It’s a lovely day here in the Old South and I wanted to take a minute to share some good news.

Sweet Jane

Since the recent release of the newly-remastered Plain Jane CD, The Hawk is My Brother has received nearly as many orders for it as we have for my latest project, Blue Turns Black.

Plain Jane was produced with Pat Flynn of New Grass Revival and it was the first full-length project I released. The remastering makes the CD sound even better and having the project available for download through all the major online distributors has brought the project a whole new audience.

Check out the convenient player below to listen to songs from Blue Turns Black and Plain Jane.  JOIN THE MAILING LIST AND DOWNLOAD FOUR GREAT SONGS OFF THE NEWLY REMASTERED PLAIN JANE CD FOR NOTHIN’!

Enjoy and leave a comment!

Stay Awake!

Joe Nolan

"You lookin' at me?"

Although The Band is known for their American roots music, only drummer Levon Helm was born in the ‘States. Robbie Robertson, Richard Manuel, Rick Danko and Garth Hudson all hail from Canada.

After meeting up as “The Hawks” – the backing band for Ronnie Hawkins – the band came to prominence supporting Bob Dylan on his legendary, first, electrified rock tour.

Having secured a recording contract of their own, The Band released their classic debut – Music from Big Pink – in 1968. One year later the group released their eponymous follow-up-and-acknowledged-masterpiece The Band.

This 1997 VH1 episode of their “Classic Albums” series features interviews with band members and studio engineers as well as great footage at the soundboard, exploring the record’s mixes in-depth.

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Now that the blog is finally back I wanted to give away a little something to you, my faithful, sleepless readers:

I’ve added the songs from my newly-remixed debut album to the player at the bottom of this post. It’s now available for digital download at all major music sites like Amazon, iTunes etc.  I’ve also made the title songs of the 2 discs – Blue Turns Black and Plain Jane – available for free download! Check out the player and click on the glowing download button when you play to the title tunes.

Enjoy and leave comment!

Stay Awake!

Joe Nolan <3