Transparent recording process reveals all. After years of not playing the slide guitar, “Invisible” beckons to shake off the rust. It’s something I love to do, having learned how in the 90’s, playing along to “Love In Vain” on The Rolling Stones‘ “Let It Bleed”, and J. B. Hutto & Lightning Hopkins records. It got to the point where we …
Transparent recording process reveals all. Thirty-one years ago this May, my band “The Addition” and I were LITERALLY arrested while making our first album––caught breaking and entering into our own recording studio. These days, a band making an album couldn’t even FIGURATIVELY get arrested. Music is too ubiquitous, or as former Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren once told me and …
Creator Robert Galinsky Talks About The Origins of the Show and the Team He’s Put Together. by John Donohue. CULTURE DESK Notes on arts and entertainment from the staff of The New Yorker In the early eighties, when “Starbucks” was an obscure term referring to Captain Ahab’s first mate in the plural, the National Coffee Association produced a series of …
The cast prepares for the debut reading at the Coffee & Tea Festival. Our terrific group of actors at Ripley/Grier Studios in NYC made sure the first “Coffee the Musical” read-through/sing-through went smashingly. Notes and break-out group rehearsals tomorrow. Thanks Everyone! Jay O. Sanders not pictured.
Coffee And Tea Festival 2012, Preview in NYC. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Starfish Junction Productions, producer of the Coffee and Tea Festival NYC, announced that the upcoming 7th annual Coffee And Tea Festival (being held in New York City on February 25 & 26, 2012) will host a special “robust” staged reading of COFFEE THE MUSICAL, featuring acclaimed actor Jay O. …