Friday, December 21, 2018

Show Update

Happy Holidays everyone!

I just wanted to give a quick update for those who haven’t caught or watched the recent “Facebook Live's. 

According to the Poll I published on Facebook last week, it seems that there is an overwhelming positive response to the live streaming broadcast returning, and broadcasting on Tuesday nights at 8 p.m. (est). Look for this after the New Years Holiday.

This will be the final run of live streaming shows, to run through the 10th anniversary of Indie Spotlight.  This spotlight series will be called, appropriately enough, “One More Time”.

While I will use Facebook Live to report “behind the scenes” the actual live show will resume on the Indie Spotlight page on camup.tv (https://www.camup.tv/users/indie-spotlight-live). I will no longer archive past shows on soundcloud.

And finally I do have plans for at least one musician interview when the live show restarts, stay tuned for details.

Have a very Merry Christmas everyone, thanks for all the support and I’m looking forward to a positive and fun 2019!

Sunday, December 16, 2018

Pete Berwick's Latest, Island

I got an early Christmas present this year, an advance copy of Pete Berwick’s latest album, Island.  If you are at all familiar with Pete (and I would think that most people that follow this page would be) then conventional is not a term that I think any of us would ever associate with him, and Island continues that trend.

To say that this is “country” or “rock” or any other genre would be misleading at the very least, Berwick’s music doesn’t fit into any of those molds and instead breaks all of them. Island is the latest of what might be called his natural progression, beginning with Only Bleeding, through the nastyness of the music industry that became Ain’t No Train Outta Nashville, the brute honesty of Just Another Day In Hell, which continued with Give it Time, and started to see things a little differently with The Legend of Tyler Doohan.

When I listen to Island I’m hearing what I consider the best of Pete Berwick, who is now at the part of his musical journey where he is comfortable with where he is right now, musically as well as personally. When you listen to his past albums before listening to this one, you really feel as though you’ve followed someone going full circle, and are glad you followed his journey with him.

Grab it now, you won’t regret it.

https://peteberwick1.bandcamp.com/album/island