Blues, folk and country influenced rock 'n roll, like the best of the '60s music.

13 MP3 Songs in this album (62:03) !
Related styles: ROCK: 60's Rock, BLUES: New York Blues

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I played Greenwich Village in the â60s, too, but Dylan got all the attention because he had the better voice.

My debut album, âStuck in the â60s, Vol. II,â is a reflection of how much the early days of rock ân roll, the ascendance of roots (nee folk) music, the adventurous onset of the progressive jazz movement all influenced me and why I am indebted to that seminal period in American music.

I came of age the â60s. It was the 1960s that molded, in many ways, who I am. I was co-editor of the newspaper at NYU in Washington Square, when Dylan was playing the coffee houses, progressive jazz was thriving and the beat poets were having a liberating impact on American Lit. It was a wondrous time and place.

As a journalism graduate of NYU and the holder of a masterâs in English Lit from Hofstra University, I compose my music around poetic lines wedded, at times, to basic blues shuffles or melodic acoustic guitar-based pieces. Themes run from soul mates seeking to find the other half of their angels (I wandered around between then and now, asking total strangers are they you somehowâ¦) to broken love (Where are you now, the cooling mist whose wisps still bathe my soulâ¦); the search for a muse (Reattach me to that ground where the pulse of earth residesâ¦) or the need to believe in possibilities (We shared love that summer, when you made me believe it could snowâ¦)

Why compose and record my first album in my mid-60s?

Having written for major magazines and newspapers, founded a travel magazine website, authored or ghosted a half-dozen novels and photographed for international fashion magazines â music seemed like a logical next challenge. Besides, a red-haired beauty said to me, âa woman canât resist a man with a guitar in his hands.â I figured what the hell. My generation was gobbling up vintage guitars on eBay. Why not try to play one before I resell it for three times the price?

Stuck in the â60s, Vol. II is from Hollow Body Studios of Long Island, NY, and is released on Hollow Body Records. Produced by Doug Kwartler, whose lead guitar is heard throughout, it also features work by some of Long Islandâs finest musicians. A repository of multi-cultural talent, the disc was designed by Michael Leuci, who is heard on drums and keyboard on a number of tracks.