Carl Durant has recently added the following shows.
.February 6, 2013 – San Diego, CA – Lestat’s Coffee House
Address: 3343 Adams Ave. – Map
Time : 9:00 PM
All Ages
Ivan Cheong
Other Info:
So. Carl is going out of town. Leaving San Diego.
To go work, back in Belgium.
This might be the last show in Lestat’s for a long time.
Line-up of acoustic solo acts:
Ivan Cheong
Carl Durant
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Jesse Thomas! I’m surprised myself it took so long to post a video of this upcoming artist. I’ve followed her posts ever since she left her hometown in Kentucky in 2007 to become an actress in LA. From blogging on Myspace to hilarious video posts on YouTube, her talent and drive was there from the beginning. But it wasn’t until she discovered the “rasp” in her voice when she went into the studio with successful producer and talent coach Jim Roach (yes, lame rhyming here) from Red Parade Music that it became clear how truly unique of a talent she was. Great songs, great storytelling and stage presence when she’s performing live. This video gives a very good impression of what she stands for as an artist blending studio quality sounds with the live “vibe” that she brings. Oh yeah, she was Starbucks pick of the week in 2011, played at SXSW, last year her song “Fire” was the iTunes indie download of the week generating over 150,000 downloads and she charted on Bilboard (in three categories) with her album debut. And she opened my CD release show at Lestat’s in 2011. But that was clearly an anomaly.
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This was as much fun as it looks like ! This is a public service announcement for NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) to promote playing and learning music.
Since I know you like behind-the-scene pictures, here’s one so you can see how it was shot (Picture by Happy Ron Hill):
Not a song to play everyday. That’s a good thing. Unfortunately enough there’s a reason I’m posting this now: “Hot Rod” Harris past away last weekend. I got to know him as the engaging host at Hot Java Cafe in Carmel Mountain Ranch, where I played my first original written in the USA. And played at my very first real open mic. Ever. He was a gifted musician, a great person and will be missed.
I’m a broken bottle thrown out in the swamp.
Will someone come along today
to fill me up
Or make me whole again ?
A dark dense fog rolls in across the lake
Of salvage speaks a muffled voice, and fate
Frost numbs me down, the noises drift away, and I stray
I’m sinking, I’m sinking away
A New Light is floating your way
I wish I could share those beliefs
but I’ll just feel your hands now and grief
The bedroom lamp is hanging at half mast
A flag outside all disentwined
There’s part of me
spread out in smithereens
Folded hands rise up out of the fog
I’m sinking, I’m sinking away
A New Light is floating your way
I wish I could share those beliefs
but I’ll just feel your hands now and grief
Still sense the void as you are laying here
The breathing stopped, the spirit is still near
But I’ve been crushed and I can’t stop the pain … while you ooze away…
I’m sinking, I’m sinking away
A New Light is floating your way
I wish I could share those beliefs
But I’ll just hold your hands now,
and feel how they’re fragile,
once more comb your hair now,
… and grief
Did I escape? Am I awake?
Did I escape? Am I awake?
© 2012 Carl Durant
