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PREVIEW TROPICIZER TRACKS

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PREVIEW B.B. DOGG TRACKS

'Tropicizer' features many of my own tunes, and a few more that were co-written with others. It's about half instrumental & half vocal.

Having spent a portion of my gigging career in the tropics, these styles of music came easily and naturally to me...and it was a lot of fun writing and recording tunes that...for a change...actually reflect where I am performing!

Describe this thang: This music has a reggae/soca/jazzy feel, with lots of Jobim-like nylon-string guitar, a generous dusting of jazzy steel pan, and lots of smooth jazz sax, piano, white boy soul vocals & horn sections (attempting to mimic the great sounds of a Cuban big band). Now, plop a dollop of this gingerly over the top of primarily live drums, bass and percussion (with some loops & samples to help the groove).

If you like any of that stuff, you'll hopefully find something in here that speaks to you! If not, maybe you can help me get a piece of intellectual property rezoned....it's a tricky process.

After a couple of rough hurricane seasons, there was good reason to start that long - talked about recording project: "The Blues Album". After writing and recording on and off over the next 18 months with old music cohort Larry Z, the "One Blue Shoe" cd was finally completed!

We were even able to enlist "The Bones of Contention" to add a great horn section to some of the tunes! Tim "Boogiehead" Poindexter added some great sax to a couple of cuts; Geo G. Dawg added some lead guitar to one tune; "Even Steven" kicked in his funky drum groove on several tunes; and blue-eyed soul sister Caucazia sang her heart out on background vocals!

Feedback on this project is the best I've seen in years...the cd is now available for purchase online or contact one of us personally for a copy!

So, is B.B. Dogg a person...a band...or...a way of life? We're still a bit unclear on that, but there is definitely some great stuff going on with this music. And, as Po'Bone says: "B.B Dogg plays with the right hand, the left hand, that's why they call him B B Dogg".

Check out the video for 'Handsome Man" from B.B Dogg: shot & released in August 09

sampler :

(2:00 / 160 kbps)

KEEPIN ' IT CASUAL

This 2000-2001 snappy collection was never actually mass-manufactured for retail sale, although it did get a some token jukebox and radio play around that time.

During that period, 'yours-truely' was involved in a lot of other musical endeavors and distractions in Atlanta that had absolutely nothing to do with this music (ie: everything from metal or hip-hop all night sessions and gigs from klezmer to disco...many of which I'm still patiently waiting to be paid for). Consequently, 'Keepin' It Casual' remained a distraction at best. Quicksand Land.

Now that "Tropicizer" is released, I'm burning the midnight lighter fluid to blatt out a new version of Keepin It Casual with a few other stray tunes thrown in...as a download only format. It should be a dandy...a real knee-slapper, as they say! So, 23 skidoo, you whipper-snappers! (No one reads my meanderings anyway...Ralph Waldo Emerson & Stink appear courtesy of Belkin Productions)

PREVIEW TRACKS

SANIBEL SAMBA

Although this is technically not my own solo cd, my playing is featured heavily on this all-instrumental Danny Morgan co-production. I'm first featured as John G. McLane on alto sax and guitar on several songs; I then then mysteriously re-appear as Wayward Jensen on steel pan, and then again as the "Hoboken's crowned prince of lounge" Johnny Duke on piano. Also, most of the rhythm section and horn section parts are performed by "yours truely". A nice smooth-jazzy cd overall, featuring several fine players.

"JOHN GRAHAM MCLANE"

"John Graham McLane" was a mid- nineties release. This adventurous original music album made some waves in several European countries , which strangely enough led to my producing European rock legends "Saxon" (Virgin Records) in Germany. The sonic quality of "John Graham McLane" allowed this cd to become a "demonstration tool" for several high-end sound equipment dealers & an international sound company back in the 90's.

Most of the original 1000 copies of this release ended up distributed in Germany, Belgium and France promotionally and it's way out of print...only a few cassette versions remain...in my garage! The last visitor to this page was back when websites were still acoustic!