm 1221 State St., Santa Barbara, CA