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Happy to report that The  Trio has become a popular attraction at numerous private parties and events..we've been playing venues like the Four Seasons and the Port Washington Yacht Club as well as small parties in Manhattan apartments...

Winter gig  highlights, come on down to a show....

 

 

 

Every Tuesday   The  Trio  will be heading out to Queens, appearing the  at Cafe Bar 8:30-11. It's near the Kaufman Center at 3290 36th STREET  ASTORIA, NEW YORK  718-204-5273 very cool neighborhood hang, good food too. This tuesday 2/7/12 we welcome very special guest Maryann McSweeney on upright bass, as Dave Hofstra is out of town. As always Peter Grant holds down the drum chair... Come on down and join us for this great residency. 

 

Friday, march 9 I'll be playing with downtown diva Nora York, big show at BAM as she reprises her Power Play performance piece, don't miss it...

Friday March 23rd The  Trio returns to the upper west side at Bar Thalia from 7-10:30. Broadway and 95th St at Symphony Space. 

 

tues May 22nd, The  Trio has been asked to perform again for the Wellness in the Schools annual benifit, which we played last spring as well...This is a huge high end affair that raises a lot of money for a great cause...details to follow

 

 

Was in the studio to cut some demos for 'Unexpected Joy' a new musical by Bill Russell, with music by Janet Hood...new readings have been scheduled for March...

 

 

I am now set up to record in my home studio...if you would like some guitar parts added to your track, get in touch, it can all be done over the internet...

 

here's a recent email from Wales about my Black Sabbath book written way back when from guitarist Mike Peach...I first picked up a guitar approx 25 years ago and your "Original Black Sabbath" book was one of the first tutorials I bought.  I never had a guitar lesson in my life (a big regret!) and I spent many, many hours slaving over the excerpts in that book.  I liked the fact that there were brief notes for each transcribed tune and feel confident I can play a spot-on solo from Paranoid! So, thanks very much Steve!   ...and thank you Mike for reaching out!

 
Heard from Dave Gilmour fan Chris Cunningham...he was asking about my David Gilmour transcription book which is now out of print and told me it is going for over $100 on the internet! (thanks Chris!) I was able to hook him up with a pdf of one my few copies...any other interested parties feel free to contact me....

 

 

Some  good news! 'Little Pink Radio' a song from 'Wilderness Lounge', a cd by y that I produced and played on in '07 was named #20 in the No Depression (the roots music authority) list of the top 40 songs of the decade. check it out if you want at we're in good company. (thanks and a tip of the sombrero to my old pal and great singer, Monica 'Lil Mo' Passin for letting me know!)  Hope and I had a great time recently playing a House Concert  in the Chelsea area,NYC. Thanks to  Tom Boyd for sponsoring this event which sold out ..great evening! 

 

 

 

 

 Just heard from my former student Max Bernstein...he was passing through ny on tour with megastar Ki$ha playing guitar and bass...way to go Max! 

 

 

Trio News: Our new cd (Steve Tarshis and his Instrumental Trio vol. II) is now ready, contact me to purchase...

 

 

 Hope Nunnery and I have finished recording  our contribution to the "In My Room" cd which will benefit the  National Multiple Sclerosis Society. We are recording the old Carter family tune 'Gospel Ship' , and I have to say it's really sounding great, my old Bucktooth Johnson buddy Marco Giovino has contributed his percussion magic along with Hope and I and Dave Hofstra on bass...The release date for 'in my room' on the LML Music label (LMLMusic.com) is Tuesday, March 23, 2010.

In the studio with composer Jamie Lawrence working on a new doc featuring Sean Penn..lots of slide guitar,since it takes place in New Orleans....

 

 Hope Nunnery  and I  pictured here  on tour in South Carolina, another Southern tour is  in the works...

 

 

 

 

 

 Below: The Trio arriving for a recent gig, pictured Dave Hofstra, bass, Peter Grant, drums and myself.

 

Transcription news: Recently completed transcribing charts for the fabulous country (and more) singer  Shannon Brown, she'll be using them as she sits in with various bands around town, (including my Trio)  .....Had a lot of fun transcribing the Count Basie band's arrangement of 'Sunny Side of the Street' backing up Ella Fitzgerald and arranging it for one piano...this was at the request of Ellen  Gould who will be using  it for her one woman show "The Last Checker".

 

 

 more sessions with composer Jamie Lawrence for an  HBO doc, it's another of  the undercover animal rights series, this one an expose' of pig farms called Death on a Factory Farm which is currently being shown on  HBO. Click the link for broadcast schedule.

 

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had a nice gig with the Trio at Bar 82 for Peggy Ehrhart's book release party (scroll below for more info about Peggy's book) photo above, after gig hang, left to right, me, unidentified drinker, ny blues stalwart Johathon Kalb, good time!  ....., .... .transcription notes: I'm currently working with Julia Douglass, constructing lead sheets for her wonderful project "Chef Do Re Me', here's an example............. 

at the pigeon club studios overdubbing with the hi-strung martin

 

Was recently re-united with my Bucktooth Johnson bandmate Marco Giovino who was up from Nashville producing an album for singer-songwriter Kylie Harris. I did some overdubs on slide guitar and high tuned guitar for them over at the Pidgeon Club studio in Hoboken (photo left)....

 

Sadly, summer '07 semester at the New School was our last. While I look for a new home for my courses, I will be offering them privately as usual. Farewell Guitar Study Center!..... ............EMAIL NOTES FROM ALL OVER.........recently received a request from Eric vd Meijde of the Netherlands. He has a copy of my (now out of print) Jimi Hendrix book and has requested a transcription of Little Wing, he wants to make a tatoo out of it...cool!....I'm going to send it to him and he has generously agreed to send me photos which I will post here..can't wait!........................speaking of books, I just got a great call from Mike Burstein down in Lynchburg, VA. He had a copy of my first book "Teach Yourself Lead Guitar" (still in print) and it inspired him to become a working musician and teacher, wow, love hearing stuff like that, thanks for the call Mike and best luck with your career!........................ I've been working with film composer Jamie Lawrence. Recently did some cue's for the Food Network on nylon string...Here's a cue from a documentary about the 2002 dockworkers strike called "Eye of the Storm".click here to hear 'The Negotiation' from the film. I spent a few months working with Jamie on his sound track for the HBO Special 'Dealing Dogs'. Got to play electric, acoustic, slide and resonator..click here to hear 'Dog to Nowhere one of the cues.click here to hear 'the Big Vamp.... click here to find out more about the show and when it will next be scheduled, it's usually on a couple of times a month.......................................................

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The Hope Nunnery , CD 'Wilderness Lounge' of traditional and original tunes, which I am honored to have produced and performed on has now been released! Hope draws on her southern gothic background, her music has its roots in Appalachian Mountain/gospel/blues..she's lived it and now she's tellin' it! You can sample or purchase the cd and get more information at CD Baby..by clicking here  Wilderness Lounge  received a rave review on the New Depression website, check it out!..this led to a  full blown interview in the latest newstand issue click here to read it.....here's another nice review from Rambles.net....Hope and I had a great ‘Homecoming’ tour of South Carolina this fall..(Photo top of page) Highlights included an NPR interview with Hope and a taping of one of our shows by NPR affiliate WNCW . Shoutouts to Tom Johnson who got the whole thing going and my old pal Dorothy Chapman Josey, unofficial mayor of all things cool in Spartenburg.  Also Carl Martin who helped get the sound system together in Liberty. (Carl to me when I walked in the venue with my guitars..’you the picker or the strummer?’ Yankee translation:lead or rhythm guitar) Check out Hope’s blog of the tour here, and youtube clips of Trouble is my Rider and Judgement Day courtesy of our good friend Rawson Gordon. .....see below for more info about HopeYou can also download the tunes or the whole album from Itunes. Wilderness Lounge was on a 'short list' of about 50 records  considered for a Grammy nomination in the Traditional Folk catagory in 2008. Independent Music Award , Album of the year in the Americana division...

THE TRIO I’ve always loved instrumental music. My trio plays a repetoire of tunes by artists such as Lucinda Williams, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, and classic instrumentals like Sleepwalk, Last Date, and Cast Your Fate to the Wind. We also do jazz standards like Lullaby of Birdland and Bye Bye Blackbird, and blues tunes of all kinds. I like to think of the music as a cross between the Ventures and Bill Frisell.It's a great listening experience for any kind of situation, or a party or corporate event. click here to hear a music sampler of 'The Trio" . We now have two cd's available here, volume I and volume II. 

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Nora York For quite a while it has been my privledge to perform and record with the fantastic singer Nora York. To call her just a 'singer' is an injustice though..she's a charismatic performer, conceptualist, and metaphysical stand up comic all in one. Her music has elements of roots, jazz, pop, rock and r&b all in one. Here's a cut from her recent cd "What I Want"... Turns on a Dime ...I

BUCKTOOTH JOHNSON a rootsy vibey band featuring myself, Neal Pawley on bass and vocals and Marco Giovino on drums. As these things sometimes go, Marco's in Nashville now, so we're on a long hiatus. click here to hear "Can't be Satisfied". click here to hear "Devil's Duty"....You can sample the Bucktooth CD "Two Tooth Minumum" by clicking here Contact me to purchase.

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RENT I've been involved with the hit Broadway show since it opened in the east village. The band plays live onstage with the cast at the Nederlander Theater 208 W.41st St. After a glorious twelve year run the show closed on sept. 7th.

NINE BELOW ZERO..here's a blast from the past, Nine Below Zero was a blues band that played around New York for many years. we still get together and do a gig once in a while..here's a tune we cut a number of years ago that I wrote for the band called Bluesville, early publicity shot of the band featuring me with hair on far left then Steve Morrell, Robin Gould, Paul Ossola, and Stuart Ziff.

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OK this is really cool...Peggy Ehrhart, my former student and a formidable writer (the word kind) who is also a fine guitarist and a blues aficionado, has just published Sweet Man is Gone. As Peggy says, "It's a funny, funky look at the inner workings of a blues band, and it features amateur detective Maxx Maxwell (real name: Elizabeth), a sexy blonde blues singer and bandleader." I read it and its awesome! And check this out...one of the characters is based on me! (Hint: it's not the dead guy) You can read all about it at Peggy's site...plus she's giving away Sweet Man is Gone guitar picks at the site, so hurry over...