BEACHLAND TAVERN w/ JENNY OWEN YOUNGS

PLUS COLIN GAWEL - Sunday, July 13 @ 8:00 pm.

Jenny Owen Youngs is an echo of Erin Mckeown hopping into Jeff Buckley's Pontiac, cruising backwoods Alabama red dirt roads and singing along to The Sundays and Nick Drake. Her songs straddle the heart-wrenching and the tongue-in-cheek and say giddyup.

Colin Gawel is with the Columbus band, Watershed and owner of Colin's Coffee. Rock & Roll and java? Hell, I love the guy already. 

A $10 bill gets you into this triple bill. Best deal ever.

CRAZY WIND @ LEVON HELM STUDIOS 

The new album will be recorded the last week of July at Levon Helm Studios (in Woodstock, NY). Crazy Wind features at least ten new songs, plus the fully-arranged Both Ends of A Gun.

The fellas and I will be joined by Bob McCarthy and his mandolin. And the plan is to track all of our parts there (acoustics, bass, mandolin and vocals). I'd like to do it live, but we'll see what happens. I do know this; there'll be at least one track with drums. I mean, I have to play Levon's drums on at least one of these.

From Woodstock, we'll take the tracks with us to New Hampshire. Randy Roos has a great studio up there called Squam Sound, where we'll be overdubbing dobro, pedal steel, banjo, and maybe even some keys and additional percussion.

Then we mix and master it there, finishing the entire thing by Saturday, July 26th. The following night, we'll debut Crazy Wind on The Folk Show with Kate McNally (NHPR).

Exciting times, all. And it all starts at the home of a legend, in a town with some amazing history.

HOLLOW BONES IN CLEVELAND MAGAZINE

"After more than a decade and a half of playing music, 32-year-old Chris Castle is still a well-kept secret. Maybe it's because the Norwalk, Ohio-based singer/songwriter put down his guitar for six years before re-emerging last summer to record this 11-song collection, which feels like a confession from the heart of the American Midwest.

His soulful voice and engaging lyrics rest easily over stripped-down skeletons of acoustic guitar that shuffle along dirt roads and through tired towns. These are songs shaded with longing and loss and redemption.

Castle says he aimed to create "an album of songs rather than production and arrangement". What he ends up with is an authentic connection to the world-weary soul of American Roots Music."

Our Pick: Both Ends of A Gun

Cleveland Magazine (May 2008)