Orville Johnson

This is a Thelonius Monk tune. It's a live recording from a radio show, Sonarchy, on KEXP-FM in Seattle that usually focuses on avant-garde, outside style jazz. They asked me to do a show and I did some more regular tunes but felt the need to touch on some wacky noise jazz as well. Players are me playing my Guernsey, John Miller on guitar, Paul Elliot on fiddle, and Keith Lowe on bass. I actually cut this down to fit here on reso-nation. The original is 15 minutes long and has a lot more sound exploration leading up to the tune but I needed to cut it to 10MB so I axed about 4 minutes of sound sculpture to pick it up closer to the tune. Its in Bb, no capos.

I think I tried to post this once before but something effed up and it didn't work. This is from David Lange's CD Almost Home. David is a great recording engineer and a heckuva accordion player. I'm playing my Guernsey dobro and rhythm guitar on my Santa Cruz OM-45. Cary Black is on bass and David is playing accordion and piano. Beautiful song and this version came out right nice.

Disabling downloads cuz its not my album.

Here's a photo of Greg Booth, Greg's son Dan and OJ during the Resomania Workshop at Wintergrass 2009. Yes, that new 'Horn of Greg's sounds great and is quite the good looker in person.

Lot's of fun and an opportunity to see and hear from from some of the great Northwest pickers. Thanks again to Tom Foote for putting together the event.

This is a live concert cut that I did with pianist Tom Kellock, bassist Garey Shelton, and drummer Mark Ivester. I'm playing lap steel. It's my Supro with the string-thru pickup thru my Anderson amp with a touch of delay added. The Supro is a long scale ax so it feels similar to my dobros to play. The song is, of course, from the Miles Davis album Kind of Blue. A little slidey jazz for a Sunday afternoon.