In December, I finished the first draft of my Leon Russell biography, which will hopefully be published in Spring 2023 by Hachette Books. As January is a slow time for my day job, I have taken the creative momentum from the book project and channeled it into music. Buffalo Tom is slowly but surely working …
One of my favorite musicians, from my favorite band, has passed away. Here is something I wrote in 2012 about Charlie’s playing. Recording the White Man’s Blues in the Deep South. Keith and Mick stood at the same microphone at Muscle Shoals, lights dimmed, splitting a fifth of bourbon, and simultaneously sang the melodies and …
Jasmine cocktail. Set List: Dry Land You’ll Never Catch Him Crueler Staples Wendell Gee (R.E.M.) Torch Singer The Bus Fortune Teller Taillights Fade Like Shadows Larry I’m Allowed Comfort You (Van Morrison) Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain (Willie Nelson, by Fred Rose) Memory Motel (Rolling Stones) Velvet Roof Sweet Virginia (Rolling Stones) Frozen Lake …
This one got off to a technically dodgy start so the cocktail demo started at my personal page instead of the Buff Tom page. But here is the music part. Mother’s Day edition, with many requests by Laura St. Clair. Margarita cocktail. Set list (to the best of my memory; things might have changed): Slippin’ …
There was a false start or two due to tech/connection issues. First video is the music portion. Second video is the cocktail patter. Thanks for watching Week Seven. Here is the setlist as far as I remember it; Sunflower Suit Up Here Birdbrain Rocket Man (Elton John) Mountains of Your Head You’ll Never Catch Him …
Donations this week include Food For Free Quarantine Negroni Set list: Sodajerk It’s You In the Ice Powderfinger (Neil Young) Flushing Stars The Big Light Best Kept Secret Man Out of Time (Elvis Costello) Anything That Way Suppose Atlantic I Found Out Compromised (new song) Frozen Lake Your Stripes Highway Patrolman (Bruce Springsteen) Mineral Red …
Quarantine Martini Setlist: The Bus; Fortune Teller; Taillights Fade; Little Mascara(Replacements); White Paint Morning; The Swimmer; Larry; Summer; Thunder Road (Bruce Springsteen); Tangerine (with Laura and Lucy); Age of Consent (New Order, with Lucy); Gold Day (Sparklehorse, with Lucy); Sparklers; I’m Allowed; Lately I’ve Let Things Slide (Nick Lowe); Bartender Blues (James Taylor; George Jones); …
Quarantine Paloma Setlist: Porchlight; Anything That Way; For All to See; Summers End (John Prine); Summer; Thrown; When You Discover; September Shirt; Paul (Big Thief, with Lucy); Love Hurts (Gram Parsons/Every Bros/Nazareth, with Lucy); The Heart of Saturday Night (Tom Waits); Scottish Windows; She Thinks I Still Care (George Jones); Dry Land; All Be Gone; …
Quarantine Negroni Setlist: Birdbrain/When You Discover/The Plank/Treehouse/Hardly Getting Over It (Hüsker Dü)/For All to See/Sparklers/Long Island/Hackensack (Fountains of Wayne)/Sundress/Walt Whitman Mall (Banyan Tree)/Reason Why/Heaven (The Psychedelic Furs)/Stymied/Fireworks on TV/I Never Go Around Mirrors (Merle Haggard/Lefty Frizell)/Scottish Windows/Lean On Me (Bill Whiters)/Whisper to Yourself/Let It Loose (Rolling Stones)/Register Side/Wiser/Crueler/Shoulder/Crutch
Quarantine Manhattan Setlist: Summer/Mineral/Velvet Roof/ Overtime/Your Stripes/Larry/Tangerine/Leave Me Alone (New Order)/The Only Living Boy in New York (Simon & Garfunkel)/Let It Be Me (Everly Brothers)/All Be Gone/You’ll Never Catch Him/Dry Land/Postcard/Porchlight/Anything That Way/Torch Singer/Would Not Be Denied/Staples/Bottom of the Rain/Comfort You (Van Morrison)/Taillights Fade/In the Ice/Frozen Lake If you want to contribute, Paypal janovitz.bill@gmail.com or …