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06/04/2024

12 track album

07/13/2023

Just clocked Kliph Scurlock wearing the classic Skating Polly t-Shirt in the Big Star documentary.

04/16/2023

📣 Calling all youth songwriters! Our children’s festival songwriting contest is accepting entries through June 1, 2023!

Rules & more info:
• Must be 17 years or younger
• Song must be an original song written by the participant & should embody the spirit of Woody Guthrie
• Entrants must submit a video performance of the song online by emailing [email protected] by 6/1/23
• First place winner will receive $500 cash prize and the opportunity to perform at the Children’s Festival
• Songs will be judged on melody, rhythm, & relevance
• Please contact [email protected] for questions & more information!

Thank you to our Kids Fest Chair Maxey Reilly for reviving the Children’s Festival for another year!

Adult songwriters: Your songwriting contest will be returning this fall!!!

03/03/2023

Available thru this weekend only.

My friends and family, coyotes and wanderers, city folk and country people,

I have unearthed two lost b-sides that glimpse into the sessions that comprised my album, Safe Passage.

Out of the many songs that were written for the collection in 2018, a handful did not make the cut onto the final version. However, the tunes that were left were not left behind, but archived to be heard down the road and maybe provide a wider perspective on the music we created at Ramble Creek Studio on those beautiful, tiresome, winter days.

Full of Farewells was recorded in one take to 2" magnetic tape with Shonna Tucker performing bass and Megan Palmer playing the fiddle. Having recorded this song a few times before, I believe this one to be the final version. Minimal, calm, and clear as the days were long.

Letters to Larkspur was recorded in the secondary sessions a couple weeks after the initial ventures into Ramble Creek, performed live. David Leach on bass, Bryan McGrath on the drums. Darker, heavier, with an overdubbed pedal steel in an echo chamber.

The tracks will be available for this weekend only, with all proceeds going towards vocal surgery and medical costs in late May.

Listen and acquire here:
https://johncalvinabney.bandcamp.com/album/full-of-farewells

Thank you again for listening, I’ll be back to singing in no time.

love, jca

12/02/2022

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12/01/2022

R.I.P. Jake Flint, 1985 – 2022.

ARTICLE & GALLERY LINK is in the comments.

04/24/2022

Today's Oklahoman features a writeup by John Brandenburg of The Depot's exhibit of performance photography, "On Stage", featuring the work of over a dozen music photographers, including yours truly.

One of my photos is the subject of paragraph four.

The exhibit closes on 7 May 2022 and can be seen during Norman Music Festival 2022 next week.

LINK is in the comments.

03/13/2022

Loooove this! Another incredibly stunning pic of my gorgeous sis by the one and only .drouet !!!

Wind in her hair, ocean in view, lil kids scootering around stage. Pey was in her happy place 🥰

03/11/2022

Happening in an hour!

Come out to the Depot tonight for the opening of our "ON STAGE" Concert Photography show, 6-9pm in conjunction with 2nd Friday Norman Art Walk !