DOUG DUFFEY/ THE DOUG DUFFEY INTERNATIONAL SOUL BAND -CONCERT UPDATES

DOUG DUFFEY/ THE DOUG DUFFEY INTERNATIONAL SOUL BAND -CONCERT UPDATES

UPDATED SEPTEMBER 19, 2011- Louisiana

September 23, 2011- LOUISIANA SHOWCASE- Performing Arts Exchange- Baton Rouge, Louisiana - Friday, Sept 23 from Nine to Midnight at the Hartley Vey Studio at the Manship Theatre in Shaw Center for the Arts. [SOLO]

October 15 2011- NELA CELTIC FESTIVAL, Monroe, La - appearing with The Northeast Louisiana All-Star Band

SWITZERLAND: THE DOUG DUFFEY INTERNATIONAL SOUL BAND

19, November: Kultur in Mogelsberg, Mogelsberg

24, November: Hotel Bocken, Horgen (Thanksgiving)

17, December: Hotel UTO KULM; Uetliberg [Uptown Zurich]

18. December: GIARDINO VERDE EVENTS, Uitikon

31, December: GIARDINO VERDE EVENTS, Uitikon

2nd to 7th, January 2012: Papperla Pub, Zermatt [we'll be rockin'/rollin'/funkin & soulin' by the Matterhorn]

21, January, 2012: MAHOGANY HALL, Berne [my 'home' club in Berne since the early 90s- AND MY BIRTHDAY PARTY]

[C]2011 DOUG DUFFEY

LIFE AS I LIVE IT: TRADITIONAL- released

TRADITIONAL [CLICK LINK]  is finalized and available for download or physical purchase via cdbaby, i Tunes, Amazon, Rhapsody, and all the usual online outlets. Since the back cover is not included on the cdbaby page, i am posting it here. Please stop by and check it out [and better yet, dowload or order one] -and tell your friends. lol. Many thanks. Doug

 

[C]2011 DOUG DUFFEY

[C]2011 DOUG DUFFEY

TRADITIONAL- a year late and many dollars short

a year late and many dollars short; as opposed to a day late and a dollar short. a lot of water has gone under [and up to] the bridge. it seems i never get cds completed until a year or so after the recordings. i dont even think about them. i let them age like fine wine, or ferment like liquor, or turn to vinegar, i suppose. i am always more interested in DOING the projects/recordings than the final result. once it's done, i'm ready to get onto something else.

it seems unreal that it has been a year since we began the TRADITIONAL recordings. so much has happened, that it is to the point of surreal. so much loss; so much pain. my friend wayne recently said that he felt the cd was 'portentous' when we were doing it; possibly because there are so many sad songs about death and dying, lost love and life... et je ne sais pas. a lot of old traditional gospel, folk, blues & jazz songs, which, no, are not very happy. but then, life is not always happy.

michael emailed & said he now had time to get back to the cd- so- i asked him to listen and choose the best of the best takes. i trust his ears and judgement implicitly. i trust my judgement on the performances, but not the fine tuning of the sonics of it all; the mastering etc. i sent a friend a cd i'd done, he put it in and it blew up his speakers- so, no.... probably not wise; but i have LEARNED from time and experience to watch & obey those damned meters.

i will possibly have 100 physical cds made to start with, and have them and digital downloads available via cdbaby on all the usual internet music outlets [amazon, itune, rhapsody etc] - so stay tuned for release date. might have to do a cd release party concert @ the rayville arts center where the grand piano tracks were recorded. but you'd have to brown bag it

[c]2011 DOUG DUFFEY