CANARY
I have somehow in the past eight months failed to mention one of the most important things in my life: my band, Canary.
I mentioned Canary once many moons ago, back in the fall of 2009 when it was something far different than it is now. Its initial inception was myself singing and playing guitar in a trio with my friends Isaac Haselkorn and Kyle Hovland. That idea lasted a mere six months. I had mono in the early months of 2010 and the band never got off the ground in that capacity because I was unable to do most things. Everything happens for a reason right? While I was upset at the time about not being able to play shows, it really wasn’t that bad because of the end result now.
And what is that end result? The end result is Canary - a full-fledged rock n roll band. It’s gone from my brainchild to its own entity.
I describe us as the Who meets Fleetwood Mac. Our current recordings don’t show the Fleetwood Mac side as much (or even the Who for that matter - well, you decide), but we recently added our friend Alex Hartley on keyboards and we can’t tell you how excited we are to have him on board.
As I mentioned above, I had my friend Kyle on bass in Canary’s initial lineup and guess what? He’s still on board playing bass.
I’m no longer on lead vocal duty. My friend Jackie Berkley has taken up that post and does it infinitely better than I can. Asking her to sing is definitely one of the best decisions I ever made. She and I have been friends since the beginning of our time at Berklee. She sang whenever I needed a singer - be it a cover band or a project. It took me about six months to ask her. I don’t know if she knew that. Well, if she didn’t, she does now.
We just released a new song - actually it’s an old song. It’s called White Boy Blues. I wrote it back in 2009, and I ended up recording it in 2010 with me on vocals (if you really want to hear it, I can send it to you). Then this past April we recorded it again with our friend Peter D’Angelo at Emerson College in Boston. He needed a band for his recording class, and we wanted to record a couple songs. It was a win-win situation.
Enough of my blabbering. Here’s White Boy Blues and you can download that as well as our first EP Let Down Your Guard. I hate to make you leave my tumblr page to do so, but you can’t always get what you want. (But if you try sometimes, you just might find you get what you need!)
Enjoy the music! And I’ll see you at the shows.
