Playing Manny’s Parkside, June 9, 2024
Steve Klingaman plays Manny’s Parkside June 9, 2024
Category: Blog
My Accidental Third-Act Solo “Career:” covid & injury force my hand–and voice
Singing solo in front of a band was mostly fine, but the idea of just my voice and guitar, well, I wasn’t so keen on that.
Steve plays @ Gather 2/10/24
Can’t wait to continue the Decades “tour” and my residency at Gather on Saturday, February 10. I’ll be featuring 10 new songs, including a whopping seven originals. Please join me if you happen to be in my part of the world, which is Northwoods Wisconsin, for some mid-winter (are we…
Betrayed by Spotify
I confess, I was naïve. I wanted to affiliate with a streaming service that I felt okay about, both for my own listening and for streaming my music. My music is available on lots of steaming sites but Spotify was the lingua franca of the bunch. I began my relationship…
Making ROOTS AND BRANCHES: “Know You Rider”
“Know You Rider†is about as trad as you can get. It’s been done innumerable ways by a host of artists with varying lyrics. Its origins are shrouded in mystery. But it’s always been about “(I) know you rider, gonna miss me when I’m gone.†In high school I played the…
Making ROOTS AND BRANCHES: “Travelin’”
“Travelin’†is the instrumental that follows “Travelin’ Man†as an instrumental journey to follow in the footsteps of the its counterpart. In its incarnation as a featured song of the Montreal band Harlequin in the mid-1970s “Travelin’ Man†was always followed by this roughly five-minute instrumental. Now it’s part of…
