Get Ready for OT
What You'll Find Here
The Song Force is a site for music oriented people and music lovers and industry people at all levels.
Here you will discover new artists, listen to their sounds. You will find rock, jazz, R&B, blues gospel, specialized music like Irish, Celtic rock, 1930s jazz, songwriting, publishing, bookings, production and sound, with ways you can participate.
Music lovers can discover new artists. Industry people can display their work and qualfications. We welcome rock, jazz, R&B and Gospel artist, we welcome artists, writers, sound crew producers and promoters.
Samir Chatterjee's tabla drums on CD now available at Barnes & Noble through The Song Force. Check out Blue Incantation featuring Sanjay Mishra and Jerry Garcia.
Johnny Worlds of New York
Free Concerts at Manhattan School of Music
Record in West Virginia for a Change
An Invitation from James McNary
You're invited to join our music group - designed to help musicians, songwriters, singers, sound engineers
and various other music professionals maintain and build their careers. If you need help with contracts,
representation or setting up proper legal permissions for your productions, with networking with
other musicians, with polishing your recordings, our monthly news letter can help you
obtain the information, contacts and help you need.
You can also post questions to other members of the group at any time and get direct answers.
I and the other group members will also help you promote your concerts and gigs and aid you when
possible in meeting other music industry people to work with.
Our web resources (including The Song Force and Blujai Ars) can help you market your art and you products.
Our capabilities can make planning much simpler for you, and still enable you to
make maximum profits. We can also help you stay in touch with the over-all thoughts of others in the field.
Vince plays Charley O's Times Square Grill on Broadway at 49th St. every Monday and Tuesday night.
Wild Wonderful West Virginia
Idyllic Setting to Record
And at bargain rates among down-to-earth people. James McNary of The Song Force recently spent time and took these photos ... or write to James for more information.
Knockdown Drag-Out Blues!
Floyd Lee, a/k/a "Ted Williams," sings
"knock down dragout" blues. His "New York Subway" played March through October, 2002, at National Building Museum in Washington, DC. Own this timeless track on the "Ted 'n' Ted" cassette,
recorded with Ted Williams, Jr. in 1995 and released on their first trip to Japan, now a collector's item.
Only a few left! This offer will not be repeated. Original 1995 Cassette
$15.00 while supplies last!
Live at Times Square
Dominic Chianese
Appearing each Monday at Sofia's, singing live and acoustic in an intimate setting. $20 admission.
Visit Dominic Chianese's web site (Uncle Junior of The Sopranos), and better yet, visit Uncle Junior. Sofia's is near Times Square in NYC at 221 West 46th Street (between Broadway and Eighth Avenue)
No Cover - No Drink Minimum - $20 Admission. Show begins promptly at 8:30 p.m. 212.719.5799
AOL FEATURES DOMINIC CHIANESE SESSIONS
If you have AOL you can hear an exclusive interview with Dominic Chianese and video of him, singing and accompanying himself on acousitc guitar.
Exclusively on AOL, keyword DOMINIC CHIANESE. An archived performance of "Parla Piu Piano" is available with AOL Keyword SESSIONS plus a click of the Archive link.
Artists and Art to Watch and Listen For
VINCE GIORDANO
Vince plays in the movie Aviator. Don't miss it. Revel in the great jazz tradition of the 1920's, 1930's, 1940's brought back in living splendor by Vince Giordano and his Nighthawks.
Dance "Cheek to Cheek", don your "White Tie and Tails." On CD or cassette.
Eddie and the Starlites
Album available now. Music that feeds your dreams.
TED WILLIAMS (a/k/a FLOYD LEE)
''Ted 'n' Ted'' by Ted Williams (aka Floyd Lee) with Ted Williams, Jr.
Floyd Lee's brand of Delta Blues recorded before his 1995 trip to perform in Tokyo.
Also check out Floyd Lee's newest CDs
VIC THRILL
Like Redi-Whip(TM)? Vic Thrill, who claims to be Buddha in a past life, sings "Everything Here Is Filled With Cream", with album 'CE−5' named on top ten chart by Washington Post and Offbeat Magazine.
OT –Oliver Timmons
Album in production. Versatile composer and performer with roots in multiples genres of our times.
LENAHAN
Newly released (Feb. 2003) CD, blues and rocking tradition and all new lyrics. Tom Lenahan positively
refuses to sport a drafty kilt and sends his bagpipe on an unthinkable balancing act along the front edge
Celtic-yet-now.
BRONAGH O'ROURKE
''Mise Eire'' cassette with Bob Batch. Listen to Bronagh's "Seanchai," the hauntingly beautiful tribute
to the storytelling heritage of Mother Ireland, and Bob Batch's "Wild Irish Rover."
Edgewater Collection the poetry of Leslie G. Harper
Compelling poetry from "Swinging in the Park" to "Topsy," from "Floodlit Cloud over Ground
Zero" to "Valentine to My Old Woman"
Resources and TSF Links:
Love Them Blues -
PBS Series on The Blues essays, discussion, resources.
Nothing But The Blues
A history of the blues by Lawrence Cohn, Dimensions (inches): 1.25x8.5x11.0
trade paper $25.17 (Walmart price). Compare at $39.95 elsewhere.
Hardcover first editions $45 and up.
Publisher Abbeville Press says: Blues historian Lawrence Cohn is the producer of a massive blues reissue project undertaken by Sony Music/Legacy Recordings. The premiere two-CD set in the series, featuring the music of blues giant Robert Johnson, not only earned Cohn a Grammy award, but has sold some half-million copies in the U.S. alone--an unprecedented number for a historical reissue.
Frety Net - a web directory with homepage thumbnails. Check out the music section.
