Caleb will be back in MD for the great Farm Fest on October 8th. It’s a family friendly, all-day event, organized by 1000 Friends of MD in order to help Maryland Farmers keep farming. Good cause, great food, and even better music. This year’s lineup features: Hoots and Hellmouth, Arty Hill, Smooth Kentucky, and Caleb Stine.
Slowcoustic just posted Caleb Stine singing the traditional tune ‘Red Rocking Chair’. Mournful and reflective, the recording features the banjo playing of Washington D.C. based John Bolten.
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Slowcoustic: Caleb Stine plays ‘Red Rocking Chair’
“Woody Guthrie Dreams” takes place in the final moments of the iconic American folk singer’s life. Guthrie, a hard-bitten Dust Bowl Balladeer, sign painter, social activist, WWII veteran, union man and author of “This Land is Your Land” spent the final decade of his life bedridden in a psychiatric ward. In the play, Guthrie dreams his way back through life, revisiting moments of his own biography, playing songs across the nation with Pete Seeger, Cisco Houston and Lead Belly. Guthrie is swept up in a whirlwind romance with the love of his life, Marjorie, a Martha Graham dancer. He battles his own fears, insecurities and a long debilitating illness, all the while throwing himself into a wild attempt at creating a better world, one sung chorus after another.
In the play’s New York City debut, Caleb Stine takes the role of Cisco Houston, a fellow musician and adventurer in Woody’s Hard Travelin’. The play runs from September 8 through October 1, 2011, Thursday through Sunday, at The Theater For The New City, an Off-Broadway house recognized for breaking new American plays into the theater world.
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Smart Tix: Woody Guthrie Dreams
Review in All Music Guide by James Allen
Making a man-and-guitar record is perhaps the ultimate trial by fire proposition for a singer/songwriter; there’s nothing standing between your songs and the listener except your axe of choice and whatever attitude you may choose to project. In such a Spartan context, those whose material is subpar will immediately have their flaws exposed.
On the other end of the spectrum, a skilled songsmith can make a more visceral impact by removing all the sonic middlemen from the listening experience, and achieving an intimate, urgent connection with the audience. In the case of Caleb Stine, the latter effect is undoubtedly what I Wasn’t Built for a Life Like This engenders. Stine has recorded with a band in the past, but he’s clearly the kind of journeyman balladeer who likes to take his songs straight to the people in as simple and straightforward a way as possible, so the solo-acoustic approach is a natural for him.
In fact, it’s that self-same traveling songwriter life that’s at the heart of some of the album’s most affecting tunes. The title track, for instance, offers up the uncertainties and insecurities of a singer/songwriter at odds with both his life on the road and the life he’s left back at home, with telling, incisive observations like “all my friends back in my hometown get a worried look when I come around.”
However, the album closes with probably the most powerful tune, “The Eternal Present,” in which a character similar to that of the aforementioned song — presumably bearing a close resemblance to Stine himself — comes to terms with his choices and sacrifices. “What’s one more empty club, no money to speak of, when I’m doing what I love and what I should?” is as undeniable an endorsement of the troubadour life as has ever been sung, as Stine simultaneously embraces that path’s tribulations and triumphs, with a mix of resolve and reverie, and a generous helping of poetic lyricism.
Caleb will be playing electric guitar with Andy Friedman on his May Tour. Many of these shows will also feature an opening set by Caleb.
Rochester, PA
Monday, May 9, 2011, 8:00 PM
Hollywood Gardens (169 Pinney St, Rochester, PA (724) 728-2227)
Johnson City, TN
Tuesday, May 10, 2011, 8:00 PM
With The Carpenter Ants
The Acoustic Coffeehouse (415 W. Walnut St., Johnson City, TN 37604 (423) 424-9872)
Nashville, TN
Wednesday, May 11, 2011, 7:00 PM
Music City Roots (8400 Highway 100, Nashville, TN 37221)
Oxford, MS
Thursday, May 12, 2011, 8:00 PM
With Cary Hudson
Proud Larry’s (211 S Lamar Blvd, Oxford, MS 38655 (662) 236-0050)
Knoxville, TN
Friday, May 13, 2011, 8:00 PM
Cornelia House Concert (info: elamis @ gmail (dot) com, Knoxville, TN)
Winston-Salem, NC
Saturday, May 14, 2011, 9:00 PM
The Garage (110 W. 7th St., Winston-Salem, NC)
Columbia, SC
Sunday, May 15, 2011, 3:00 PM
Concert and Party at The Hall’s (halldogs1@aol.com for info and details) Columbia, SC
Chicago, IL
Tuesday, May 17, 2011, 8:00 PM
The Elbo Room (2871 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60657)
Fort Wayne, IN
Wednesday, May 18, 2011, 9:00 PM
The Brass Rail (1121 Broadway, Fort Wayne, IN 46802)
Three Oaks, MI
Thursday, May 19, 2011, 8:00 PM
Acorn Theater (107 N Elm St, Three Oaks, MI 49128)
Athens, OH
Friday, May 20, 2011, 8:00 PM
Jackie O’s (24 West Union Street, Athens, OH)
Lisbon, OH
Saturday, May 21, 2011, 8:00 PM
House Concert (36856 State Route 518, Lisbon, OH)
(330) 429-1437
Tickets: ticket info: vince.hoover@samamericas.com
Brooklyn, NY
Monday, May 23, 2011, 7:00 PM
An Evening With Andy Friedman & Paul Curreri @ Union Hall
702 Union St., Brooklyn, NY (United States)
Come on out to the Windup Space (12 W. North Ave., Baltimore MD) on Thursday, April 28th at 9pm! There will be a great show featuring Caleb Stine along withSwampcandy, Gary Wright and Leah Weiss, and Gregory Rago.
Vinyl copies of ‘I Wasn’t Built For A Life Like This’ will be for sale.
If you don’t have the good fortune to find yourself in Baltimore on said night and are interested in a vinyl copy of the album, please write to calebstine (at sign) gmail, and we’ll set you up.
The magazine American Songwriter has just posted an interview with Brooklyn writer/artist/bad-ass Andy Friedman. It’s full of thoughtful and unexpected answers, charming quotes, and a generous nod to Caleb Stine. A favorite exchage: (American Songwriter) Are there any words you love, or hate? (Andy Friedman) Absolutely. Love: Dimple. Hate: pimple.
Galapagos Art Space (16 Main St, Brooklyn, NY 11201, (718) 222-8500). Tickets of $55.00 go to Direct Relief International’s Japan Relief and Recovery Fund.
Violinist Hilary Hahn, whose Japanese tour this month was canceled due to the earthquake and tsunami, will be joined by guests Josh Ritter, Chris Thile and Caleb Stine for a concert to benefit Direct Relief International’s Japan Relief and Recovery Fund.
