but longing is primal (CD)
These songs started showing up in 2019, a year of living dangerously; then more came through the shutdown time, and then finally, recovery from all things profound and profoundly stupid
That’s the thing about songs. They take no prisoners.
Under My Skin: Reimagining Cole Porter (CD)
The Cole Porter songbook is packed with love, divine sexual innuendo, wit and wisdom. Barnett has taken these exotic, quixotic and downright folksy songs and set them spinning in a hybrid Americana/Jazz landscape. The fiddle, the banjo, the old Gibson,the upright piano, the upright bass. And the dobro…that’s the longing right there.
New Year’s 2024
Thank you to all y’all for a remarkable gathering on December 17th at City Winery NYC. We played the Cole Porter Americana concert, with guests singers Steve Conte, Ada Dyer, Russell Velazquez, and Eugene Ruffolo, and newest band member the extraordinary Sara Caswell on fiddle. What a day. Thank you to my comrades Richard Hammond…
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