Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Monday, September 19, 2011

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

Thursday, August 25, 2011

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

Wednesday, July 06, 2011

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

Thursday, September 09, 2010

JUNGFRAU ZEITUNG article and video






[c]2010 DOUG DUFFEY

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

TRADITIONAL - new solo cd 2010- 3rd Notes

kind of in a creative postpartum depression after giving birth to the new cd... or rather coming down- after the creative high [and the high of hyperventilating from singing a gazillion times daily] and going from creative mode back to daily life; suddenly stopping after days of intense creative work

BUT have begun 'flying in' some guitar parts to the mix on "Silver Dagger"; "Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child" and waiting for the parts for "Delia" [which is running about 7:45 minutes long] adding some Bill Frissell/Pops Staples type stuff to it.


[c]2010 DOUG DUFFEY

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

TRADITIONAL - new solo cd 2010- 2ND notes

MORE FUN WITH DOUG AND MICHAEL:

We finished all recordings tonight- working today from 1Pm- 9Pm non stop. This cd project has turned out to be such a collaboration, that Michael and i have just about split the duties! it's been a lot of fun... AND a lot of hard work!

We still have to 'fly in' some 'slide' and 'pops staples' type guitar tracks from George Bryan; which he played/recorded in Omaha and emailed to me today- and then Michael will begin mixing and fixing and mastering, once back in Virginia.

I knew that Michael was an excellent keyboard player and singer BUT did not know he was a former percussionist! [the man never ceases to amaze me] In addition to playing the piano track on STACKOLEE he played all the percussion [cardboard boxes, congas, tambourine]- we decided not to put any bass on it. We both did piano tracks for the song, but i decided to use his track, as it has a very James Booker feel. It sounds very old school New Orleans. i did the lead vocal and backing vocals.
we also changed boxes & used my flip flop as a beater [instead of the spatula] which made for a fatter sounding 'bass drum' - some of this stuff definitely has a 'parade feel to it

Michael added some kick ass B3 pedal bass lines- organ- and all the percussion- to WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN- on which i played piano, did lead vocal and several backing vocal tracks/as did Michael- sounds like the Blackwood Brothers [or as I dubbed it "the Backwoods Brothers"]- our Southern Baptist roots are showing

DELIA- which i had done piano tracks/vocals on in Rayville as a potential solo track took on a whole new trip- i did an alternate take with a click track to guide the eventual guitar-then take it out- but Michael added organ and we finally decided to pull out most of the piano- and slowly ease it back in- we took the 'guide track' drums out- and M added a lot of Celtic sounding percussion- i did a huge but distant sounding choir- and we will eventually add george's guitar parts- this will definitely be a production number- well, it already IS. BUT there are several: SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE A MOTHERLESS CHILD; AMAZING GRACE- and the 2 above mentioned songs

but also there are quite a few totally solo songs: st. james infirmary; st. louis blues; careless love; black is the color of my true love's hair; scarborough fair; she moved through the fair; [and] silver dagger [although we will be adding guitar to it] - [and] hard times come again no more [Michael on piano me on vocal] - We got a LOT done in 4 long sessions. traditional blues,
folk, and gospel songs done in possibly unconventional ways- but in ways that felt totally "right" to us. we shared the duties in the box/percussion and hammond bass pedal departments

it has been an absolute joy AGAIN, as it always is, to work with Michael- his talent and creativity are inspirational- his insight and input is always "spot on"- he's not afraid to try my crazy approaches to recording- and he always hears the material w/a different ear- which often makes for interesting turns of events- taking it to a totally different place than from where it was originally planned. PLUS, he's a total work horse like i am... work work work... go go go... we're like camels that cross deserts without water... more updates to come.

all fotos [c]2010 doug duffey
[c]2010 DOUG DUFFEY