Rabbits Full of Magic

The MUSIC ROOM will feature the Dust Bunnies this Friday the 23rd, so come on out for a fuzzy, dreamy evening of tunes before your big holiday weekend. Or, if you hate Christmas, that's fine, cos most of the stuff I play is slow and sad and depressing anyways. But noisy! So yay! I've been practicing my theremin alot recently so hopefully I'll really nail those difficult but fun parts.



Dust Bunnies is more or less my main solo project, an embracing of the folk tradition of taking standards and putting a personal touch on them. As it was birthed from a lovelorn emotional state, I perform what I think are some of the most beautiful love songs of rock history. So there will be some Velvet Underground, some Leonard Cohen, some Ricky Nelson, etc. But it won't all be sad songs - I'll be doing "Silent Night" for the Christmas touch as well.

I've made quite a few videos on youtube but given copyright law and the state of the internet, I'm sort of fearing the day when they are all taken down because they are unlicensed performances. My grandparents generation tended to have a piano in every house before the widespread use of records, so the only way someone could hear a song is if they got the music out and played it themselves. Kind of sad that that tradition is being destroyed in the search for profits and an accompanying rockist sense of authenticity. But whatever, enjoy it while you can!

You can download a few Dust Bunnies tracks below, including a few that I don't really play live because they are more straight-ahead than the usual DB 101 Strings-play JAMC set:

Sunday Morning
Dream Lover
Alabama Song

Head On
Virginia Plain
Pet Cancer
The Lottery Song

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