 so yeah so I'm gonna play a bunch of my music spanning many years and this one here is an old song of mine very old actually probably man what's it 2020 so maybe going back 15 years now maybe longer actually but it's it's an old one but I still play it it's on the very first recording I did with my friend Dan Tressler actually when I was in college so right around the time I was at Fairfield University and it was on the first album we did together called Boxcar Train from the very first string fingers album which is still available on the internet and I actually have a stack of CDs still left over there from that album as well which memory serves me correct came out let me think here for a minute I think it was 2006 maybe 2006 we'll say that but a lot of the songs were recorded with like a year or two prior something really old and something pretty new my current band Hitch in the Giddy Up www.hitchinthegiddyup.com that's where you can find out about the band we put out a new album under quarantine this year and we actually started it before COVID in like January February and then finished it kind of piecemeal in the next few look at that John will it's got the text rolling right there we finished it over the next few months kind of piecemeal together anyway let's talk more playing this song called travel travel these roads to be close to be out see the sun come on the next year stay in the old love and let me find the road stay at the top of the rock and mountain let's say we're living in love in West Virginia You've got the most in Mexico You've got the most in Mexico You've got the most in Mexico You've got the most in Mexico Been a row with gymsies Since I had a son and a team And stories I could tell The things that I have seen It's said that if these bars could talk That's the most to say That's the most to say That's the most to say Everybody Daddy Daddy Daddy Daddy's daddy What's the break man Sitting around and saying the thing So many hours on the rail Just to be honest Who can't be used to tell my tales How far it's to somewhere else And he's thinking Cowboys out across the train At least that's the way I got it picture Be a traveler Staying around And time is not happy And it's say your children's not happy Just to be honest Miss my mom I miss the day They say I miss the day they laid the spray Do you want the years out in the country Wondering how I'd fall in love with you Never tell you So I think I'll keep on It's said that if these bars could talk That's the traveler there I should mention that the name of the new album Pitch in the Giddy Up is called Another Gig in the Bag Actually happened to have a copy of it Maybe not Just kidding I do not But anyway Another gig in the bag that's Traveler from the newest album We'll do some bouncing around We'll do some Stuff kind of in the middle Stuff that maybe Not super old but not super new either We'll go to the second string fingers album So My partner Dan and I At the time we did We did our first album altogether And It was just us playing basically everything We had I think a drummer on one track but otherwise it was just him and I playing all the instruments And as fun and as exciting as that was it was not something that we wanted to keep doing we wanted to have a band So for our second album we got a band together Started playing shows as a band I think it worked out a lot better Anyway Our second album Which is called Don't Forget And It's called Writing on the Wall I should have seen it coming there were signs they'd seen it I'd even gotten more learning one more I just kept on moving along and writing Now I see the writing on the wall Have I done too such a thing Don't it all work out now Daylight's fading Now I must read the writing on I tried my best to hide it so no one else could see But sometimes things reveal themselves a certain company His talk is cheap words will fail and now it's time to sing If you put the writing on to such a thing Don't it all work out now Daylight's fading Now I must read the writing on It's only when you're tired I'm gonna tell you to call my mom to such a thing Don't it all work out now Writing on the wall Well, pretty long ago I didn't have children I wasn't married, I have a wife I'm very happily married I'm in my basement right now because my kids are upstairs probably eating dinner If my son were down here he would be terrorizing every instrument including this guitar He is music obsessed which is putting it mildly but he is wonderful but very, very intense and very interested in music My wife Tracy is also a musician so he gets it from both sides My daughter is also learning piano my oldest and she's doing great with it So it's nice to see the kids so interested in music just like their mom and dad Anyway, I'm just here doing this for Fairfield View I don't even know if anybody is going to ever watch it but it's nice to be asked to do something especially when there aren't a lot of gigs John Whaley, I know you're watching, bud I'm glad you're watching but it's just nice to do something when there's not a lot of gigs I'm getting used to talking to screens I think we all are now so it kind of feels like I'm connected to something that really nobody here and you know, I can't really it's not the same Alright, what the hell am I going to play? Oh, I know what I'm going to play Oh, thanks Janet We appreciate this very much Well, I appreciate you asking me to do this so it's super cool that you asked I want to play a song actually from the Stringfingers Era so there's the Stringfingers Era which is kind of like the it wasn't the first band that I was in I was in bands and going back to high school but it was like the first series band we did a lot of touring and we played some festivals and we were out there trying to make it so that's from the Stringfingers Era and then damn kids, yeah and then there's sort of a in between era where I kind of Stringfingers thing stopped and then Hitching the Giddy Up happened after which is my current band and in between I made an album with my own music, just stuff that I had kicking around and I had all my friends doing the play, it was great fun so I'll do a couple from that album too which I definitely have copies of I can show you guys the artwork one is one from the Last Stringfingers album which was really just an EP it was five songs and the five of my probably favorite songs that we ever did including this one which has a little bit of a Celtic Irish kind of thing going on but it's a protest song and I wrote it a long time ago and thinking about those protest songs that they will somehow still feel relevant in any era and just thought this one would be a good one to play tonight so this is called Changing of the Guard oh yeah let me just do this real quick for those playing along at home that's a capo I type slips away as I meant there's no better time here soldier it said he's one step for death no different you are from me I know this one with fistfuls of guns and fought my power of greed I don't want to be late this time around cause we're never changing the changing of the guard power it said go to leave you with nothing instead you're not the brave man and stand up for what you believe choices are made so don't be a slave to the empire's own crooked fist raise up your head take back or cease for yourself to exist don't want to be late this time around cause we're never changing please we call great steely band song completely different changing of the guard excuse me just a second so here is the album for changing of the guard here this is the string fingers band don't knock the hoe down and that's a real picture that we used from my partner Dan's band his family band I should say his mom and dad were musicians and they used to have these great foreign parties at their house and like hootenannies musicians would come and people would just come and hang out and play and party and it was just a great thing and this picture is from the 70s you can actually see Dan's dad there with the hat and yeah this is from I think teen magazine or 17 magazine in the 1970s they came and did a photo shoot at the barn and it was just hanging up in the barn and we were rehearsing and hanging out there and we were like oh that's really cool we should put that on the album cover so we did changing of the guard don't knock the hoe down there you go alright so let's do one from from my solo album which is also over here actually hang on one second this is you can see that this was the solo album I did my friend Maya my really wonderfully beautifully talented awesome friend Maya did this really cool album cover it's called Rebirth and it was definitely a lot of the songs were written during a time I was definitely feeling like a rejuvenation so I had her do this cover and these different elements of rain a little bit seasonal with the leaves falling and the green growth here and it's the rose obviously in the middle which was my daughter's middle name and there's a song on here about her as well it's the last song another Waltz actually but this is available I have vinyl records of this available it's also available online you can stream it www.dancarlucci.net I haven't updated my website much since COVID hit but it's out there and you can contact me through there if you'd like so let's see what should we play off this this album here oh I know so 2020's been a taxing year for everybody and right at the end of last year a good friend of mine passed away by the name of Dave Hogan David Hogan Dave was a musician and a kind of a mainstay on the Connecticut music scene he was a terrific songwriter he was a terrific guitar player he was a very unique person to talk to he had really unique opinions but he was really a great guy and I just loved hanging out with him and talking to him I learned a lot from him towards the end of Dave's life the last few years one of his passions which I also share was he wanted to do radio disjockey and play his favorite albums and songs on the radio and he did that on WPKN 89.5 and he had me on the show I'd play in studio we'd talk about new albums that I was working on he was always very encouraging and was a really great guy and I have to run to another event Colleen thanks for checking it out I appreciate that he was really a great guy and I miss him a lot and anyway when I was looking at the back of this cover here that reminds me of Dave because he used to play it on his radio show so he was giving me free air time I mean not that a lot of people were really listening but I always thought it was really cool that Dave supported local music and that's the big thing about Dave that I should really mention Dave was a master musician writer but Dave was a huge ambassador for local music and it was important to hold each other up and be there and support each other and it's not just music obviously it's your friends restaurant or a visual artist or anybody who you know and has been affected by this pandemic and the situation that we're living in you gotta put those people up it's almost as if Dave knew 2020 was gonna suck and he bailed in 2020 past but I miss him a lot and this song reminds me of him and I wrote it when I was living in Blackrock in Bridgeport just before my now wife Tracy and I got married and there was a blizzard we were locked inside then too and out came this song it's called searching for the song It's looking for some corner of my mind I've been looking far too long it sees burn an arrow of limit It's just a pair of rich poor town. You're pulling it down. You can't stay stuck inside these city walls. It's my home. It's yours too. We just can't keep anything. Every story has an ending. This one too. Searching for something. Left and far. So cruel my mind. I've been looking far too long. It seems. But if they're all, can't rely on the government. They will only track it down. Just step outside. To the sky. Find yourself along the coastline. Rearrange, ride your road. Tell yourself how. Spotted windows, cobwebs. Can't you see? Can't you feel? This foundation keeps on sinking. No salvation with this dream. All along I just keep saying. Searching for. Left and far. Some corner of my mind. Looking far too long. It seems. Searching for the song. Searching for some water. Apologies in advance. If you can hear my. Children upstairs being loud. And childlike. That is what they do. Let's see here. Let's do. We've done some. Any from. The second. Oh, I know what I'll do. So. Hitching the giddy up has recorded three albums. They're all available online. I have them as well. You can email me. Dan Dan dot Carlucci. C. A. R. L. U. C. C. I at gmail.com. And I can get you those if you're interested. So we did three albums. The second one. We recorded. We recorded that one up at a studio called the power station. And. Waterford, Connecticut. And it's kind of near Groton. Like where the. The Navy. You know, ships are and stuff. Our submarines and stuff. And excuse me. And we've got to work with one of our friends who's actually a really credible engineer. He's a Grammy winning engineer. He's a phenomenal musician himself. And he actually was like, Hey, I get to do this once a year. I can get some extra studio time and, you know, I love this. Guys would come record with me and we went up there and it was a great thrill. And one of the things that we've done on all of our albums is we have. Recorded one of our, our good friends songs. His name is Rico cast. And we've recorded one of his songs on all of our three albums. He's been an album of all his music. He's a great writer and a great friend. And we kind of take the songs that he wrote and we kind of, you know, arrange them a little bit and kind of make them our own. If you will. And I'm going to do one of those for this second album. It was originally written kind of slow and. Very folky, folk influenced and, you know, Folk informed. And I heard, I heard it and I thought, well, this could kind of be a bluegrass tune as well. You know, we could pick up the tempo and we could kind of drive it a little bit more. And I think it worked. So we'll see what happens. This is called Ring of Flowers. Open up the bill. Down the cellar and stairs. This cluttered mess I must confess. I've had for 50 years. Over in the corner. I'm the good ear tires. I'll tell you all the story about that. Try to bring flowers. Ricky never knew his daddy. His mom was such a flirt. When his little brother was born. She died while giving birth. She took our jobs for him. Went on to drive a truck. Jack knifed and he lost his license. That was just so sudden. Ricky put mom's people out. But he learned Clay had a job. He's got a use of people who want to stay alive. And they were missing church on Sunday. Went around without their shoes. Stayed up too late on Saturdays. Cause they're radio people. Clay grew up in Turkey. Right, you just prove it. Want to try to do it with his weekly wage. Make twice that to prove it. More leather boots. Cut off the jeans. The cat said John Deere. Kept him back and spoke. He's sleeping. Won't my heart let him sleep? He went across with the law. But he learned Clay had a job. He's got a use of mirrors. If you want to stay alive. He took him to an anti-lock door. How to shift and stare. Clay would work the gas clutch. While Ricky worked the gears. Clay took quick to drive. And he wrapped himself in steel. Got so you couldn't pry. His fingers from the wheel. Started hanging out at a race track. Fixing up old cars. Ricky ran placement. And hung around in bars. Clay once told his brother. Rick, I was born to win. Mama died to give me life. I wasted it to sin. I dream at night. I didn't see my car. I didn't buy that checking flag. There's a man behind me. Whoever dares to drive. At just one race to win. He qualified for Indy. The car was thick. The track was thick. When cars were all starting to flag. Clay hit him in the back. When he was blowing stronger. He kept it at his back. He drove like he's lying in. He missed the yellow flag. Crashed it ain't all. They buried Clay with mom. Here's your past like hairs. And in the winter, sir. Ricky plays the rain. Ring of flowers. Yeah, when I heard that one, I was like, well, we're obviously recording that. So if you want to hear the full band version of it, check out Hitchinandgiddyup.com. That'll redirect you to places to purchase the second album, which is easily and appropriately titled to two. So you can check out two and ring of flowers with the whole band. Arrangement. All right. Let's do another new ish one. Oh, I know which one we'll do. A couple more new ones here. How are we doing on time? Let's take a gander at the clock here. Oh, okay. Six 11. So we'll do maybe two, three more. And then we'll, we'll call it a day here folks, but thanks for checking it out. Thanks to Fairfield you. For asking me to do a stag set. When I was talking to Lindsay the other day, it was funny because she was like, Oh, are you still in Colorado? No, I know I've actually never, I lived there for one summer in 2001, which actually predates me graduating from Fairfield. But my, my mother actually moved out there shortly after I got married in 2012. And my sister had been going to college in Fort Collins. She's out there. So somehow Fairfield you thinks I live in Colorado. So we straightened all that out. But anyway, enough about that. So this one's new, new kind of ish. I, I wrote it a while ago, probably about three or four years ago. And as I've been recorded, we've started playing it and hitting the giddy up when we were doing some summer gigs outside. We had some gigs outside. We started playing it a little bit. It might be one that we'll put on the new album that we're talking about making. But right now it's just, just brand new. Doesn't even have a really a formal name yet. Even though it was written a long time ago. The thing about songwriting is that, you know, sometimes you get a burst and everything comes all at once. You got your lyrics and you got your music and away you go. And then other times it's you have an idea for a melody and you write that down or you record that melody on your phone and come back to it where you have an idea for a song title or a lyric for a title or whatever. And you, and you jot it down, you come back to it. So this is one of them. This is a tentatively cut title, The Devil. Devil Blues actually. Devil. Devil. Devil. Devil. Devil. Devil. Devil. Devil. Devil. Devil. Devil. Devil. Devil. Devil. Devil. Devil. Devil. Devil. Devil. Devil. Devil. Devil. Devil. Devil. Devil. Devil. Devil. Devil. Devil. Devil. takes you in it's your sin it's your sin nos you in it's your sin年前 it's your sin baby it's your sin loose for now we'll see how it Liu is how it turns It takes your hand, dust is in the air. Blues for now, we'll see how it goes, how it turns out. So stay tuned. All right, let's do one more and we'll call it a day. I'm gonna go back to, go back to the beat, well, not to the beginning, but I'm gonna go back to the very first string fingers album. So I was talking before about certain songs coming one full blast and you just sit down the music comes out, lyrics come out, and it's done. And this is one of those songs. And I remember I was living, this was right after college, Fairfield University, again, shout outs for Fairfield University. This was right after college, it was the first place I was living after I graduated. I was in Stanford, Connecticut, which is also my hometown. But I moved back to Stanford and I was living with three of my roommates, all Fairfield U grads and we had a house and we had this ridiculous sleeper couch that weighed so much that I remember we had to move it in and it was like backbreaking labor. It was one of those old recliners and stuff in the couch. But anyway, I wrote this song on that couch. It was a rainy day. I wrote it on a yellow note pad and I don't really know where it came from. Sometimes songs just come out of nowhere, but it still remains among people that actually know my music, which let's be fair, is not a lot, but from the people who do know me and stuff, I get asked to play this one a lot. And it also holds a special place in my heart because some of my dear friends took one of the lyrics from the song and they had it painted on their walls in their house. It's like one of the lyrics when you walk in so it's on the archway to their house just inside the back door. And I saw one day I was like, hey, I know what that is. So anyway, that's enough talking. Thanks to Lindsay and Fairfield for doing these and for giving back to the university. Oh, thanks, Jessica. I appreciate opportunity to just play. Like I said, even though nobody's physically here with me, it's nice to know every time I see a little message there that people are checking it out and enjoying it. And it's all hands on deck right now. When you have a pandemic going on and we're living in a crazy time and a really unique time in history, you do what you do, you do what you gotta do. Yes, Coast Acts. And so thanks, Fairfield. This is called Begging You Please. All right, we'll see you next time. I'm a sinner for this I'm certain but here I'm also a sinner to take some tatters and hang learn to read between the lines keep moving forward I beg you please journey is broad, it's a field now I've seen gaze I'll never push on through take some tatters and hang answers to all life's questions still I don't take some with the matters and hang keep moving so it seems now we've reached our days on faith some days I should I'm begging you please I'm begging you please to stay safe to stay healthy to stay informed to be good to each other and to keep on rockin' in the free world. Happy birthday, Neil Young. It's his 70th birthday. Peace out, guys. Thank you so much for having me, Lindsay and Fairfield you. We appreciate it. We will see you guys soon.