“Dagnabit”, by Frankie J. Meyer w. Karen Mal (and the Philharmonette, natch -small, west coast folk alliance version, incl. Berke McKelvey, Dinty Child, Wendy Sue Rosloff, Chandler Travis, and god only know who else) -in my really pretty goddam lengthy but nonetheless apparently completely inadequate west coast report, part one, I described meeting Frank and Karen as follows:
On re-reading, I see that I have once again only scratched the surface, because Frank had a goodly pile of killer songs and a style that was full of personality -even charisma! (both areas in which his accompanist on this one, Ms. Mal, was also no slouch.) Picking just one was tough – esp. seeing as this one doesn’t really present the low and slow sort of thing that we all found so endearing (see “Coffee Makin’ Woman”) -but this one had so much spirit from the entire assembly, plus typically fab mandolin and harmony vox from Karen, I couldn’t resist.
Frank’s website, http://www.thangmaker.com/, seems not to have any reference to his music right now, unfortunately; but he does build houses out of some pretty unusual materials, if you’re interested….