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GIG REMINDER:

Lucinda Lane, Santa Barbara's premiere "IndieBossaJazzTwang" band, kicks off its "Summer is Over" tour at SOhO this Monday, June 22.

We'd be much obliged to see any and all in the house.

It's your Summer Solstice hangover cure!

(SB train station photo: MacDuff Everton)

https://www.independent.com/events/lucinda-lane-returns-to-soho-mond ay-june-22/

http://www.householdink.com/lucinda_lane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ0_0DW2NLs

SOhO Restaurant & Music Venue Brian Mann Nicole Lvoff Craig Thatcher Macduff Everton The Piano Kitchen Phil Rodriguez John A Schnackenberg

Lucinda Lane, "Summer is Over" (2024) Lucinda Lane, "Summer is Over" (Joe Woodard)title track from debu...

Please join us, Lucinda Lane, at SOhO on Monday, June 22. Should be a hoot...

With fine musicians/humans joining the party: Brian Mann, James Connolly (aka Jim), Craig Thatcher, John A Schnackenberg, and Phil Rodriguez...

An "IndieBossaJazzTwang" time will be had.

An Evening with Lucinda Lane Doors: 6:30pm Show: 7:30pm All ages welcome! Dinners in the stage room. Lucinda Lane, Santa Barbara’s premiere self-described “IndieBossaJazzTwang” band, returns

Riff in Peace, good man Dick Dunlap (1939-2026).

Listen up: Dick's "Dance Peace," from Headless Household, "ITEMS" (1995)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtSyfJgRba0

Dance Peace "Dance Peace" (Dick Dunlap), Headless Household, from "ITEMS" (Hous...

Still thinking about the late, great and much-loved Dick Dunlap... he's not here, materially, but he remains in memory and in stored musicality.

here are two links to Dunlap-ian sounds and songs...

songs by Headless Household which he either wrote or was featured on (caveat: he was featured on many many tracks over the nine-album run):

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4XJE05F98ez0o1SsLQcQep?si=13351f87119540a1

Dick's own albums (more archival releases in the works):

https://open.spotify.com/artist/6Z18zdUoSpgEXn9ERhdVsK?si=FPbomexmR56MbIZtl1-Cvw

Headless Household - tunes by Dick Dunlap Playlist · Joe Woodard · 8 items · 2 saves

Sam Grisman Project at the Lobero Theatre.
Good times.

Our beloved, profound and endearingly quirky Dick Dunlap has passed on to the next plane, the next gig. He packed a lot into his 84 years, as a learned but ever free-spirited keyboardist, composer, sound artist, fine artist of many twists, fun-loving piano teacher, soulmate of Arlene Dunlap.. and more.

Apart from his rich life under his own name and own artistic directives, he was kind enough to be part of our hopelessly eclectic project Headless Household, performing and recording as a vital part of the organism for 37 years and nine albums.

There will never be another Dick Dunlap. We miss him dearly but are grateful to have had him in our world so long. Now he's ever in our ears, memory and collective heart.

Thanks for the memories, Dick. Riff in peace.

(As a kind of elegy for a friend and friendly master - here is the final track from The Headless Bousehold album "mockhausen," "Wintry (Invention)." Dick plays the final section, solo, bowing out with the lyrical grace he could easily summon.)

https://open.spotify.com/track/1JTN2AGpNtflZkMgYAK7pB?si=5f3ec26ddb274bf1

Also, i have created a playlist with Headless Household tunes by and featuring Dick (although he's essentially "featured" on the entire discography!)

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4XJE05F98ez0o1SsLQcQep?si=0301798500a940c9

Photo by Paul Wellman - part of a great little series of headshots he did of dick. I will pull that together soon.
Tom Lackner Chris Symer Glen Casebeer Dunlap Headless Household Household Ink Records

We always felt that drummer-producer-keeper of the Tompound-general-creative-wiz Tom Lackner was something of a visionary. the double specs may be part of his secret.

Here he is at the Tompound, working on the final mixes of the new album by Dudley. the band.--"Beautiful Confusion."
Masters are outta the oven now, with release very soon.

Singles "Spellbound" and Sad Sad Man" making the usual market rounds, on bandcamp, spotify, Apple, YouTube, etc.

thanks for your interest and ears and hearts!

www.householdink.com/dudley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F7p4f374jo

We always felt that drummer-producer-keeper of the Tompound-general-creative-wiz Tom Lackner was something of a visionary. the double specs may be part of his secret.

Here he is at the Tompound, working on the final mixes of the new album by Dudley. the band.--"Beautiful Confusion."
Masters are outta the oven now, with release very soon.

Singles "Spellbound" and Sad Sad Man" making the usual market rounds, on bandcamp, spotify, Apple, YouTube, etc.

thanks for your interest and ears and hearts!

www.householdink.com/dudley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F7p4f374jo

Dudley, "Spellbound" Dudley“Spellbound”from Beautiful Confusion (Household Ink Rec...

Headless Household archive dip on Tuesday release day... "I Never Want You," from the album "Basemento" (2010, Household Ink Records.

the extended Household:

Glen Phillips and Julie Christensen, vocals
Tom Ball, harmonicas (including that honkin' basso profundo model)
Bill Flores, pedal steel guitar, bari sax
David Piltch, bass
Tom Lackner, drums
Joe Woodard, guitars
Dick Dunlap, keys

www.householdink.com/headlesshousehold

https://open.spotify.com/track/1vNRBfW8A8v4hkfOS9o7Xs?si=a6717d68ddc24b91

Glen Phillips Peggy Grossman Dick Dunlap David Piltch Bill Flores Tom Lackner

I Never Wanted You Headless Household · Basemento · Song · 2010

Dudley's Spotify page is all together now, to quote somebody... (yes, we have the same love-hate relationship with the S-word as you).
It now features the new tune "Spellbound"-- first single from forthcoming album "Beautiful Confusion." Also, the classic album "Doin' Jack," the last of three albums during the band's '90s life, is back after a brief vacation. Listen up, if you have time and the inclination.

Coming soon: "Beautiful Confusion," the long-awaited return of the "cosmic folk rock" band Dudley

We appreciate your ears!

More words...

Dudley Poised for Rebirth with New Album, Beautiful Confusion: First Single, “Spellbound,” Out on the Vernal Equinox
With spring, you get Dudley, making its long-awaited return to musical action with the new, 16-track album Beautiful Confusion. Making its soft release presence known on the Vernal Equinox, March 20th this year, the album joins its older siblings Doin' Jack, Are Our Oars Out? and Public Nudism in the family discography. Out now, the single “Spellbound,” joining the previously-released single “Sad Sad Man” in the “out there” category. The full album drops soon, in digital and CD form.
At the heart of the matter is singer-songwriter Ellen Turner, who teamed up with her pals Tom Lackner (drums), Joe Woodard (guitars) and Chris Symer (bass), when all were in Santa Barbara. Now, Symer is in the northwest and Turner the South, but mileage can't keep them apart.
With the teaser release of its first official single “Spellbound,” Dudley is off to a rocky start. As in leaning towards the rock side of its inter-blended folk-rock-whatever personality. As Turner sings, summing it all up, “pop, light up my mind!”
(“Sad Sad Man” was released late in 2023. Some noticed relevance to Trump in its poetic lyrics.)
On the subject of prior album Doin' Jack, Richard Singer, writing in Option, opined that the sound is “…somewhat playful, folk-tinged, soft-side-of-alternative rock… a welcome break from the self-seriousness exhibited by other female singer/songwriters… intriguing, nightmarish side that peeks out from the lyrics once in awhile…”

Links & infos:

www.householdink.com/dudley

Spotify, Bandcamp, YouTube, Soundcloud

Singles:
“Spellbound,”
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F7p4f374jo
Bandcamp
https://dudleysb.bandcamp.com/track/spellbound
“Sad Sad Man,”
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unio45bNXok

Bandcamp

https://dudleysb.bandcamp.com/edit_album?id=2774718205

The Press Notes

Re: past Dudley albums…

“The colorful, quirky, aqueous cover image on Doin' Jack seems to imply that something just as beguiling lies within the CD’s jewel case. Does it deliver? You betcha... Ellen Turner's floating vocal drawl suggests she is singing an intimate disclosure to the listener. Her voice, paired with the emotional exposure of the lyrics (“I have eyes like yours that look right into me, But mine are not so kind, what do you see in me?” from “Eyes”), conjure a Sunday morning mood: either evoking the euphoria of waking up next to the one you love, or waking up to the emotional wreckage of a lover's revelations from the previous night...” - Deirdre Devers, Splendid e-zine

“Ellen Turner, the primary force behind Dudley, has put together a collection of pop with a relaxing folk undercurrent. Turner's velvety, enveloping voice is reminiscent of Frente!'s Angie Hart in its sweeping sighs. In fact, many moments here recall Frente!, but without their determined quirkiness...every song on the album is quite solid, providing plenty of fine moments. Centering on the well-worn trials of finding/keeping/losing love, the often melancholy but never mawkish tunes highlight Turner's enchanting vocals...” -- rd, Splendid e-zine

Frank Warren of the San Luis Obispo Telegraph-Tribune said of the new album: “the record has moments of country warmth, off-time folk, and some of the most fragile musical moments you will ever hear on tape…this is a group of artists who paint and sculpt brilliant creations for the senses, and when you least expect it, get into your soul.”

Mark Fahey, writing in the Santa Barbara Independent, said: “even as instrumentals, these songs are beautiful, and coupled with Ellen’s voice, it is indeed a rare beauty in this time of loud is more.” In the Santa Barbara News-Press, Steve Libowitz called the album “a treasure trove of poetry and haunting images.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F7p4f374jo

https://open.spotify.com/artist/6JIcdMsbHaZzvoM7fmCRlV?si=xdmooeQISNqNW1s4OKWYbQ

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