'Scriptures' enters Guinness Book Of World Records!

It was announced today by Mike Peters of The Alarm and his Love Hope Strength Foundation, that the song, 'Scriptures' that a host of talented people and supporters contributed to last September has achieved Guinness BOWR status! Myself and Cindy Wasserman were honored to have written and sang chapter 12 of 72 chapters with Mike and Co at Abbey Road Studios in London. So after taking a second to 'Pat' ourselves on the back I now ask YOU to get involved, learn about WHY we recorded the track and download it, buy the CD, spread it all around.

All proceeds from the sales of the recording are in support of the Unrelated Marrow Donor Registry of Hadassah ℅ Ein Karem Medical Centre, Jeruslaem, Israel which is dedicated to saving lives throughout the Middle East through the use of a revolutionary blood cancer treatment. The only agenda is to ignore ethnic and political boundaries and treat ALL who need it in the Middle East, bringing potential healing in a whole lot of spectacular ways.

For info on the session you can read my entry here and to get involved with this inspiring project please follow these links:

LOVE HOPE STRENGTH FOUNDATION

'SCRIPTURES' ON ITUNES

'SCRIPTURES' ON CD

Abbey Road Recording For Love Hope Strength Foundation Released

Back in September I had the honor of taking part in a recording at Abbey Road Studios in London led by Mike Peters of The Alarm in support of his Love Hope Strength Foundation. My partner in crime, Cindy Wasserman of Dead Rock West and I contributed a verse to what would become the longest song ever recorded, laid to tape in a half a dozen cities around the world. The track was conceived by Mike Peters in an effort to raise money and awareness for a new blood transfusion anti-cancer treatment that has helped him in his own fierce and inspiring battle with Leukemia, with the money being raised going directly to a program in Israel to bring the treatment to Luekemia sufferers across the entire Middle East, making the double edged point of crossing borders and saving lives. 

Abbey Road was the final day of recording where Cindy, myself and a host of Alarm friends, fans and family gathered to put voices, guitars, and words on the track and support the cause contributing some cash and music to the cause. Cindy and I wrote a verse especially for the occasion, finishing the lyric on the plane over. We then found ourselves standing in the middle of legendary Studio 2 the with just a guitar and our voices laying it down for the cause. It was turned out to be a very special day, singing at Abbey Road, meeting new friends, and being able to give something back to a man who's band had a direct impact on my first tentative steps into being a musician.

All proceeds from the sales of the recording are in support of the Unrelated Marrow Donor Registry of Hadassah ℅ Ein Karem Medical Centre, Jeruslaem, Israel which is dedicated to saving lives throughout the Middle East.

Released as a double CD, the track is now available for purchase, so please go find out more about Love Hope Strength, how Mike Peters created this inspiring project and get your copy, contributing to effecting change in challenged lives and troubled places. 

LoveHopeStrength.org

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I’m Singing on The New Poltz Record…apparently.

I just popped in our copy of the new Steve Poltz CD, The Accident, that he gave me when we ran into him in Austin last week, telling me that he was giving me the first ever copy (I've heard that one before). Looking at the credits just now, well blow me down, my name is there right underneath my sweetheart, Cindy's. I'd almost forgotten that I was pulled into the room to shout "monkeys coming outta my ass" over and over for Lars Goransson when he was here last Spring. I mean I've done it at least 50 times live with Steve with no "tape" running so I could have been asleep when I did it. But no, I remember it was a beautiful sunny day here in LA, the flowers were blooming, Cindy and Lars were recording sweet harmonies as Steve's voice floated out over the garden, and I was thinking about how my right hand itched in that cast I was wearing since shattering my knuckle just a couple weeks before. It was a good day even if I was trying to ignore when and if I'd be able to play again, and forget abut the half finished record I had waiting for me back in Nashville. It was a beautiful day. I remember it.  I got to sing "monkeys comin outta my ass".  And for that alone you should buy it. But on top of that, this album is balls to the wall rock n roll, like the sweaty punk that Poltz and I came up loving and the stuff he made his early reputation on. It's definitely NSFW, but hey, what's life without a little dirt?

So that makes it 250+ shows and now two recorded tracks (not counting the lost Poltz/Truckee Brothers album tucked deep in an underground archive vault somewhere watched over by 24 hour armed guards) that I've had the pleasure of playing on with my old friend. It's been a long musical union that mostly if you weren't there for you missed it. So savor this. And savor my sweet Cindy's beautiful sultry dirty voice that's spread all over the album. Go get it. Laugh out loud. Bang your head. Sing along with Steve and bounce in the driver's seat (carefully mind you). It'll make you wanna pass your exit and keep going, shouting to everyone you pass that monkeys are comin outta your ass. They'll probably stare.

Here's the obligatory purchase link:  Feed A Poltz