Official “Live At Rockwood Music Hall” Track Listing & Art
I’m sure you’ve already marked your calendar. And, in the event you live somewhere other than New York, I’m sure you’ve already booked your travel.
“Live At Rockwood Music Hall” will be released on Wednesday, November 19th at (get this) Rockwood Music Hall.
It’s gonna’ be a big rock show featuring all the musicians who made this record possible: bassist Tony Maceli, guitarist Chris Abad, and drummer Jamie Alegre. And yes, the extraordinary Mrs. Jamie Leonhart will be there to lend her divine voice to my cover of “Killing The Blues.”
Here’s the deal.
“Live At Rockwood Music Hall” is an online-only release (so don’t look for it in stores). There are two options: the 8-song iTunes version, or the 10-song Authentic Records‘ version.
The album itself captures the acoustic/electric flavor of a Benjamin Wagner rock show, and features covers of Wilco, Oasis, Don Henley and John Prine. Here’s the track listing:
1- Giving Up The Ghost
2- The Last Time
3- Promise
4- How To Fight Loneliness
5- Killing The Blues (featuring Jamie Leonhart)
6- Live Forever
7- The Boys Of Summer
8- Wonderwall
+ Harder To Believe
+ Milk & Honey
The live recordings were mastered by Nadas bassist Jon Locker.
The album cover was selected by you, Dear Reader, and features my shoes (Black Converse All-Star Low Tops), my set list (see above), my stage tuner (a Boss TU-2 Chromatic Tuner), and a mess of patch chords.
Do check it out.
Yes
At 10:59 tonight, the crowd 29-stories below my office window began counting down as if it was New Years Eve.
At 11:00, Charlie Gibson called California for Barack Obama, then projected his victory. Which is when the cheering began.
Over two hours later, they’re still cheering.
My mother still talks about shaking President John F. Kennedy’s hand when she was a teenager.
In February, I traveled with my colleagues to Scranton, Pennsylvania, to meet Barack Obama. He was articulate, compassionate, and poised. He was congenial, collected and cool. He spoke in language I could respond to: about finding common ground, not difference. And on the way out of his interview, he shook my hand. It was small and coarse. The exchange was brief. But I was thrilled.
The campaign grew increasingly dirty in the intervening months, but Obama remained above the fray. He stayed on message: inclusion, compassion, and hope — values he reinforced again tonight.
Tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope.
Some of my favorite stories begin with yes.
John Lennon met Yoko Ono at her Indica Gallery art opening in London when he climbed a ladder and through a magnifying glass read the one word she had written on the gallery’s ceiling: YES.
“At least” Lennon later recalled, “her message was positive.”
Years later, I dropped to one knee just a few hundred feet from Strawberry Fields and asked Abbi to marry me.
She said yes.
Twice.
Tonight, then, we begin another love story. One sure to be full of joy and loss, hope and despair, hills and valleys.
Forever more, I will remember where I was when it all began. Forever more, I will remember the instant when this country seized the reins. Forever more, I will remember the instant when we voted for our better selves. Forever more, I will remember when we stood together, and said resoundingly, “Yes.”
