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2009 performances   July 11 Pelham Park Children's Festival -Fun for Kids Day 2-4

July 12 New London Sail fest  with Kevin McMahon on sax  2 -3 pm

Oct 16, 09   FDR era music "If You Remember"  Union College NJ

2008 performances   

Oct 4 2008 The Bean And Leaf - Bank Street New London  Full program of

New London's greatest musicians - and KEVIN KANE - w/ Dogbite, Paul

Brockett Roadshow, and others.  I go on at 8

 

Oct 7   Songs for Seniors at Riverwalk Assisted Care Living in the north Bronx

                  And first tues of every month  public invited

Oct 16, 08   FDR era music "If You Remember" is the name of the program.  At

Union College in Union, New Jersey  - one hour of sing along with your parents

and grandparents.  Favorites of the era and some new songs about that era.

 

          Dates gone by . . .  you snoozed, you losed

 

- July 12  Saturday  Sailfest   Hygienic Art Park Folk Festival  2 - 3   New London, Conn. 

with Kevin McMahon on sax, Hugh Birdsall and Jim Fitzgerald on guitar and bass  

come early - parking is tough, sail fest gets crowded early, stay for the Reducers and fireworks

       - Jan 25  Friday  Muddy Waters Hoot   New London Conn. 

Bank St.  Muddy Waters Cafe  7 - 9 pm

       - Feb 12   Hebrew Home at Riverdale - Winter Garden Atrium  6 -7:30  and third Tues of every month

 

       - March 2 Sunday evening  7:30 - 10 PM       An Beal Bocht Cafe

445 W238th Street  BRONX  (718) 884-7127   #1 Train to 238th Street stop. 

Stroll two blocks west on 238th and go up the stairs.  At the top go another

half block.  An Beal Bocht Cafe is on the right.   Driving take exit 20 off

the Henry Hudson North and wind your way five blocks in.    An old New

York Irish Bar - good food and drink - always a nice crowd - a good sound

system - and a history of great music . . .   

 

                                                                                                                                                       

"The kind of stuff Anton Chekhov would've whipped up if you

gave him a guitar and a harmonica . . ."    The WagnerOnion  

 

. . . took a long time to get here, but been playing music and singing for years now.    First CD was called THIRTEEN SONGS, recorded with Hugh Birdsall and other friends on various instruments at various stages.  Released in 2001 after years of playing around.  Connected somehow with British artist Edori Fertig for cover art on THIRTEEN SONGS.  Got a job writing novelty songs, mostly Christmas tunes, for a NYC company with a factory in Hong Kong, that makes toys that sing when you tickle them.  Snowman Melting and Santa in a Sled waiting to take off.  Toys like that.  Ended up with an overflow of songs that Mr. Christmas couldn't use even if he wanted to.  Put ten of those tunes on a CD called CHRISTMAS LEFTOVERS.  Carols and Novelty-songs overflowing with the Christmas spirit and the joy of the season.  Been writing songs for Kids and their folks forever, and began playing more and more in schools, at summer family picnics and wherever children gather.  Released IF YOU WANT A DONUT in 2002.  Ten original tunes.  And god how the people loved them!  Even old people.  Began working on BLINDMAN in 2003 with producer Jim Nolet, that NYC session player extraordinaire on all and various stringed instruments; with Chris Anderson, trumpet player from Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes; and with Eduardo Mandoca, noted Brazilian percusionist and band leader, brought in special with his sack of rattles and shakers.   Couldn't believe a guy named Charles Ray had a painting he called Blindman that fit so well into the jewel case that houses the BLINDMAN  cd.  The album covers alone are worth the price of the record . . .  And some folks probably buy them just for that.  Initial reactions and reviews of BLINDMAN couldn't have been better.  Every reviewer so far recommends you get your hands on this one, and try to find the others.   Most songs and albums are available on Apple i-tunes, Napster and most digital download services.  Or check out on-line record store CD Baby.com for sales and promos. 

A left wing rant was released as an EP on the internet - written as the 2004 election returns were coming in.  Good Ol' Jesus it's called - Made top of some political press charts - rated as a must-listen by Topplebush.com .  Sure was a surprise to hear from a couple of Baptist ministers, one in the south, moved by the message who used this song as the basis for a sermon or two available on podcast -   check out crossleft.blogspot.com/2005/11 if you want to hear someone preaching to the tune of Good Ol' Jesus!.  

Newest CD released in 2007 is AMERICAN SONGS.  Mostly originals, with some covers of traditional songs.  Bicycle Built for Two and Old Dan Tucker are new words to old songs.   Little Sadie, House of New Orleans and Little Light are new arrangements of traditional songs.  The rest are newly written songs, coming from that same dark place so many American folk songs come from, smelling of hot dogs and warm beer.  Morphine is true; it's a cowboy song, an American lament like Nice and Short is an American lament.  And then there are the love songs.  Hold On Henry, Girl with the Yellow Hair, Hootenanny Blues and the others. American songs all, and as true as God Bless America is now or ever will be. The cover and back photos on that one were taken good friend Bill Hurshman, who was there at the Hootenanny when Carlotta sang out for the first time and Sarah showed up with her new husband.  That's Southside Johnny's Chris Anderson on trumpet and Stephen Chapman on back-up vocals.  Sorry to lose Stephen on Christmas 2008.   He's sure missed.         On this CD Kevin played the acoustic and electric guitars, the bass, Hammond B-3 organ, harmonica - and the upright piano on Morphine.  Jim Nolet came in again from Seattle for four days with his fiddle and mandolin.  Carlotta Rose and Emily K., Genie Raven and Julia Engel sang back-up in a garage studio in the Adirondacks on a couple of tunes.  J.P. sang "Oh no!" on Little Sadie . . .  And so there you have it, just what we  all need - twelve more recordings of American Songs.

OTHER NEWS - RECENT SIGHTINGS  Have a program of FDR / Drepression era songs and memories that has played well in New Jersey - First Played this show at Union County College Oct 16 for record amounts of money.  Otherwise I'm making a living playing for kids in New York City most days - and older folks here and there several evenings a week.  And hitting the occasional club or outdoor festival with other players.  Not too good at updating this web site, but we'll  list public events here as they come up - about a third of the time.  Had a face book account, but two people wrote in asking to be friends, and it was overwhelming, so that was cancelled post haste de facto.

 

Send a check or money order with your special needs and we'll mail out CD's as requested.

 

Mail to:    KaneSongs  / Mental Image Records

      6048 Tyndall Ave

      Bronx, NY 10471-1813

Go to www.CDBaby.com for more on If You Want a Donut or to review the albums.

            GO TO   http://cdbaby.com/cd/kevinkane2 to purchase CD's  Or go to Apple i'tunes, Napster or any major download site to listen or to purchase mp3 downloads of songs or entire  collections

Contact at:  Kanesongs@yahoo.com  

      . . . if you check this out and want to say hello, send me an e-mail.  Or touch into the guest  book at the bottom of this page and tell me what you think.  I always wonder.

 

  Cd's by mail - 

BLINDMAN                            $9.95

THIRTEEN SONGS           $9.95

IF YOU WANT A DONUT      $9.95

CHRISTMAS LEFTOVERS       $9.95

AMERICAN SONGS                  $9.95

    IF YOU REMEMBER -                              

        (songs of the FDR Era)             $9.95        

 

 

Postage, handling and sales tax is our treat!!  The CD's will be your treat. 

 Trust me, these CD's make great gifts for friends and neighbors.  And neighbor's kids.

So buy extra . . . 

 

All prices are for the real old fashion thing - a disc you can hold in a colorful package with listed credits and fairly articulate liner notes.  Downloads are cheaper, easier to obtain and missing the original art work. But Available at iTunes, AppleTunes, Napster and most down load sites . . .

 

Kevin Kane     BlindMan

 

 

 

1 Blindman (click the song and select open)  some weeks this ain't working - go to http://cdbaby.com/cd/kevinkane2

2 Kiss My Wife   (click the song and select open)   Guitars, bass, vocals   -  Kevin Kane

3 Now She's Gone                                         Violin, Viola, Mandolin  - Jim Nolet

4 On Columbus w/my baby                        Percussion   - Eduardo Mendoca

5 Bluebird                                                        Trumpet    -    Chris Anderson

6 The Man with Three Wives                   Harmony Vocals  - Andrea Weber

7 Love Me Tonight                                        - Heather Gilchrist

8 Gabrielle                                                      Produced by Kevin Kane and Jim Nolet

9 Reflections of My Life                            Cover Art ABlindman@   -  C. Ray 96

10 The King is Gone                                     Mixed and Mastered -  Lincoln Terrace

11 Fool for You                                            for Mental Image Records

12 Honey Bee

13 Waiting for the Light

14 Forty Cents and Flashlight

 

all songs written by kevin kane c ASCAP 2003         

 

 

 

 

    KEVIN KANE     THIRTEEN SONGS

 

 

           You Got to Tell me Baby

I love her (she doens't know my name)

Big Foot Blues

Best Girl in the World

My Baby Loves Me

Evangeline

Hungry Bear

I Kissed Your Friend

Child of Old

Even You Must Wonder

Home Alone Three

If You Remember

Forty Cents and a Flashlight

I Been Thinking

 

            all songs written by kevin kane c ASCAP 2003         

 

 

 

  KEVIN KANE     IF YOU WANT A DONUT

 

            

 

   1  If You Want a Donut (click the song and select open) or go to http://cdbaby.com/cd/kevinkane2

   2  Cock a doodle doo

   3  Jack and Jill

   4  Double Trouble

   6  Saturday Song

   7  Take you to the City

   8  Wiggle Wiggle

   9  Best Little Girl in the World

   10 Polly Wolly Doodle

   11 Olivia's Baptism Song

 

                   All words and music Kevin Kane   c ASCAP

                   except Polly Doodle trad. melody  w/new words

                   Harmony vocals - Janet Rogerson/Heather Gilchrist

                   Mandolin - Jim Nolet.

 

 

 

KEVIN KANE      CHRISTMAS LEFTOVERS

  from the liner notes .  .  .                     

  

    1 That Little Fat Man

   2 Santa in the Tub

   3 Mary and Joe

   4 Marley was Dead

   5 Christmas at Graceland

   6 Home for the Holidays

   7 Snowman Blues

   8 Christmas Boots

  

     All instruments and most voices Kevin Kane  c ASCAP

     Christmas Boots is based on "These Boots are Made for Walking" tune and concept by Lee Hazelwood 

 

                                 Other reviews are available at Rambles, ChristmasReview. com, Topplebush. com ect.  They're all good!