![]() ![]() ![]() Towards the end of ’70, we signed a contract with Canada Music Group, went to England and met Chas Chandler - Jimi Hendrix’s producer - and recorded an album with him.įor various contractual reasons, the Eggs Over Easy album was only recently released as a retrospective as we were credited for starting a movement called pub rock. When I left Harvard, I went out to California to meet Alan Chance, a songwriting partner of mine, in ‘68, came back to New York in ‘69 and started my band with Jack O’Hara and Brian Hopkins. Well, added a tune would be more appropriate. Yeah, it was thrilling times.Īustin, What were you studying at Harvard?ĭe Lone: English. Blues guys from Mississippi didn’t sound anything at all like the blues grass players from Virginia. For better or for worse, a lot of music has gotten very homogenized.īack then people were playing a lot of regionally specific music. I’d go up to New York and see The Loving Spoonful in a little club.Īnn Arbor had all sorts of great music come through, like Bill Monroe and Odetta, the kind of music that is hard to grab these days. ![]() Not just Dylan, but all the music I saw just inspired me so much. Love the quote that “pretty much ruined me for normal work.” My impression was that everybody loved it. He had a rock ’n’ roll record out already. It wasn’t a surprise that he had gone electric. It sounds like you try to debunk the myth that Bob Dylan was booed at the New- port Music Festival when he “went electric”? Of course, I miss my musician friends in D.C. is really great too and perhaps more of a commercial scene. There is a wonderful musical community here in Austin, but Washington, D.C. Kirchen: I lived there in Maryland from ‘86 on. Bill, you lived near here in Maryland and Texas is home now? ![]() We learned so much from the album’s song notes. I don’t play other local shows, I just concentrate on that. Now I play there three or four times a year and once a year at First Night Alexandria. I played there with Commander Cody in the 70s. Of course, The Birchmere is my home in D.C. I am very excited to bring both my Texas band and my California compadre to D.C. They’ve been my band now in Texas and on most of my touring for three years now. side of the Atlantic, and that is Rick Richards and David Carroll. Kirchen: The Transatlantic side, the U.S. We’ve put a lot of time in together so it’s going to be nothing but fun. We’ve been friends since the 70s, band mates with the Moonlighters back in the 70s and have toured together, so we have a lot of connection and know what the other guy will do. But we have played together so much in the past. So two days will be our only real rehearsal. The only way to get our schedules together is by flying to Utah a day early. My rhythm section was on half the record, so we’ve done some rehearsing here. Kirchen: We recorded a lot of it together so that sort took care of itself. How do you prepare for the upcoming tour while in two different states? We’ve always collaborated, but never formally like this and that feels good. Kirchen: Austin’s a good old buddy of mine. The compiling of songs includes some that were written many years ago. I just did a radio show where the DJ wouldn’t say. The men recently took time to talk about their tour.Īlexandria Times: Thank you for gifting us with this great album, “Transatlanticana,” to listen to. Crafted by Kirchen and de Lone, at least two of the songs have been in the hopper for 20 years and represent the core elements of Americana music - R&B, country, rock and even gospel. Relective of their reputations and longtime ties with the UK music scene, these sessions were helped by all-star friends on both sides of the pond. The duo’s tightly crafted new album “Transatlanticana” is a gem well worth a listen in advance of their concert next month at The Birchmere. Kirchen has written for, played and toured with, among others, Nick Lowe and Emmy Lou Harris, while de Lone has worked with Elvis Costello. The superlatives and praise have piled up ever since, with Johnny Cash’s praise for Kirchen, “I think he’s great,” at the very top. The Eggs are credited with being the predecessor of British pub rock, the first link in the chain to punk, new wave and beyond. Kirchen - the “Titan of the Telecaster” - co-founded the original Americana band, Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen, as his trademark guitar licks drove their hit “Hot Rod Lincoln” into the Top 10 in 1972.ĭe Lone - “Godfather of Pub Rock” - dropped out of Harvard to start his band Eggs Over Easy, moving to London and recording with Jimi Hendrix’s producer in 1970. Kirchen and de Lone are widely credited as pioneers of two major musical movements. The two men, who have been friends and collaborators for 40 years, are known as musical treasures and fantastic players for what they describe as “roots-conscious” times. To say they have gravitas is like saying Bill Kirchen plays the guitar, and Austin de Lone plays the piano. ![]()
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